Sentences with phrase «as radio waves»

As radio waves travel through space, they run into gas and other material, which has an effect on the signal.

Various molecules in the gas emit characteristic radiation as radio waves under characteristic conditions (temperature, density, chemical compositions).

Gravitational waves are emitted by accelerating masses in much the same way as radio waves are produced by accelerating charges, such as electrons in antennas.

After several years of work, he identified one source as radio waves coming from thunderstorms near and far... and another, from something at the center of the Milky Way.

Because the jet features are moving toward Earth at almost the same speed as the radio waves they emit, they can appear to move across the sky at faster - than - light speeds.

The hydrogen atoms absorbed the background radiation, and it's this change that the new study was able to detect as radio waves.

At present, metamaterials work best for longer - wavelength radiation such as radio waves and microwaves, which require elements that are on the order of tens of millimeters.

The waves in the magnetic field used by the HST researchers have the same frequency range as radio waves (between 350 and 400 kilohertz).

Over time, that light's wavelength was stretched to several meters by the expansion of the universe, before being detected on Earth as radio waves.

They found it had a similar effect as the radio waves.

That receiver, in turn, could broadcast the signals as radio waves to a nearby computer.

Not exact matches

Just as radio or television waves can not be seen but yet produce sound and picture for us.

Even so potent a means of production as the short - wave transmitter has been tamed in this way and reduced to a harmless and inconsequential hobby in the hands of scattered radio hams.

Those Singing Stars... Science has discovered that stars emit radio waves, which are received on earth as a high pitch.

We are familiar with radio and television waves, and we are learning the physics of penetrating light, as in laser beams.

Thus far, intelligent design theory has eliminated (falsified) all extraterrestrial examples of radio waves monitored as being the product of intelligent design

Throwing my bags into the car, I waved my wife and children a hasty goodbye and then reversed out of the drive, automatically turning on the radio as I went.

As in New Testament times, worship again takes place in the home, with the new apostles of the air waves visiting these home - Christians through the radio and television.

The ferritic surface makes the cookware induction compatible, as iron materials move around when in contact with induction radio waves and molecule friction.

As for microwave, there is SO much confusion about microwaves but here's the deal: there are all kinds of waves, radio waves, light bulb waves, ultra violet waves, etc. microwaves are somewhere between radio & light bulb waves.

Play soothing music or turn on white noise such as a talk radio station, or play a CD of nature sounds, such as ocean waves or rainfall.

Are being abroad with the short - wave radio and the World Service with test match special or the second half commentary just the outward trappings, as you suggest.

Like a burst transmission of radio waves his entreaties shot out en masse, with Dietl pulsing with energy as he quickly accelerated to top take - de Blasio - out speed.

I suspect that a commercialised BBC would be just as biased towards a party whose output in recent weeks has not been worth the pixels or radio waves used to disseminate it.

Three projects known as pulsar timing arrays, in North America, Europe and Australia, are using some of the largest radio telescopes to identify pulsars and look for these waves.

Radio waves that originated at a later time in cosmic history, on the other hand, might be stretched only, say, fivefold, arriving here as 105 - centimeter signals.

Astronomers captured the merging of neutron stars in various types of light, including ultraviolet, infrared and radio waves (above), as well as via gravitational waves — a first.

Just as your eyes can see visible light but not radio waves or x-rays, Webb's vision is tuned for the infrared — a portion of the spectrum ideal for studying ancient stars and galaxies, but where oxygen's barcode - like absorption lines are rather slight and sparse.

Large space - weather events, such as geomagnetic storms, can alter the incoming radio waves — a distortion that scientists can use to determine the concentration of plasma particles in the upper atmosphere.

The hope is to better understand activity that hampers satellites as well as some elusive features of radio wave physics.

But just as scientists use radio and gamma - ray telescopes to probe different frequencies of light, physicists are building detectors sensitive to a range of gravity wave frequencies.

(In this case, a peak in the audio wave is represented by an increase in the frequency of the radio wave, while a trough is represented as a decrease in frequency.)

Alas, using radio waves to tap hydrogen and oxygen as a combustible source of energy is inefficient, and scientists have so far been unable to adapt the process for energy production.

The number of wave crests arriving from Fast Radio Bursts per second — their «frequency» — is in the same range as that of radio sigRadio Bursts per second — their «frequency» — is in the same range as that of radio sigradio signals.

Penn State University astronomers have discovered that the mysterious «cosmic whistles» known as fast radio bursts can pack a serious punch, in some cases releasing a billion times more energy in gamma - rays than they do in radio waves and rivaling the stellar cataclysms known as supernovae in their explosive power.

Inspired by his own bout of leukemia to try to find a better cancer treatment, retired broadcasting station owner Kanzius guessed that as an alternative to chemotherapy, he could inject tumors with metal ions, then use radio waves to heat the metal and destroy cancerous cells.

X-rays and gamma rays were soon recognized as different forms of electromagnetic radiation, like radio waves and visible light but more energetic.

MESSENGER's maps of polar craters match up nicely with earlier imagery of the poles, taken by Earth - based radars, which showed anomalously bright features — patches that reflected radio waves much better than the surrounding terrain, just as ice does.

18 Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machines generate a field 60,000 times as intense as the earth's to vibrate the hydrogen atoms in your body; in response, the atoms emit radio waves that are analyzed to produce a map of your insides.

As the wave expands and the fire fades, the afterglow changes «color» from x-ray to optical light to radio waves.

They are detected from Earth by the beams of radio waves that emanate from their magnetic poles and sweep across space as the pulsar rotates.

At first, unexpected patterns of radio waves seen by ANITA were dismissed as noise.

Combined, these undulating fields are known as electromagnetic waves, and give us visible light, as well as invisible radio waves, microwaves and X-rays.

Still, detecting the faint dip was a challenge: Other cosmic sources, such as the Milky Way, emit radio waves at much higher levels, which must be accounted for.

The signal — a dip in the intensity of radio waves across certain frequencies — was more than twice as strong as expected.

Defense contractor Lockheed Martin will soon flight - test a plasma antenna (encased in a tough, nonconducting polymer) that is designed to be immune from detection by radar even as it transmits and receives low - frequency radio waves.

Dayton Jones and Thomas Kuiper, radio astronomers at JPL, have sketched a plan for deploying a rover to build a VLF radio telescope - essentially a huge network of wires acting as radio - wave receivers - in a crater on the lunar farside, where the moon's bulk blots out Earth's radio noise.

Astronomers exploit it to combine light or radio waves collected by widely separated telescopes so that they act as a single huge instrument, as large as the distance between the two of them.

Such regions include areas where molecules of water and methanol act as natural amplifiers of radio signals — masers, the radio - wave equivalent of lasers for light waves.

The team shows that a nanoscale metal rod on graphene (acting as an antenna for light) can capture infrared light and transform it into graphene plasmons, analogous to a radio antenna converting radio waves into electromagnetic waves in a metal cable.