Sentences with phrase «energetic than visible light»

It is designed to detect gamma rays tens of billions to tens of trillions times more energetic than visible light.

Not exact matches

(The waves of ultraviolet light are more energetic and shorter than those of visible light.)

This portion of the spectrum, which is more energetic than most radio waves yet less energetic than visible and infrared light, holds the key to understanding a great variety of fundamental processes, including planet and star formation, and the formation and evolution of galaxies and galaxy clusters in the early Universe.

That the nebula is so much brighter than the star shows that the star emits primarily highly energetic radiation of the non-visible part of the electro - magnetic spectrum, which is absorbed by exciting the nebula's gas, and re-emitted by the nebula, at last to a good part in the visible light.

Gamma - ray photons are between 10,000 and 10,000,000 times more energetic than the photons of visible light when they originate from radioactive atomic nuclei.

The longer infrared rays are less energetic than visible ones and do not slice through the atmosphere as easily as visible light.