Sentences with phrase «blasts of energy called»

It has been instrumental in tasks as diverse as monitoring near - Earth asteroids, watching for bright blasts of energy called fast radio bursts and searching for extraterrestrial intelligence.

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.

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Each blast of particles — called a coronal mass ejection, or solar storm — can pack the explosive energy of thousands or even millions of nuclear bombs:

The popular brew is filled with compounds called catechins that blast belly flab by triggering the release of fat from fat cells, then speeding the liver's capacity for turning that fat into energy.

Councilman Robert Jackson is calling on the SLA to add «Blast by Colt 45» to its list of banned alcoholic energy drinks.

The country's newest space lab, Tiangong - 2, for example, hosts a number of scientific payloads, including an advanced atomic clock and a $ 3.4 - million detector called POLAR for the study of γ - ray bursts — blasts of high - energy radiation from collapsing stars and other sources.

Two seconds after the gravitational signal, which only the automated «trigger» of the Hanford detector initially noticed, NASA's orbiting Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope picked up a blast of high - energy photons called a gamma ray burst.

A company called CHETEK, which seems to enjoy close ties to the Soviet Ministry of Atomic Energy, is offering to carry out the nuclear blasts for profit.