Sentences with phrase «paranal observatory»

But planned future instruments like the European space - based LISA gravitational wave observatory might be.
As stark as the latest data are, however, similar data predicted as much in 2006, when Stan Jacobs of Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory, chronicled the «state of disequilibrium» in the Southern Ocean.
The U.S. is the top destination for German products, according to data from the Observatory of Economic complexity.
While officials dismiss accounts from inmates that cells flooded as a result of the storms, a comparison of prison locations with data from the Dartmouth Flood Observatory shows that the areas surrounding several facilities did in fact flood.
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.
The researchers behind the huge experiment that found these events, called the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO), think two black holes collided to create the cosmic reverberations heard trillions of miles away on Earth.
He declined to give further details but the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain - based monitor of the war, said the handover had happened on Monday and involved fewer than 10 villages.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 12,500 people left towards government territory.
There have been strikes for several weeks in Latakia province, whose capital of the same name is Assad's coastal stronghold, but the Observatory said Wednesday's bombardments were particularly heavy.
Recent new customers include United Nations International schools and 1 World Trade Center Observatory in New York City, its first corporate security customer.
At least 12 air strikes hit Latakia's northern countryside as pro-government forces clashed with fighters from al Qaeda's Nusra Front and Turkmen insurgents in the Jabal Akrad and Jabal Turkman areas, the British - based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
When calculating the combined market values of all the players featured, there is $ 694.3 million (# 620 million or $ 815 million) worth of talent on display, according to CIES Football Observatory.
«This points to the unexplored risks of changing climate on aviation,» said study co-author Radley Horton, a climatologist at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory.
Top sights include the iconic Griffith Observatory (seen in countless films), the art - filled Getty Center, Universal Studios, the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and Rodeo Drive.
«Every mayor here talks as if they are the tourism secretary... and doesn't plan for residents so that they can live with a little dignity,» said Celina Izquierdo, of the Social and Gender Violence Observatory, which monitors security issues.
«They found hydrogen sulfide, the odiferous gas that most people avoid, in Uranus's cloud tops,» according to a press release from Gemini Observatory, a high - power telescope atop a Hawaiian volcano.
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.
Three new planets were discovered by the European Southern Observatory with its Belgian Trappist telescope.
Meanwhile, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group that monitors the war in Syria, also reported intense clashes between forces allied with the Syrian government and IS militants in an area between Homs and Deir el - Zour.
They glimpsed the image with the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, or VISTA telescope, the European Southern Observatory reported today.
CIES Football Observatory, one of the leading sports think tanks in Europe, has published its list of the best players on the planet.
Gemini, the ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile, the Canada France Hawaii Telescope, the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope, and other observatories trained their eyes on the asteroid.
The drone project was developed by Facebook's Connectivity Lab, which contains former researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, among others.
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.
Dr Brad Tucker, a Research Fellow and Outreach Manager at Mt Stromlo Observatory at the Australian National University, said: «Stephen Hawking not only was a leader in cosmology and astrophysics, but also pushed us all — to challenge ourselves and the unknown.
In addition to launching and hopefully landing the rocket, it will carry the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) «Deep Space Climate Observatory
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British - based monitor, said at least 14 people were killed including some fighters of various nationalities, a reference to Iranian - backed Shiite militia members, mostly from Iraq, Lebanon, and Iran fighting alongside the Syrian army.
For Carlos Vargas - Silva, associate professor and senior researcher at the University of Oxford's Migration Observatory, the economic impact of migrants can be read in two ways: a fiscal impact — taxes and contributions that new arrivals will make, minus the benefits and services they receive — and the impact that they have on the labor market, which is essentially whether native workers will be displaced from their jobs or not.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory took a photo of the sun every 12 seconds on July 6th, and the results aren't quite what you'd expect.
On Monday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British war monitor, said about 511,000 people had been killed in the Syrian war since it began in 2011, with 85 % of those being killed by Assad's government.
He was heavily influenced by the Latting Observatory in New York City, which was built in 1853.
Eiffel also learned from the Latting Observatory that he didn't want to use wood.
Virgin Galactic's SS2 on its first supersonic flight (Photo: MarsScientific.com and Clay Center Observatory)
More than 150,000 people fled Afrin in recent days, the Syrian Observatory said, as Turkey pressed on with its campaign despite a U.N. Security Council call for a 30 - day ceasefire across Syria.
As the Hubble Space Telescope ages, NASA is readying a new observatory to pick up where its predecessor left off.
A war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said pockets of YPG fighters defied orders to withdraw, but Turkish forces were in control.
The last time a pariastron happened was in August 2014, and just before then the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), which is run by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), managed to stare down the core of Eta Carinae and its core for months on end.
-- Peter Neill, director of the World Ocean Observatory, an online place of exchange of information and educational services about the ocean.
«The new Gaia data are so powerful that exciting results are just jumping at us,» Antonella Vallenari, from Astronomical Observatory of Padua, Italy, said in the release.
The NASA Earth Observatory has released an astonishing set of images that show the stark contrast between what islands in the Caribbean looked like before and after Hurricane Irma struck.
«The regime is trying to tighten the noose around Douma from the west, east, and south,» said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.
The Foundation runs the Musk Mars Desert Observatory telescope in Utah.
But the negotiations crumbled this week and air strikes resumed on Friday, killing 40 civilians according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Its second spacecraft is to carry a shoebox - size experimental telescope for the International Lunar Observatory Association.
Some locations near the lunar south pole, offering a continuous view of the universe, could be ideal for an astronomical observatory.
The Open Observatory of Network Interference, an organization that documents internet censorship, is currently developing a new system that would better determine when a shutdown occurs or when certain social media platforms are switched off like in the recent case of Chad.
«The most obvious change is the widespread browning of the landscape,» NASA's Earth Observatory explains.
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«But some of these areas, in particular the Campi Flegrei, are densely populated and therefore even small eruptions, which are the most probable, fortunately, can pose risks for the population,» said De Natale, from the Vesuvius observatory at Italy's National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology.
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