Sentences with phrase «photons streaming from»

In the traditional view of photosynthesis, the energy carried by photons streaming from the sun is transferred by bouncing from one chlorophyll molecule to the next, a process that ultimately builds simple carbohydrates from water and carbon dioxide.

One reason: The pattern of gamma - ray photons streaming from the galactic center is clumpy rather than smooth, a strong sign that individual sources of gamma rays (rather than a diffuse cloud of particles that only occasionally interact) may be to blame.

Not exact matches

For instance, neutrinos stream out from the center of the sun as soon as they are produced, whereas a photon needs thousands of years to work its way out from the core to the sun's brilliant surface.

Out in space, very little disturbs Kepler from its position, except for the photons (light particles) streaming out of the sun that constant bombard the spacecraft.

If we were to take a snapshot of a volume of space capturing the stream of photons from the sun hitting earth.

when that stream of infrared photons coming from a disk cross section many, many times the size of earth itself — hence that stream coming from almost 5 sides — dead on, above / below / left / right --