Sentences with phrase «in ultraviolet wavelengths»

Like Sirius, however, Vega radiates much more in ultraviolet wavelengths than Sol, and, not surprisingly, the European Space Agency has used ultraviolet spectral flux distribution data to determine stellar effective temperatures and surface gravities, including those of Vega.

Like Sirius, however, Altair radiates much more in ultraviolet wavelengths than Sol, and, not surprisingly, the European Space Agency has used ultraviolet spectral flux distribution data to determine stellar effective temperatures and surface gravities, including those of Altair.

Even now, looking for water vapor in the ultraviolet wavelengths of light tests the limits of Hubble's abilities, scientists said.

Watching the sun in ultraviolet wavelengths of light from space — above our UV light - blocking atmosphere — reveals constant activity, including bursts of light, particles, and magnetic fields.

While NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, orbiting around Earth, was able to observe the northern auroras in ultraviolet wavelengths, NASA's Cassini spacecraft, orbiting around Saturn, got complementary close - up views in infrared, visible - light and ultraviolet wavelengths.

Right: After a couple hundred million years, the red giant star has burned out and collapsed to the white dwarf that shines intensely in ultraviolet wavelengths.

Not exact matches

Exposure of the skin to ultraviolet B wavelengths from sunlight is the usual mechanism for production of vitamin D. However, significant risk of sunburn (short - term) and skin cancer (long - term) attributable to sunlight exposure, especially in younger children, makes it prudent to counsel against exposure to sunlight.

According to Mather and other leading astronomers now working on a report to be released this summer by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), that quest and others require an even bigger space telescope that would observe, as Hubble does, at optical, ultraviolet and near - infrared wavelengths.

The Dalian Coherent Light Source, whose completion was announced today in Beijing, has a twist that makes it unique: It is the only large laser light source in the world dedicated to the particular range of short - wavelength light called vacuum ultraviolet, which makes it «a new tool for the detection and analysis of molecules undergoing chemical reactions,» says Alec Wodtke, a physical chemist at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry and the University of Göttingen in Germany..

Images were obtained from viewing the galaxy in near - ultraviolet, visible, and near - infrared wavelengths, using the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard Hubble.

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.

The two STEREO space - based observatories launched in 2006 capture ultraviolet wavelengths.

We do know that domestic turkeys prefer to be in poultry houses where the lighting includes the ultraviolet wavelength.

In the past, researchers have focused on studying the corona at ultraviolet wavelengths from space, and at visible wavelengths from the ground.

One of the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom can be found in species of stomatopod crustaceans (mantis shrimp), some of which have 12 different photoreceptor types, each sampling a narrow set of wavelengths ranging from deep ultraviolet to far red (300 to 720 nanometers)(1 — 3).

As the quasar's light zips through the Fermi bubble, carbon and silicon atoms in the gas absorb certain wavelengths of ultraviolet light.

Light — in wavelengths ranging from ultraviolet to deep red — was projected onto the dancers and reflected to a target surface.

Even down on the Red Planet's surface, the Curiosity rover might be able to get in on the act: Because Mars's atmosphere has no ozone to block ultraviolet light, sensors on the rover will be able to detect those wavelengths and thereby monitor certain trace gases spewing from the comet — unless a dust storm blocks the view to space, Lemmon says.

His team's study, «Ultraviolet Flux Decrease Under a Grand Minimum from IUE Short - wavelength Observation of Solar Analogs,» appears in the publication Astrophysical Journal Letters and was funded by the state of California.

The laser light that emerged from the frozen gas was in the extreme ultraviolet range, with wavelengths about 40 times shorter than the light that went in, they report today in the journal Nature.

By studying such a large data set — over 200,000 galaxies in 21 different wavelengths, or colors of light, from ultraviolet to infrared — astronomers compared the energy emissions from galaxies across a wide swath of space and time to read the history of the universe.

(Because Saturn's atmosphere is largely composed of hydrogen, aurora emissions are mainly in the ultraviolet band of wavelengths.)

«Moreover, high - altitude balloons above 95 percent of the Earth's atmosphere allow for observations in the ultraviolet - and infrared - wavelength bands, which aren't possible with ground - based telescopes.

He and his colleagues knew that jumping spiders see ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths in sunlight, which people can't.

Optical fibers generally are not able to transmit ultraviolet light because the short wavelength light can interact with dopants or impurities in the fibers, resulting in so - called «solarization» damage and extreme losses of beam intensity.

«More specifically, different colors (or wavelengths) of ultraviolet light can affect oxygen and ozone production and destruction in different ways.»

Electromagnetic harmonics are very weak, with wavelengths in the ultraviolet and X-ray range — too short to be detected.

SUVI is a telescope that monitors the sun in the extreme ultraviolet wavelength range.

By the time it stops working, the JWST should be in orbit, but the newer telescope will operate in different wavelengths from Hubble — using infrared rather than optical and ultraviolet light.

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.

The researchers saw that in early stages, two days after the mice were born, developing rod cells expressed genes normally seen in mature short - wavelength cones (which are used in other animals to detect ultraviolet light).

The researchers compared the reaction of melanin in red hair and black hair to various wavelengths of ultraviolet light.

The EBL is essentially all the accumulated light from stars over the history of the universe and ranges in wavelength from the ultraviolet, through the optical, and to the infrared.

It involves using a reflectance spectroscopy setup to obtain optical reflectance spectra of paper samples in the near - infrared, visible, and near - ultraviolet wavelength ranges.

The new tool will soon be able to generate pulses of high - energy light, with a wavelength of 60 nanometers, in the extreme ultraviolet segment of the spectrum.

The other part of the process, as explained in the paper, is using the high harmonic generation process to produce bright spatially coherent beams from a tabletop laser, spanning the range from the vacuum ultraviolet (wavelengths less than 200 nm) to the soft X-ray region of the spectrum (wavelengths less than 10 nm)

The «colours» are due to differences in the surface temperature of starsw1: hotter stars emit most of their light in the visible blue or ultraviolet regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, whereas cooler stars radiate at longer wavelengths, in the visible red or infrared regions (see Mignone & Barnes, 2011a).

The JWST will build on Hubble's discoveries by bringing something new to the table, an infrared telescope (Hubble mostly, but not always, studies the universe in optical and ultraviolet wavelengths).

This large range of wavelength coverage, combined with the instrument's high sensitivity, allows the study of everything from comets (which have interesting features in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum), to the blue light from star formation, to the red light of very distant objects.

When the star's ultraviolet radiation strikes the gases in the nebula, they heat up, giving out radiation ranging in wavelength from blue — emitted by hot oxygen in the bubble near the star — to yellow — emitted by hot hydrogen and nitrogen.

XMM - Newton observed this output in optical, ultraviolet and X-ray wavelengths, enabling the astronomers to measure how far the disk sits from the black hole.

One of the biggest changes is that unlike the Hubble — which looked at visible or ultraviolet wavelengths, in general — the JWST will be observing the universe primarily in the infrared spectrum.

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

The different parts of the spectrum, or spectral bands, are, in order of decreasing wavelength and increasing frequency: radio waves (including microwaves and (sub) millimetre radiation), infrared, visible, ultraviolet, X-rays and gamma rays.

The best possible observations of the detached layer are made in ultraviolet light because the small haze particles which populate this part of Titan's upper atmosphere scatter short wavelengths more efficiently than longer visible or infrared wavelengths.

Hubble's images and data are found mainly in the visible and ultraviolet wavelengths.

Observing in wavelengths ranging from the ultraviolet to the mid-infrared, this unique instrument will allow astronomers to address fundamental questions in astronomy ranging from understanding star and planet formation to unraveling the history of galaxies and the development of large - scale structure in the universe.

At ultraviolet wavelengths, Hubble's Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) is sensitive to absorption from hot gas, which shows up as reduced brightnesses at specific colors in a spectrum.

MACS0647JD was observed by Hubble with 17 filters, spanning near - ultraviolet to near - infrared wavelengths, but the galaxy appeared only in the telescope's two reddest filters.

The cocoon also explains other details of the event, such as the initial bright blue flash observed at ultraviolet and optical wavelengths, and the delay in the appearance of X-rays and radio waves.