The flame, meant to represent purity, was kindled from the rays of the sun using a parabolic mirror in a ceremony on 10 May at Olympia, the home of the ancient Olympic Games.
Each day, when the first rays of sun warm its ochre walls, the doline comes alive with the sounds of the red-green macaw, as formations of these exotically-plumaged parrots dive and wheel below the lip, periodically alighting en masse to bicker, preen and survey their domain.
As Darwin had suggested, heat and electricity were added to the mix to mimic the effects of vulcanism and lightning (later experiments also included light of the ultraviolet variety, to represent the powerful rays of the young sun).
In October every year, the first rays of the rising sun reach across the Nile, penetrate the temple and move along the hypostyle hall, through the vestibule and into the sanctuary, where they illuminate the somewhat mutilated figures of Ra-Horakhty, Ramses II and Amun.
Mountains tower over valleys lying deep in snow, their cathedral-spire peaks turning red in the rays of the setting sun.
Right before my eyes, on a large canvas, she painted smoking Twin Towers standing in the rays of a big sun.
The agency added that a lack of sunshine had also failed to improve the situation as the sun's UV rays would usually kill some of the bacteria found in the sea.
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In winter, experts say, people in the northern half of the U.S. don't receive enough UVB rays from the sun to make vitamin D, regardless of whether they use sunscreen.
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Because the rims of these craters catch rays of light from the sun, this may provide sufficient illumination for the spectrometer to detect frozen water.
The idea is to inject clouds of material into the stratosphere, creating a thin haze and deflecting some of the sun's rays away from the Earth, at least temporarily.
's Ban Ki-moon, standing in a damaged UNRWA warehouse, backlit by what appear to be rays of the sun, during his visit in January to Gaza.
It is thought Hendrix had intended them for First Rays Of The New Rising Sun, his follow-up to Electric Ladyland, which he was working on when he died.
In 2010 Maj Malins also became only the second non-Japanese national to be awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays for his reconciliation work.
It's early evening in the Bitterroot Valley, and the sun's rays mingle with plumes of smoke rising from the mountains as firefighters load up their trucks before heading out for the overnight shift.
The number of cosmic rays that hit the Earth is reduced when the Sun's activity is high.
Certain elements on the surface emitted X-rays when the sun zapped Eros with an intense burst of radiation for 30 minutes on May 4.
Bringing more light than a traditional window that can crack or leak during typhoon season, the bottle bulbs refract the sun's rays to create 55-watts worth of light.
He experienced firsthand the impact of humanity on the environment when under the hole in the ozone layer at the South Pole, the harsh ultraviolet rays from the sun burned his skin and permanently changed the color of his eyes.
The all-carbon formula doesn't need to be thickly spread to do its work, and it simply lets visible light through -- it could layer on top of a traditional solar cell to catch many more of the sun's rays.
Dr. Costarelis advises his patients to eat a nutrient-rich diet and stay out of the sun, because UV rays damage hair.
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Stay out of the sun those harsh rays are less than forgiving on imperfections.
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This shield does not stop all the cosmic rays from getting though, and its effectiveness varies with the long-term changes in the activity of the Sun, which can rise and fall on a timescale of centuries.
The Sun's magnetic field and solar wind - mainly in the form of electrons and protons coming out of the Sun - protects the entire Solar System by acting as a sort of shield from cosmic rays (very energetic particles and radiation from outer space).
As they describe in Nanoscale Research Letters, they have invented a way of concentrating the energy in the sun's rays without the need for mirrors.
Traditionally these are large pieces of polished metal, steered by electric motors to keep the sun's rays focused on the cell.
As plans for deep space exploration ramp up, radiation is a big concern from high-energy galactic cosmic rays spewed by distant supernova explosions to sporadic bursts of charged particles hurled by the sun.
Volcanoes spew out huge quantities of dust, which cools the earth by shielding it from the sun's rays.
When the sun is very active, it can be thought of as pushing away cosmic rays from the Earth, reducing their incidence.
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