Sentences with phrase «scattered by hydrogen»

IUVS observed a drop in the amount of sunlight scattered by hydrogen in the upper atmosphere.

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Because all elements in the universe heavier than hydrogen, helium, and lithium have been forged by nuclear fusion in the cores of stars and then scattered into space by supernova explosions, the find indicates that the galaxy, at the age we're now observing it, was old enough for at least one generation of stars to have formed, lived, and died.
Photography picks up fainter, outlying blues from light scattering off dust particles and reds emitted by hydrogen.
Hydrogen atoms scatter solar ultraviolet light, and it was this light that was imaged by the IUVS.
The image shows sunlight that has been scattered by atomic hydrogen, shown as blue in this false - color representation.
He usually has to settle for the whisper of hydrogen and ammonia molecules, picked up by radio towers scattered across the world.
This image shows atomic hydrogen scattering sunlight in the upper atmosphere of Mars, as seen by the Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph on the MAVEN spacecraft.
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