Sentences with phrase «travels through space»

Light can travel through a vacuum, and doesn't need a mass to travel, e.g., the sunlight reaching the Earth travels through space from the Sun.
So, if a body emits EM energy that travels through space and reaches a colder temperature body, is that energy absorbed or not?
Before accepting the telescopic observations one must look into the optics of the telescope, the way the mount is constructed in order to ensure that the telescope is pointing in the right direction, and that light travels through space in a straight line (which itself is sometimes not so, as Einstein demonstrated).
A particularly curious example of this particular fascination is Earth - Moon - Earth (2007) where Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata was bounced off the surface of the moon only to return altered from its travels through space.
A disturbing little picture - book / graphic novel about a hunter who travels through space to hunt and kill the great beasts of every planet he visits.
Garrus is a great example of a great character design and voice work all mixed in with «badassery», as he was the one character I always wanted to join me on my travels through space.
Spectrum's increasingly challenging levels see players tilting their device left and right to control the direction the orb travels through space, while tapping a button on the right side of the screen causes it to float higher into the air.
Emeraldas, known throughout the galaxy as the Pirate Queen, travels through space on her heavily armed ship, searching for a secret.
Another young man in search of adventure travels through space in Treasure Planet.
Pikmin begins with Captain Olimar crash - landing yet again so it's up to him to collect enough Sparklium (30,000 to be exact) in order to repair his ship and continue his travels through space.
The potential revelations include details about objects both ordinary, such as stars, and exotic, such as dark - matter particles, that CMB photons might encounter on their travels through space.
radiation Energy, emitted by a source, that travels through space in waves or as moving subatomic particles.
There appears to be a misunderstanding concerning the difference between the term «solar constant» (Measurement of radiation that travels through space) and the term «solar magnetic field» (A magnetic field is a condition of space.)
In theory, gravity travels through space in the form of subatomic particles called gravitons, which move at the speed of light.
That's because Dr. Shannon developed the idea of the «bit,» and it's these millions of bits traveling through space that make this blog post possible.
This suggests that «Oumuamua could have been traveling through space, unattached to any star system, for hundreds of millions of years.
From the comfort of your couch, you can explore Middle Earth or travel through space and time in a phone booth, making stress from daily life seem far away.
Elon Musk, the man behind Tesla and SpaceX, believes the same thing, which is why his company has been working hard on reusable rockets designed to cut the cost of traveling through space on a regular basis.
«The price of any particular security can be pictured as something resembling a captive balloon attached, not to the ground but to a wide line traveling through space.
The waves travel through this space at roughly the speed of light.
In a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.
While there is no existential god that dispenses grace or justice I believe that the gods of the bible, the «Elohim», were scientists from another world who had reached the technical abilities to travel through space to other planets and clone humans and they did just that on our planet thousands of years ago.
Long - distance quantum communication became possible because traveling through space, with no atmosphere to stand in the way, is much easier on particles.
Instead, Tarlé thinks that scientists can explain the excess positrons by better understanding what happens as cosmic ray particles travel through space.
HAWC researchers tested how positrons travel through space by measuring gamma rays, or high - energy light, from two nearby pulsars — Geminga and Monogem — around 900 light - years away.
These findings are forcing physicists to abandon their most cherished ideas about neutrinos: that they have no mass and can travel through space at the speed of light.
When FRBs travel through space, they pass through intergalactic material and are distorted, similar to the apparent twinkling of a star because its light is distorted by Earth's atmosphere.
Using frozen samples of Nannochloropsis oculata, a type of single - celled ocean - dwelling algae, Dina Pasini (University of Kent) set out to test the conditions which early life would have had to survive if it did indeed travel through space.
Neutrinos have no charge and negligible mass, which means they can travel through space largely unimpeded by matter and undeflected by electromagnetic fields.
«These signals would have begun their journey before our planet even existed, and after five billion years of travelling through space without hitting anything, they've fallen into the telescope and allowed us to see this distant galaxy for the very first time.»
The sun was thought to produce electron neutrinos only, and if these particles were somehow morphing into the other two flavours as they travelled through space, it could explain the anomaly.
When spacecraft and satellites travel through space they encounter tiny, fast moving particles of space dust and debris.
Observations show that this unique object was traveling through space for millions of years before its chance encounter with our star system.
Its light takes more than four years to travel through space to its nearest neighbour, Alpha Centauri.
LIFE will test an idea called transpermia, in which organisms «could be ejected off one planet in impacts, travel through space inside rocks, then be deposited on another world», says Bruce Betts, LIFE's lead scientist.
To obtain more definitive answers, scientists need a complete census of the kinds of cosmic rays traveling through space, how fast they are moving, and the directions from which they are coming.
Pulsars reveal the magnetic field in neighboring reaches of space because they typically emit polarized light — radio waves that vibrate in a particular plane as they travel through space.
Itthereby bends the path of anything traveling through space - time, including light.
After taking new measurements of both objects, Deacon and his colleagues think they are travelling through space together.
The source of these magnetic storms was not just one but two huge eruptions of electrically charged material from the Sun, which travelled through space at millions of kilometres an hour, colliding with the Earth's magnetic field.
When the refractive index is reduced to zero the light no longer behaves as a moving wave, traveling through space in a series of crests and troughs, otherwise known as phases.
In a zero - index material, there is no phase advance, meaning light no longer behaves as a moving wave, traveling through space in a series of crests and troughs.
They are very hard to detect because their interaction with ordinary matter is extremely feeble, but over the years physicists have detected enough of them to observe that as they travel through space they can «oscillate» from one flavour to another.
In addition to traveling through space, you can travel through time in Celestia.
This is because of the enormous distance they have had to travel through space.
Newton's contemporary Christiaan Huygens strongly disagreed, insisting that light traveled through space as a wave.
HAYABUSA is traveling through space using an ion engine.
At this scale, light, the fastest thing in the universe, would travel through space at just over 2 centimeters per second.
By tracking the pulsar's motion for more than a decade, the astronomers were able to calculate that it is traveling through space at more than 500,000 miles per hour.
Traveling through space at nearly the speed of light, theis radiation would bombard a spacecraft and its astronauts.
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