Sentences with phrase «rather than visible light»

The entire galaxy essentially acts as an astronomical laser that beams out microwave emission rather than visible light (hence the «m» replacing the «l').

But perhaps there are cases where the radiation comes out in the form of X-rays or gamma rays, he says, rather than the visible light astronomers normally look for when searching for supernovae.

The process is similar to what lights household fluorescent bulbs, except that the supernova remnant glows in X-rays rather than visible light.

Not exact matches

The sun the moon and visible stars were «set into the expanse» and now these lights rather than early lights from star and galaxy formation regulate and have greatest affect.

The revised experiment relies on a relatively simple visible - light source rather than an X-ray laser.

Fox aims to turn these diamond films into a new kind of solar cell, one that generates electricity by absorbing heat rather than visible - light wavelengths.

Beyond these, other space - based resources could investigate Alpha Centauri in visible, reflected light rather than infrared — providing crucial multiwavelength analysis that could pin down the true nature of any discovered worlds.

When the layers have thicknesses below the wavelength of visible light — 400 - 700 nanometers — they interact with its wave properties rather than treating it as a straight ray.

Rather than an «exhibition» being an instance of putting something «on view» or «made visible,» it gains an oblique function as a generator of wasted heat — a property that is felt on the surface of the skin by replacing the lights coming from above with heat coming from below.

A corollary of what he is saying is that the sea is basically heated by visible light absorption rather than by heat radiation and is pretty impervious to global warming!

Re 4 «A corollary of what he is saying is that the sea is basically heated by visible light absorption rather than by heat radiation and is pretty impervious to global warming!»

If the Sun's temperature was 4000 K, it would emitting far less visible light - it would slightly warmer than an incandescent light bulb - therefore around 10 % of light would visible light rather than about 1/2 of the energy being visible light.

I think that some part of the UV spectrum, like its close cousin visible light, is mostly reflected rather than absorbed and re-emitted, so it would go back out to Space like the visible light that strikes clouds.