Sentences with phrase «than visible light waves»

When it has all its receiver bands enabled, ALMA will capture radiation from space in longer wavelengths, from a few hundred micrometers to approximately 1 millimeter (close to one thousand times longer than visible light waves).

Not exact matches

Through all these ups and downs, the essential mission of Spitzer remained constant: to learn more about the universe by detecting infrared rays, electromagnetic waves slightly longer than visible light.

After the serendipitous discovery of radio waves coming from the Milky Way's center in the 1930s, scientists realized radio waves, which have a longer wavelength than visible light, could reveal many aspects of cosmic phenomena not visible in other wavelengths.

When the layers have thicknesses below the wavelength of visible light — 400 - 700 nanometers — they interact with its wave properties rather than treating it as a straight ray.

Those unique properties have proven conducive to working with THz light waves, which have longer wavelengths than visible light and therefore require new imaging technology.

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.

(The waves of ultraviolet light are more energetic and shorter than those of visible light.)

This portion of the spectrum, which is more energetic than most radio waves yet less energetic than visible and infrared light, holds the key to understanding a great variety of fundamental processes, including planet and star formation, and the formation and evolution of galaxies and galaxy clusters in the early Universe.

Also you focused on re-radiating meaning emitting long - wave spectrum - which possible, but I was thinking more about emitting the same wavelength, as mentioned in this quote: «However, aerosols (which often contain water and if so can absorb red wavelengths) are usually larger than visible wavelengths and therefore absorb and reflect all wavelengths of light equally (this is not technically scattering, although it is often called that; it technically involves absorption and re-radiation, or reflection).»