Sentences with phrase «submillimetre light»

With ALMA's unprecedented resolution and sensitivity, the research team was able to image the far more abundant cold dust, which glows brightly in millimetre and submillimetre light.

The JCMT's dish, as wide as a basketball court, collects the submillimetre light and feeds it to a set of sensitive detectors.

Herschel can detect bands of submillimetre light that are blocked by Earth's atmosphere.

Team member Asantha Cooray of the University of California, Irvine, notes that there are fairly few bright sources of submillimetre light nearby, so «the brightest submillimetre sources are all gravitationally lensed».

The protostar is still quite cool — about -250 degrees Celsius — and shines only in long - wavelength submillimetre light [2].

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As they are opaque to visible light it is difficult for astronomers to observe their inner workings, and so other tools are needed to unveil their secrets — observations in the infrared or in the submillimetre parts of the spectrum, for example, where the dust clouds, only a few degrees over absolute zero, appear bright.

[2] The Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA), operated in part by ESO, observes in submillimetre and millimetre light and is ideal for the study of such very young stars in molecular clouds.

The APEX telescope in Chile has mapped the full area of the Galactic Plane visible from the southern hemisphere for the first time at submillimetre wavelengths — between infrared light and radio waves — and in finer detail than recent space - based surveys.

ALMA's observations, at submillimetre wavelengths, are also impervious to the glare from the star that affects infrared or visible - light telescopes.

At these wavelengths, astronomers can peer at the disks of gas and dust around newborn stars, see into star - forming clouds, and observe early galaxies that are bright in submillimetre wavelengths but obscured by dust in optical light.