Sentences with phrase «optical light»

The most fascinating feature of this galaxy is its jet, which is visible in optical light as well as x-rays and radio emissions.

These methods could become even more valuable if researchers could find a way for optical light to penetrate all the way through the body's tissues.

Together, we and others showed that the holes acted like an antenna to capture and transmit optical light.

The decrease in X-ray light was three times greater than the corresponding decrease in optical light.

«Amateur astronomer captures rare first light from massive exploding star: First observation of optical light from shock breakout in a supernova explosion.»

X-ray light seen by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is shown in purple, and optical light from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is red, green and blue.

Soon afterward, the ground - based MASTER - IAC telescope, a part of Russia's MASTER robotic telescope network located at the Teide Observatory in Spain's Canary Islands, followed up with optical light observations while the prompt phase was still active.

The WFIRST instrument will capture infrared light, which has a longer wavelength than optical light invisible to the human eye.

«Thousands of planet candidates have been seen to transit in only optical light,» said Katja Poppenhaeger of Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Mass., who led a new study to be published in the Aug. 10 edition of The Astrophysical Journal.

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While optical light has a wavelength in the hundreds of nanometers, necessitating a thin coating only a few atoms thick, audible sound waves can be meters long.

Radar imaging can overcome this barrier because it beams a radio signal toward Earth's surface and receives a return signal, rather than relying on optical light reflected from the terrestrial surface.

To date, no one has been able to capture the «first optical light» from a supernova, since stars explode seemingly at random in the sky, and the light from shock breakout is fleeting.

MASTER - IAC gathered critical data on the proportion of polarized optical light relative to the total light produced by the prompt phase.

Invisible to the naked eye, radio frequency interference is no less detrimental to astronomy than optical light pollution.

To overcome that hurdle, a team led by physicist Scott Diddams from the Time and Frequency Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado, built an «optical light gear.»

With the increases in technology and astronomical know - how since then, a bounty of new objects may await discovery by WISE, from distant galaxies whose optical light is dwarfed by their infrared output to failed stars known as brown dwarfs, some of which may be closer to Earth than the star Proxima Centauri, the sun's nearest known neighbor.

WISE will also help constrain the threat of near - Earth asteroids, many of which are already catalogued but whose size — and hence potential for harm — can be difficult to gauge from their reflectance of optical light alone.

These supernovae have a characteristic shockwave called the «shock breakout,» which was captured for the first time in optical light by Kepler.

Optical Light Condenser Big news for macro video enthusiasts and photographers who love to use snoots.

But about the same time that radio SETI began in 1960, laser inventor Charles Townes suggested that extraterrestrials might also try to attract attention with optical light.

They occur when charged space particles, typically from the sun, stream along a planet's magnetic field lines and interact with atmospheric atoms, producing not only optical light but also radio emissions.

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Francesco de Gasperin and colleagues believe they've spied an old stellar explosion whose material has mostly dispersed, making it invisible in optical light but leaving behind radio imprints at the site.

An orchestra crescendos, and deaf audience members hear every note, thanks to cochlear implants that translate the complex sounds into a rainbow of optical light.

As the wave expands and the fire fades, the afterglow changes «color» from x-ray to optical light to radio waves.

Such clocks should be easy to fashion; optical light «ticks» a thousand times faster than lower frequency microwaves.

In optical light, void galaxies look bluer on average than galaxies in denser regions, thanks to starlight beaming from a goodly number of hulking, bluish stars.

«Previously, astronomers had been looking at the aftermath of short - period bursts largely in optical light, and were not really finding anything besides the light of the gamma - ray burst itself,» explained Andrew Fruchter of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., a member of Tanvir's research team.

As brown dwarfs are nearly invisible in the optical light and only emit radiation in the IR regime, they exhibit different colors in that range.

For the first time ever, a team of researchers has observed the hot outer atmosphere, or corona, of a star other than our own sun in the optical light spectrum.

A second telescope on Swift will study bursts in ultraviolet and optical light, but it was not quite ready to take data last week.

But despite these observations, no one had ever viewed a coronaexcept for the sun «sin the optical light spectrum.

Jupiter's bold, colorful stripes are clouds, and optical light can't penetrate them to see what's underneath.

«The X-ray data suggest there are extended layers of the planet's atmosphere that are transparent to optical light but opaque to X-rays,» said co-author Jurgen Schmitt of Hamburger Sternwarte in Hamburg, Germany.

These so - called starbursts are difficult to observe from Earth, as their dusty shrouds absorb much of the optical light from the stars and re-radiate it as longer - wavelength radiation to which Earth's atmosphere is mostly opaque.

A new sequence of images in x-rays (blue) and optical light (red) reveals fine structures that change rapidly at the heart of the Crab Nebula.

3D render of the modulator which efficiently imprints electrical data onto an optical light wave.

Unlike the optical light waves that emanate from stars, gamma rays easily penetrate the dust and gas clouds that often obscure stellar births.

«Because we observed in the near - infrared, the supernovae are less affected by dust extinction compared to optical light,» said Kool.

Four years later, in 1958, he and his brother - in - law and future Nobelist Arthur Schawlow conceived the idea of doing the same thing with optical light, but using mirrors at the ends of a gas tube to amplify the light to get an «optical maser.»

At left, in optical light, UGC 1382 appears to be a simple elliptical galaxy.

HESS is a system of four 13 - metre diameter and one 28m diameter telescopes sensitive to gamma rays that have 100 billion times more energy than optical light.

In optical light the gas cloud is too transparent to be seen, but the hydrogen atoms absorb the UV photons, making the extended hydrogen cloud trailing GJ 436b «visible» in transits observed at those wavelengths.

If not controlled, the heat released from these electronics could generate convective motion of air pockets at different temperatures, creating turbulence across the optical light path that would degrade scientific performance.

The image at the top of the page represents a composite utilizing X-ray data collected by the Chandra telescope overlayed onto an optical light image snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope.

At these wavelengths, astronomers can peer at the disks of gas and dust around newborn stars, see into star - forming clouds, and observe early galaxies that are bright in submillimetre wavelengths but obscured by dust in optical light.

Neonode zForce technology consists of a set of light emitters and detectors, an optical light guide with lenses and a touch controller IC that is connected to a host.

For HDMI sources, the M2 will honor HDMI CEC control and for optical signals, the M2 will power on when the red optical light comes on or go into standby when the optical light goes off.