Sentences with phrase «shock waves formed»

According to Melott, as the Milky Way plows through intergalactic material, a powerful shock wave forms ahead of it.

The first pulse occurs when the shock wave forms and light scatters around the blast.

Ahead of these growing grains, a shock wave forms at the front of the expanding cloud, which sweeps up whatever material it encounters.

The implosion begins to turn into an explosion, and a shock wave forms.

The detailed photographs reveal for the first time how a shock wave forms in front of a meteor and then expands into a ball of hot gas far bigger than the burning object.

To many theorists» surprise, shock waves form even in the rarefied material between the planets.

Where he nurtures stasis, she implies motion — although, with the exception of what look like shock waves forming at the head of a bullet or missile, the creepy - crawly kind.

Not exact matches

Much the way ships form bow waves as they move through water, CMEs set off interplanetary shocks when they erupt from the Sun at extreme speeds, propelling a wave of high - energy particles.

The colors represent the relative amounts of short - lived radioactive isotopes, such as iron - 60, injected into a newly formed protoplanetary disk (seen face on with the protostar being the light purple blob in the middle) by a supernova shock wave.

When a massive star explodes, the spray of stardust collides with interstellar gas, forming an outgoing shock wave.

In fact, just before posting this Top Pictures list, a NASA press release came out saying the Fermi satellite has seen gamma rays from this object, which is another very strong piece of evidence for this; gamma rays are the very highest energy form of light, and should be made when subatomic particles bounce around in supernova shock waves.

That model assumes that relativistic jets store energy primarily in the form of hot matter (plasma) and less in the form of magnetic fields generated by shock waves at the front of the jets.

These form where electric current or the resulting shock wave in the body bursts capillaries in your skin.

According to the model, the ratios of aluminum isotopes can be explained by the parent isotope having been injected in a one - time event into the planet - forming disk by a shock wave from an exploding star and then traveling both inward and outward in the disk.

Since no volume of air moves against another at supersonic speed, shock waves never form.

Once iron forms in the core, fusion stops and gravity overwhelms the star, collapsing its core and setting up a shock wave (yellow) that travels outward.

As the shock wave propagates downward, it flows through the moist air and forms a Wilson cloud in the low - pressure trough, underneath the fireball.

That's how scientists learned that surface protrusions called «jets,» formed after shock waves passed through cerium metal, could provide insight into the yield stress of cerium in its post-shock state.

It has long been suspected that turbulent motions in the lower solar atmosphere are propagated outward as waves in some form, which ultimately shock the thin atmosphere above the surface (the photosphere).

The material blasted out by an exploding star moves so quickly that it creates a shock wave which can accelerate protons and form cosmic rays.

A second factor makes nitrogen compounds explosive: the newly formed nitrogen molecules form a gas, which can expand very quickly and form a shock wave.

The WaveRider gets its name from its unique approach to coping with hypersonic shock waves that form in the air as it drills through the sky.

When the shock waves overlap, that's the moment the pressure peaks and when most of the diamonds form, Kraus said.

Scientists think a shock wave (an energetic disturbance) from the sun disrupted the outer belt, moving particles lower and forming the temporary belt.

Therefore, the shell and the outer shock wave are the glowing forms we see when we view a planetary nebula from Earth.

Pinton's team found that impacts resulted in shear waves that sometimes bunched up and intensified deep within the brain tissue to form short - lived shock waves.

Caption: The colors represent the relative amounts of short - lived radioactive isotopes, such as iron - 60, injected into a newly formed protoplanetary disk (seen face on with the protostar being the light purple blob in the middle) by a supernova shock wave.

«We still need to understand whether there are shock waves, formed by the jets, passing through and driving the slow eruption, or whether magnetic reconfiguration is driving the jets allowing the larger, slow structure to slowly erupt.

The shock waves are usually considered planar surfaces but numerical simulations have previously showed that ripples can form on the surface of shock waves.

Shock waves in plasmas form around planets, stars and supernovas.

If it passes through an ocean, the force of this shock wave can act almost like an oceanic form of whiplash.

The shock wave enters into quiescent gas and compresses it to form dense gas.

This instability could be causing the turbulent magnetic fields that form the shock waves in space.

The observed CH + reveals dense shock waves, powered by hot, fast galactic winds originating inside the galaxies» star forming regions.

As a quasar's black hole sucks in gas from surrounding space, the gas collides with the edge of its dark - matter halo and forms a shock wave, which heats the gas suddenly and strips off electrons to form electrically charged ions.

So you didn't see the Reality Stone (in the form of the Aether) take over the body of Thor's girlfriend, Jane Foster, allowing her to send out shock waves and... whatnot.

The repeated exposure to the stream forms resistance to the potency of any one singular image, changing the duration in which the iconic plays itself out: the poignancy or shock moment is replaced by an incremental effect, closer to a wave which enters the subconscious field, forming the landscape.