Sentences with phrase «detect ultraviolet light»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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).

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.

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.

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.