Sentences with phrase «produced by a debris»

Colaprete did not offer definitive word as to why the visual camera apparently did not detect the event but added there were interesting changes in spectroscopic data taken by the spacecraft that might have been produced by a debris cloud.

Not exact matches

If sunlight must penetrate the dust covering a comet's water ice in order to warm it and produce jets, Sunshine says the Deep Impact findings suggest the ices on such dormant comets may not have run out but merely become sealed — by layers of debris, for example.

Instead, physicists must search through the debris of many different types of particle decay to find precise combinations of by - products that the Higgs would produce — and different chains of particle decays may well have the same signatures.

It consists of derelict satellites, rocket bodies and parts, and small fragments produced by collisions between debris.

The EUSO telescope, which will be used to find debris, was originally planned to detect ultraviolet light emitted from air showers produced by ultra-high energy cosmic rays entering the atmosphere at night.

The aftermath of the neutron star collision detected in August included the gravitational waves spotted by LIGO and VIRGO (pale arcs); a near - light - speed jet that produced gamma rays (magenta); expanding debris from a kilonova — an explosion similar to a supernova, but smaller — that produced ultraviolet (violet), optical and infrared (blue - white to red) emission; and X-rays (blue).

Instead, the two photons could represent part of the debris produced by the decay of a potentially much more massive particle.

The smaller debris / meteoroids produced get spread around the orbit quite quickly (read: centuries or millennia) by various physical effects (ejection speeds from the comet; radiation pressure; Poynting - Robertson effect; Yarkovsky effect).

Given that Tau Ceti does not appear to be a young star, the ring of dusty debris is believed to be produced by collisions between larger comets and asteroids that break them down into smaller and smaller pieces, and Tau Ceti's disk is similar in size and shape to the disk of comets and asteroids that orbits the Sun, Sol.

According to the researchers, this pattern is the result of stellar debris colliding with itself (which produces bursts of optical and UV light), and heating up just before being swallowed by the black hole (which gives off X-ray flares).

Although it can not be excluded that these excesses are produced by coincidental alignment of background galaxies, statistical arguments suggest that at least some of them are true debris discs.

After these living cells feed off the nutrients delivered through the bloodstream, they produce metabolic debris that is then carried away by the lymphatic fluid, also known as lymph.

The digestion of sebum also produces bacterial debris, metabolic by - products, and fatty acids which are all inflammatory.

Infection usually produces a characteristic dark discharge; in some cases, the ear canal can become entirely obstructed by this coffee ground - like debris.

This vast video work was created using scenery - generation software employed by the film and gaming industries in combination with technical data from NASA's missions to Mars to produce a faithful artist's rendering of Martian terrain, populated by the debris from centuries of exploration.

Enviva claims that it produces wood pellets only from low - grade wood resources such as chips, bark, sawdust by - products, treetops, branches, and other forestry debris remaining after the tree trunks from commercial forests have been shipped for construction material.