Ultraviolet Quotes

The dramatic plunge has left the Cartwheel galaxy with a crisp, bright ring around a zone of relative calm. Usually a galaxy is brighter toward the center, but the ultraviolet view indicates the collision actually smoothed out the interior of the galaxy, concentrating older stars and dust into the inner regions. It's like the calm after the storm of star formation. - Phil Appleton

Skin cancer rates will go up. Sunburns will occur at a faster rate, degradation of plastics and so forth, because of enhanced ultraviolet radiation from a lowering of ozone. - Paul Newman

Our goal is now to understand how certain males keep a better plumage than others. Factors like ultraviolet radiation from the sun, soiling and even feather-degrading bacteria are known to affect the color of bird feathers once they are grown, and perhaps the best males are those who spend more time preening and protecting their plumage. - Kevin McGraw

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text. - Walter Benjamin

It's not the pesticides alone or introduced predators or ultraviolet light or global warming that's causing this decline, but the interaction between these on an animal that is pretty sensitive to its environment. - Tyrone Hayes

I don't want to sound too critical, but we're taking a wait-and-see approach on UltraViolet. - Bob Iger

By looking at different regions of soils and reflection of ultraviolet ... we can gauge the distribution and abundance of oxygen in the soils. - Jennifer Wiseman

Because BCD galaxies are metal poor and very compact, the intense ultraviolet radiation from young stars will destroy PAH molecules even if they are formed. The threshold for when these PAH molecules stop being destroyed is still uncertain. - Yanling Wu

[University of Colorado's Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE) will measure spectral energy flux deposits into Earth's atmospheric layers. The observations will clue scientists in to how our atmosphere shelters us and how these wavelengths affect airborne systems.] When you see the results of this... it will be extraordinary... to see a flare go off on the sun and see the Earth's atmosphere go PHMMPHH! - Barbara Thompson