Sentences with phrase «flash of light»

OK, maybe no visible light bulb, but certainly there were flashes of light in my eyes.

Just a bright flash of light... and maybe a little dust.

Sometimes when I do this I see flashes of light even with my eyes closed.

But solar flares — the brief, intense flashes of light caused by the sun's magnetic fields changing shape suddenly — couldn't be causing the heating because none were observed.

Leaving stability control on results in a constant flash of the light on the instrument panel as the computers attempt to keep the rear end in check.

They're lurking there in the watches and the fitness trackers and sending out their little flashes of light to better measure the flow of blood just beneath your skin.

In addition to assorted stars, faint flashes of light may come and go.

You can partially cover your pet's crate with a blanket to increase darkness and minimize flashes of light.

Many scientists believe that a huge flash of light initiated the development of all the universe.

Such pointing capability could prove crucial for finding flashes of light that accompany the pulses of gravitational waves.

So we put the noise of football fans celebrating, we put flashes of lights.

This allows scientists to stimulate individual neurons as well as neural networks with precise flashes of light.

As it moves, each facet will show flashes of light, which is the sparkle you see.

When the shock wave reaches the surface of the star, a bright flash of light, called a «shock breakout,» is predicted.

When these areas are stimulated, people report seeing flashes of light.

Inaugurated in 1991 to search for flashes of light from gamma - ray bursts — enigmatic explosions mostly seen in very distant galaxies — it never found one and was eventually shut down.

The narrow beams are seen as flashes of light when they sweep across our line of sight.

This movement toward a more overall organization of the picture plane reaches a crescendo of sorts in Central Park Trees (oil on canvas, 2015), in which the sky appears only as flashes of light through the trees while the entire surface is otherwise occupied by a lush green glade.

When a low - energy neutrino or antineutrino from a supernova collides with a water molecule in the tank, the resulting light signal is recorded by about 100 of 13,000 photomultipliers, ultrasensitive light - detecting devices that turn a tiny flash of light into a larger recordable burst of electricity.

One word of caution: this doesn't apply to women who have the type of migraines that strike after an «aura,» like flashes of light or blind spots in vision.

Sometimes the process is accompanied by a supernova, when the star's outer layers explode outwards to produce a brilliant flash of light at visible wavelengths.

To measure the number of electron - neutrinos reaching Earth, the SNO team monitored miniscule flashes of light produced when the particles interact with molecules of heavy waterin which deuterium atoms replace the hydrogen atoms.

In every curve, the fast particles emit flashes of light which add up to an intense laser pulse.

Stimulating the brain using flashes of light might pave the way for a novel treatment for depression.

oil on canvas Neo-romantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of light in the sky and...

He pictures a waterfall of space and time pouring over the event horizon to an inner zone where «all the light and material that ever fell into the black hole piles up in a tremendous collision, generating a maelstrom of energy and an infinitely bright, blinding flash of light.»

Thanks to a trick of chemistry, different elements create flashes of light with different fingerprints, so astronomers could analyze the kilonova's contents.

There, shielded from most sources of contaminating noise, researchers have spent more than a year's worth of time looking for flashes of light emanating from WIMPs striking xenon nuclei.

People can detect flashes of light as feeble as a single photon, an experiment has demonstrated — a finding that seems to conclude a 70 - year quest to test the limits of human vision.

DAMA works by recording brief flashes of light that occur inside crystals of sodium iodide when subatomic particles hit the nucleus of a sodium or iodine atom.

«gleam» deconstructs and reconstructs art history, from 19th - century Romanticism through to heroic realism, modernist sculpture, expressionism and abstract expressionism, presenting us with glints of the past as well as brilliant flashes of light, a time of transition and transformation.

Scientists at Northwestern University announced in April that they had recorded flashes of light from human eggs that may be an indicator of egg quality.

Only if the muon antineutrinos change into electron antineutrinos in flight will they interact with protons in the oil, and the subnuclear shrapnel generate flashes of light.

The man underwent emergency surgery when he began suffering from sudden flashes of light and discovered that the retina in his left eye had become detached.

A common trope we see in cartoons is a delicate * ding * sound whenever a character winks, or when a random flash of light reflects off a shiny object.

If that jet is aimed directly at Earth, telescopes can see it as an ephemeral flash of light called a short gamma - ray burst, or GRB.

The amplifier translates electrical impulses of the brain into flashes of light that shine through the scalp, where they are picked up by a tiny magnetically attached receiver.

One million miles from Earth, a NASA camera is capturing unexpected flashes of light reflecting off our planet.

But when the scientists took another took a look at the Galileo images, they saw something Sagan and his colleagues apparently missed — bright flashes of light over land as well.

It adds this incredible, subtle flash of light, and the eyes magically twinkle with each blink or turn of the head.

They can keep a total of 3 full bars for the momentum gauge that allows you to basically press a button at the right time when attacking an enemy, visualized by a quick flash of lighting during the attacking animation.

Those electrons drift upward through the liquid xenon to a positively charged anode [electric terminal], which produces a second flash of light that the cameras will detect.

Ideally, the electron gains so much energy in the laser field that upon impact with the atom, a much shorter flash of light with very high energy is emitted — an attosecond laser pulse, with a frequency in the ultraviolet - or x-ray regime.

There, shielded from most sources of contaminating radiation, researchers have spent more than a year's worth of time looking for flashes of light emanating from WIMPs striking xenon nuclei.

A dentist will perform the in - office treatment by coating the teeth with a bleaching agent and using periodic flashes of light to turn on the solution.

Built in a zinc mine near Hida, Japan, the Super-Kamiokande (Super-K) experiment has been searching for telltale flashes of light in a 50,000 - ton tank of the purest water on Earth since 1996.

The musical ting and small flash of light that indicates an incoming melee attack, certain types of projectile that can be shot down or not and the orange glow that indicates a boss is impervious to attack at the moment.

Such cataclysms are expected to generate a high - energy flash of light, called a gamma - ray burst (yellow jets).

Remarkably, White and his colleagues did indeed observe such flashes of light.