ALMA is a pioneer telescope that created a new global trend to
make a giant telescope in international partnership.
Make giant telescope to search for aliens?
Not exact matches
«This is a real opportunity to find another Earth sooner and for less money before
making a huge investment in NASA's next
giant space
telescope.»
But
making all of the 12 - metre dishes function like a single
giant telescope will be a challenge.
«In the future, new,
giant radio
telescopes like FAST (Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope) and SKA (Square Kilometre Array) will allow us to
make even more detailed observations of these extreme and exciting events,» concludes Jun Yang.
But the aim is to take advantage of the latest developments in
telescope technology to
make the next
giant leap forward in observing.
In Socorro, astronomers and computer scientists used a special - purpose computer to digitally combine the signals from the satellite and the ground
telescopes to
make them all work together as a single,
giant radio
telescope.
During its first year of operations, this
giant telescope observed many more supernova remnants, giving us a much more detailed look at the collection of elements that had been
made inside stars.
Scientists and engineers at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) have
made a
giant leap toward the future of radio astronomy by successfully utilizing the Very Large Array (VLA) radio
telescope in conjunction with an antenna of the continent - wide Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) using the longest fiber - optic data link ever demonstrated in radio astronomy.
One of the ideas to break through such limitations is to spread out multiple small - sized antennas over a large area and
make them work together to function as a
giant telescope.