Over the past few weeks, there has been a lot of hype and hysteria over "rolling coal," a redneck motorsport trend that involves tricking out diesel pickup trucks to emit giant plumes of black smoke.
But X-rays are also emitted by giant magnetic short-circuits in the outer layers of the disc large versions of the flares in the sun's corona.Whatever the source, such X-rays will cause hydrogen molecules to vibrate, and these vibrations will be released as light of a specific wavelength.
Although many pulsars sometimes miss a few pulses or emit a giant pulse, they are usually relatively easy to spot because they're pulsing anytime someone's looking.
Reporting today in Nature, the team says the ring probably formed after the magnetic star emitted a giant flare, spotted in 1998, which incinerated surrounding dust in all directions, leaving only the thin disk.
The super-wide-field of view (60 degrees) telescope, with a diameter of about 2.5m looks down the night-side atmosphere of the Earth from ∼400 km of altitude, to detect near UV photons (330 400nm, both fluorescent and Cherenkov) emitted by giant air-showers produced by EECRs.
Environmentalists fear that opening another route between Alberta and the U.S. Gulf Coast for tar sands crude would ensure the deal struck between the two carbon-emitting giants becomes a moot point, or worse.
From the glow of pink, blue, and purple lights emitting within the giant canopy of patterned sheets, I could make out a den of blankets and pillows of every colour, along with scattered stuffed animals and an end table supporting both a vaporizer loaded with a never-ending supply of Canadian weed and a green-and-blue lava lamp.
In Phengodes the light is emitted by solitary giant cells; in Arachnocampa, by modified excretory organs; in Platyura, by modified salivary glands; and in Phrixothrix, Lampyris, and lampyrid larvae, by organs similar to, but simpler than, the "lanterns" of flashing types of fireflies.
This super-wide-field (60 degrees) telescope, with a diameter of about 2.5 m, looks down from space observing the nighttime earth's atmosphere to detect near UV photons at 330 400 nm (both fluorescent and Cherenkov photons) emitted from the giant air showers produced by EECRs.
The flux density of the giant pulses emitted by PSR B1927+21 are the brightest radio emission ever observed.
