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The faint light emitted can be captured by a mobile - phone camera, making it easy to share with clinicians — no complex lab equipment required.
Trapped below Earth's ocean of air, even the largest ground - based observatories will be stymied by starlight - warping turbulence and by airglow,
faint light emitted by atmospheric chemical reactions that can corrupt delicate observations.
Trapped beneath Earth's ocean of air, ground - based observatories will be stymied by starlight - warping turbulence, and by airglow —
faint light emitted by atmospheric chemical reactions that can corrupt delicate observations.
Not exact matches
A Giant Galactic Ghost Intrigued by
faint blurs on old photographic plates of the Virgo galaxy cluster, a nearby region teeming with galaxies, Oregon's Bothun and colleagues wondered if the apparitions might be smallish galaxies with «low surface brightness» — astronomer - speak for
emitting less
light per unit area than typical galaxies.
Astronomers expected them to be the tip of the stellar iceberg, their
light overwhelming the
faint glow
emitted by vast numbers of more...
An international team of scientists has pushed the limits of radio astronomy to detect a
faint signal
emitted by hydrogen gas in a galaxy more than five billion
light years away — almost double the previous record.
Using the world's largest radio telescope, two astronomers from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia have detected the
faint signal
emitted by atomic hydrogen gas in galaxies three billion
light years from Earth, breaking the previous record distance by 500 million
light years.
Photography picks up
fainter, outlying blues from
light scattering off dust particles and reds
emitted by hydrogen.
The gas glows because young, extremely hot stars like these are
emitting intense ultraviolet
light which strips the surrounding gas of its electrons and causes it to
emit the
faint glow seen in this image.
So although not even
light can escape their gravity, black holes should
emit a
faint glow.
Although not even
light can escape their gravity, Hawking calculated that black holes should nonetheless
emit a
faint glow, now called Hawking radiation.
But this might be limited to thin layers of cells in laboratory settings, since the visible
light emitted by the diamond probes — a
faint green glow — does not penetrate whole human tissue very well.