Sentences with phrase «from ionised gas»
This would create a layer of plasma from ionised gas, which would generate a thermonuclear shock wave that ripples through the fuel, promoting compression (Energy & Environmental Science, DOI: 10.1039 / b904609g).
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They picked up the gas by its microwave emissions — suspecting that radiation from massive stars nearby had ionised the gas.
Observations released in 2003 from NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) suggested that the first stars started ionising gas after only 200 million years.
Astronomers thought that ionised gas created by the first generation of stars might be mimicking the imprint of inflation by scattering the microwaves on their way to us from distant parts of the universe.
BURPS of hot ionised gas from the sun can knock out satellites and power grids when they hit Earth (New Scientist, 21 March, p 31).
The energetic radiation from these new stars strips electrons from the atoms within the surrounding hydrogen gas, ionising it and producing a characteristic red glow.
Earth's magnetic field also traps gas escaping from the upper atmosphere after it gets ionised by ultraviolet light from the sun.