Sentences with phrase «long filaments of»

The slight uncertainty of the distances to many of these galaxies makes the galaxies appear more scattered than they actually are, but the general features of the Virgo supercluster are obvious, especially the long filaments of galaxies and the low - density void regions.

When nitrogen is low, about 1 in 10 of these bacteria, which grow in long filaments of cells, specialise in fixing nitrogen.

Water vapor originating from the Earth's tropics is transported to midlatitudes on long filaments of flowing air that intermittently travel across the world's oceans.

The latest ALMA observations, however, reveal long filaments of cold molecular gas condensing around the outer edges of the radio bubbles.

Image: On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT.

Not exact matches

wresting from it, by force of attraction, a long, cigar - shaped filament which in the course of time broke up into a string of separate globes.

It flattered those who could understand the long passages in Latin, or who noticed the glittery filaments of intertextuality woven into its design, or who understood the late - medieval tension between realist and nominalist metaphysics; but it also entertained those who were simply interested in a colorful murder mystery with an unusual setting and who did not mind skipping the Latin bits altogether.

I am about to shred the cabbage and basil (and adding cilantro) into delicate whispers of filaments, something I have long dreamed of and never been able to achieve, not owning a mandarin.

But there are plenty of smaller clusters and long rivers of galaxies, known as galaxy filaments, that fiddle with the light and create weak lenses.

But in the presence of bacteria, the fungus stretches out into long filaments.

SHAPE SHIFTER Candida tropicalis usually grows as a harmless roundish budding yeast (green), but in the presence of two bacteria it stretches into long filaments (brown) that may provoke inflammation in intestines.

Pope and his colleagues studied filaments of material — some up to 30,000 light years long — trailing in the wake of such bubbles in the Perseus cluster.

The long, filament - like feathers preserved with three relatively complete skeletons of the newly described species provide direct evidence of extensively feathered gigantic dinosaurs.

Muscles contract because the muscle protein myosin uses its flexible head to ratchet its long tail along the filament of another muscle protein actin, dragging the ends of muscle cells inward.

«By studying these longer waves, we can look at the sources of light that are cooler than, say, the lightbulb filaments or the sun that normally produce the light that we see.»

Meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens of NASA's Ames Research Center forecasts that a narrow, dense filament of material shed by Swift - Tuttle in the year 1479 will trigger an hour - long spike in activity at 4:18 a.m. eastern daylight time on the morning of August 12.

New research at Rice University suggests actin filaments that control the shape of neuron cells may also be the key to the molecular machinery that forms and stores long - term memories.

«In a regular light bulb, the filament is a long and curly piece of tungsten wire.

«This newly discovered gas cloud is shaped like a very long filament, about 200 light years in extent and ten light years across, with a mass about 50,000 times that of our sun,» says team leader, Professor Michael Burton, an astronomer at UNSW Australia.

A definitive diagnosis of Alzheimer's includes dementia and two distortions in the brain: amyloid plaques, sticky accumulations of misfolded pieces of protein known as amyloid beta peptides; and neurofibrillary tangles, formed when proteins called tau clump into long filaments that twist around each other like ribbons.

It could be a long filament, or spherical,» says grad student Nathan Cermak, one of the paper's lead authors.

If so, instead of clumping, the researchers report in tomorrow's issue of Science, this warm dark matter would have stretched into filaments thousands of light - years long and weighing as much as millions of suns.

So, if the quasars are in a long filament then the spins of the central black holes will point along the filament.

Praton's model universe is filled with such small clusters, and some long, tenuous filaments of galaxies, but is completely devoid of Great Walls.

One of the sponge's cell types is the distinctively shaped choanocyte, a cell equipped with a tiny long filament, called a flagellum, surrounded by a collar studded with even tinier hairs called microvilli.

«Something very strange appeared to us: a very nice picturesque coverage of very long white filaments, which were very unusual,» says Roberto Danovaro of Marche Polytechnic University in Ancona, Italy, whose team made the discovery using robotic subs.

We can see each filament and how they are joined together at the base, making a compound structure of six or seven filaments, each up to 15 mm long.»

The UGA researchers discovered that long filaments — that look like beads on a string — form by budding from the flagellum of African trypanosomes and then release pieces of the parasite into the host.

How can long DNA filaments, which have convoluted and highly knotted structure, manage to pass through the tiny pores of biological systems?

Actin, the protein that makes up the cytoskeleton, can form long filaments that grow in one direction and networks of filaments.

The filaments, several light years long, appear to meet close to the black hole and may indicate where orbits of streams of gas and dust converge.

The rest of the ordinary matter is probably hiding in long strands, or filaments, of gas.

The researchers found something they had not anticipated that had not previously been seen in the laboratory: When the two plasmas merged they broke into clumps of long thin filaments due to a process called the «Weibel instability.»

As this quasar light travels for as long as billions of years through intergalactic space, it passes through filaments of intergalactic gas which absorb certain colors of the light.

Because there is no brittle filament inside a xenon HID bulb to break or burn out, the head lamps typically last up to three times longer than halogen head lamps (3000 hours versus 1000 hours of continuous operation, which is equivalent to 5 to 10 years of normal driving)

Giardia living in your cat's intestine are single - celled creatures (protozoa) that move about by means of long motile filaments (four pairs of flagella).

Giardia living in your dog's intestine are single - celled creatures (protozoa) that move about by means of long motile filaments (four pairs of flagella).

When manufacturing fiber optic cable, filaments of plastic - coated glass strands are bundled in concentric helical layers around a central core: 12, 24, 48 (or more) exquisitely thin mile - long strands piled adjacent to each other, transmitting information encoded as pulses of light, tightly bound together yet never quite touching.

To reduce the risk of pilling, look for continuous filament nylon (CFN), which begins as a long strand before being spun into yarn.