Sentences with phrase «magnified images of»

Chadwick's Viral Landscapes (1989 - 90), made at the height of the Aids epidemic, connect the changes in her body with those of the wave - shattered shoreline, superimposing outsize photographs with magnified images of the artist's cellular tissue in a sweeping panorama of time and tide.

In this new discovery, the lensing power of the mammoth galaxy cluster Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora's Cluster, produced three magnified images of the same galaxy.

The astronomers measured the angular separation between the three magnified images of the galaxy in the Hubble photos.

If scientists can line up a quasar almost exactly behind a much closer galaxy, they are able to see not one quasar but two or four magnified images of the same quasar — a gravitational lens.

During each visit, workers would be shown images from a compilation of 12 magnified images of bacteria to demonstrate what it would like it under a microscope.

Infection Prevention and Control specialists observed that showing magnified images of bacteria found on things common in the health care environment like a mouse pad or work station, even a person's hand, swayed workers in four patient care units to do a better job of cleaning their hands.

m. (B) Magnified images of colony region (left panels) and contact area (right panels).

That effect helped astronomers produce two magnified images of the galaxy in different positions (insets within this artist's illustration).

Astronomer Tiantian Yuan at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia and colleagues found the new record - holder thanks to a closer cluster of galaxies, which acted as a gravitational lens that helped astronomers produce two magnified images of A1689B11 (SN: 3/10/12, p. 4).

Combining this with poor sales growth results in a dismal outlook for earnings 3) the pressure on earnings will continue to hurt capital spending, which is usually just a magnified image of earnings, 4) the same factors will continue to raise default rates, causing earnings problems and debt downgrades among banks and financial companies, 5) earnings shortfalls will also lead to continued job cutbacks, with the unemployment rate rising to at least 5.5 % (indeed, once the unemployment rate has advanced by 0.5 % from its lows, it has never reversed until rising by least 1.5 % off those lows).

Astronomers exploit this property of space to use the clusters as a zoom lens to magnify the images of far - more - distant galaxies that otherwise would be too faint to be seen.

Sitting at a console, the surgeon views a highly magnified image of the surgical site.

The cluster's immense gravitational field magnifies the image of galaxies far behind it, in a phenomenon called gravitational lensing.

The top right inset shows a magnified image of a small area in the centre of the ice crystal.

A magnified image of ascorbic acid crystals won the 1994 grand prize in Polaroid's British photomicrography awards.

«The neural networks we tested — three publicly available neural nets and one that we developed ourselves — were able to determine the properties of each lens, including how its mass was distributed and how much it magnified the image of the background galaxy,» said the study's lead author Yashar Hezaveh, a NASA Hubble postdoctoral fellow at KIPAC.

When the observer, the lens, and the distant light source are precisely aligned, the observer sees an Einstein ring: a perfect circle of light that is the projected and greatly magnified image of the distant light source.

Astronomer Fritz Zwicky discovered dark matter and predicted that foreground galaxies could magnify the images of more distant objects.

This is a magnified image of a new thermoelectric material discovered by University of Houston researchers.

Fredrik Lanner (right) of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and his student Alvaro Plaza Reyes examine a magnified image of an human embryo that they used to attempt to create genetically modified healthy human embryos.

The white rectangle outlines the region magnified in panels G - I (G — I) A magnified image of FFPE prostate cancer tissue sections from patient VP62 (XMRV - SO, DAPI, and CEP8 - SA, respectively).

Not exact matches

Will somebody please explain why these actions should «kick in» when bank reserves continue to decline, bank credit no longer bears any relationship to reserves anyway, capital spending is a magnified mirror image of profits, and profit margins remain firmly under pressure.

As such, they are themselves perhaps expressive of a longing for a way out of the self - deception sacralized by God - images that merely reflect or magnify our limiting systems of heroics.

This past week, Roger and I marked the 15th anniversary of our engagement (click all images to magnify).

Gary Greenberg, a research affiliate at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, took this 3 - D stereo image (cross your eyes slightly until there are three images, then focus on the center) of a single grain of moon sand (magnified here about 300 times).

Ellis, his PhD student Dan Stark and their colleagues trained one of the world's biggest telescopes, the Keck 2 atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea, to scan light grazing massive clusters of closer galaxies [see image above], which focused the light coming from more ancient galaxies behind them and magnified it 20 times in a process called gravitational lensing.

They find that a spinning naked singularity turns out to be a strong gravitational lens, magnifying the light from background stars more than an ordinary black hole and producing a distinctive pattern of images.

Such use of computers to enhance the quality of low - resolution images is familiar to fans of CSI and other TV police procedurals, where law enforcement lab technicians often crack a case by magnifying some small detail of a digital image pulled from grainy surveillance footage.

Truly up close and personal, Frankel's highly magnified images include colourful colonies of bacteria and plastic films.

However, through the phenomenon known as «gravitational lensing,» a massive, foreground cluster of galaxies acts as a natural «zoom lens» in space by magnifying and stretching images of far more distant background galaxies.

On his computer he brings up an image, magnified 200,000 times, of the creature: a bug - eyed, hexagonal smurf with a head of electrified hair.

This image of Abell 2744 is the first to come from Hubble's Frontier Fields observing programme, which is using the magnifying power of enormous galaxy clusters to peer deep into the distant Universe.

A certain class of supernovae always explodes with the same brightness (giving them the nickname «standard candles»), so by measuring how bright they appear in the images, astronomers can tell how much their light has been magnified.

Working in conjunction with the cornea, the effect of the telescope is to magnify images in front of the eye roughly 2.2 to 2.7 times their normal size.

The latest version of the $ 1.5 million device lets doctors work while seated, viewing a magnified 3 - D image of the procedure they're performing and precisely manipulating up to four robotic arms — one with an endoscopic camera and three that handle special surgical tools.

At the Siggraph Asia conference this week, MIT researchers presented a pair of papers describing techniques for either magnifying or smoothing out small variations in digital images.

To test this concept, the astronomers compared the three magnified images with the locations of several other multiply imaged objects lensed by Abell 2744 that are not as far behind the cluster.

«As we were searching for distant galaxies magnified by Abell 2218, we detected a pair of strikingly similar images whose arrangement and color indicate a very distant object,» explains lead author Jean - Paul Kneib of the California Institute of Technology.

Similarly, what's seen at the focus of any telescope when the image of a star is magnified enough is the sum of the Airy patterns corresponding to all colors in the starlight.

First predicted by Albert Einstein, this effect is similar to a glass lens bending light to magnify and distort the image of an object behind it.

To illustrate the discovery for me, Roy called up an image of a magnified brain slice in the lab.

Her job was to take each plate, mount it on a device which illuminated it from behind and, with the aid of a magnifying eyepiece, carefully measure the sizes of the black dots representing each star on the negative image.

NASA said the background galaxy has been magnified, distorted and multiply imaged by the gravity of the galaxy cluster in a process known as gravitational lensing.

As it moves, the gravity of the galaxy cluster distorts the light of the Whirlpool, warping and magnifying and even multiplying its image.

The distant galaxies in these images are most typically magnified by factors of between 2 and 10.

In fact, the galaxy cluster's gravity had bent space - time to magnify the star's image, a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, where an object magnifies the light of objects directly behind it.

Neurite length was calculated using the following formula; NL = α × T × (π / 2), where α is the number of times the neurite intersects the grid lines and T is the distance between the gridlines on the magnified image (taking into account the magnification factor) or was calculated using ImageJ analysis software.

The ultra-deep images of galaxy clusters are revealing the faintest galaxies ever studied, magnified by gravitational lensing.

The four images of the same supernova result from the way light from distant objects is not just magnified but bent by the immense mass of the galaxy cluster.

Magnified images may be compared against computer databases to identify tiny pieces of fibers or other material.