Sentences with phrase «faint object camera»

The European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera on board NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided a fascinating close - up view of Supernova 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The Einstein Cross — The European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera on board NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided astronomers with the most detailed image ever taken of the gravitational lens G2237 + 0305 — sometimes referred to as the Einstein Cross.

During a servicing mission in February 2002, astronauts added the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), doubling the Hubble's field of view and replacing the Faint Object Camera, which served as the HST's telephoto lens.

Note: The Faint Object Camera was replaced by the Advanced Camera for Surveys in 2002.

The team used the Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph (FOCAS) mounted on the Subaru Telescope to thoroughly study the visible wavelength spectrum (Note 1) of the afterglow of a gamma - ray burst (GRB, Note 2), which is a violent explosion of a massive star.

Observations of SN 1987A with the COSTAR - corrected Faint Object Camera.

First results from the Faint Object Camera: SN 1987a.

Not exact matches

Scientists on the Dark Energy Survey, using one of the world's most powerful digital cameras, have discovered eight more faint celestial objects hovering near our Milky Way galaxy.

To help pull in faint objects, Chandra contains a series of nested mirrors that each funnel X-rays to a sharp focus at its narrow end, where a camera sits.

So Anita Cochran of the University of Texas and her colleagues turned to the Hubble telescope's Wide Field / Planetary Camera, which can spot much fainter objects.

For example, an instrument on one satellite could block the glare of the sun or a distant star, making it possible for a camera on the other to image faint objects such as the sun's ghostly corona or exoplanets orbiting a star.

SOFIA's Faint Object Infrared Camera will examine the Milky Way's tumultuous center, star - forming regions, dust clouds, and nearby galaxies.

There are also two cameras - one which can achieve image resolutions 10 times greater than that of even the largest Earth - based telescope, and a second which can detect an object 50 times fainter than anything visible from Earth.

It is one of the faintest objects in the sky, discovered using a 25» Schmidt camera in 1952 by G.A Shajn and V.E. Hase at the Crimean Astrophyical Observatory at Simeis (in the former U.S.S.R).

The Dragonfly Telephoto Array used 14 - centimeter state of the art telephoto lens cameras to produce digital images of the very faint, diffuse objects.

Camera purchased with the support of a 2009 Shoemaker NEO Grant is now on a new telescope providing follow - up measurements for even fainter near - Earth objects.

Their Slow Moving Objects survey, which lasted almost a decade, used progressively larger CCD cameras to detect faint objects moving slowly relative to backgroundObjects survey, which lasted almost a decade, used progressively larger CCD cameras to detect faint objects moving slowly relative to backgroundobjects moving slowly relative to background stars.