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Pure light from a source in space, like our sun, has many components. The visible wavelength of light is just one of these. Another component is the electromagnetic wavelength that travels perpendicularly to the visible wavelength. As the first of these waves weaves through the vacuum of space, it propagates its companion wave simultaneously and at 90 degrees. The first wave can then continue forward using the newly created side wave and so on. This is how light travels through a vacuum with no medium, displaying an example of the particle property of light (as waves cannot travel in a vacuum).
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What travels in waves in space?
Electromagnetic Wave
What are electromagnetic waves that can travel through space?
Any electromagnetic wave can travel through space, and they all do.
What travels in waves even through space?
Electromagnetic Wave
What is a disturbance that carries energy through matter and space?
That is basically the description of a WAVE.
Which type of wave can travel through empty space by electromagnetic waves?
Light, a combination of oscillating electric and magnetic fields.
Wave that can transfer energy through the vacuum of space?
electromagnetic waves
What waves transfer energy through empty space?
Electromagnetic wave
What wave can travel though space where there is no matter?
electromagnetic and gravitational waves
How can the command centre communicate with the space ship in space if outer space is a vacuum?
They use radio waves which are a type of electromagnetic waves. Electromagnetic waves can travel through a vacuum Ligth is a type of electromagnetic wave and that travels through space from the sun and the stars.
What type of wave is a light wave an example of?
Light is an example of a electromagnetic wave.
What type of energy travels through space?
Could be either a * gravitational wave * electro-static wave * magnetic wave * or a combination of a electro-static and a magnetic wave (usually called light) In matter is could be a * compressional wave * siderial wave
Name one kind of wave that does not require a medium?
An electromagnetic wave (this includes light) does not require a physical medium - it can travel through empty space.An electromagnetic wave (this includes light) does not require a physical medium - it can travel through empty space.An electromagnetic wave (this includes light) does not require a physical medium - it can travel through empty space.An electromagnetic wave (this includes light) does not require a physical medium - it can travel through empty space.
