Sentences with phrase «detect ultraviolet»

L'Oreal introduced two battery - free wearables that detect ultraviolet exposure at CES 2018.

The researchers saw that in early stages, two days after the mice were born, developing rod cells expressed genes normally seen in mature short - wavelength cones (which are used in other animals to detect ultraviolet light).

Their giant, 30,000 - lens eyes can detect ultraviolet light.

The EUSO telescope, which will be used to find debris, was originally planned to detect ultraviolet light emitted from air showers produced by ultra-high energy cosmic rays entering the atmosphere at night.

Not only do jumping spiders have eight eyes positioned to create nearly 360 - degree vision, but some species can detect ultraviolet radiation, which facilitates mating.

Instead, it detects the ultraviolet emission from the cooler plasma (~ 18,000 to 180,000 degrees Fahrenheit) at their footpoints.

Unfortunately, they are also difficult to detect, so a system like the artificial white hole that can convert them to easily detected ultraviolet light could find uses in many lab settings, Faccio says.

It was here that its inventors, Professor Andrew Mills and Dr Michael McFarlane, developed the device and the chemical reaction that causes it to change color as it detects ultraviolet light.

Not exact matches

The image above shows the hard X-rays (seen here as red and yellow) as well as visible and ultraviolet light (white and purple) detected by Swift.

A laser in the vacuum ultraviolet range — the Dalian facility will cover 50 — 150 nanometers — «has a soft touch,» he says, making it «the best way to detect molecules and atoms in a gas.»

The Methods: Photochemical modeling by a Caltech team indicates that ethane, a hydrocarbon detected on Titan by both of the Voyager spacecraft and the European Infrared Space Observatory, is created when solar ultraviolet light breaks down methane, a minor component of Titan's nitrogen - rich atmosphere, into a stew of organic molecules that form a dense orange - brown smog.

«Because ultraviolet light from objects in space can be detected only by telescopes located outside Earth's atmosphere, Swift's UVOT telescope provided unique data on this event.

Each of the honeybee's compound eyes is made up of thousands of hexagonal, faceted lenses that can detect visible, ultraviolet, and polarized light.

Ultraviolet light from early, blueish stars (illustrated) interacted with hydrogen gas, causing it to absorb background radiation, and creating a signature scientists have now detected.

«This observation would be almost impossible to do from the ground because you need ultraviolet spectroscopy to detect the fingerprints of these elements, which can only be done from space,» Bordoloi said.

The surveillance and tracking systems, which made use of Sideways - Looking Airborne Radar and infra - red and ultraviolet sensors, could only detect oil on the surface.

Even down on the Red Planet's surface, the Curiosity rover might be able to get in on the act: Because Mars's atmosphere has no ozone to block ultraviolet light, sensors on the rover will be able to detect those wavelengths and thereby monitor certain trace gases spewing from the comet — unless a dust storm blocks the view to space, Lemmon says.

To their surprise, Fox and his colleagues detected so much absorption of the background ultraviolet light that they concluded the Magellanic Stream must contain far more ionized gas than neutral gas.

I also see ultraviolet light, which is good to detect because it damages the skin.

Chris Carr of Imperial College London, the principal investigator for a suite of instruments called the Rosetta Plasma Consortium, says he hopes theirs may be the first on the spacecraft to actually detect the comet as solar wind begins to blow gas off its surface and the sun's ultraviolet light ionizes it, leaving a trail of plasma.

So, late in 2012, in hopes of detecting vapor plumes, he and his colleagues used the Hubble Space Telescope to observe Europa in ultraviolet light.

The new results come from Hubble's observations of Ganymede's magnetic field, which produces two auroral belts (pictured) that can be detected in the ultraviolet.

Satellites can detect volcanic ash by observing the scattering of ultraviolet light from the sun.

Electromagnetic harmonics are very weak, with wavelengths in the ultraviolet and X-ray range — too short to be detected.

The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) detected faint ultraviolet light from an aurora at the moon's south pole.

The aftermath of the neutron star collision detected in August included the gravitational waves spotted by LIGO and VIRGO (pale arcs); a near - light - speed jet that produced gamma rays (magenta); expanding debris from a kilonova — an explosion similar to a supernova, but smaller — that produced ultraviolet (violet), optical and infrared (blue - white to red) emission; and X-rays (blue).

IUVS also created a map of the atmospheric ozone on Mars by detecting the absorption of ultraviolet sunlight by the molecule.

Because observations from the Voyager spacecraft, now leaving the heliosphere, are decreasingly affected by the H glow, the ultraviolet spectrographs are detecting Lyα diffuse emission from our Galaxy.

It occurs in the outermost layers (chromosphere and corona) when the configuration of the magnetic field changes and releases energy, which can be detected in several bands of the electromagnetic spectrum as visible or ultraviolet light, although they are most commonly recorded in X-rays.

«There is no atmosphere on the moon, so unlike Earth, the ultraviolet light from celestial objects can be detected on the moon,» says Jing Wang of the National Astronomical Observatories in Beijing, China, who is in charge of the telescope.

Recently, signatures of CO Cameron and CO2 + doublet ultraviolet auroral emissions have been detected with SPICAM (Gérard et al. 2015); they showed that the Mars aurora is a temporary and spatially localized phenomenon appearing near the open - closed magnetic field line boundary in cusp - like structures.

Astronomers using the ALMA radio telescope detected that the supersonic jet and the accretion disk survives the ultraviolet radiation generated by the birth of a massive star.

This cloud of gas being spewed into space was detected by observing the planet as it passed in front of its star whilst watching the star in ultraviolet (UV).

Some of those detect colors people can't even see, such as ultraviolet light.

In the past, scientists anticipated Mars to have nightglow and previous missions had detected the presence of ultraviolet light.

Ultraviolet radiation is detected by photographic plates and by means of the photoelectric effect in photomultiplier tubes.

The ultraviolet Hubble data was captured after astronomers detected powerful solar winds heading towards Uranus, and tasked the telescope with observing the effects on the planet's atmosphere and magnetic field

Using Keck Observatory's powerful infrared spectrograph called MOSFIRE, the team dated the galaxy by detecting its Lyman - alpha emission line — a signature of hot hydrogen gas heated by strong ultraviolet emission from newly born stars.

Not only did the researches detect small fluctuations in the optical and ultraviolet bands of the electromagnetic spectrum, the pattern was found to repeat 32 days later in the X-ray band.

Also detected were (deep breath recommended)-- gamma - ray, X-ray, ultraviolet, optical, infrared, and radio waves — all from the

In 1956, astronomer Lyman Spitzer Jr. proposed that there was a significant amount of hot gas outside of galaxies that could be detected in high - energy ultraviolet light.

A good way to detect previously soiled areas is by using an ultraviolet light; urine residues not visible to the human eye will fluoresce under the light.

we can detect light with our human eyes down to just above infrared and up to just under ultraviolet, and we naturally assign names to various parts of that spectrum segment — colours.

Detected contaminated food products using ultraviolet rays filter guns and similar scientific equipment.