My work currently focuses on
observations of the ultraviolet light emitted from small stars, and in particular flares of that emission.
Not exact matches
«These beliefs were boosted by
observations that exposure to
ultraviolet light and sunshine could heal some skin infections and rickets, and by the discovery
of vitamin D,» she said.
The team observed the star with the infrared Spitzer and
ultraviolet Swift space telescopes from October 2015 to December 2016 — the first
observations in multiple wavelengths
of light.
«We saw
ultraviolet light resulting from this gravitational - wave event as part
of Swift
observations of almost 750 different locations in the sky.
Some
observations of how cosmic molecules emit and absorb
light at
ultraviolet wavelengths have hinted that the fine structure constant, responsible for the strength
of electromagnetism, is not the same throughout the universe.
In a feat
of manipulating substances at the nanoscale, UCLA researchers and colleagues demonstrated a method for isolating two molecules together on a substrate and controlling how those two molecules react when excited with
ultraviolet light, making detailed
observations both before and after the reaction.
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.
The
light - based detections in the seconds, hours, days, and weeks that followed — which included Caltech - led
observations in the infrared, X-ray,
ultraviolet, and radio waves — show that the collision
of the neutron stars released newly synthesized heavy elements into the surrounding universe, providing the first concrete proof that such smashups are the birthplace
of half
of the universe's elements heavier than iron, including gold and platinum.
The solar luminosity is about 0.07 percent brighter during solar maximum than during solar minimum but
observations from spacecraft in the 2000s showed that the ratio
of ultraviolet to visible
light is much more variable than previously thought.