Sentences with phrase «see ultraviolet»

It is known to be the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom, and one other crazy fact is that they can see ultraviolet and polarized light.

Rats can also see ultraviolet light, and they can be trained to tell the difference between ultraviolet and visible light.

Just as insects can see ultraviolet light or we humans can see visible light, Hubble must also be able to see the various types of light raining down from the heavens.

Ongoing Discover how a bat uses its built - in radar to locate its next meal and peer through the eyes of a model bee head to experience how a bee's vision allows it to see ultraviolet light reflected off flowers.

They can not perceive the color red, but they can see ultraviolet light.

Using observatories that can see ultraviolet radiation, like the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted enough WHIM to account for about 50 % to 70 % of the missing baryons — still leaving a significant fraction unaccounted for.

For example, birds of prey have much greater visual acuity than humans and some, like diurnal birds of prey, can see ultraviolet light.

As most birds can see ultraviolet light, which is invisible to humans, one solution is to mark the glass with ultraviolet reflective or absorbing patterns.

However, since birds differ strongly in how well they see ultraviolet light, the markings should only be visible to those bird species that have the right type of colour vision.

I also see ultraviolet light, which is good to detect because it damages the skin.

He and his colleagues knew that jumping spiders see ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths in sunlight, which people can't.

Birds see the world differently from you or I: they are able to see ultraviolet (UV) light whereas we can not, which means they perceive colour (and camouflage) in a very different way.

Since birds can see ultraviolet wavelengths that humans can't, a bird's - eye view may reveal a spectacularly red berry.

But the near ultraviolet is actually used by some organisms, some birds, lots of insects, and it turns out that turkeys are one of the bird species that can see the ultraviolet light.

«We saw ultraviolet light resulting from this gravitational - wave event as part of Swift observations of almost 750 different locations in the sky.

Alan C. Larman's account of seeing ultraviolet (15 March, p 33) prompts me to write about my own experience.

Not exact matches

We need to check and see, for example, whether or not the water they're serving at Molecule has been treated by ultraviolet rays, ozone treatments and reverse osmosis via a machine that costs an unimaginable amount of money.

Bees home in on brilliant ultraviolet patterns that we see as plain white daisies; pigeons can literally align themselves to magnetic north because of magnetite in their brains.

Because the birds have ultraviolet sensitivity, they can see specks of the spray on the grass blades where humans can not.

The hood is equipped with a UV protected transparent window, allowing you to see baby, while keeping them safe from ultraviolet rays.

The image above shows the hard X-rays (seen here as red and yellow) as well as visible and ultraviolet light (white and purple) detected by Swift.

At a distance of 5,500 light years, the blue straggler binary appears as a single point of light, but by analyzing the amount of ultraviolet light, the researchers saw the unmistakable signal of a white dwarf.

Its purpose is to help people to effectively protect themselves from UV light, which causes sunburns, eye damage such as cataracts, skin aging, and skin cancer (see the section health effects of ultraviolet light).

Like Mars Express 10 years ago, MAVEN has an ultraviolet camera, so it is not seeing the same thing as human eyes.

The book looks at fish that live in subfreezing waters, ruminating monkeys, ridiculously poisonous newts, birds that see in the ultraviolet, mice that live on lava flows, cave fish, coelacanths, bush babies, humans, and some other marvels of evolution.

We know that they are under stress when they are fighting cancer or other diseases, so I wondered whether anything measureable could be seen if we put them under further stress with UVA light.We found that people with cancer have DNA which is more easily damaged by ultraviolet light than other people, so the test shows the sensitivity to damage of all the DNA — the genome — in a cell.»

Researchers now find that certain male fish solve the problem by wooing females with secret ultraviolet signals their major predators can't see.

«If Neanderthal man had had ultraviolet eyes and could look above the atmosphere, he could have seen the beginning of this tail forming,» says astronomer and team leader Christopher Martin of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

Lots of animals differ in the parts of the color spectrum that they see best because of how they are tuned to their environments — whether they live in the deep sea or in caves, whether they mostly go out in the day or at night, or whether they're trying to pick up ultraviolet patterns on flowers or on prey.

In effect, astronomers put on different kinds of ultraviolet and X-ray filters to see heat in the corona.

The spiral galaxy M81 as seen through a combination of X-ray, optical, ultraviolet and infrared imaging techniques.

A TANGLED SKEIN Splendid loops in the corona protrude from the sun's surface, seen in this 2014 ultraviolet image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

And Hubble caught auroras on Jupiter, too, seen in ultraviolet light.

Steve: So, I saw on your Web site some research related to the ultraviolet reflection of the feathers.

«These people see UV with their blue receptors, because the sensitivity of our blue receptors extends weakly into the ultraviolet.

Temperate and tropical cloud patterns are revealed on the daylight side as seen in ultraviolet light.

Venus» south polar area, seen in ultraviolet light.

The trick worked because relevant phonon peaks can be seen with much better resolution in the spectrum of nickel oxide under ultraviolet laser excitation,» Balandin added.

But take a peek at ultraviolet light (left), and you'll see that IC 3418 has a tail — one that's filled with thousands of young stars.

The Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer, scheduled for launch this fall into a circular 500 - mile orbit and expected to last three years, will look at a part of the spectrum the Hubble can't see.

They concluded that telescopes attuned to extreme ultraviolet would see nothing except the Sun.

In particular, astronomers would like to see the Milky Way's star - forming regions emit ultraviolet radiation known as Lyman alpha because it's expected to be both strong and a key diagnostic of conditions in stellar nurseries.

The gas glows because young, extremely hot stars like these are emitting intense ultraviolet light which strips the surrounding gas of its electrons and causes it to emit the faint glow seen in this image.

After analyzing dinosaurs» genetic relationships to reptiles and birds, the researcher determined that dinosaurs not only possessed the three color receptors for red, green and blue that the human eye possesses, but that they, like their closest living relatives, crocodiles and birds, were probably also able to see extremely short - wave and ultraviolet light by means of an additional receptor.

They analyzed the color patterns — not just in the spectrum of visible light that humans can see, but also the reflection of ultraviolet light that insects are sensitive to.

Unlike the auroras here on Earth, which show up as visible light, Jupiter's electric blue whirl is ultraviolet, so you wouldn't be able to see it as depicted in the composite image above.

The preference for red is odd, however, considering that bees technically can't see red; their eyes have receptors for only green, blue, and ultraviolet light.

One such sign is two new active regions captured this week by the ultraviolet camera on one of NASA's twin STEREO probes (see image).

CHESS will soar above Earth's atmosphere to look at the ultraviolet light from a bright star — light that is blocked by the atmosphere and can't be seen from the ground.

The SDO can see extreme ultraviolet wavelengths that are blocked by Earth's atmosphere, allowing it to look at the part of the corona where the temperature suddenly rises.