Sentences with phrase «bright cloud»

The full visible - light image at left shows that the dark feature resides near and below a patch of bright clouds in the planet's southern hemisphere.

Like a light, bright cloud accompanied by angels.

«Normally, this area is really quiet and we only see bright clouds in the mid-latitude bands, so to have such an enormous cloud sitting right at the equator is spectacular.»

Scientists already have a hard - enough time recognizing hurricane progenitors and figuring out where the storms will go once they're spinning, so adding artificially brighter clouds and cooler waters to the mix could prove dangerous.

«Historically, very bright clouds have occasionally been seen on Neptune, but usually at latitudes closer to the poles, around 15 to 60 degrees north or south,» said Molter's advisor, Professor Imke de Pater of UC Berkeley's Astronomy Department.

As with every planet, winds in Neptune's atmosphere vary drastically with latitude, so if there is a big bright cloud system that spans many latitudes, something must hold it together, such as a dark vortex.

The cylinders would spray jets of the water droplets high above the oceans to build bright clouds.

Opposite hemispheres of the planet show bright cloud features — most obvious in the red and infrared parts of the spectrum where methane gas absorbs most strongly.

Brighter clouds reflect more sunlight back into space, reducing the amount of heat absorbed by the earth.

Brightness variations across the surface and bright clouds near the south pole are easily seen.

And just as increased algal productivity at sea increases the emission of sulfur gases to the atmosphere, ultimately leading to more and brighter clouds over the world's oceans, so too do CO2 - induced increases in terrestrial plant productivity lead to enhanced emissions of various sulfur gases over land, where they likewise ultimately cool the planet.

Even now they enter me like a humming tide of light, a bright cloud that waters the Earth with veriditas, the greening power of life.

Instead, he peters out into vague predictions of a new golden era of black music, speculating that «some kind of spirit is rising, like a bright cloud of monarchs finally migrating back after an extended stay at Michoacán... I don't know, and it's not for me to say.»

While he was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, «This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.

An embryonic star hidden within the brightest cloud of gas and dust churns out fierce x-rays.

The smoke is virtually invisible against a bright cloud, which handicaps satellites looking down from above.

The bright cloud at the center of Abell 2125 (middle) envelops hundreds of galaxies.

These sulphur containing particles reflect sunlight and help form brighter clouds, creating a global effect that temporarily diminishes the warming effects of carbon dioxide.

The Michigan Tech study reinforces that dirtier clouds - which are brighter clouds that scatter more sunlight, reflecting some of it back to space - will probably last longer because they are less likely to lead to precipitation.

If you could hover over hot Jupiters in a spaceship, you might see deep blue skies and bright clouds, depending on how closely the planets hug their suns

This X-ray image of the Milky Way's center captures the black hole Sagittarius A *, gorging on gas at the center of the bright cloud.

Beginning in July 2015, bright clouds were again seen on Neptune by several observers, from amateurs to astronomers at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii.

In September 2015, the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program, a long - term Hubble Space Telescope project that annually captures global maps of the outer planets, revealed a dark spot close to the location of the bright clouds, which had been tracked from the ground.

The bright clouds form when the flow of ambient air is perturbed and diverted upward over the dark vortex, causing gases to likely freeze into methane ice crystals.

Maunakea, Hawaii — Striking images of a storm system nearly the size of Earth have astronomers doing a double - take after pinpointing its location near Neptune's equator, a region where no bright cloud has ever been seen before.

Bright clouds are probably caused by gases such as methane rising in the atmosphere and condensing into highly reflective clouds of methane ice.

Images of Neptune taken during twilight observing revealed an extremely large bright storm system near Neptune's equator (labeled «cloud complex» in the upper figure), a region where astronomers have never seen a bright cloud.

These bright clouds are thought to be high above the main cloud deck, and above much of the absorbing methane gas.

Infrared observations in this image show warm dust clouds heated by newborn stars, with the brightest clouds lying in the overlapping region between the galaxies.

These brighter clouds would reflect away more sunlight, says Prof Douglas MacMartin, an engineering researcher from Cornell University, who contributed to the US House of Representatives» hearing on geoengineering.

When there are large numbers of CCN, there are more cloud droplets and smaller droplets, consequently more cloud cover and brighter clouds.

This is important since high, thin clouds do not reflect incoming sunlight and are a net warming influence while the reverse is true of low, bright clouds.