First, despite the obfuscation of the sun, a large
amount of ultraviolet light is still reaching your eye (and, because of the decreased brightness, your pupils are more dilated).
The researchers suspect that
the amount of ultraviolet light Earth receives from the sun explains the link.
At a distance of 5,500 light years, the blue straggler binary appears as a single point of light, but by analyzing
the amount of ultraviolet light, the researchers saw the unmistakable signal of a white dwarf.
Not exact matches
Adding a vitamin D supplement to mom's diet and / or exposure to
ultraviolet light will increase the
amount of vitamin D in her breastmilk.
It means that skin has to digest a huge
of ultraviolet light that you might not know the
amount.
The technology controls the
amount of light crops receive using a thin covering
of nano - tech film that blocks out harmful
ultraviolet light while optimizing beneficial
light.
Although the skin can manufacture vitamin D, it needs a threshold
amount of ultraviolet (UV)
light to do so.
The
amount of data we collected, from X-rays to
ultraviolet to near - infrared
light, is definitely larger than for any
of the other candidate rogue black holes.»
In another study, his team found that mice given chow containing trace
amounts of arsenic, then exposed to a standard daily dose
of ultraviolet light, had higher rates
of skin cancers than mice given untainted chow.
Their two zinc mines have yielded more than 90 types
of rare minerals that glow under
ultraviolet light, due to trace
amounts of manganese trapped when the crystals formed.
This, in turn, will lower the depth and turbidity
of water in mountain streams, increasing the
amount of damaging
ultraviolet light that reaches the stream beds.
But, some
of the Dugway Geodes contain another hidden surprise - trace
amounts of uranium incorporated into their chalcedony lining cause the geode's interior lining to exhibit a spectacular lime - green fluorescence under
ultraviolet light.
This study makes the first direct comparison between the optical emission line and the
ultraviolet and infrared tracers
of star formation and indicates that, despite the underlying uncertainties, astronomers can trust the nebular emission lines as robust indicators
of the star - formation rate and the
amount of light that is obscured by dust in distant galaxies.
Hubble, being a space - based observatory with state -
of - the - art spectrographs, can search for the missing colors
of light absorbed by the intergalactic gas, particularly in the high - energy
ultraviolet colors where the hot intergalactic gas does a significant
amount of absorption.
In 1956, astronomer Lyman Spitzer Jr. proposed that there was a significant
amount of hot gas outside
of galaxies that could be detected in high - energy
ultraviolet light.
High - speed machines use higher
amounts of ultraviolet - B (UVB)
light while high - pressure machines use more
ultraviolet - A (UVA).
The cell also overcomes some
of the major problems with current solar tech like wear out or damage from high heat that comes from the absorption
of great
amounts of ultraviolet and infrared radiation that can't actually be turned into electricity due to a narrow band gap (the wavelength
of light that can effectively be used to generate electricity).
On average, the Sun produces very little infrared radiation compared to the
amount of ultraviolet radiation and visible
light that it creates.»
As the
light passes through the atmosphere, there is less and less
ultraviolet light to absorb, and so the
amount of «ozone heating» decreases (Figure 9).
In other advanced techniques, instead
of chemical biocides to kill bacteria, some systems now employ
ultraviolet light, and mobile units now allow crews to treat and reuse water, reducing the
amount of freshwater required in fracking.
They warned that the loss
of ozone would significantly increase the
amount of skin - damaging
ultraviolet UV - B
light reaching the surface, greatly increasing skin cancer and cataracts.