Sentences with phrase «type of ultraviolet light»

It is a type of ultraviolet light.

Not exact matches

Astronomers captured the merging of neutron stars in various types of light, including ultraviolet, infrared and radio waves (above), as well as via gravitational waves — a first.

However, since birds differ strongly in how well they see ultraviolet light, the markings should only be visible to those bird species that have the right type of colour vision.

For the first time, scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new type of lens that bends and focuses ultraviolet (UV) light in such an unusual way that it can create ghostly, 3D images of objects that float in free space.

Their two zinc mines have yielded more than 90 types of rare minerals that glow under ultraviolet light, due to trace amounts of manganese trapped when the crystals formed.

They conclude that ultraviolet markings may be clearly visible under a range of lighting conditions, but only to birds with the so called UVS type of ultraviolet vision.

Mice have two types of cones — one that is sensitive to medium - wavelength green light and one that is sensitive to short - wavelength ultraviolet light (UV).

Just as insects can see ultraviolet light or we humans can see visible light, Hubble must also be able to see the various types of light raining down from the heavens.

These tools, however, produce nothing close to the angstrom - level (tenth of a nanometer) resolution of a new type of microscope that uses femtosecond pulses of extreme ultraviolet light (EUV)-- the same wavelength light to be used for sub-10 nanometer semiconductor lithography.]

When Markarian 1018 — originally a relatively dim galaxy — was observed shining brightly in the 1980s, scientists categorized it as a Type I Seyfert — galaxies that are very bright sources of X-rays, as well as ultraviolet and visible light.

Ultraviolet light is the most abundant type of energy generated by very hot stars.

In turn, these bright, young stars, most of them Type O, are blasting the HII regions with ultraviolet light, setting the hydrogen gas aglow.

Potential environmental triggers include fatigue, stress, infection, exposure to ultraviolet light, and taking certain types of medicines, namely sulfa drugs (which make people more sensitive to sunlight), penicillin or other antibiotics, and tetracycline.

Some types of ringworm will glow under ultraviolet light.

Keeping them indoors lowers their ultraviolet light exposure and helps protect them from this type of cancer.

Ultraviolet light should be kept away from the paintings as fugitive dyes and colorants used in paints will eventually discolour under exposure to this type of light.

The best type of light for your painting is indirect sunlight, recessed lighting, and halogen lights (not ultraviolet).

In the basement is a bulky, Dada - type machine consisting of giant tubes, digital temperature controls and an «exposure unit» with two 1,000 - watt ultraviolet lights inside a black case.

Many hospitals have turned to state - of - the - art approaches to help fight these type of infections, including robots that emit hydrogen peroxide vapors or ultraviolet light.

Proficient in the appropriate application and functioning of various types of crime scene equipment and research techniques; i.e. SEM, Compound and Binocular microscopes, wet chemical applications, Gas Chromatography, Mass Spectroscopy, X-Ray analysis and ultraviolet light detection equipment.