Low surface brightness dwarf galaxies are important sources of information for studying dark matter, as they have an uncommonly low ratio of visible matter to dark matter, and have few bright stars at the center which would otherwise impair observations of the rotation curve of outlying stars.

Low dark current at room temperature.

Low energy eruptions of basalt produce a characteristically dark coloured ash containing ~ 45-55 % silica that is generally rich in iron ( Fe ) and magnesium ( Mg ).

First to discover that the Russians had moved up under cover of dark was the duty field officer of the day, Captain Alexander Low of the 4th Light Dragoons.

* Low dark toxicity

Dark ambient evolved partially based on several of Brian Eno's early solo albums ( Another Green World -> In Dark Trees, Music For Films ) and colaboration that had a distinctly dark or discordant edge, notably " An Index of Metals " ( from Evening Star, 1975 ), a collaboration with Robert Fripp that incorporated harsh guitar feedback, the ambient pieces on the second half of David Bowie's Low ( 1977 ) and " Heroes ", Fourth World, Vol.

Low Ki appeared on the November 7, 2008 edition of SmackDown in a dark match, losing to then-WWE Tag Team Champion Primo.

Under the name Panacea, he released a string of dark drum and bass singles on the label in 1996, followed by the LPs Low Profile Darkness in 1997 and Twisted Designz in 1998, which pushed the tech step format established by the UK's Ed Rush and Optical into harsh industrial / digital hardcore territory.

It has the Shadowlands ( the location closest to our world where things are almost seen as we see them, except with a veneer of entropy ), the Tempest ( a sea through which navigation is dangerous and under which can be found the Labyrinth and the kingdoms of Oblivion ) and the Far dark Umbra where the Dark Kingdoms reside, where the far shores are and where Wraiths with no fetter or connection to earth are stuck.

The destiny of Racine's Phedre is sealed from the beginning: she will proceed into the dark.

the mill-pond is quiet, its surface dark and shadowed, and there does not seem to be much water in it.

And by a skillful and unobtrusive use of imagery ( the enclosure is called a `` Roman-camp stockade '', the hastily erected lean-to is a `` Babylonian hovel '', the men begin to look like `` Peruvian mummies '' and to acquire `` Gothic faces '' ), Malraux projects a fresco of human endurance -- which is also the endurance of the human -- stretching backward into the dark abyss of time.

Daughter of a gypsy mother who taught her to dance, she is one of the few really beautiful girls in the New York Casbah, with dark eyes and dark, waist-length hair, the face of an adolescent patrician and a lithe, glimmering body.

It is roughly shaped like a large pear, and when properly ripened, its dark green skin covers a meaty, melon-like pulp that has about the consistency of a ripe Bartlett pear, but oily.

Russia, whose technology is not quite primitive, is still in the dark ages when it comes to improving the outboard motor, for instance.

`` Last year your Tennessee Williams told our Dilys Powell, in a television program, that it is the task of the playwright to throw light into the dark corners of the human heart.

A brown hatching reinforces and broadens shadows, and much of the background is solidly covered with a dark coat.

Experience showed, however, that it is very difficult to paint a dark umber background in fresco that will not dry out spotty and uneven.

To demonstrate the soil of his vegetable gardens as it is today, Mr. Clark stooped to scoop up a handful of rich dark earth.

Your first impression of this elongated square with its three elegant fountains, its two churches that almost face each other, and its russet-colored buildings, is a sense of restful spaciousness -- particularly welcome after wandering around the narrow and dark streets that you have followed since starting this walk.

For all involved in this discussion the devil is a real entity who can really be confronted in the woods on a dark night, the demon world is populated with real creatures, and witches actually can be seen flying through the air.

One of the defining characteristics of the order is the presence of phytomelan, a black pigment present in the seed coat, creating a dark crust.

In his view, " The dark age of pro and contra slogans, unfair polemics, and humiliations is not yet completely over and done with, but there seems to be some hope for a more constructive discussion " ( ib.

As an example, heavier halogens are darker than are halogens of lesser atomic weight – fluorine is nearly colorless, chlorine is bright green, bromine is brown, and iodine is dark gray / violet.

Given the similarities in the two characters ' names, professions, written works and generally dark subject matter, it is likely that Lovecraft's Alhazred provided the main inspiration for al-Hazir.

Poirot has dark hair, which he dyes later in life ( though many of his screen incarnations are portrayed as bald or balding ), and green eyes that are repeatedly described as shining " like a cat's " when he is struck by a clever idea.

If he were to go with White, he would be out there two days, not just listening in the dark at some point between here and Papa-san, but moving ever deeper into enemy land -- behind Papa-san -- itself.

A more certain prehistoric period has been theorized by historians as that of the state of Lhomon ( literally, southern darkness ) or Monyul ( dark land, a reference to the Monpa aboriginal peoples of Bhutan ), possibly a part of Tibet that was then beyond the pale of Buddhist teachings.

Map of the park showing old Monument land ( light green ) and the expanded Park land ( dark green )

Malagasy Christians would remember this period as ny tany maizina, or " the time when the land was dark ".

Critics who dislike the film particularly draw attention to its bleak nature from its opening: complaining that the world of the play does not deteriorate with Lear's suffering, but commences dark, colourless and wintry, leaving ( in Douglas Brode's words ) " Lear, the land, and us with nowhere to go ".

Small stands of stunted and often dead trees that vaguely resemble Bonsai trees grow where land protrudes above the water table, with small pools of water stained dark red scattered about.

In July 1914, Akhmatova wrote “ Frightening times are approaching / Soon fresh graves will cover the land "; on August 1, Germany declared war on Russia, marking the start of " the dark storm " of world war, civil war, revolution and totalitarian repression for Russia.

It consists of flatter land, with dark clay and rich fertile lands for agriculture, but is quickly being developed as the county's population continues to increase and expand out.

While returning home via the land of the fish, he gives his dark skin to the Hami-kere fish.

In Tongan cosmogony, the sky and the sea, and the land of Pulotu ( the dark underworld, the home of the souls of departed chiefs ) existed from the earliest times.

People were originally attracted from the tobacco belt in Virginia and the Carolina to the Highland Rim for land speculation and dark tobacco.

Contrary to most of his contemporaries, Gilbert believed that the light spots on the Moon were water, and the dark spots land.

The seal was placed to imprison a dark wizard named Ganon in the Dark World, which was once the Sacred Realm before Ganon invaded, obtained the legendary Triforce, and used its power to turn the realm into a land of darkness.

A pair of giant masked insectoid serpents known as Twinmold are casting a dark aura over the land from their nest in Stone Tower Temple.

At the start of it, the skies got dark as a great swarm of locusts shaded the sun as they invaded the land.

When incorporated as part of the Union Flag during the 17th century, the dark blue applied to Union Flags destined for maritime use was possibly selected on the basis of the durability of darker dyes, with this dark blue shade eventually becoming standard on Union Flags both at sea and on land.

Brettonais from the village of Plouha ..." Wretched though she was, some of the mystery of that mysterious land still clung to her ... the gravity of her glance, the innocence and primitive mind ... there were dark corners of Celtic brooding ... a little scarecrow.

Now, on a dark, stormy night in the Kingdom of Granville, Darces the Dark Overlord returns to the land.

They are knowledgeable about many of the secrets of the islands including the history of the Realm of the Dead ( a dark nearby land ).

Whole buildings have mysteriously vanished, murderous vultures infest the land, people have frequent and disturbing nightmares featuring some dark being which refers to itself as Morphius, and many of those who have survived have become reclusive and paranoid.

His search for a wife brings the land of Kaleva into, at first friendly, but later hostile contact with its dark and threatening neighbour in the north, Pohjola.

After being tricked out of the land in an auction, the Hillcrists learn a dark secret about Mr. Hornblower's beautiful daughter-in-law Chloe ( played by Phyllis Konstam ).

The Bank was forced to cancel the deal when Robertson described Scotland as a " dark land overrun by homosexuals ".