Sentences with phrase «longer than visible light»

When it has all its receiver bands enabled, ALMA will capture radiation from space in longer wavelengths, from a few hundred micrometers to approximately 1 millimeter (close to one thousand times longer than visible light waves).

The new instrument on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope on Mauna Kea allows astronomers to map areas of the sky in wavelengths some 1,000 times longer than visible light.

It is primarily used to study infrared rays — slightly longer than visible light — from young stars and distant galaxies.

Through all these ups and downs, the essential mission of Spitzer remained constant: to learn more about the universe by detecting infrared rays, electromagnetic waves slightly longer than visible light.

Not exact matches

And billions of years from now, if the universe continues to accelerate, distant galaxies will recede from us faster than light and will no longer be visible.

It is also the brightest light we have from the most distant (and oldest) stars because their otherwise - visible light arrives stretched out to longer, redder wavelengths by more than 13 billion years of the universe's expansion.

After the serendipitous discovery of radio waves coming from the Milky Way's center in the 1930s, scientists realized radio waves, which have a longer wavelength than visible light, could reveal many aspects of cosmic phenomena not visible in other wavelengths.

Infrared wavelengths are longer than those of visible light, so the optics don't have to be as precise.

Those unique properties have proven conducive to working with THz light waves, which have longer wavelengths than visible light and therefore require new imaging technology.

Its energy has longer wavelengths than visible light.

The longer wavelength to be detected by ALMA's antennas means that although they are accurate to much less than the thickness of a single sheet of paper, the dishes do not need the mirror finish used for visible - light telescopes.

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.

Infrared radiation is electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths longer than the red end of visible light and shorter than microwaves, extending roughly from 1 micron (10 - 6 m) to 350 microns.

Different colors of light correspond to different wavelengths, and invisible radiation has either longer wavelengths (infra - red) or shorter wavelengths (ultra-violet) than does visible light.

The infrared spectrum: «Infrared (IR) light is electromagnetic radiation with longer wavelengths than those of visible light, extending from the nominal red edge of the visible spectrum at 0.74 micrometres (µm) to 300 µm.»

Myrrh, long before global warming was an issue I was taught that some colors were cooler than others and that this was due to the amount of visible light that was reflected.

Also you focused on re-radiating meaning emitting long - wave spectrum - which possible, but I was thinking more about emitting the same wavelength, as mentioned in this quote: «However, aerosols (which often contain water and if so can absorb red wavelengths) are usually larger than visible wavelengths and therefore absorb and reflect all wavelengths of light equally (this is not technically scattering, although it is often called that; it technically involves absorption and re-radiation, or reflection).»

As we have discussed above, infrared radiation has a longer wavelength than visible light and can «go through haze more easily.

The longer infrared rays are less energetic than visible ones and do not slice through the atmosphere as easily as visible light.