... Bionic eyes. If our eyes could see in different wavelength bands, this is what the Sun would look like. ... Visible light, crucial to photosynthesis, is a type of radiation. ... At the heart of this revolution is the recognition that light travels as a wave. ... Dreams of Fields . ... By the time the fields go from strong to weak and back to strong, the wave has moved a certain distance, known as the wavelength. ... Red light, blue light, infrared light, ultraviolet light, radio waves, x-rays ? ...

. These are all basically the same things: waves of entwined electricity and magnetism flying through space: the only thing that’s different is the wavelength. You also get waves longer than radio and shorter than Gamma Rays - but these are very rare, and as far as we know useless (at present). Our eyes are only sensitive to visible light. Previous slide . Next slide . Back to first slide . View graphic version .

Blackholes2 Forum Message . Forums: . ... Only Photons Travel At The Speed Of Light . Forum List | ... Posted by Richard Ruquist on October 21, 2004 12:29:14 UTC . ... Charge has mass and from the theory of relativity, they cannot travel at the speed of light. Radio waves are photons, a form of light. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

Perhaps the greatest theoretical achievement of physics in the 19th century was the discovery of electromagnetic waves. ... It is possible to use this to define a unit of electric charge, as the charge which repels a similar charge at a distance of, say, 1 meter, with a force of unit strength (actual formulas make this precise). ... But "field" originally only meant the force a magnet or an electric charge could expect at a point in space, if it were placed there. ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... A survey of Armagh was to be carried out in order to better determine how much money is wasted each year in Armagh on bad lighting. ... Bad Up Light . ... This information allowed more accurate estimates to be made of how much light is wasted in Armagh, and therefore how much money and coal is wasted, as well as how much carbon dioxide produced. ... Lights per metre . ... denote the average percentage of light wasted per luminaire, wasted meaning ineffective lighting (up, to the sides etc.) . ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

... 4a. Electric Fluid . ... Field Lines . ... EM Waves . ... One could then define the unit of current, as the current which, when flowing in a straight wire, attracts a similar current in a parallel wire 1 meter away with a force of unit strength, for every meter of the wires' length. ... Faraday also showed that a magnetic field which varied in time--like the one produced by an alternating current (AC)--could drive electric currents, if (say) copper wires were placed in it in the appropriate way. ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . Sun . ... Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... Among the wonders of the sky they shared may have been something we do not have today, a neighbouring star roaming through the outer edge of the Solar System. ... Today Scholzт??s Star is about 20 light years from the Sun in the constellation of Monoceros. ... Seen from our Solar System, Scholzт??s Star barely moves across the across the sky. ... Astronotes . ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

... November 24, 1997 . Jet Near Light Speed . ... Jets of protons and electrons that shoot away from objects such as quasars and black holes appear to travel at speeds approaching this maximum speed, though. Such jets carry tremendous energy and can ram straight through interstellar material . In the above frame from a computer simulation , a jet traveling only 98 percent of light speed rams and mixes with interstellar material. ... About APOD > . ...

... Дни открытых дверей к юбилею САО РАН (12-14 апреля 2016 г.) . Международная конференция "Dark Ages and White Nights (Spectroscopy of the CMB)" (20-24 июня 2016 г.) . ... Международная конференция MULTI-SPIN GALAXIES - 2016 (26-30 сентября 2016 г.) . Международная астрономическая конференция "Физика звезд: от коллапса до коллапса" (3-7 октября 2016 г.) Архив . ... Подробнее.. ... 10.02.16 . ... БТА в реальном времени . ... Цейсс-1000 в реальном времени . ... Последнее обновление: 22/03/2016 ...

7.0 Application of Back-illuminated CCD Technology . As indicated in the absolute performance characterization detailed above, low noise, back-illuminated, low light level CCD (BCCD) cameras offer superior low light level performance to image intensified approaches. ... Figures 7.3 and 7.4 show a similar test of bar targets clearly illustrating the superiority of the back-illuminated CCD for low light level imaging of high resolution targets at a range of 400 meters. ...

... The source of this sky glow is the thousands of outdoor lights that not only illuminate their target area, but their neighbor's yard and beyond. ... Correcting the bad lighting practices of the past will certainly make star gazers happy, yet it is the public that will reap the greatest benefits through glare and light trespass reduction. ... I'd be the first to admit that finding good lighting fixtures at WalMart or Lowes that do not light up the neighborhood can be a bit challenging. ...

Wave Model for light Electromagnetic Wave What Happens to the Wave When it Encounters the Small Opening? ... Diffraction: Bending of light when it passes around a sharp obstacle or through a narrow slit. ... Constructive interference occurs when waves reinforce each other (as at point A above). ... Diffraction Grating has many narrow "slits". ... Both light waves arrive in phase. ... If light waves 1 and 2 arrive at the eye in phase (constructive interference), then you see a bright reflection. ...

... Solar Corona - Basic Level of Heliosphere. ... Solar Wind, Its Characteristics by Observation on the Terrestrial Orbit. ... Shock Waves in Heliosphere - General Physical Aspect and Features of Propagation of Solar Wind in Medium. ... Solar Cosmic Rays - Morphology, Origin, Energy Spectrum, Manifestrations in Outskirts of the Earth. ... Comets as Natural Heliosphere Probes. ... Dinamics of Heliosphere Dust - Light Pressure, Sublimation, Crashing, Sweeping by Solar Wind, Falling on Planetary Bodies. ...

... M72: A Globular Cluster of Stars . ... Globular clusters once ruled the Milky Way. Back in the old days, back when our Galaxy first formed, perhaps thousands of globular clusters roamed our Galaxy. ... Curiosity on Mars: Still Life with Rover . ... What does the Curiosity rover look like on Mars? ... Spiral Galaxy NGC 5033 . ... Curiosity on Mars: A Wall of Gale Crater . ... If you could stand on Mars, what would you see? ... The First Color Panorama from Mars by Curiosity . ... First page ] Prev. ...

... Under certain conditions, like those in the nucleus of a QSO, all atoms can be made to emit light at particular wavelengths. ... If that source is approaching the observer, the wave is squashed up onto itself making the wavelength shorter. ... This is redshift. ... You can see how the section of the QSO spectrum which we observe changes with redshift. ... We then see how far we had to slide the observed spectrum along the scale to make it match and that is the objects redshift. ... The 2QZ team . ...

... The MROI makes use of optical interferometry, much like COAST . ... As a major collaborator, the Cambridge Astrophysics Group is currently developing some of the mechanisms below, specifically the delay line and the fast tip-tilt system. ... Fringe tracking is used to control the positions of the delay line trolleys to make sure the light beams from the different telescopes in the MROI arrive at the science camera beam combiners in phase so that an interference pattern can be produced. ...

ALBUM: gba @ SONG : Leave them all behind Leave Them All Behind Wheels turning around Into alien grounds Pass through different times Leave them all Behind Just to see We've got so far to go Until we get there Just let it flow Colours shining clear Fading into night Our grasp is broken There's nothing we can do I Don't care about the colours ... SONG: BENEATH Rise above the rain, For all our sins we're not to blame, This time will pass away not yours or mine. ...