Sentences with phrase «rays emanating»

Early in the 19th century, scientists began to speculate that the Earth, surrounded by the frigid vacuum of space, was habitable because its atmosphere contained special molecules like CO ₂ and water vapor, molecules that can absorb heat rays emanating from the Earth and thereby trap its heat.

Light rays emanating from a distant object behind a cluster pass through the distorted space - time, which causes the rays to bend and converge as they move toward an observer.

Their theory first sought to account for a wealth of gamma rays emanating from the center of our galaxy, picked up by the European Space Agency's Integral satellite, that correspond to the annihilation of electrons with their antiparticle, positrons (positively charged counterparts to electrons).

NASA's Fermi space telescope has been scanning for excess gamma rays emanating from the centre of our galaxy, where dark matter should be concentrated.

Now, two orbiting telescopes, the Italian Space Agency's AGILE telescope and NASA's Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope, have detected gamma rays emanating from Cygnus X-3, some more than 1000 times more energetic than previous measurements.

«Consider a bundle of light rays emanating from a point source,» a section on physics and metaphysics begins.

Gamma rays emanate from the most powerful and mysterious phenomena in the universe — quasars, supernovae, and the black hole - powered infernos called blazars.

Although not definitive, the observation suggests the cosmic rays emanate from a distinct source near our galaxy and not from sources spread all over the universe.

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Terrestrial gamma ray flashes (TGFs) were discovered in 1994 emanating from the tops of thunderclouds.

«We see articles in prestigious news outlets claiming that radioactivity from cosmic rays and rocks is more dangerous than the radiation emanating from the collapsing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.»

According to the experiments of Langley, the carbon dioxide and the water vapor, which the atmosphere contains, are more opaque to the heat rays of great wave lengths which are emitted by the earth, than to the waves of various lengths which emanate from the sun.

Previously, all astronomy observations have relied on light — which includes X-rays, radio waves, and other types of electromagnetic radiation emanating from objects in space — or on very - high - energy particles called neutrinos and cosmic rays.

According to the researchers, this isotope formed as a result of cosmic ray particles or protons hitting out atmosphere, emanating from a minor superflare, around 10 — 100 times larger than any solar flare in recorded history.

Recently distributed on a limited - edition Blu - ray from Twilight Time, the transfer not only does justice to the stereoscopic effects, but the colors pop, most of them emanating from Reed's wardrobe, and the gritty, dusty textures are palpable (conversely, the shadowed nighttime photography may be realistic, but it is often so dark that the action is barely visible).

These textured bands bracket an atmospheric middle section, in which rays of light emanate from a single vanishing point.

Ladd's metal assemblages comprise a variety of agricultural implements including blades, pipes, axles, and chains, which are illuminated from within so that rays of light emanate from cracks and joints as if these sculpted pieces were animated by their own life force.

Centering each work is a single stroke of color from which rays (or wings) emanate.

Reading the exhibition elements together, one might consider this assemblage a nuclear prologue, one that offers a way to read pechblende, and its constellations of emanating rays, as an archive of the future.