Sentences with phrase «bursts of light in»

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.

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.

Amongst these compressed paintings look out for «Dawn of Christianity», where the snake of temptation slithers into the bottom corner of the canvas, the burst of light in «The Angel standing in the sun» and the solemn portrait of Napoleon in «War.

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It is the sudden burst of divine light as when Helios peaks over the horizon, casting his rays on all creation so that the world glows in the golden haze of dawn, translucent and transformed.

This tenacity continues through all the enormous effusion of the animal kingdom, and bursts into the light of day with the appearance, in thinking Man, of the formidable power of pre-vision.

I now read the Bible as a living history book not just a book filled with great stories or â $ œMythologyâ $ I believe in a God that can look out into utter darkness and speak the words â $ œlet there be light â $ œ and immediately billions of suns burst into existence (and continue to do so) and, one who knows our every thought.

While sitting in meditation, a powerful ray of light bursts from his head, penetrates the heavens and arouses the gods, who immediately burst into songs of praise in his honor.

In my opinion this is the perfect early spring soup... warming but light, like a burst of spring sunshine in a bowIn my opinion this is the perfect early spring soup... warming but light, like a burst of spring sunshine in a bowin a bowl.

They're incredibly moist and light, and these babies have just the right amount of honey in them for a hint of sweetness and the plump blueberries burst in your mouth with every bite.

This perfect summer cake is full of wonderful British strawberries, bursting with flavour, in a feather - light layer of vanilla infused mousse, with a smooth pistachio layer with a hint of orange topping, ending with a crunch from the «white chocolate» strawberries and cream Qnola base.

ull of wonderful British strawberries, bursting with flavour, in a feather - light layer of vanilla infused mousse, with a smooth pistachio layer with a hint of orange topping, ending with a crunch from the «white chocolate» strawberries and cream Qnola base.

I first whipped this up the other day in a burst of light - hearted culinary inspiration, and I really could just eat this everyday and be so happy, and healthy.

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.

When I got the news that we were in, man, it was a burst of light.»

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.

Inside the center Wednesday, as many as 150 people engaged in light chatter interrupted by bursts of laughter.

Several hours later, a team of astronomers known as the ROTSE (Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment) collaboration, led by Carl Akerlof of the University of Michigan, reported that the visible - light counterpart of the burst was also seen in the images taken with a small, robotic telescope operated by their team, starting only 22 seconds after the burst.

Physicists working with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO), which has twin instruments in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, spotted a burst of gravitational waves from black holes 29 and 36 times as massive as the sun that spiraled into each other 1.3 billion light - years away.

However, because they occur in short bursts and originate in distant galaxies — sometimes even billions of light years from Earth — scientists have not been able to exactly pinpoint what causes them.

Los Alamos scientists developed the BURST computer code to predict — to unprecedented precision — the amounts of light nuclei synthesized in the Big Bang.

Others outlined a creature or disguised it in an almost psychedelic array of dots, flashes, pulses, gleams, expanding rings, steady glows, and bursts of light.

To date, they all work by exciting electrons that are either floating freely or in atoms, prompting the emission of a burst of light.

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.

Astronomers are racing to figure out what causes powerful bursts of radio light in the distant cosmos

When a massive star dies, it explodes as a supernova, which includes a short burst of visible light, as in this illustration.

When researchers used optogenetics — a technique that allows cells to be switched on and off with light — to increase the amount of bursting in the lateral habenula, mice behaved in a more «depressed» way, remaining motionless when forced to swim in a container of water, for example.

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 lonIn 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 lonin Garching, Germany, and his colleagues generated what were then the shortest pulses of light ever achieved: extreme ultraviolet bursts just 80 attoseconds long.

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.

A team of researchers led by Nial Tanvir of the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom has used Hubble to study a recent short - duration burst in near - infrared light.

The definitive evidence came from Hubble observations in near - infrared light of the fading fireball produced in the aftermath of a short gamma - ray burst (GRB).

«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.

A Hungarian - US team of astronomers have found what appears to be the largest feature in the observable universe: a ring of nine gamma ray bursts — and hence galaxies — 5 billion light years across.

«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.»

Inaugurated in 1991 to search for flashes of light from gamma - ray bursts — enigmatic explosions mostly seen in very distant galaxies — it never found one and was eventually shut down.

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.

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.

On 11 February, physicists working with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO)-- twin instruments in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana — announced that they had seen just what Einstein predicted: a burst of waves created as two black holes spiraled into each other 1.3 billion light - years away.

Like many of the projects undertaken in Raskar's Camera Culture Group, the new system uses a time - of - flight camera, which fires ultrashort bursts of laser light into a scene and measures the time it takes their reflections to return.

Describing the discovery October 16 in Astrophysical Journal Letters, the team of astronomers led by Arjen van der Wel of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany report that the lensing galaxy is relatively light, young and bursting with new stars.

In this illustration, quasiparticles (red and blue lines) collide head - on in a solid material (grid of spheres) releasing a burst of lighIn this illustration, quasiparticles (red and blue lines) collide head - on in a solid material (grid of spheres) releasing a burst of lighin a solid material (grid of spheres) releasing a burst of light.

Using special diving suits and submersibles, they have even entered the habitat of deep - sea organisms, watching in awe as the water world lit up with bursts of color that sparkled like fireworks.

She and other researchers had observed these jellies and hypothesized that they use their light as a kind of burglar alarm, glowing with brilliant blue bursts in a pinwheel pattern when under attack.

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).

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.

When a low - energy neutrino or antineutrino from a supernova collides with a water molecule in the tank, the resulting light signal is recorded by about 100 of 13,000 photomultipliers, ultrasensitive light - detecting devices that turn a tiny flash of light into a larger recordable burst of electricity.

The powerful blasts of particles and light energy known as gamma - ray bursts come from violent cosmic events in deep space, such as stellar explosions and black hole collisions.

That burst, called inflation, should have triggered gravitational waves that would have scattered the photons of the CMB in preferred directions, creating patterns of orientation in the light that are an imprint of the relic waves.

Fast radio bursts are brief, bright pulses of radio emission from distant but so far unknown sources, and FRB 121102 is the only one known to repeat: more than 200 high - energy bursts have been observed coming from this source, which is located in a dwarf galaxy about 3 billion light years from Earth.

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.