Sentences with phrase «beams of radiation like»

Not exact matches

A gamma ray burst is thought to emerge when jets of hot matter moving at near — light - speed shoot out along the rotational axis of the newborn black hole, beaming radiation into space like a lighthouse.

As a pulsar spins, it emits a narrow stream of radiation, like the beam from a lighthouse; astronomers detect it only if the beam happens to sweep past Earth.

Known as pulsars, the dead stars emit beams of radiation that sweep past Earth at regular intervals, like the rotating beams from a lighthouse.

These extreme objects advertise their presence with intense beams of radiation, sweeping through the sky like cosmic lighthouses, with a regularity rivaling Earth's best clocks.

DARPA is looking at more efficient technologies, like fiber lasers and liquid lasers, which could lead to smaller, more compact devices, while the Navy is researching a Free Electron Laser, an experimental technology that uses high - speed electrons to generate an extremely powerful focused beam of radiation.

Neutron star mergers like this produce gamma ray bursts — beams of radiation that can destroy planets or make them inhospitable to life.

The tree - like formations in this molten salt formed under the high - radiation of a transmission electron microscope beam; the jet of ions from the material could serve as a thruster for a nanosatellite

Then he set up a plasma lamp to fire beams of ultraviolet light at the chamber, much like the radiation present in planet - and star - forming regions of dust clouds.

As these accelerated electrons stream outward, they produce beams of radiation that we receive every time the beam crosses our line of sight, like a lighthouse.

Although she is only a high school student, she is searching for the signal of a pulsar — a rapidly rotating neutron star that emits a beam of electromagnetic radiation like a lighthouse.

While humankind is theoretically capable of blasting a laser beam into space that is 10,000 times stronger than the sun, Diamond continued, «there isn't an instrument on Earth that can detect an Earth - like planet with Earth - like leakage of electromagnetic radiation.»