Sentences with phrase «burst of light»

The new method uses strong laser pulses to direct the short bursts of light.
But those types of events do not produce an associated burst of light.
By carefully coordinating bursts of light and oxygen to firm up the resin where desired, the system makes complex, 3D shapes.
Watching the sun in ultraviolet wavelengths of light from space — above our UV light - blocking atmosphere — reveals constant activity, including bursts of light, particles, and magnetic fields.
What is certain is that the triple burst of light was reflected off nearby dust to surround the object with rapidly changing light shells, making it a true cosmic beauty.
Once in the atmosphere, the charged particles interact with gas particles, including nitrogen and oxygen, which triggers bursts of light.
A five - point star of pale - yellow color, with small bursts of light shining around it.
You sense it most clearly where her marks skirt the edges of a page, and where gaps among stopping points create optical bursts of light.
The best times to scan the skies for these tiny bursts of light in North America will be on August 11 and August 12 during the late night and early morning hours.
An intense burst of light from an otherwise nondescript star has lit up a cocoon of dust in a rare «light echo,» shown in these Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images.
«Breathing Room III» encourages the viewer to enter into and interact with a defined sculptural space, where intense bursts of light interrupt complete darkness, unexpectedly jolting the experience from one of quiet meditation to acute interrogation.
Mounted on the ceiling above was a projector capable of flashing bursts of light onto the screen, at the same spots where the speakers were located.
A professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Edgerton in the early 1930s perfected the stroboscope, a tube filled with gas that produced high - intensity bursts of light at regular and very brief intervals.
The graphic depicts the imaging of atomic scale features of the Photoactive Yellow Protein, with brilliant bursts of light lasting mere quadrillionths of a second.
Could the intensity of America's abortion debate be like the last burst of light from a dying star?
Thanks to lucky snapshots taken by an amateur astronomer in Argentina, scientists have obtained their first view of the initial burst of light from the explosion of a massive star.
Unlike most supernovae surveys, which look for bright bursts of light, Kochanek would monitor about 30 nearby galaxies for curious patches of darkness where a star had suddenly disappeared.
IceCube captures fleeting bursts of light when tiny neutrinos — one of the fundamental particles that make up the universe — crash into the atomic nuclei of water molecules in ice, causing an eruption of subatomic particles.
Bursts of light less than one - trillionth of a second long vaporized thin sections of the sample without heating the sample itself.
Excited atoms and ions in the plasma will quickly decay, producing bursts of light.
The rescue of memories, which changed both the structure of neurons as well as the behavior of mice, was achieved using optogenetics, a method for manipulating genetically tagged cells with precise bursts of light.
BREATHING ROOM III encouraged the viewer to enter into and interact with a defined sculptural space, where intense bursts of light interrupt complete darkness, unexpectedly jolting the experience from one of quiet meditation to acute interrogation.
Variations of his pouring technique resulted in a seemingly endless array of compositional structures, ranging from elegant vertical columns of color, to collage - like layers of diagonal folds, to dynamic radial bursts of light, all of which were shaped by both a combination of carefully controlled processes and a crucial element of chance.
With access to these data, Pasham and his colleagues wanted to solve a longstanding mystery: Where did a flare's bursts of light first arise?
The normal star dumps material onto the white dwarf, generating bursts of light that earn the duo the name of cataclysmic variables.
When scientists recorded a rippling in space - time, followed within two seconds by an associated burst of light observed by dozens of telescopes around the globe, they had witnessed, for the first time, the explosive collision and merger of two neutron stars.
Zooko tosses the electronic wreckage into the fire pit as Za sprays bursts of lighter fluid onto the crackling conflagration.
It started in 2001, a brilliant burst of light breached the skies.
Stanford researchers have found that exposing sleepers to an hour of short bursts of light made it possible for bodies to adjust.
That beautiful burst of light stippling the sky is the sum total of all the plodding of any one comet through thousands of years of dedicated freefall.
A push - button tail switch lets you choose between a momentary burst of light or a steady stream.
They become caught in powerful magnetic fields and are channeled into the upper atmosphere, where their interactions with gas particles, such as oxygen or nitrogen, set off spectacular bursts of light.
When Zhong and colleagues compared the two original bursts of light to the echoes that emerged from the crystal, they found that, for the most part, each photon had preserved its original identity as a 0, 1, or both.
When the electrons, protons, muons and pions of the air shower run through the tubs of water, the particles give off a little burst of light called Cherenkov radiation.
ON 28 March 2011, at 9.47 pm Eastern Standard Time, NASA's Swift satellite spotted a searing burst of light in the corner of its eye.
«In 2013, we were treated to a veritable smorgasbord of dancing auroras, from steadily shining rings to super-fast bursts of light shooting across the pole.»
But they can be detected by a special type of apparatus: a huge tank of liquid in which rare antineutrino collisions with atomic nuclei produce faint but measurable bursts of light.
Discovered in the late 1980s, it offers a way to produce laser - like bursts of light at far higher frequencies and shorter wavelengths than a laser can generate directly.
This reconnection generates attosecond bursts of light that combine to form an attosecond laser pulse.
Astronomers tested for changes in the gravitational constant using 21 years of data from a pulsar (the ultradense remnant core of a dead star that spins like a crazed lighthouse, sending astronomers bursts of light a thousand times per second).
The beam of relatively broad peaks ends up as a series of sharp, high - intensity femtosecond bursts of light.
It's a marriage of two technologies, one that uses bursts of light to turn on genes, and one that enables people to control external devices, such as computer cursors or robot arms, with their minds using «brain - computer interfaces.»
Before the cells completely arrested, the researchers dispersed more bursts of light.
The researchers also demonstrated printed black phosphorus based nonlinear optical devices that can be easily inserted into lasers to act as ultra-quick optical shutters, converting a continuous beam of laser radiation into a repetitive series of very short bursts of light suited for industrial and medical applications, such as machining, imaging and sensing.
Reflections from these could bounce towards Earth, producing a second, fainter burst of light, like an echo.
Through repeated stimulation with high - frequency bursts of light to the hippocampal memory circuit in AD mice, the team was able to boost the number of spines to levels indistinguishable from those in control mice.
The technique relies on optogenetics, a method of controlling brain cells through bursts of light developed by HHMI early career scientist Karl Deisseroth at Stanford University.
Jes Jørgensen believes that there has not only been a single burst of light and heat radiation, but that it could happen several times during the formation process.
As we park along the roadside and climb out for the walk up the long lane, an abrupt burst of light - machine - gun fire rips the twilight.
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