Sentences with phrase «act as lenses»

That means massive objects in space can act as lenses, focusing the light from objects even farther from Earth.

These theories act as lenses, drawing us to notice some things and excluding others from view.

Now Robert Quimby of the University of Tokyo, Japan, and colleagues suggest that a blob of invisible dark matter acted as the lens (arxiv.org/abs/1302.2785v1).

The gravity of this cluster acted as a lens, bending the light from a more distant galaxy behind it and brightening it.

In a new paper submitted to The Astrophysical Journal on 29 November 2013 (available on the ArXiv Preprint Server), a group of astronomers detected a large number of distant, gravitationally lensed galaxy candidates — all viewed through Abell 2744, with the galaxy cluster acting as a lens.

Massive galaxies acting as lenses have revealed five ancient galaxies behind the lensing galaxies.

Occasionally, when the stars are aligned just right, this warping of the fabric of the universe results in a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, wherein the strong gravitational field of a foreground object acts as a lens that «bends» light from an object in the background and allows scientists to catch a glimpse of what might otherwise have remained invisible.

... discerned through the phenomenon of gravitational lensing — matter acting as a lens by bending space and distorting the passage of background light.

This bending effect can make gravity act as a lens, concentrating light from a distant object, just as a magnifying glass can focus the light from the sun.

It is built, from the ground up, as an extension of Amazon's retail might and acts as a lens through which you can see and gain access to your Amazon content.

A simple drop of clear liquid can act as a lens, magnifying what the naked eye can not otherwise detect.

To see, to understand how art can act as a lens, a prism, through which to understand broader cultural experience — now and after Brexit.

These artists all share in examining the content of what they remember, with social and familial life acting as a lens through which they reexamine recollected moments.

The exhibition pursues the potential that works of art may act as the lens through which the past is reconfigured, reinterpreted and made relevant today.

, pursues the potential that works of art may act as the lens through which the past is reconfigured, reinterpreted and made relevant today.

This modification of the ionosphere makes GPS less accurate and can even lead to a complete loss of the signal because the ionosphere can act as a lens or a mirror to radio waves traveling through it.

Language not only mirrors the social world but acts as a lens through which objects, situations and people are given meaning.

Rather than asking banks to plough resources into system security blindly, it acts as a lens to focus their efforts in the right places.

This protects the sensor and acts as a lens to precisely focus it on your finger.

Since the child's expression of personality disorder symptoms are not endogenous to the functioning of the child's own nervous system, but instead represent the acquired expressions of the alienating parent's own personality disordered processes through the child's enmeshed psychological relationship with this personality disordered parent, the child's display of personality disorder symptoms acts as a lens into the personality disorder structure of the alienating parent.

Not exact matches

Of course, you have to believe in God as He is revealed in Jesus Christ, or else you may end up believing in a god that acts like Hitler, and seeing the world through that lens will not be helpful for anybody.

If we want to see and understand those forces as they truly are, then we must look not to reason (which acts as a distorting lens), but to our more immediate, primordial ways of knowing, that is, aesthetic intuition (the divine inspiration of the artist) and action.

To the two questions that follow the first one I would say that, yes, under this dispensation, in this act of the divine drama of redemption, innocence until proven guilty is an important value, but it should not be construed as the absolute, universally valid ethic to be used as a lens for looking at specific, singular events in the biblically recorded past.

These associations then act as a kind of screen or lens through which the new subject is viewed; some of its features are ignored or suppressed while others are emphasized or distinctively organized.

Or maybe the job just acts as a focus, a lens through which each manager becomes even more themselves.

Her dirty, daycare germy fingernail scraped so deeply into my eyeball that I needed drops, antibiotics and a contact lens to act as a Band - Aid for a week.

On the probability of detecting nebulae which act as gravitational lenses.

Astronomer Tiantian Yuan at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia and colleagues found the new record - holder thanks to a closer cluster of galaxies, which acted as a gravitational lens that helped astronomers produce two magnified images of A1689B11 (SN: 3/10/12, p. 4).

The spermaceti organ is also thought to act as an acoustical lens to focus infrasonic sound waves into a beam that bounces off objects, enabling the whale to «see» them in the dark.

Its discoverers proposed that a galaxy cluster acted as a gravitational lens, warping space - time and, in effect, focusing the light towards Earth.

A chance to get a close look is coming soon: Kervella's team mapped out the system's trajectory and found that in a decade, Alpha Centauri A will pass in front of a more distant star and act as a gravitational lens, distorting the light of the star behind it.

The concept car gets a boost from an accompanying 20 - square - meter acrylic canopy equipped with lenses that act as a giant magnifying glass, directing intense rays to the car's solar panels.

This giant cluster acts as a powerful natural lens by bending and magnifying the light of far - more - distant objects behind it.

But as lens - making techniques improved and microscopes became more widely available, others got in on the act and they became something of a craze.

However, through the phenomenon known as «gravitational lensing,» a massive, foreground cluster of galaxies acts as a natural «zoom lens» in space by magnifying and stretching images of far more distant background galaxies.

The droplets are convex so could potentially act as a liquid magnifying lens, says Li.

That dip was caused by blobs of hot plasma emitted by the galaxy's black hole, which were magnified by a cluster of stars acting as a cosmic lens between Earth and the galaxy, researchers suggest.

The wobbling of the BCGs could only be analysed as the galaxy clusters studied also act as gravitational lenses.

(In the image above the more distant quasar HE 1104 - 1805 is seen as the two larger images on either side of the smaller yet closer lens galaxy [WKK93] G.) The stars in that lens galaxy then act like ultra-high resolution telescopes (see the NASA video).

The lens also magnifies the background light source, acting as a «natural telescope» that allows astronomers a more detailed look at distant galaxies than is normally possible.

Bottom right: Optical micrograph of the image projected beyond the slab under UV illumination, demonstrating that the metamaterial slab acts as a flat lens.

Furthermore, transmission through the metamaterial can be turned on and off using higher frequency light as a switch, allowing the flat lens to also act as a shutter with no moving parts.

The metamaterial has an angle - independent negative refractive index, enabling it to act as a flat lens.

The laser is focused through a lens with imperfections, such that the resulting beam has pockets of darkness that can act as a trap.

The foreground star has basically acted as a magnifying lens, focusing the light from the background star for astronomers on Earth to observe.

The image of this quasar is split into four by a massive galaxy acting as a gravitational lens.

The H0LiCOW astronomers measured the Hubble constant by exploiting massive galaxies that act as «gravitational lenses,» bending light from a yet more distant object.

In the 1930s Einstein predicted that a mass distribution, such as a galaxy, could act as a gravitational «lens,» not only bending light but also distorting images of objects lying beyond the gravitating mass.

Click to Enlarge (JPEG / 138.4 KB) This schematic image represents how light from a distant galaxy is distorted by the gravitational effects of a nearer foreground galaxy, which acts like a lens and makes the distant source appear distorted, but brighter, forming characteristic rings of light, known as Einstein rings.

This image combines views from the Keck II telescope using adaptive optics and Hubble to show a foreground galaxy that is acting as the gravitational lens.