Sentences with phrase «emit beams of radiation»
Known as pulsars, the dead stars emit beams of radiation that sweep past Earth at regular intervals, like the rotating beams from a lighthouse.
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Dead stars known as pulsars (one illustrated above) emit beams of radiation that sweep past Earth at regular intervals.
Not exact matches
The researchers observed FRB 150807 while monitoring a nearby pulsar — a rotating neutron star that emits a beam of radio waves and other electromagnetic radiation — in our galaxy using the Parkes radio telescope in Australia.
As a pulsar spins, it emits a narrow stream of radiation, like the beam from a lighthouse; astronomers detect it only if the beam happens to sweep past Earth.
Although she is only a high school student, she is searching for the signal of a pulsar — a rapidly rotating neutron star that emits a beam of electromagnetic radiation like a lighthouse.
A pulsar emits two beams of electromagnetic radiation along its magnetic axis.
They emit a narrow beam of intense radiation during a supernova when a massive star collapses into a neutron star or a black hole.
As a pulsar rotates, it emits high - energy radiation, similar to a lighthouse casting beams of light.
As a pulsar rotates, it emits high - energy radiation, similar to lighthouse casting beams of light.
SESAME, which stands for Synchrotron - light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East, is a light - source; a particle accelerator - based facility that uses electromagnetic radiation emitted by circulating electron beams to study a range of properties of matter.