Sentences with phrase «narrow jets of»

So the scientists set out to test two main theories: whether the supernova was caused in part by two narrow jets of material streaming out of either end of a rotating star, or whether it was the result of stuff «sloshing» around inside, leaving behind a lumpy shape.

A quick glance at the Hubble picture at top shows that this celestial body, called He 2 - 90, looks like a young, dust - enshrouded star with narrow jets of material streaming from each side.

According to current mantle - plume theory, Anderson explains, heat from Earth's core somehow generates narrow jets of hot magma that gush through the mantle and to the surface.

Then, suddenly, a narrow jet of radiation, pointed right at us, erupted from the black hole at close to the speed of light.

February's tropical anomaly showed up as a very narrow jet of westward winds «burrowed» within the eastward phase of the quasi-biennial oscillation, according to Osprey.

Not exact matches

It is even outclassed in the narrow realm of automobiles by speedsters such as the 430 - km / hour Bugatti Veyron, which I might add is street legal, a virtue the Cobra Jet sadly does not share.

The two models of the narrow - bodied single - aisle plane are quiet and 20 % more fuel efficient than other similar - sized jets, while also offering decent leg room, unlike other planes of the same size.

«Blue jets» move upward from the tops of thunderstorms in a narrow cone and fade away at an altitude of about 25 miles.

When Cassini probed below the haze and into the troposphere, it revealed that the width of Saturn's bands alternates with latitude: narrower ones are darker and coincident with rapid jet streams, and the wider bands tend to be brighter, aligned with jets that are slower and maybe even stationary, relative to the general rotation of the planet.

The images reveal a narrow, well - defined jet of dust ejected by the comet's icy, fragile nucleus.

That material formed a rapidly - spinning disk that generated a pair of narrow, superfast jets of material flowing outward from its poles.

A team led by Ronald Kwok of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has studied satellite images of the Nares Strait — the narrow passage between Greenland and Ellesmere Island.

The virtual jet relies on several tricks to reshape the shock waves and reduce the intensity of the boom: a needle nose, narrow fuselage, swept - back wings, aerodynamic engine coverings placed above the wings to shield engine noise, and a widely spaced V - shaped tail.

A pair of narrow jets is the one that was found in past observations.

Jets are narrow streams of gas that emerge from the cores of some galaxies, travel at more than 99 percent the speed of light, and penetrate as much as several million light - years into intergalactic space before fanning out into broad, luminous lobes.

The heart of a jet stream is a relatively narrow band of strong wind a few hundred miles wide that can reach speeds of more than 200 miles per hour.

Jets are narrow streams of gas that emergefrom the cores of some galaxies, travel at more than 99 percent thespeed of light, and penetrate as much as several million light - yearsinto intergalactic space before fanning out into broad, luminous lobes.How might a black - hole whirlpool generate such a pair of waterspouts?Swirling bundles of magnetic field lines, flinging particles outwardfrom the poles of the hole, provide a natural explanation.

Now, after more than a century of mystery, researchers think they have figured out what causes the jets: constant pulsations inside the sun that drive gas up through narrow, magnetically confined tubes.

«These new observations have allowed us to narrow down the emissions to a very small region, typical of an active nucleus — i.e. jets emanating from a supermassive black hole.

Material falling from the exploded star onto the compact companion would have been heated and blasted back into space in two narrow jets, along with a beam of radiation.

The new measurements suggest that what is really happening is just the opposite: Instead of narrow jets, there are broad upwellings, which are balanced by narrow channels of sinking material called slabs.

New seismology data are now confirming that such narrow jets don't actually exist, says Don Anderson, the Eleanor and John R. McMillian Professor of Geophysics, Emeritus, at Caltech.

Other simulations showed narrow supersonic jets being squeezed from the top of a disklike slow wind.

Astronomers using a world - wide collection of radio telescopes, including the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), have made a dramatic «movie» of a voracious, superdense neutron star repeatedly spitting out subatomic particles at nearly the speed of light into two narrow jets as it pulls material from a companion star.

A popular theoretical model says that magnetic - field lines in the spinning disk are twisted tightly together and confine the fast - moving particles into narrow «jets» streaming from the poles of the disk.

When a pair of researchers aimed the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array radio telescope toward a famous quasar, they sought evidence to support a popular theory for why the superfast jets of particles streaming from quasars are confined to narrow streams.

Strong jet stream winds have focused a narrow ribbon of moisture, like a river, into the West Coast.

If a smarter occasion should arise rock the bomber with a simple narrow collar white shirt, some jet - black skinny jeans and either a pair of black Chelsea boots or brogues.

Hence the 91 - minute flight is shot in real time and, a few brief preliminary scenes aside, the film's scope is narrowed down to a handful of settings: five windowless control rooms and the inside of the passenger jet.

Although the pavement is narrow, bumpy, and dotted with blind crests, the 918 tracked with the precision of a fighter jet, clung like a magnet to the tarmac sprayed dark gray with mist from the Mediterranean Sea, and decelerated like an accordion, only to reach out for the next straight with expandable elasticity.

Then embark on a jet - boat ride through the narrow canyons of the Shotover River, which was once the location for one of the world's richest gold mines.

While the narrow strip of sand lining the ocean in San Pedro is more of a walkway than a beach, many of the hotels have long docks jetting out over the sea where guests can sunbathe and go from a swim.

Sure they are issued with the narrow body jet doing the job of a wide body, but really WOW!

They serve 19 domestic and 193 international destinations in 81 countries around the world, making it one of the few truly global airlines: Lufthansa operates a fleet of 265 narrow - and wide - body jets from both Airbus and Boeing, including subsidiaries there are more than 600 planes!

You will encounter moving platforms, narrow corners, and a series of twists and turns — you must react quickly and keep control of your jet to avoid crashing.

Working with the seemingly narrow subject of his own face, Close has produced a richly varied trove that ranges from intimately scaled collage maquettes and fingerprint drawings to monumental gridded canvases; from the sharp definition of certain photographic techniques to the ghostly blurs of daguerreotypes and holograms; from the tactile complexity of paper pulp editions to the smooth, mechanical surfaces of Polaroids and digital ink - jet prints; from the subtle tonalities of gray - scale paintings and drawings to the exuberance of an 111 - color screenprint.

And since the temperature difference between the Arctic and the tropics is narrowing, and since it's the temperature difference that drives wind and ocean currents, then the jet stream that normally whizzes around the Arctic circle — thus keeping frozen air in one place and separating it from the warm breezes of the south — is, the theory goes, slowing, thus allowing warm moist air to penetrate into the north.

The idea, first outlined in a 2012 paper in Geophysical Research Letters, involves a narrow current of westerly winds that circumnavigates the top of the globe, called the polar jet stream.

Jet streams are relatively narrow corridors of particularly strong winds, which correspond to the location of the polar front and other areas of strong temperature contrast.

The polar jet streams are narrow, fast - flowing rivers of wind high in the Earth's atmosphere that push cold and warm air masses around, playing an important role in determining the weather.

Micromax Canvas Xpress 2 comes with a jet black matte finish panel which is made of high quality plastic with a gold rim and has a narrow bezel that add looks of a premium phone.