Sentences with phrase «blast waves of»

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«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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Analyzing the times that seismic waves arrived at various measuring stations, one group calculated that the test occurred 2.2 kilometers west of the first blast.

By comparing the amplitudes of the P, S and Rayleigh waves, and calculating how long each would have taken to travel through the ground, researchers can plot the likely sites of the five blasts.

«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.

The new type of accelerator, known as a laser - plasma accelerator, uses pulses of laser light that blast through a soup of charged particles known as a plasma; the resulting plasma motion, which resemble waves in water, accelerates electrons riding atop the waves to high speeds.

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.

Three perytons in January coincided with independently detected blasts of 2.4 gigahertz radio waves — the same frequency

Dark matter hitting black holes could be the source of some fast radio bursts — mysterious blasts of radio waves that come from billions of light years away, first detected 10 years ago.

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

They then submerged them in a mixture of silicone oil and water that they blasted with ultrasonic sound waves to generate micrometer - sized oil droplets.

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

Statistical analysis of supermassive black holes suggests that the spin of the black hole may play a role in the generation of powerful high - speed jets blasting radio waves and other radiation across the Universe.

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.

The researchers assessed that the steel - CMF held up against the wave of blast pressure and against the copper and steel fragments created by the exploding round, as well as aluminum from the strikeplate.

Analysis of the seismic waves caused by last week's blast put the yield of the warhead tested at between 50 and 100 kilotons.

Minutes later, a shock wave blasted out nearby windows, injuring hundreds of people.

Such a cosmic blast provided the first direct detection of gravity waves, recorded last September by the twin Advanced LIGO observatories in Louisiana and Washington state.

«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.»

Ten blasts of radio waves recorded last May and June all come from the same direction, researchers report online March 2 in Nature.

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.

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.

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

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.

So does this FRB finally help us understand the mysterious processes that give rise to these energetic blasts of radio waves?

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.

The movie focuses on the latter for plot, but it's the cold fusion of the two that makes Loveless such a devastating tragedy because it extends the blast radius from personal ground zero, to universal, post-Nietzchean shock wave: God is dead, all over again.

Inputting it during a boss fight against the Vic Viper will send the game into Zoradius, a 3 - D take on Gradius with waves of enemies to blast.

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.

As are the new multiplayer modes: Mad Survival, which is the normal wave - based mode but with main characters assailing your party, and Dogfight, which sees players clinging to the undersides of helicopters as they attempt to blast each other out of the air.

Now, here comes Solo: A Star Wars Story, and it's a refreshing blast, as it rides a wave of gripping action sequences where digital effects never overshadow the earthy world of practical effects in a script that isn't bloated with too many characters.

Blast into battle against huge space destroyers in Arcade Mode, tackle endless waves of enemies in Survival Mode and face off against epic level guardians in Boss Run mode.

As a result of the convincing effects and a solid, humor filled script by Sinister's C. Robert Cargill, the possibility of these magics also create some of the best action scenes of the Marvel universe by presenting clever and puzzling scenarios instead of making the hero blast through countless waves of robots.