Sentences with phrase «blast waves»

The STG Flyboy takes some R&R with some pretty neat GOTY choices Think all I do is blast waves of ships away while jockeying the future's best space fighters?

May 17, 2018 • The Army tells NPR of plans to monitor blast exposure across a military career, to enforce limits on firing certain weapons, and to even look into whether special helmets could help stop blast waves.

But these spectacular stellar death explosions signal star birth as well, as the blast waves condense gas and dust to ultimately form the next generation of stars inside the Tarantula Nebula.

«This force could be cosmic rays, a supersonic wind, the blast waves from supernovae, or something we have not thought of yet,» he said.

When the clockwork of orbital evolution brings such a group around such that Earth flies through it, there will be more than just fireworks in the sky: there will be explosions and blast waves causing damage on the ground.

«Based on tests like these, we believe we can replace that rolled steel with steel - CMF without sacrificing safety, better blocking not only the fragments but also the blast waves that are responsible for trauma such as major brain injuries.

The supernova blast waves, of course, just add insult to injury.»

Victims from the Boston Marathon bombing were subject to blast waves and blast wind resulting in soft tissue damage1, limb fractures1, and amputations.

Previous observations have shown loop oscillations caused by blast waves emanating from the flare, however this pushes the loops in a single direction.

«When I think of where I would go for protection from prompt effects, and from the blast wave in particular, I think of the same kinds of things that we do for tornadoes,» Buddemeier said.

The shock wave from the explosion, traveling through the ground, had reached them faster than the blast wave passing through the air.»

As it floats in an area of the LMC racked by the explosions of numerous supernovae in recent cosmic history, one theory was that the pattern might be caused by a set of localised ripples created when clumps of debris from an ancient supernova were hit by a blast wave from a relatively recent one.

These are produced when the core of a very massive star collapses, and the implosion sends out a blast wave that rips it apart.

«Again, this can not be explained by a blast wave since this would push both loops in the same direction.

Low - energy X-rays (red) in the image show expanding debris from the supernova explosion and high energy X-rays (blue) show the blast wave, a shell of extremely energetic electrons.

This translates to the blast wave moving about 90 billion miles during that period.

The CDC defines primary blast injuries as those caused by the blast wave — extremely compressed air moving away from the explosion — that can damage the lungs, bowel and ears.

In general, they found that an animal's skull and other fleshy structures act as a shield, blunting the effects of a blast wave: The thicker these structures are, the less vulnerable an animal is to injury.

«Most surprising is that the blast wave was still strong enough to cause significant effects in the atmosphere of Saturn, which is nearly a billion miles from the sun and has a magnetic field much larger than Earth's,» says Ed Stone of Caltech, chief scientist of NASA's Voyager program.

Now the Hubble Space Telescope has delivered the pièce de résistance, capturing the supernova's blast wave as it sweeps into interstellar space, heating a surrounding ring of gas into a glowing cosmic rosary.

Some astronomers have argued that the formation of our sun was triggered by a blast wave from a nearby stellar explosion.

We know that for energies of modest to intermediate energy, the culprit or the source of the acceleration appears to be the shock front that surrounds a [an] expanding supernova blast wave; that is to say, we have a star that undergoes a massive cosmic explosion [and] drives a strong shock wave out into the surrounding interstellar medium, and the gas around the shock wave, and all the magnetic fields associated with it are capable of accelerating particles to very high energies; and also incidentally magnifying and amplifying the magnetic field associated with that shock front and giving a lot of x-ray emission and radio emission and so on, and so we've understood that.

«Our team found evidence that the blast wave caused by the fireball brakes against a wall of very dense gas, which we believe is the crowded region where stars form.»

Then, suddenly, a blast wave erupts on the surface.

In the optical photograph shown here, the 100 + light - years span spherical blast wave is shown in detail.

The image is a colorized composite of low - energy x-rays (red) showing debris and high - energy x-rays (blue) showing the blast wave, plus the visible field of stars around it.

Kasliwal's colleague, theorist Ehud Nakar of Tel Aviv University, pointed out that the absence of X-ray and radio emissions fit a model in which the ejected material from the merged neutron stars produced a blast wave that interacts with the interstellar medium but with a time lag.

The southeastern knot of the Cygnus Loop was likely produced as a result of a collision of the supernova's blast wave and a nearly small isolated cloud.

Titan kit options include Nuclear Ejection which sends a blast wave when you eject and Survivor which give you more time to escape when your titan has been destroyed.

Every second level you \'ll race to harvest asteroids before the blast wave reaches you from the planet you just blew up!

Not exact matches

Most tragedies happen somewhere: the spot where the towers fell on 9/11, the beaches where the waves came ashore during the Asian tsunami, the sunflower fields where the pieces of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 fell after it was blasted out of the Ukrainian sky last summer.

The quake's epicenter was 175 miles east of Kamaishi, and not far from the 9.0 - magnitude blast that sent tsunami waves racing toward Fukushima in 2011.

Whenever a stock meets our initial criteria for a potential Blast Off trade setup, we add the stock to our internal breakout watchlist, then patiently wait for a proper, low - risk entry point to catch the next momentum wave higher.

We've added trumpet blasts to mimic the great sound of the wind of the spirit, we wave red streamers on bamboo rods, raise clouds of red and white balloons, and even nibble on birthday cakes for the church.

Dahlia, my daughter, had a blast with her cousins and now we're going to ride that wave to a great week!

and waved colorful signs blasting the company and its labor practices.

Waving American and even «Don't Tread on Me» flags, a symbol of the Tea Party movement, the people clustering in Queens blasted Mr. de Blasio, dubbed «Mayor Chaos» by one protester, and allies like Rev. Al Sharpton, a divisive figure in the law enforcement world.

During the contraction a wave blast revealed by extreme ultraviolet radiation spreads away from the source of the flare.

On 2 December, a spacecraft will blast off from the European Space Agency's base in French Guiana, carrying equipment designed to help detect gravitational waves.

The group is now pursuing studies that couple the mechanical forces of a blast, or pressure wave, to the activation of chemical - signaling pathways in neural cells.

They think it may be ricocheting from a powerful blast of ripples in space - time called gravitational waves.

These two types of brain oscillations engage in a neural seesaw: When beta waves are strong, akin to a stereo blasting, gamma waves are weak, as if the volume had been dialed down, and vice versa.

Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity predicts that black hole mergers should send out intense blasts of gravitational waves, ripples in space - time.

Last week researchers reported they had traced a cosmic blast of radio waves back to its source for the first time — but now another team of fast - acting astronomers has called the result into question.

As the shock wave travels away from the blast, it changes the atmospheric pressure and creates a low - pressure trough in its wake.

There are four types of blast trauma injury: 1) primary injury caused directly by the pressure wave, which can travel through tissue at velocities close to that of sound in water, 2) secondary injury caused by objects put in motion by the blast, 3) tertiary injury caused by an individual thrown into motion by the blast and hitting surrounding objects, and 4) quaternary injury caused by burns, explosion - related injuries, illnesses and diseases not attributed to the other three blast trauma types.

The collapse creates a shock wave (blue line) that travels outward, blasting the star apart.

The first pulse occurs when the shock wave forms and light scatters around the blast.

One problem with this theory is that before the shock wave even leaves the core it loses so much energy by blasting apart iron nuclei that it should come to a halt.

Arecibo's recent work includes searching for gravitational waves by the effect they have on the clocklike regularity of dead stars called pulsars; watching for mysterious blasts of energy called fast radio bursts (SN Online: 12/21/16); and keeping tabs on near - Earth asteroids.