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How to use the word DIMMING in a Sentence?

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Over 66 years of observational history, we found no other signs of significant dimming in this star.

Anastasios Tzanidakis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

With Only Hubble, we see the material as Only Hubble left the star's visible surface and moved out through the atmosphere, before the dust formed that caused the star to appear to dim, only Hubble gives us this evidence of what led up to the dimming.

Andrea Dupree

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Betelgeuse typically goes through brightness cycles lasting around 420 days, and since the previous minimum happened in February 2020, this new dimming is over a year early.

Andrea Dupree

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The Breakthrough Listen program has the most powerful SETI equipment on the planet, and access to the largest telescopes on the planet, we can look at The Breakthrough with greater sensitivity and for a wider range of signal types than any other experiment in the world. Related : Why is this star dimming ? Astronomers still don't know One farfetched theory about the star is that aliens are somehow responsible for the star’s dimming, perhaps by having built a structure that passes in front of it, although Dan Werthimer, the chief scientist at Berkeley SETI, said Andrew Siemion thinks that’s incredibly improbable.

Andrew Siemion

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

This star's dimming is unique and inexplicable.

Bradley Schaefer

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The hope is dimming with regard to the aspect of any charges being brought against the office.

Sharon Cooper

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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