Sentences with phrase «radiation left over»

It is the blackbody temperature of the radiation left over from that event.

The exhibition title, Astro Noise, refers to the faint background disturbance of thermal radiation left over from the Big Bang and is the name Edward Snowden gave to an encrypted file containing evidence of mass surveillance by the National Security Agency that he shared with Poitras in 2013.

The Princeton researchers were pursuing an idea that had been suggested in the 1940s by the Russian - born astrophysicist George Gamow that if you looked deep enough into space you should find some cosmic background radiation left over from the Big Bang.

However, it's one of the best spots on the planet for surveying the faint cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation left over from the Big Bang.

The urgency of the supernova observations has been underscored by studies of radiation left over from the Big Bang, which suggest that dark energy constitutes some three - quarters of the weight of the universe.

NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) is currently at this spot measuring the cosmic background radiation left over from the Big Bang.

The pictures collected by the Planck satellite provided astrophysicists at the conclave in Ferrara, Italy, with a glimpse into the past by using radio receivers to capture the remnants of microwave radiation left over from the Big Bang.

An accurate measurement of the EBL is as fundamental to cosmology as measuring the heat radiation left over from the Big Bang (the cosmic microwave background) at radio wavelengths.

According to standard physics, cosmic rays created outside our galaxy with energies greater than about 1020 electronvolts (eV) should not reach Earth at those energies: as they travel over such vast regions of space they should lose energy because of collisions with photons of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the radiation left over from the big bang.

With instruments sensitive enough to measure the faint glow of radiation left over from the first moment of creation, physicists hope to learn the universe's deepest, and darkest, secrets.

There are contributions from interstellar matter, from the three - degree - Kelvin background radiation left over from the early history of the universe, from noise that is fundamentally associated with the operation of any detector and from the absorption of radiation by the earth's atmosphere.

The participants were M.I.T.'s Alan Guth, the developer of the inflationary model of the universe, Lawrence Krauss, a frequent contributor to Scientific American magazine and director of the Origins Initiative at Arizona State University, John Carlstrom from the University of Chicago, who studies the cosmic microwave background radiation left over from the big bang and Scott Dodelson of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, who studies the origin and structure of the universe.

The place to look for such a scar is the cosmic microwave background — the all - pervasive radiation left over from the Big Bang.

Thanks to the dry, clear atmosphere at the South Pole, SPT is better able to «look» at the cosmic microwave background — the thermal radiation left over from the Big Bang — and map out the location of galaxy clusters, which are hundreds to thousands of galaxies that are bound together gravitationally and among the largest objects in the universe.

Inflation would generate gravitational waves, giving a subtle twist to the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the ubiquitous whisper of radiation left over from the Big Bang.

The time asymmetry will then explain why in the beginning the universe was so uniform, as evinced by the microwave background radiation left over from the big bang, whereas the end of the universe must be messy.

Exquisite measurements of the radiation left over from the big bang led us to believe that we could work out the curvature of the universe to within a few per cent.

More evidence came last year, when data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, or WMAP, which analyzes the cosmic radiation left over from the Big Bang, found that dark energy makes up a full 73 percent of everything in the universe.

These vortices, or little quantum whirlpools, would break apart and generate sound waves that ran around the ring, like the particles and radiation left over after inflation.

Rapid inflation in every direction also explained why the universe we now observe is so homogeneous, and why the temperature of the background radiation left over from that primordial blast is uniform, in every patch of the sky, to one part in 100,000.

NASA now has four space missions in the works that will use the gravitational weirdness of libration points for everything from mapping the whisper of radiation left over from the Big Bang to photographing Earth 24 hours a day.

The only reasonable interpretation is that this background is radiation left over from an early hot and dense state.

A South Pole — based experiment called BICEP2 appeared to hit a Nobel - winning home run in March, with researchers proclaiming the detection of gravitational wave imprints in radiation left over from the Big Bang.

Kashlinsky and his team noticed this phenomenon while studying the cosmic microwave background, radiation left over from just after the Big Bang.

Echo of the Big Bang Michael D. Lemonick Princeton University Press, $ 24.95 Lemonick, a science writer for Time, traces the creation of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), which measures microwave radiation left over from the Big Bang.

Other bubble universes might be detected in the subtle temperature variations of the cosmic microwave background radiation left over from the big bang of our own universe.

«Cosmic background radiation is well explained as radiation left over from an early stage in the development of the universe, and its discovery is considered a landmark test of the Big Bang model of the universe.»

The balloon - borne microwave telescope (called «Boomerang») examined the cosmic background radiation left over from the Big Bang.The angular power spectrum showed a peak value at exactly the value predicted by the inflationary hot Big Bang model dominated by cold dark matter.

Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe is expanding, and thermal radiation left over from the Big Bang puts the universe at 13.8 billion years old.

Not exact matches

The puzzle emerged after astronomers measured the cosmic microwave background — a bath of radiation, left over from the Big Bang — and found only slight variations in its temperature across the entire sky.

Jewitt thinks R3 may have been hit long ago, weakening it and leaving solar radiation to finish the job, breaking it apart over time.

And in 1969, scientists noticed a strange distortion in the ubiquitous cosmic microwave background, radiation thought to be left over from the Big Bang.

That diffuse radiation is left over from a time when the universe was smaller and hotter, therefore proving the Big Bang theory of the universe's origins.

Light basically didn't exist, and the hydrogen gas that made up the majority of the interstellar medium was virtually indistinguishable from the cosmic background radiation, left over from the Big Bang.

The researchers used radio telescopes at the South Pole to stare at the cosmic microwave background radiation — a faint afterglow left over from the big bang that permeates the universe.

Today it is bathed in a sea of microwave radiation, the heat left over from the Big Bang.

In laboratory studies with normal and cancer cells, the new radiation delivery system proved able to specifically target colon cancer cells, and what's left over is likely to be easily filtered out by the kidneys because the delivery system's molecules are so small.

Over time, the sun bleached away the color, leaving behind ghostly impressions, the brightest in the center where the glass of the skylight shone the light of the sun most directly, fading along the sides where it cast in at angles, and dimmest along the edges where the fabric was concealed from the sun's radiation.

The Effect (2013) a life - sized hologram of Stuart performing various magic tricks, emphasises the human tendency to believe something that isn't possible, whilst Omega (2013) incorporates a mass of radios in tune to the left - over radiation from the Big Bang that signals both the beginning and end of time.

With the current GHG content in the atmosphere, more solar energy arrives than leaves via radiation -LRB-.85 + / -.15 Watt / m ^ 2), which raises the heat content of the terrestrial system, i.e., the average temperature over the whole earth + oceans + atmosphere.

The cosmic background radiation is about 3K so without somehow shading a surface against the warm glow left over from the big bang that's as cold as it gets.

Research published in 2008 by Arizona State University professor Peter Crozier suggests that this nanoscale atmospheric aerosol species is abundant in the atmosphere over East Asian countries and should be explicitly included in models of radiative forcing (the gap between energy radiation reaching the Earth and that leaving through the upper atmosphere).

Working with a total of 2,196 globally - distributed databases containing observations of NPP, as well as the five environmental variables thought to most impact NPP trends (precipitation, air temperature, leaf area index, fraction of photosynthetically active radiation, and atmospheric CO2 concentration), Li et al. analyzed the spatiotemporal patterns of global NPP over the past half century (1961 — 2010).