Sentences with phrase «first ultraviolet»

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She is also well known as the inventor of the world's first ultraviolet protection suit designed to protect children from the sun.

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«Your baby is the most susceptible to negative effects from ultraviolet (UV) radiation during your first trimester and at the beginning of the second trimester.

Astronomers captured the merging of neutron stars in various types of light, including ultraviolet, infrared and radio waves (above), as well as via gravitational waves — a first.

Shedding light on the Dark Ages When the first stars formed, their intense ultraviolet light «reionized» the universe, stripping electrons from much of the hydrogen.

First, planetary scientists suspect that cyanide was abundant on early Earth, deposited here by comets or created in the atmosphere by ultraviolet light or by lightning (once the atmosphere became oxygen rich, 2.5 billion years ago, the process would have stopped).

Gooey polymers may have protected the Earth's first life - forms from damaging ultraviolet rays.

The team observed the star with the infrared Spitzer and ultraviolet Swift space telescopes from October 2015 to December 2016 — the first observations in multiple wavelengths of light.

Scientists think that when the first stars were born, these luminous objects and the galaxies they formed eventually pumped out X-rays and ultraviolet radiation that ripped electrons from their proton partners.

This only ended when ultraviolet light from the first stars and giant black holes had once again ionised the fog of neutral atoms filling the universe.

Rosetta is the first spacecraft to orbit and escort a comet, and Alice, developed and operated for NASA, is the first instrument to obtain far - ultraviolet observations at a comet.

Collapsing out of dense pockets of hydrogen gas early in the universe's history, the first stars flickered on, emitting ultraviolet light that interacted with the surrounding hydrogen.

Some, such as Chlamydomonas nivalis, spread first as greenish blooms as they begin to photosynthesize, and then turn a reddish colour as they produce carotenoid pigments to protect themselves from the sun's ultraviolet rays.

The first, led by Edward Sargent, an electrical engineer at the University of Toronto in Canada, started by simply blasting a perovskite film with a beam of ultraviolet light.

That image, however, was taken with ultraviolet and infrared sensors; this is the first time Cassini has taken a snapshot of our pale blue dot in its true colors.

In 2015, chemists from Cambridge University, led by John Sutherland, who is a co-author on the current study, discovered a way to synthesize the precursors to RNA using just hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen sulfide, and ultraviolet light — all ingredients that are thought to have been available on early Earth, before the appearance of the first life forms.

One strong possibility is that the ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the first - generation galaxies in the one - billion - year - old Universe ionized the hydrogen gas.

You first have to deposit layers of material, place a stencil - like mask on it, and then shine ultraviolet light to etch away the exposed material.

The first stars emitted mainly optical and ultraviolet light, which today is stretched into the infrared by the expansion of space, so they should not contribute significantly to the CXB.

NATURAL DAY - GLO A polka dot frog, the first amphibian shown to fluoresce under ultraviolet light, has complex courtship and male fights.

The star got too close to its galaxy's central black hole about 290 million years ago, and collisions among its torn - apart pieces caused an eruption of optical, ultraviolet and X-ray light that was first spotted by scientists in 2014.

The group of Majed Chergui at EPFL, along with national and international colleagues, have shed light on this long - standing question by using a combination of cutting - edge experimental methods: steady - state angle - resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), which maps the energetics of the electrons along the different axis in the solid; spectroscopic ellipsometry, which determines the optical properties of the solid with high accuracy; and ultrafast two - dimensional deep - ultraviolet spectroscopy, used for the first time in the study of materials, along with state - of - the - art first - principles theoretical tools.

The BGSU team showed that following ultraviolet excitation of geminal tribromides, including bromoform, what looks like simple fission of a carbon - bromine bond at first look is in fact isomerization (the process by which one molecule is transformed into another molecule with exactly the same atoms but in a different arrangement, and with different chemical properties) at fairly large distances via roaming of the molecular fragments.

Dubbed the first planetary meteorological satellite by mission scientists, Akatsuki was supposed to orbit Venus for 2 years, using its five cameras operating at ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths to track clouds at different altitudes and watch for venusian lightning.

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.

The team also presented the first observational evidence that WASP - 33b's atmosphere contains titanium oxide, one of only a few compounds that is a strong absorber of visible and ultraviolet radiation and capable of remaining in gaseous form in an atmosphere as hot as this one.

The first evidence of the presence of this super hot plasma was presented by Adrian Daw, a solar scientist at Goddard and principal investigator of the Extreme Ultraviolet Normal Incidence Spectrograph, or EUNIS, sounding rocket mission.

For the first time, scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new type of lens that bends and focuses ultraviolet (UV) light in such an unusual way that it can create ghostly, 3D images of objects that float in free space.

For example, from laboratory experiments we can determine the amount of amino acids produced per photon of ultraviolet radiation, and from our knowledge of stellar evolution we can calculate the amount of ultraviolet radiation emitted by the sun over the first billion years of the existence of the earth.

The findings described by Ellis and his colleagues in a telephone press conference organized by NASA this afternoon suggest that these first galaxies provided the ultraviolet radiation required to reionize the universe.

The first images from the Solar Ultraviolet Imager or SUVI instrument aboard NOAA's GOES - 16 satellite have been successful, capturing a large coronal hole on Jan. 29, 2017.

Using premier beams of ultraviolet light at the ALS, a DOE national user facility for synchrotron radiation, the collaboration has reported the first demonstration of high - temperature superconductivity in the surface of a topological insulator — a unique class of advanced materials that are electrically insulating on the inside but conducting on the surface.

They wanted to optimize conditions for the fungi to break down polycarbonate, so first they treated the plastic with ultraviolet light and heat.

It will snap the first close - up images of Pluto and Charon, map their surface features with visible - wavelength cameras, study their compositions in the near - infrared spectrum, and monitor Pluto's thin atmosphere with ultraviolet spectrometers and radio waves.

STScI / NASA press releases: Hubble Makes the First Precise Distance Measurement to an Ancient Globular Star Cluster Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies Deepest View of Space Yields Young Stars in Andromeda Halo Hubble Identifies Source of Ultraviolet Light in an Old Galaxy ESA press releases: Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies Four Unusual Views of the Andromeda Galaxy Public speaking: On the Trail of the Missing Galaxies High - Level Science Products from Large and Treasury Programs: GO - 9453: The Age of the Andromeda Halo (126 orbits) GO - 10265: The Formation History of Andromeda (107 orbits) GO - 10816: The Formation History of Andromeda's Extended Metal - Poor Halo (128 orbits) GO - 11664 / 12666: The WFC3 Galactic Bulge Treasury Program: Populations, Formation History and Planets (56 orbits) GO - 12549: The Formation History of the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies (113 orbits)

This discovery refutes existing theories, indicating that ultraviolet radiation from the star would destroy molecular gas and dust, and bringing the first direct detection of ionized gas wind along with a supersonic jet and an accretion disk.

High resolution extreme ultraviolet images from TRACE allowed the solar moss to be observed for the first time, and the rapid cadence with which TRACE takes pictures provided unprecedented details about its behavior.

For the first time, scientists at ICFO have managed to create a digital imaging sensor that can capture ultraviolet, infrared and visible light at the same time.

It produced an extended ultraviolet survey with arc minute source positions in this wavelength region, making it the first instrument with such capability.

The first stars, however, also began emitting intense ultraviolet radiation that «re-ionized» neutral hydrogen atoms formed after the Big Bang by tearing electrons from their proton nuclei.

This study makes the first direct comparison between the optical emission line and the ultraviolet and infrared tracers of star formation and indicates that, despite the underlying uncertainties, astronomers can trust the nebular emission lines as robust indicators of the star - formation rate and the amount of light that is obscured by dust in distant galaxies.

Skylab made the first time - resolved observations of the solar transition region and of ultraviolet emissions from the solar corona.

The light - based detections in the seconds, hours, days, and weeks that followed — which included Caltech - led observations in the infrared, X-ray, ultraviolet, and radio waves — show that the collision of the neutron stars released newly synthesized heavy elements into the surrounding universe, providing the first concrete proof that such smashups are the birthplace of half of the universe's elements heavier than iron, including gold and platinum.

It serves as our first line of defense against infection, shields us from harmful ultraviolet light, regulates our body temperature and makes us feel the warmth of another's touch.

Most importantly, D2 was the first to be produced on a mass industrial scale; scientists discovered that irradiating plants and fungi with ultraviolet light led to D2 being created.

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