Sentences with phrase «bursts of light at»

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.

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It was identified that the Shroud of Turin's image was created by an extremely powerful flash of light, so powerful that Luigi Garlaschelli, a professor of chemistry at Pavia University, described it as unearthly, «The implications are... that the image was formed by a burst of UV energy so intense it could only have been supernatural.»

Partly because I was pressed for time and in a rush to photograph them (and had to use the super harsh, early morning light), but mostly because there's been a disproportionate amount of brown - colored food in this space (these, those, and this)(and now you're looking at more) and it's summer and the farmers market is bursting with vibrant produce and I'm just over here whipping up shit with peanut butter and chocolate.

Ask any average Jane who has recently birthed a child and she'll look at you in the eye and laugh before bursting into an endless stream of tears while telling you between sobs on how she had to swallow and eat cold (literally ice cold) cream of mushroom soups and risottos that shouldn't even see the light of day.

This image shows the most common type of gamma - ray burst, thought to occur when a massive star collapses, forms a black hole, and blasts particle jets outward at nearly the speed of light.

The resulting stellar debris, swirling ever closer to the black hole, collided with itself, giving off bursts of optical and UV light at the collision sites.

When a sunspot bursts onto the solar surface, for example, it shines a broad beam of light at a wavelength known as Lyman - a.

In 2008, Eleftherios Goulielmakis at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, and his colleagues generated what were then the shortest pulses of light ever achieved: extreme ultraviolet bursts just 80 attoseconds long.

If that jet is aimed directly at Earth, telescopes can see it as an ephemeral flash of light called a short gamma - ray burst, or GRB.

A gamma ray burst is thought to emerge when jets of hot matter moving at near — light - speed shoot out along the rotational axis of the newborn black hole, beaming radiation into space like a lighthouse.

A probe of the galaxy with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 on June 13, 2013, revealed a glow in near - infrared light at the source of the gamma - ray burst, shown in the image at top, right.

«Previously, astronomers had been looking at the aftermath of short - period bursts largely in optical light, and were not really finding anything besides the light of the gamma - ray burst itself,» explained Andrew Fruchter of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., a member of Tanvir's research team.

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.

Optical telescopes swung into operation and detected a fading spot of ordinary light at the position of the gamma - ray burst.

Anthony Readhead of the Owens Valley Radio Observatory at Caltech and colleagues caught two small, hot bursts traveling away from a bright galaxy called J1415 +1320 at near the speed of light.

The observations supported a 25 - year - old conjecture that neutron star mergers produce short gamma - ray bursts, and confirmed that gravitational waves travel at the same speed of light, ruling out some speculative alternatives to Einstein's theory of gravity and general relativity.

Astrophysicists using a telescope embedded in Antarctic ice have succeeded in a quest to detect and record the mysterious phenomena known as cosmic neutrinos — nearly massless particles that stream to Earth at the speed of light from outside our solar system, striking the surface in a burst of energy that can be as powerful as a baseball pitcher's fastball.

Until now, astronomers have studied the early history of the universe directly, trying to peer farther and farther away at older light, in an attempt to tease out the secrets of how the cosmos first burst into light.

We already knew that light can stimulate nerve activity, and two years ago Nicholas Smith at Osaka University, Japan, showed that 8 - millisecond bursts of laser pulses could synchronise the pulsing of heart cells in culture.

Astronomer Alicia Soderberg, a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University and the first author of the report, was using the Burst Alert Telescope, an instrument on NASA's orbiting Swift observatory, on January 9 to study a supernova in NGC 2770 that was then two weeks in progress (but still 88 million years old, given the transit time of light).

Sweeping an ultraviolet light wand over a box of rocks in a darkened room at the museum, he ignites the stones — uncut rubies — in a burst of fiery red light that is otherworldly.

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.

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.

Using the precise VLA position, researchers used the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii to make a visible - light image that identified a faint dwarf galaxy at the location of the bursts.

Twice, the core flared in brightness as it shot a burst of electrons outward at more than 95 percent of light speed.

The black hole shoots jets of particles through the star at nearly the speed of light and astronomers believe they create the gamma - ray bursts.

The circuit board, known as an Arduino, runs simple software programs, like the one Cooper wrote to flash short bursts of blue light at dishes of cells.

Quick follow - up observations undertaken with the 8.2 - m Antu instrument at European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in the Paranal and the 1.5 - meter Danish telescope at La Silla identified a faint, point - like object in visible light that was fading rapidly, the optical counterpart of the gamma - ray burst called the «afterglow» (Pedersen et al, 2000).

A brief but brilliant burst of radiation that travelled at least a billion light years through Space to reach an Australian radio telescope last year has given scientists new insight into the fabric of the Universe.

That energy is released in two forms — a burst of gamma - rays and X-rays and an ejection of subatomic particles at nearly the speed of light.

Keep light dumb bells at your office and once per hour include 30 sec bursts of weight lifting — bicep curls, tricep extensions, shoulder press.

Most brain (cerebral) aneurysms only cause noticeable symptoms if they burst (rupture) leading to a very serious haemorrhage which can cause extensive brain damage and symptoms of agonising headache, pain on looking at light, neck stiffness, vomiting, etc..

There's a kind of a drug - addled in the Big Bend country sort of twang to the whole thing and it feels like it could all go off the rails at any moment and burst into a hell hath no fury conflagration thanks to some lonely propane tank beside the tracks in some Chihuahuan Hooterville; and boy, that drummer works his ass off bringing the bass sound and everything else he's supposed to do; and boy, they remind me of Ed Hall and a bunch of other whacky late 80s / early 90s Austin bands whose names escape me; and man, this band is awesome in that sort of weird «lets go drop mushrooms in Marfa and look for the Marfa Lights» kinda way; and whoa, why don't I just shut up and let you listen for yourself?

Whoever controlled the buttons was apparently having fun, but for the rest of us, all the clanging and light bursts begins to feel like an overtime shift at the welding shop.

Best Scores and Soundtracks of the Year (some of them talked about in depth here) Michael Andrews» «Jeff Who Lives At Home» (he's criminally underrated), Nick Urata's score for «Ruby Sparks» (beautiful and heartrending, maybe my fave of the year), «Beasts of the Southern Wild» (anthemic, celebratory, overwhelmingly burst - into - tear inducing), Hans Zimmer's «The Dark Knight Rises» (typically thrilling and towering), Howard Shore and Metric — «Cosmopolis» (sinisterly futuristic; we overlooked by accident), the soundtrack to «The Comedy» (poignantly wistful soul), the soundtrack to «Take This Waltz,» «Rust & Bone,» «Nobody Walks» and «Keep The Lights On» (an excellent soundtrack of forlorn Arthur Russell songs that we regrettably failed to mention at length in our music pieceAt Home» (he's criminally underrated), Nick Urata's score for «Ruby Sparks» (beautiful and heartrending, maybe my fave of the year), «Beasts of the Southern Wild» (anthemic, celebratory, overwhelmingly burst - into - tear inducing), Hans Zimmer's «The Dark Knight Rises» (typically thrilling and towering), Howard Shore and Metric — «Cosmopolis» (sinisterly futuristic; we overlooked by accident), the soundtrack to «The Comedy» (poignantly wistful soul), the soundtrack to «Take This Waltz,» «Rust & Bone,» «Nobody Walks» and «Keep The Lights On» (an excellent soundtrack of forlorn Arthur Russell songs that we regrettably failed to mention at length in our music pieceat length in our music piece).

Returning to artificial light there is evidence to suggest that «light showers», short bursts of blue rich light, can have an energising effect and promote concentration at certain times of the day and studies have shown this concept can deliver positive effects in schools.

Shorter bursts like pulling away from the lights, nipping out of junctions, or accelerating from 30 - 50mph are completed extremely quickly, and the Ioniq Electric doesn't struggle at all in this regard.

The game has its moments, but never really becomes more than a short burst of time filling between major games, at the best of times it just works, other times it can get glitchy, sure it's easy to control the bike, but for one reason or another the AI can't do it to save their lives, it doesn't help that their as light as a small child and have about as much physical tolerance as one too, one hit can be all you need to dethrone your competition only for them to get back up and get stuck in a wall, or to the back of a parked car.

And I'm hoping that its success might encourage Bamco to localize other games in the West, such as God Eater 2: Rage Burst (freshly announced in Japan for PS4 and Vita at the SCEJA press conference), Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei: Out of Order (another PS Vita anime tie - in), or the next SAO game (which has reportedly been green - lighted already, based on the strong Japanese sales of Hollow Fragment).

As the UK prepares for a particularly severe cold snap, the opening of David Hockney's major retrospective at Tate Britain brings a welcome burst of Los Angeles light and colour and Yorkshire wit and warmth.

One of the heartening aspects of this terrific show at the light - filled Quogue Gallery is the way the later works burst with all the vigor of the early paintings, as though 50 years were nothing to a well - trained and excited hand.

As if caught within a tunnel of light at incredible speed, Yangyang's loosely formed narrative bursts to life at the corner of each canvas — throwing us, head first, into speckled fantasies of energy and vibration.

The eye of the congregant at «Black Mass» suddenly catches a burst of white light emanating from above.

By next March, when «Burst of Light: Caravaggio and His Legacy» arrives at the Wadsworth Atheneum from LACMA, the Connecticut museum will have its Caravaggesque counterpart ready.

Villalongo's many Muses perform acts from the banal to the extraordinary, at times undergoing anatomical transformations in bursts of color and light.

It then kept strangely quiet as more fires lit up, seemingly playing a waiting game to see if the fires would fan themselves out, putting even more customers at risk than it already had, taking six days after a fire burst on a Southwest Airlines plane that thankfully was still on the ground, to finally kill a product that should have never made it out of the testing lab, and even if it did, should not have ever been rolled out as «safe» after its first recall.

Put them on and look at a light source for a burst of rainbow color.