Sentence examples for distorting light from inspiring English sources

Earth's atmosphere obscures ground-based astronomers' view of celestial objects by absorbing or distorting light rays from them.

It magnifies the background light behind it, bending and distorting light but also making it more visible.

Meaning flies in pixelated clouds from a book he tries to read, his body is shadowed by an aura of scratchy distorting light.

Assume that the sphere has no fog or other atmospheric effects which absorb or distort light.

They're happy in their underwater playground, which distorts light and form and contains the sediment of ages.

The trick involves the ability to bend and distort light as it travels through space — in other words, to make it do what the brain assumes it won't.

Even though dark matter is invisible, it weakly distorts light traveling through space.

The same pull also reveals dark matter's presence when it distorts light from luminous stars and galaxies beyond.

But it is reassuring to know that it is backed up by two others that do not rely on standard candles.One of these estimates exploits the fact that galaxies act as "gravitational lenses", magnifying and distorting the light coming from behind them.

This lensing creates a kind of halo, distorting the light into several spots or arcs.

Air bends light, and hot air bends light in a different way than cold air; it's like having a series of lenses suspended above us, twisting and distorting the light on its way through.