electromagnetic radiation

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Solar flares are bursts of electromagnetic radiation that travel from the Sun at the speed of light, reaching Earth in just over eight minutes.

From BBC • Nov. 11, 2025

The ranges allowed are narrow, far more restrictive than the sort of electromagnetic compatibility standards used on Earth, and unintended electromagnetic radiation can leak from electrical devices and systems on satellites.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2025

The Crab Nebula features a neutron star at its center that has formed into a 12-mile-wide pulsar pinwheeling electromagnetic radiation across the cosmos.

From Science Daily • Nov. 18, 2024

For example, cellular phones might want to be able to block certain types of harmful electromagnetic radiation while letting others like GPS or Bluetooth through.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2024

In the room, a female graduate student evidently immune to the smell sat working on a spectrograph, an instrument for measuring electromagnetic radiation.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik