Sentences with phrase «like ultraviolet»

The infra - red meaning is «below - red» like ultraviolet (UV) means «above - violet.

Not exact matches

But if you go south and higher in elevation, full sun with all its ultraviolet light can burn the crap out of your plants, causing sunscald on the pods and leaf drop on more sensitive varieties like habaneros, which need some shading.

Pack along a portable sanitizing wand, which beams ultraviolet light to kill germs and bacteria on hard surfaces like toys, restaurant high chairs, and faucets without the need for harsh chemicals and cleaners.

Like Mars Express 10 years ago, MAVEN has an ultraviolet camera, so it is not seeing the same thing as human eyes.

But to the Hubble's infrared, visible, and ultraviolet sensors, it looks more like an Impressionist masterwork.

The team led by Associate Professor Shogo Tachibana of Hokkaido University discovered that ultraviolet - irradiated amorphous ice which mimics interstellar ice exhibited liquid - like behavior at extremely low temperature ranges.

Turn on a black or ultraviolet light, however, and they glow bright red like neon signs.

«We control the below - threshold harmonic light emission by using electromagnetic fields with time - dependent ellipticity, like we have done to the above - threshold high - order harmonics,» said Chang referring to the creation of a 67 - attosecond pulse of extreme ultraviolet light, which earned him international recognition.

Vitamin D comes from three sources: the sun's ultraviolet (UVB) rays penetrating the skin, a few D - rich foods like fatty fish and some fortified foods, and supplements.

What it looks like, how turkeys perceive it, we don't know, but that's sort of equivalent of beyond ultraviolet, a whole other sort of color.

Intensive image processing unveiled what looked like three instances of ultraviolet shadows soaring over the southern edge of Europa's dark bulk.

STELLAR PETRI DISH The nurseries where stars are born, like Cepheus B (shown), are bathed in ultraviolet radiation.

Based on the pioneering work of Dr. Claire Lugassy and Dr. Raymond Barnhill at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, a new study provides additional support for a process by which melanoma cells, a deadly form of skin cancer, can spread throughout the body by creeping like tiny spiders along the outside of blood vessels without ever entering the blood stream, and that this process is exacerbated by exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light.

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.

In particular, astronomers would like to see the Milky Way's star - forming regions emit ultraviolet radiation known as Lyman alpha because it's expected to be both strong and a key diagnostic of conditions in stellar nurseries.

Chizek has run an atmospheric model that calculates how fast processes like solar ultraviolet irradiation will destroy methane on Mars.

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.

The gas glows because young, extremely hot stars like these are emitting intense ultraviolet light which strips the surrounding gas of its electrons and causes it to emit the faint glow seen in this image.

After analyzing dinosaurs» genetic relationships to reptiles and birds, the researcher determined that dinosaurs not only possessed the three color receptors for red, green and blue that the human eye possesses, but that they, like their closest living relatives, crocodiles and birds, were probably also able to see extremely short - wave and ultraviolet light by means of an additional receptor.

The Leiden scientists replicated the frigid vacuum of interstellar space, then introduced the chemicals found in cometary ice and hit them with ultraviolet light like that emitted by stars.

THERE are photoreceptors in your skin like those in your eye, allowing your body covering to mount a swift defence against damaging ultraviolet radiation.

Like the dense rock spires that form from erosion in a windblown desert, the gaseous pillars in the Eagle nebula have been shaped and compressed by the stellar winds and energetic ultraviolet light from the nebula's massive stars.

The investigation of cluster explosion dynamics under intense extreme - ultraviolet (XUV) pulses has so far been limited to large scale facilities like free - electron lasers.

Unfortunately, they are also difficult to detect, so a system like the artificial white hole that can convert them to easily detected ultraviolet light could find uses in many lab settings, Faccio says.

A nearby star features a comet - like tail that could be the outer reaches of a protoplanetary disk evaporating under the intense ultraviolet radiation from IRS 2.

For example, birds of prey have much greater visual acuity than humans and some, like diurnal birds of prey, can see ultraviolet light.

Ozone, which protects us from harmful ultraviolet radiation here on Earth, forms when oxygen produced by photosynthetic organisms (like trees and phytoplankton) synthesizes in light.

Using observatories that can see ultraviolet radiation, like the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted enough WHIM to account for about 50 % to 70 % of the missing baryons — still leaving a significant fraction unaccounted for.

Then he set up a plasma lamp to fire beams of ultraviolet light at the chamber, much like the radiation present in planet - and star - forming regions of dust clouds.

The technique consists of attaching ultraviolet light reactive molecules to reinforcing agents like carbon nanotubes.

«Much like cave salamanders that have lost their eyes after being in the dark, owls too appear to have lost their violet opsin — the receptor birds use to see violet and ultraviolet light,» Dumbacher says.

On Pluto, ultraviolet light from the sun breaks apart gas molecules like nitrogen and methane to create reactive ions.

The entire womb glows like neon, an ultraviolet excitation generated by the quartet of blue suns blazing in the center — the famous Trapezium, gloriously seen through any telescope.

But it looks like Apple and the Keystone system will duke it out with everyone else and Ultraviolet.

The ultraviolet technique used in this study also may spot the signature of oceans evaporating on smaller, more Earth - like planets.

The dwarf is not hot enough to fuse carbon or oxygen, so it no longer burns like a star, but for a time it is still plenty hot enough - more than 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit - to expel the remnants of its atmosphere and to blast all that departed gas with ultraviolet light.

These images are complementary to space - based telescopes, like NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which takes images primarily in ultraviolet light and does not have the capacity for the high - speed imagery that can be captured aboard the WB - 57F.

THEY bask in the sun for hours, but just like us, plants need to protect themselves from damaging ultraviolet rays.

They are electromagnetic waves like visible light but situated at the high energy / short wavelength end of the electromagnetic spectrum, between ultraviolet light and gamma rays.

Recently, signatures of CO Cameron and CO2 + doublet ultraviolet auroral emissions have been detected with SPICAM (Gérard et al. 2015); they showed that the Mars aurora is a temporary and spatially localized phenomenon appearing near the open - closed magnetic field line boundary in cusp - like structures.

Given at least nine meters (roughly 30 feet) of water on the planet, photosynthetic microbes (including mats of algae, cyanobacteria, and other photosynthetic bacteria) and plant - like protoctists (such as floating seaweed or kelp forests attached to the seafloor) could be protected from «planet - scalding» ultraviolet flares produced by young red dwarf stars, according to Victoria Meadows of Caltech, principal investigator at the NASA Astrobiology Institute's Virtual Planetary Laboratory.

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.

This estimate takes into account the fact that the ultraviolet irradiance of the Sun was considerably larger in the distant past, as confirmed by astronomical measurements of younger Sun - like stars in the nearby galaxy.

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.

That means that Hubble, looking in the ultraviolet, visible or even near - infrared range, can actually see some things that Webb won't be able to distinguish, like cold dust or gases.

During their early life, Sun - like stars spin very fast, creating extremely high levels of magnetic activity that drive powerful stellar flares, coronal mass ejections, and an outpouring of X-ray and ultraviolet radiation.

Ultraviolet - inactivated human cytomegalovirus induces placental syncytiotrophoblast apoptosis in a Toll - like receptor - 2 and tumour necrosis factor - α dependent manner.

Early studies of chironomids, a group of mosquito - like midges, found that ultraviolet light or RNAse targeted toward the front portion of embryos led to double - abdomen formation (two tail ends and no head), which suggested that localized RNA in the anterior egg might function as head determinant.

The formation of a stratosphere layer in a planet's atmosphere is attributed to «sunscreen» - like molecules, which absorb ultraviolet (UV) and visible radiation coming from the star and then release that energy as heat.

Researchers at the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority and the Finnish Meteorological Institute have been able to demonstrate with the help of photographs what the sky looks like in the ultraviolet.