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CCDs are much more efficient at imaging very faint objects and are far less likely to be foiled by Earth-based light.
FORBES: A Star Is Born
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You should also see a very faint white layer of mannite, a natural powder that is a carbohydrate and source of sweetness.
WSJ: Kelp Wanted
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Whichever turns out to be right (if either does), the new object must be very faint, otherwise it would have been spotted already.
ECONOMIST: X marks the spot
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It left only some very faint tracks of its enormous successes, to begin again around the XIV and the XV centuries when the Arab-Islamic science characterized the second scientific era that the Mediterranean has experienced.
UNESCO: Science Policy and Capacity-Building
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The echoes of his Cairo speech seemed very faint indeed as neither Obama nor Mohammed Morsy, Egypt's new president, seemed to know how to characterize the U.S. relationship with that country, once an important ally in the region.
CNN: Obama on world stage: More hope than change?
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Subsequent observations with an infra-red telescope, which can see things that are too cool to shine with visible light, showed that it was a very faint star so faint that it is off the bottom of astronomers' scale of stellar classification.
ECONOMIST: Twinkle, twinkle, giant planet
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As Old Trafford celebrated at the final whistle, Ancelotti cut a predictably disconsolate figure with only the very faint prospect of challenging United for the title left in his attempts to follow up the Premier League and FA Cup Double he claimed in his first season.
BBC: Man Utd 2-1 Chelsea (agg 3-1)
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On a continent where being very rich still carries faint implications of impropriety, many Europeans feel uneasy with the idea of competing to demonstrate public generosity.
ECONOMIST: Why a new golden age of philanthropy may be dawning
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The new map is a smart byproduct of the European Space Agency (Esa) telescope's main mission which is to survey the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB - a pervasive but faint glow of long-wavelength radiation that comes to us from the very edge of the observable Universe.
BBC: Planck telescope: A map of all the 'stuff' in the cosmos
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Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable--and, contrary to modern mores, no music of any kind, no matter how faint.
FORBES: Set 'Em Up, Joe