Sentences with phrase «columns of»

The iconic photo of the so - called «Pillars of Creation» reveals never - before - seen details of three giant columns of cold gas bathed in the scorching ultraviolet light from a cluster of young, massive stars in a small region of the Eagle Nebula.

It revealed huge columns of hydrogen with a length of several light years.

These spinning columns of dirt can rise hundreds of feet in the air.

These enormous columns of gas are a common feature in many nebulae and the material inside them is often dense enough to collapse to form stars.

(B) In contrast, EFTF / YFP - expressing cells generate mosaic retinas with columns of cells spanning the entire retinal width.

In addition, every mosaic retina contained columns of YFP - positive cells that spanned the entire width of the retina — from RPE to RGCs (see Figures 5B, 5K — 5N, and S2B — S2J for examples).

Let us take a template of this stereogram and paste it on repeating wallpaper made of columns of dots (g).

He has often contributed technical commentaries to the News & Views columns of Nature, most recently in the 21 January 2010 issue.

Readers could see lines of battle or columns of retreating men, dead and wounded soldiers, freed slaves and war heroes.

DENPASAR, Indonesia, Nov 27 (Reuters)- Indonesia closed the airport on the tourist island of Bali on Monday and ordered 100,000 residents living near a grumbling volcano spewing columns of ash to evacuate immediately, warning that the first major eruption in 54 years could be «imminent».

The first steel to break the waves was installed just off the Westchester County shore in September — two vertical columns of thick rebar that will hold up a section of the new bridge's approach.

They are actually the edges of roughly hexagonal columns of igneous rock, similar to other geometric landmarks such as Ireland's Giant's Causeway or Devils Postpile in California.

Scans reveal 28 mantle plumes rising from Earth's core — the first direct evidence that these columns of heat create hotspots

The vertical columns of Devils Tower, which splay outward near the bottom, match the pattern expected if the formation were indeed the plug in the neck of a funnel - shaped crater filled with a dome of erupted lava.

For example, in crystals one can routinely observe individual columns of atoms.

But how did the sky - scraping columns of Devils Tower form — belowground or as part of a violent eruption?

He extracted fluids from the spinal columns of MS patients and tested for an enzyme, called reverse transcriptase, that is carried by all retroviruses.

Habib explains that it would have been able to cross broad stretches of ocean by taking advantage of thermals (rising columns of air created over warmer - than - normal patches of ocean) to gain altitude, then gliding until it reached the next thermal.

The ordered nano domains have columns with higher intensity (red) residing next to columns of lower intensity (blue).

Planar crystals, which lie roughly horizontal as they fall, occasionally form delicate «moon pillars,» columns of reflected light extending above or below the moon when it is low in the sky.

Using its latest camera, Hubble shows a wider and sharper view of the Eagle Nebula's «Pillars of Creation,» immense columns of cold gas bathed in the ultraviolet light of nearby massive young stars.

Increasingly, the medical columns of newspapers and magazines have been busy documenting the rise of strains of bacteria that no longer succumb to antibiotics.

In the correspondence columns of journals, questions are often raised about the criteria that determine whether particular individuals should be included as authors on papers.

Surrounding the sun is a vast atmosphere of solar particles, through which magnetic fields swarm, solar flares erupt, and gigantic columns of material rise, fall and jostle each other around.

In both mouse and fruit fly embryos, Detlev Arendt, an evolutionary biologist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, has found that cells involved in forming the brain and nerve cord divide into three columns of cells.

These columns of windswept sand — which can cause roadway pileups, eat away at buildings and machinery, and drive larger processes such as erosion and dune formation — consisting of many millions of interacting particles propelled by ever - changing winds.

For example, in crystals one can even observe individual columns of atoms.

These turquoise waters mark the top of the Bahama Banks — underwater columns of coral reef limestone more than 4500 metres tall that have formed over the past 100 million years.

To enable a three - story building to rock, the columns of the braced frame are not anchored to the building foundation, but tethered to the foundation by dampers and steel - yielding devices.

Vertical columns of hot and buoyant rock rising through the mantle from near the core are known as mantle plumes.

It's the climax of a sophisticated technique called bubble - net hunting — the trapping of krill using columns of bubbles that the whales exhale via their blowholes

When tornadoes form and reach down to the Earth in sinister columns of 100 mph winds, they do so for so many highly specific reasons that it's almost impossible to predict where they might hit or how strong they will be.

The researchers then injected 60,000 of the cells into the spinal columns of rats that had been paralyzed by the injection of a virus.

IBM calls dubs it «racetrack memory,» because it uses magnetic domains to store information in columns of magnetic material (nanoscale «racetracks») arranged on the surface of a silicon wafer.

Geysers gush massive columns of hot water and steam from fissures in the ground, offering a rare look at the earth's inner workings.

Swirling columns of sand and dust, known as dust devils, are a feature of desert areas on Mars and on Earth.

Yet people actually lived and worked under such conditions; the Bob Cratchits of that world wrote and added up columns of numbers by candlelight.

You could try to attack it from that angle, different ways of, again, trying to affect the balance of heat and the movements of these big columns of air around that way.

As the cladoxylopsids grew, these columns of xylem split themselves apart — most likely to supply water to the expanding plant.

Inspired by geckos» sticky feet, scientists are developing adhesive tapes — by rooting columns of nanotubes in flexible polymer pieces — that stick many times better than a gecko's foot.

In the 1990s, a famous Hubble photo dubbed «Pillars of Creation» showed columns of dust and gas in the Eagle Nebula that were in the process of forging new stars.

His team bored several three - meter - long columns of sediment from parts of the seafloor that were covered by Larsen B until its collapse.

This is because terrestrial hurricanes form when an inflow of air along the ocean surface sops up moisture and rises in a halo of updrafts to create towering columns of rain clouds.

I had taken part in radio phone - ins about science and had submitted answers to the «queries» columns of newspapers when the questions had been about my field.

«Sprites» are columns of red light that can stretch out over 30 miles and extend to altitudes of 50 miles; they always coincide with common cloud - to - ground lightning, though scientists do not understand the connection.

It should be noted that the properties vary differently when moving vertically along the columns of the table, than when moving horizontally along the rows.

That's thanks in part to the 3 - columns of hook and eye closures that provide an effective amount of stable support.

The NHS features prominently in the columns of both Michael Gove and Boris Johnson today — almost as if they were coordinated!

The Democratic governor greeted the former secretary of state with a kiss, presenting her with an award named after his father, Mario Cuomo, as the applause of hundreds who gathered for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence gala echoed off marble columns of Cipriani's Broadway location in Manhattan.

Seems like Cameron and Obsorne get their assessment of public opinion through the columns of Polly Toynbee and nowhere else.