Sentences with phrase «in intense radiation»

In this scenario, all the gas in a developing galaxy would be bathed in intense radiation that would prevent star formation and keep the gas in the galaxy just hot enough to make some of it collapse into a black hole.

Pockmarked with sulphurous pits, bathed in intense radiation and shaken by constant volcanic eruptions, Io is the fiery hell of the solar system

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Food irradiation has been a subject of intense investigation for almost half a century and extension of shelf life of foods by gamma radiation is legally permitted in more than 40 countries covering a number of foods such as onion, potato, wheat, spices, flours, meat, poultry, fish, pulses, rice, semolina, fruits, vegetables and dry fruits.

Due to the high temperatures and intense radiation present, these atoms initially existed in an «ionized» state: The negatively charged electrons had been stripped from positively charged protons, leaving behind positive hydrogen ions (essentially, just protons).

Stars like the Trapezium formed in this denser stuff, and once they switched on their intense radiation started eating away at the surrounding material.

That way, the team succeeded in creating attosecond pulse radiation a hundred times more intense than simple sine - shaped waves could produce.

Emission nebulae like IC 2944 are composed mostly of hydrogen gas that glows in a distinctive shade of red, due to the intense radiation from the many brilliant newborn stars.

Can we build a machine that will work after 71,000 years in space, including millennia of intense ionizing radiation?

Gamma - ray bursts are mysterious flashes of intense high - energy radiation that appear from random directions in space.

The radiation was so intense that it ionized atoms in Earth's upper atmosphere for five minutes, disrupting some radio communications.

Intense radiation could strip away the ozone layer of Earth - like planets around other stars and render them uninhabitable, according to a new study led by Dr Eike Guenther of the Thueringer Observatory in Germany.

Pioneer 10 also survived and charted the intense radiation belts in the Jovian system, which are 10,000 times stronger than anything measured on Earth.

The massive black hole shown at left in this drawing is able to rapidly grow as intense radiation from a galaxy nearby shuts down star - formation in its host galaxy.

With sufficiently intense laser pulses, it may also be possible to release ions, which are charged atoms, from the nanocomposite, resulting in strongly directed ion radiation for cancer therapy.

From time to time, scientists from the former Soviet Union claim to have created the cherry - red compound of antimony and mercury, made with the help of intense radiation in a nuclear reactor.

Tough «water bears» defy intense radiation by apparently wrapping their genetic material in a bizarre protein that can also protect human cells

The argon was produced in the initial stellar explosion, and then ionised, or energised, with electrons stripped from the atoms in resulting intense radiation as shockwaves.

Intense flashes of high - energy radiation appear unpredictably in the sky.

Intense radiation from the brilliant central stars is causing hydrogen in the nebulae to glow pink.

All that intense radiation means «there is a ton of mass loss going on among this group,» says Weaver, who was not involved in the study.

In a new paper published in Physical Review Letters, a team from Carnegie's Geophysical Laboratory examined the structure, bonding and electronic properties of highly compressed hydrogen using intense infrared radiatioIn a new paper published in Physical Review Letters, a team from Carnegie's Geophysical Laboratory examined the structure, bonding and electronic properties of highly compressed hydrogen using intense infrared radiatioin Physical Review Letters, a team from Carnegie's Geophysical Laboratory examined the structure, bonding and electronic properties of highly compressed hydrogen using intense infrared radiation.

The intense radiation from an AGN can ionize the gas around it (called photoionization), and this may be one mechanism at work in MAMMOTH - 1.

In those cases, the intense radiation from a quasar illuminated hydrogen gas in the nebula, causing it to emit Lyman - alpha radiatioIn those cases, the intense radiation from a quasar illuminated hydrogen gas in the nebula, causing it to emit Lyman - alpha radiatioin the nebula, causing it to emit Lyman - alpha radiation.

«This process isn't completely new to space science — electrostatic discharges can occur in any poorly conducting (dielectric) material exposed to intense space radiation, and is actually the leading cause of spacecraft anomalies,» said Timothy Stubbs of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, a co-author of the paper.

According to new observations from NASAs Hubble Space Telescope of a star - forming region in a nearby galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud, intense radiation and powerful winds from massive, ultrabright baby stars have sculpted their environment, carving a large cavity in their natal nebula, N83B.

At the center of our galaxy, in the immediate vicinity of its supermassive black hole, is a region wracked by powerful tidal forces and bathed in intense ultraviolet light and X-ray radiation.

Among its discoveries: an intense radiation belt above Jupiter's cloud tops, helium in about the same concentration as the Sun, extensive and rapid resurfacing of the moon Io because of volcanism and a magnetic field at Ganymede.

Since the Jovian radiation belt environment is considered to be one of the most intense and hazardous environments in our Solar System, several models to describe it have been developed (e.g. Santos - Costa et al. 2001; Santos - Costa & Bourdarie 2001; Sicard - Piet et al. 2011).

In their original comic - book incarnation, the Marvel heroes known as the Fantastic Four gained their superpowers thanks to their exposure to a particularly intense cosmic radiation storm.

This phase of the mission is the most dangerous and nail - biting, due to the intense radiation belts around Jupiter, also the strongest of any of the planets in our Solar System.

One mechanism you have already learned about is the intense radiation produced by hot gas in an accretion disk around a black hole.

Radio astronomers discovered intense belts of radiation surrounding Jupiter created by electrons trapped in its powerful magnetic field — 10x the Earth's!

As a swirling disk of gas gradually falls into the central black hole, it heats up and some of the gas is blown off the disk by intense radiation in a wind at speeds up to a tenth of light speed (more illustrations).

In any case, any developing carbon - based life on a developing Earth - type planet would be subject to tremendous heat on a newly formed planet that is under intense asteroidal and cometary bombardment, in addition to the intense and deadly radiation produced by nearby supernovae and other massive young starIn any case, any developing carbon - based life on a developing Earth - type planet would be subject to tremendous heat on a newly formed planet that is under intense asteroidal and cometary bombardment, in addition to the intense and deadly radiation produced by nearby supernovae and other massive young starin addition to the intense and deadly radiation produced by nearby supernovae and other massive young stars.

Specifically it covers particle interaction with the metals and alloys used in nuclear reactor cores and hence subject to intense radiation fields.

But pulsars emit gamma rays, and scientists such as KIPAC's Roger Romani can study these to measure their rotation and understand how high - energy radiation is generated in their intense magnetic fields.

Jeffrey, as well as his best friend, fellow survivor, and devilishly dark humorist, Tad, have all kinds of brain and nerve damage from the intense chemotherapy and radiation, leaving Tad in a wheelchair and Jeffrey with serious concentration problems.

In order to attempt to cure certain cancers, an intensive protocol will be ordered which usually requires outpatient radiation treatments for 16 to 20 days Palliative radiation therapy is a less intense protocol, and can be described as comfort care.

The one option that the teaching hospital could not offer was cyber knife treatment — targeted intense radiation — which was available through Hope Veterinary Specialists in Malvern, Pennsylvania, approximately 40 minutes away.

The application of intense radiation may result in secondary dog testicular cancer.

The 1930 - 1934 exception (above) leads me to conclude that the intensity of solar radiation at the surface created the intense heat of the dust bowl years, and that the 1939 - 1942 strong EL Nino period was triggered by the intense solar radiation from 1930 - 1934 penetrating a large surface area in the Pacific.

«The decreases in ozone are less than we saw at the poles before the Montreal Protocol was enacted, but UV radiation is more intense in these regions and more people live there.»

However they are well mixed in the atmosphere and reach high levels due to their ability to absorb radiation combined with intense collisional activity in the denser lower regions.

Clouds exist at all latitudes, especially in the tropics over the ocean, where the sun rays are most direct and intense; ice and snow only exist at higher latitudes, where the incoming solar radiation is less intense.

As the heat transfer in the troposphere occurs mostly by convection, accumulation of CO2 in the troposphere intensifies the convective processes of heat and mass transfer, because of the intense absorption of infrared radiation, and leads to subsequent cooling and not warming as believed.

The HFSS provides an external source of intense thermal radiation, mostly in the visible and IR spectra that closely approximates the heat transfer characteristics of highly concentrating solar systems, such as solar towers and dishes.

From deserts to the deep ocean, in the midst of intense radiation and extreme saltiness, across the earth and even in outer space, fungi survive.

Mushrooms and game meat in European regions where Chernobyl fallout was most intense still have excess radiation, but Burgundy truffles get the green light; foodies rejoice.

If we were to have global warming from a more intense period of solar radiation, the high latitude warming amplification would not be taking place in that manner.

As we still slowly ascended... and the surface temperature of the soil fell to the freezing point the solar radiation became intenser... near the summit the temperature in a copper vessel, over which lay two sheets of plain window glass, rose above the boiling point of water, and it was certain that we could boil water by the solar rays in such a vessel among the snow fields.