Sentences with phrase «of charged particles»

1,000,000 Speed, in miles per hour, of the solar wind, a stream of charged particles flowing from the sun in all directions.

In this augmented space, one might now better analyze systems of charged particles in motion among their mutual gravitational and electromagnetic effects.

Their model is based in the dynamics of plasma — the hot gas of charged particles that streams along magnetic fields and constitutes the sun.

You do not exist outside of that charged particle.

It also had an unusually high concentration of charged particles, perhaps the result of water splitting into hydrogen and oxygen.

Initial speed of the charged particles would determine how deep in the body the particles would penetrate, while the intensity of the beam would determine the dose reaching the target.

After exposing one group of mice to six weeks of charged particles, the researchers subjected them to a series of tests.

These differences in density are caused by the interplay of the solar wind — the constant stream of charged particles from the sun — and the interplanetary magnetic field that stretches across the solar system.

These emissions also seemed to reveal the existence of a new type of pulsar whose wind of charged particles streams out further than expected, says Linden.

The postulated effects are from increased solar ultraviolet output, affecting upper atmosphere chemistry, and from stronger solar wind — the continuous flow of charged particles emanating from the sun that bathes the whole solar system.

When the sun belches a massive cloud of charged particles at Earth, it can damage our power grids and fry satellites» electronics.

This superheated material, made of charged particles called ions, behaves like a gas but also responds to electromagnetism.

And last week Juno monitored changes in interplanetary plasma (see below) as it crossed a magnetic boundary that shields Jupiter from the stream of charged particles blowing from the sun.

Interplanetary space is defined by the solar wind, a continuous stream of charged particles emanating from the Sun that creates a very tenuous atmosphere (the heliosphere) for billions of miles into space.

Unfortunately, it is impossible to track a cosmic ray back to its source in the sky; magnetic fields twist the paths of charged particles into knots before those particles reach Earth.

Bright arcs formed by powerful jets of charged particles in the massive cloud mirror the curved boat propeller scars the endangered animals often bear.

Basically, the universe is full of electron - dense plasma that has been ejected from supernova stars — but the heliosphere, a bubble of charged particles emitted by the Sun, stops this plasma from entering the Solar System.

Gupta and his team collected data from a telescope in India that measures the number of charged particles called muons that are created as byproducts when cosmic rays hit Earth's atmosphere.

Researchers at the Center for Bright Beams, an NSF Science and Technology Center led by Cornell University, are working to decrease the costs associated with accelerator technology while simultaneously increasing the intensity of charged particle beams by two orders of magnitude.

One of the reasons why smaller planets and moons like Mars don't have much or any of an atmosphere is because the Sun is constantly blasting out a stream of charged particles called the solar wind.

This waning of the solar wind amid growing gusts from interstellar space suggested Voyager 1 had crossed the edge of the heliosphere, the bubble of charged particles blown by our sun that surrounds the solar system.

The Dartmouth space physicists are part of a NASA - sponsored team that studies the Van Allen radiation belts, which are donut - shaped belts of charged particles held in place by Earth's magnetosphere, the magnetic field surrounding our planet.

A plot from SEISS data showed how fluxes of charged particles increased over a few minutes around the satellite on January 19, 2017.

In two papers in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the scientists develop models showing that the stellar wind — the constant outpouring of charged particles that sweep out into space — could severely deplete the atmosphere of such planets over hundreds of millions of years, rendering them unable to host surface - based life as we know it.

The close encounter between comet Siding Spring and Mars flooded the planet with an invisible tide of charged particles from the comet's coma.

When solar flares or other particularly strong bursts of charged particles slam into Saturn, lines in the planet's magnetic field collapse, sending a cascade of particles into the planet's atmosphere in polar regions.

Until then, while the star is still technically on our side, we'll have to worry about giant storms of charged particles that it burps off its roiling, plasmatic surface.

The inner region sends out clock - like pulses of radiation and tsunamis of charged particles embedded in magnetic fields.

As on Earth, the display can be caused by a bombardment of charged particles emanating from the Sun, but they can also be influenced by volcanic outbursts, as is the case with the Jovian moon Io.

The aurorae result from a constant barrage of charged particles from the sun.

And because Kepler - 438b orbits just 25 million kilometers from its star (about half the distance of Mercury's closest approach to our sun), that's a recipe for disaster for life as we know it, the researchers say: With little or no atmosphere, the planet's surface would be exposed to harsh x-ray and ultraviolet radiation, not to mention floods of charged particles like those in our solar wind.

1958 America's first satellite, Explorer I, discovers the Van Allen Belts, bands of charged particles surrounding Earth born from the solar wind.

Now, analyses of data gathered in 2006 by two satellites — one carrying a down - gazing camera and the other a gamma ray detector — as well as a ground - based lightning detector in North Carolina, reveal that these flashes start out, as does most lightning, as a small channel of charged particles within the storm cloud (golden zigzag line, left; lightning - generated radio waves are depicted as concentric rings).

No one knows exactly from where, though, because magnetic fields in space warp the paths of the charged particles, making it hard to trace them to any particular source.

The energetic gamma rays that are not attenuated by this process strike the upper atmosphere, producing a cascade of charged particles which make a cone of erenkov light that is detected by the array of imaging atmospheric erenkov telescopes on the ground.

Waves of charged particles from the sun may boost the rate of lightning strikes on Earth, which could give us a way to predict dangerous storms

The ionosphere is a layer of charged particles in Earth's atmosphere that extends from about 50 to 360 miles above the surface of Earth.

But the Sun produces a wind of charged particles which flows out through the Solar System.

Dirac's 1927 paper on this interaction is seen as the first step tow - ards a theory now called quantum electro - dynamics or QED, the theory of the electromagnetic interaction of charged particles.

Composed of charged particles such as protons and electrons, the solar wind streams from the sun and pervades the solar system.

Because your body only absorbs a certain number of charged particles at once, the presence of calcium may cause a temporary lower absorption rate of other naturally charged minerals, such as iron, zinc and magnesium.

CHARGED UP Auroras are triggered in Earth's atmosphere by the solar wind, a constant stream of charged particles wafting away from the sun.

As this drizzle of charged particles hits the ionosphere, it destroys the glowing hydrogen molecules (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature12049).

As this drizzle of charged particles hits the ionosphere, it destroys the glowing hydrogen molecules.

The publication addresses how the use of charged particles in cancer treatment, which allows for more sparring in normal tissues than X-rays, and protection of astronauts from space radiation share many common topics, and can learn from each other.

An unexpected pattern has been glimpsed in the solar wind, the turbulent plasma of charged particles that streams from the sun.

Some scientists believe that an electrical apocalypse could really occur, in the event of an electromagnetic pulse attack, described in one 2008 white paper as «a high - intensity burst of electromagnetic energy caused by the rapid acceleration of charged particles.»

Chandra's images are giving the astronomers a closer than ever look at the distinctive geometry of the charged particle winds radiating in X-ray and other wavelengths from the objects, according to Posselt.