Sentences with phrase «on long filaments»

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.

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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.
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