Sentences with phrase «observatory used»

Following its initial detection with the Lovell Telescope, scientists at the observatory used their network of large telescopes across the UK to zoom in and identify the source of the signal as a little blue planet in the constellation of Iocus.

This amount includes funding for the extension of the Kepler mission and NASA's partnership with the Keck Observatory used for all NASA astrophysics science programs.

Observations with the W.M. Keck Observatory used the Natural Guide Star Adaptive Optics system with the NIRC2 camera on the Keck II telescope.

Scientists at NCAR's High Altitude Observatory used a supercomputer to create this 3 - D, high - resolution image of a sunspot's dark central region, called the umbra, and its outer region, called the penumbra.

Most observatories use a single laser - generated beacon, which limits how much of the telescopic field can be manipulated using adaptive optics.

Modern observatories use «adaptive optics» — computer - controlled deformable mirrors that change shape thousands of times per second — to cancel out the worst effects of atmospheric turbulence on starlight.

After 11 years of observations, two additional outer planets were discovered with two other teams of astronomers at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the High Altitude Observatory using the Whipple Observatory (1999 press release).

For a detailed exploration of the Southern Observatory using the Google Earth program, please visit collaborator Stephane Coutu's website at Penn State University.

The JHK spectra of the object have been taken from the Mount Abu Infrared Observatory using the Near - Infrared Imager / Spectrometer.

This direct image was taken at Keck Observatory using NIRC2 and Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics showing the planet does not have a binary companion.

Norio Kaifu, Director General of NAOJ gave an annual new year speech at Mitaka, which was shared with three other observatories using videoconference system):...

Related paper: Calibration of the Logarithmic - Periodic Dipole Antenna (LPDA) Radio Stations at the Pierre Auger Observatory using an Octocopter The Pierre Auger Collaboration, 2017 JINST 12 T10005 [doi: 10.1088 / 1748-0221/12 / 10 / T10005][arXiv: 1702.01392]

They detected a statistical correspondence between solar periodicities and cloud base height measured at the Lerwick observatory using a cloud base recorder.

And while the people of Barrow share communally in the bounty of a successful whale hunt, the specialized monitoring equipment at the NOAA observatory uses modern technology to track the destruction of the atmospheric resource from the modern industrialization and the consequent carbon emissions.

Not exact matches

The scientists used an instrument called SPHERE on the Very Large Telescope (VLT)-- an array of four different telescopes run by the European Southern Observatory (ESO)-- to take the new images of infant solar systems and their protoplanetary disks.

However, two astronomers — Gianluca Masi of The Virtual Telescope Project and Michael Schwartz of Tenagra Observatories, Ltd. — managed to track down the Tesla using orbit data provided by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Now, however, astronomers have used an instrument at the Gemini Observatory to «sniff» the planet's gases from Earth.

They mapped out how far star - forming regions were from the sky, using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Long Baseline Array of telescopes, and calculating how far these war form Earth.

Eiffel also learned from the Latting Observatory that he didn't want to use wood.

1) Laws have been used and maintained by men long before the catholic church started imposing theirs upon the people 2) The vatican observatory has tried to use its influence to den scientific study and control what is known.

So even before he began using that term, he sent a letter to the head of the Vatican Observatory, noting that «those members of the Church who are either themselves active scientists, or in some special cases both scientists and theologians, could serve as a key resource» in bridging the chasm that too often separates modern science and biblical religion.

However, as this best XI in Europe from CIES Football Observatory shows, it's not always the best evidence to use.

I have found this calculator from the CIES Football Observatory which calculates each player's worth based on an econometric model used to analyse over 1,500 transfers since 2010.

The estimated values are calculated using an exclusive algorithm conceived by the CIES Football Observatory research team.

Worldwide use of the first set of Physical Activity Country Cards: The Global Observatory for Physical Activity - @GoPA!

«Increasingly the world is looking toward drug policies that minimise harm to people who use drugs as well as producer and transit countries,» said David Bewley - Taylor, director of the Global Drug Policy Observatory.

THRICE AS NICE Using detectors buried in the Antarctic ice, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory detected a rare burst of three neutrinos.

In the United States, an experimental version (the National Virtual Observatory) launched in 2002, but the lack of good data - analyzing tools made it difficult to use.

Using 12 years of archival data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory, a team led by Columbia University astrophysicist Chuck Hailey has found a dozen potential black holes within a few light - years of the Milky Way's center, well within the gravitational reach of our galaxy's supermassive black hole.

To make the 3 - D map, Milisavljevic and co-author Rob Fesen of Dartmouth College examined Cas A in near - infrared wavelengths of light using the Mayall 4 - meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, southwest of Tucson, AZ..

A new observatory called ABISS that can transmit video and long - term chemical measurements at broadband speeds from the seafloor using a system of flashing lights instead of a traditional tether.

They used the Gemini Observatory and the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory, both located in Chile.

Meanwhile a project called the Event Horizon Telescope aims to use radio observatories scattered around Earth to image the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

For more than a decade, scientists at Haystack Observatory have studied plasma plume phenomena using a ground - based technique called GPS - TEC, in which scientists analyze radio signals transmitted from GPS satellites to more than 1,000 receivers on the ground.

Scientists use models of Earth's structure and measurements of Earth's magnetic field taken at USGS observatories (https://geomag.usgs.gov/monitoring/observatories/) to determine which sections of the electrical grid might lose power during a geomagnetic storm.

So one team of astronomers used data from the Gaia space observatory to simulate the interiors of solar - type stars, which are similar in mass and age to our own sun.

[Associated image: NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey]

The researchers observe supernovae using the astronomical instrument X-shooter on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile.

Nienke van der Marel, a PhD student at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands, and lead author of the article, was using ALMA along with her co-workers, to study the disc in a system called Oph - IRS 48 [2].

Now, scientists using the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) say they may have observed this effect in the light coming from a neutron star — a cosmic object with a very strong magnetic field.

The Betelgeuse image by Roger Lynds and his team at Kitt Peak National Observatory — the one that got my younger self so worked up — used this technique to show the star's overall size and shape, but it didn't reliably capture any specific surface detail.

David Anderson of Keele University, UK, and colleagues found WASP - 17b using a telescope array at the South African Astronomical Observatory near Sutherland.

A set of privately run robotic telescopes owned by the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, including this pair at Tenerife in the Canary Islands, will be used to study the WTF star.

In 2001, Charbonneau and astronomer Tim Brown of the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, Colorado, used this technique to «sniff» the atmosphere of a huge, broiling planet called HD 209458b, even though it is 150 light - years away — 4 billion times as distant as the moon.

Meanwhile, astronomers using another NASA satellite, the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, believe they now know the source of powerful bursts of gamma rays coming from points distributed evenly across the sky.

Last September researchers using the Chandra X-ray Observatory detected sound waves blaring from a distant black hole.

With $ 25,000, help from volunteers, donations of equipment — and despite a fire that nearly destroyed the observatory while it was under construction — «first light» (the first time a telescope is used to make an astronomical observation) was achieved in early 2000.

«These observations show that ALMA is capable of delivering transformational science, even with less than half of the full array in use,» says Ewine van Dishoeck of the Leiden Observatory, who has been a major contributor to the ALMA project for more than 20 years.

Observations of Nova Centauri 2013 made using telescopes at ESO's La Silla Observatory, and near Santiago in Chile, help to explain the mystery of why many young stars seem to have more of this chemical element than expected.

Earth's turbulent, starlight - blurring atmosphere is also a severe obstacle to imaging faint planets from ground - based observatories, and most experts agree that the solution is to use space telescopes.