Water vapor originating from the Earth's tropics is transported to midlatitudes
on long filaments of flowing air that intermittently travel across the world's oceans.
Not exact matches
Smaller, dwarf galaxies travel toward the intersections along
long dark matter
filaments, like cars
on roads leading into a city.
Meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens of NASA's Ames Research Center forecasts that a narrow, dense
filament of material shed by Swift - Tuttle in the year 1479 will trigger an hour -
long spike in activity at 4:18 a.m. eastern daylight time
on the morning of August 12.
The UGA researchers discovered that
long filaments — that look like beads
on a string — form by budding from the flagellum of African trypanosomes and then release pieces of the parasite into the host.
Image:
On August 31, 2012 a
long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT.
With
long exposure times
on MUSE, we should have the sensitivity to see these
filaments in the cosmic web — particularly if UV light from a nearby quasar boosts the gas emission.