Sentences with phrase «produce beams of radiation»
As these accelerated electrons stream outward, they produce beams of radiation that we receive every time the beam crosses our line of sight, like a lighthouse.
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CyberKnife and other noninvasive radiosurgery systems are producing ever more accurate energy beams, raising the possibility of extending the use of potentially lethal radiation to fight Parkinson's, epilepsy and other afflictions
Dwight Duston, director of science and technology at the Pentagon's Star Wars office, says the free - electron laser, once trumpeted as a weapon for destroying incoming enemy missiles, could be used to produce a beam of high - quality X-rays that would reduce a woman's exposure to radiation during mammography.
Neutron star mergers like this produce gamma ray bursts — beams of radiation that can destroy planets or make them inhospitable to life.
This tight synchronization of the beams at different energies implies that the bright radiation observed in the multi-wavelength spectrum is produced altogether in a rather small region.
If the disk is face - on and a beam of radiation is being produced, then the active galaxy is a BL Lac object.
Some of these neutron stars produce the beams of electromagnetic radiation that characterize pulsars.
A neutron star also has a powerful magnetic field that can accelerate atomic particles around its magnetic poles and produce powerful beams of radiation.