Sentences with phrase «see ultraviolet wavelengths»
Since birds can see ultraviolet wavelengths that humans can't, a bird's - eye view may reveal a spectacularly red berry.
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He and his colleagues knew that jumping spiders see ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths in sunlight, which people can't.
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.
New research led by astrophysicists at York University has revealed the fastest winds ever seen at ultraviolet wavelengths near a supermassive black hole.
The researchers saw that in early stages, two days after the mice were born, developing rod cells expressed genes normally seen in mature short - wavelength cones (which are used in other animals to detect ultraviolet light).
Hubble was used to observe ultraviolet, visible and near - infrared wavelengths, but only with Spitzer have we been able to jump through the cosmic dust and clutter to see distant reaches of the galaxy with such amazing clarity.
The «colours» are due to differences in the surface temperature of starsw1: hotter stars emit most of their light in the visible blue or ultraviolet regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, whereas cooler stars radiate at longer wavelengths, in the visible red or infrared regions (see Mignone & Barnes, 2011a).
The HDST's unexcelled sharpness at ultraviolet and optical wavelengths would allow astronomers to see the stellar and nebulous contents of galaxies billions of light - years away with the same crispness that Hubble sees inside galaxies just tens of millions of light - years away.
Earth receives energy that travels from the sun in a variety of wavelengths, some of which we see as sunlight and others that are invisible to the naked eye, such as shorter - wavelength ultraviolet radiation and longer - wavelength infrared radiation.