Sentences with phrase «emit powerful beams»

Pulsars emit powerful beams of radio waves that sweep across space like a lighthouse, but radio telescopes only notice these if Earth is in their path.

Not exact matches

BIC lasers can also be made to emit beams with specially engineered shapes (spiral, donut or bell curve)-- called vector beams — which could enable increasingly powerful computers and optical communication systems that can carry up to 10 times more information than existing ones.

This dead remnant of a star glows red like a hot ember, and is spinning 173 times per second, emitting powerful radio beams that sweep across the sky as it rotates.

The jets in another nebula, K3 - 35, are so powerful, reports Luis Miranda of Spain's Astrophysical Institute of Andalucia, that they are squashing clouds of water vapor at their tips, 450 billion miles from the star, and causing the water to mase - emit laserlike beams of microwaves.

Astronomers now believe, however, that GRBs seems so powerful because most of their energy is being beamed out of bi-polar jets in a brief burst, unlike the later stage of a supernova when neutrinos are emitted from all around the exploding star.