Sentences with phrase «waves millions of miles»

Nvidia, a hardware firm whose graphic processing units (GPUs) have seen booming sales as a result of the rise of deep learning, lists uses on its website that range from Adobe's DeepFont, which identifies the fonts used in an image, to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, which detects gravitational waves millions of miles away in real time.

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LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, is a pair of three - mile - long gravitational - wave detectors in Washington and Louisiana that cost $ 365 million and took 11 years to build, and yet they may just barely be able to pick up signals from the ultraviolent collisions that give birth to massive black holes.

Scientists» early warnings came true just a month later, when around 700 million cubic feet (20 million cubic meters) of rock slid into the Qinggan River, just two miles (three kilometers) from where it flows into the Yangtze, spawning 65 - foot (20 - meter) waves that claimed the lives of 14 people.

If our eyes could see radio waves, this field, not the rings, would be Saturn's largest and most distinctive feature — a teardrop - shaped envelope of radio - emitting particles that may extend a million miles across.

Remotely controlling instruments aboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory spacecraft, located a million miles from Earth, researchers led by Stanford astrophysicist Stathis Ilonidis tracked the motion of sound waves bouncing around the sun's interior.

Laser Interferometer Space Antenna What: A joint effort between NASA and the European Space Agency to build a trio of satellites, spaced 3 million miles apart, to search for gravity waves — ripples of space - time.

The new research solves this mystery by connecting the atmospheric waves to vibrations of the Ross Ice Shelf — the largest ice shelf in the world with an area of almost half a million square kilometers (188,000 miles), roughly the size of France.

Alfvénic waves are thought to be one of the main mechanisms responsible for accelerating the solar wind to speeds of around a million miles per hour.

There's a reason why millions of people travel to Indonesia every single year; the postcard worthy moments are all around you and it's also the place where the world's best surfers travel to catch the waves of their life, with high cliffs and mile long beaches in the background.