Sentences with phrase «shock waves produced»

The ALMA image is combined with a near infrared image from the Gemini South telescope showing shock waves produced by the explosion.

Astronomers from Wesleyan University have detected the shock waves produced by a high - speed «hot Jupiter» exoplanet caught in a tight orbit around its host star.

Astronomers from Wesleyan University have detected the shock waves produced by a high - speed «hot...

Their vast symmetrical shapes outline hypersonic shock waves produced by colliding shells of stellar gas.

Not exact matches

When a moderately strong bolt of cyber lightning struck the virtual rock, it created pressure waves that peaked at about 70,000 atmospheres, well into the range needed to produce shocked quartz, the researchers report this month in Geophysical Research Letters.

The rupture of one crevasse will produce shock waves that will set off others closer to land's edge.

The International Monitoring System (IMS), established by the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty, has a number of different ears to the ground to detect clandestine nuclear weapons testing: seismic networks that listen for terrestrial shock waves, hydroacoustic networks that scan the oceans for sound waves, and radionuclide networks to sniff out radioactive particles that nuclear explosions produce.

The shock wave seems to need an extra kick to make it out of the star and produce the luminous explosion.

When exposed to pulsed laser light, the gold evaporated, producing a powerful shock wave in the colloid comparable to that caused, say, by the impact of a micrometeorite.

That interaction would set off a shock wave through nearby interstellar gas, heating the nebula to produce the infrared glow (The Astrophysical Journal, doi.org/b56t).

Silo cap The only thing visible aboveground is a concrete cap with blast - proof windows, built to withstand a shock wave traveling more than 2,000 miles an hour — about what a nuclear detonation would produce.

These mergers produce shock waves, which propagate through the clusters, reaccelerating particles previously accelerated by supermassive black holes in the galactic nuclei.

The shock waves then ripple through the surrounding plasma, producing extreme heat.

For instance, the computer model produced both the «shock waves» of congestion that travel backwards down motorways and create traffic jams where there is no obvious obstruction («When shock waves hit traffic», New Scientist, 25 June 1994), and the «slow fast - lane» effect, in which so many drivers move into the overtaking lane in frustration at the middle lane's lower speed that the middle lane becomes the fastest - moving.

As gases churn in the photosphere, they produce shock waves that heat the surrounding gas and send it piercing through the chromosphere in millions of tiny spikes of hot gas called spicules.

Then, like earth - shattering thunder falling from the sky, just a couple months ago Denise Minger produced a massive critique of the China Study that turned many of its claims upside down, sending a shock wave through entire blogosphere and drawing the attention even of Dr. Campbell himself.