Sentences with phrase «space observatory detected»

In 2014, the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory detected water vapor spewing from two regions on Ceres.

A temporary atmosphere would be consistent with the water vapor the Herschel Space Observatory detected at Ceres in 2012 - 2013.

Last year the Herschel Space Observatory detected wisps of water vapor around the dwarf planet, and since its arrival at Ceres, Dawn has imaged oodles of highly reflective bright spots on the Cereian surface that may be sites of exposed water ice.

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That's why it was a surprise when physicists with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced in February 2016 that they had detected ripples in space from the violent merger of two black holes 29 and 36 times as massive as our sun.

The Methods: Photochemical modeling by a Caltech team indicates that ethane, a hydrocarbon detected on Titan by both of the Voyager spacecraft and the European Infrared Space Observatory, is created when solar ultraviolet light breaks down methane, a minor component of Titan's nitrogen - rich atmosphere, into a stew of organic molecules that form a dense orange - brown smog.

In June it was reported that the LISA Pathfinder, the forerunner to eLISA, had successfully demonstrated the technology that opens the door to the development of a large space observatory capable of detecting gravitational waves in space.

The successful technology demonstration paves the way for detecting mergers of supermassive black holes with future space - based observatories

In 1997, the ESA Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) detected water vapor in the stratosphere of Jupiter.

The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO), designed to detect gamma rays from distant astrophysical objects such as neutron stars and supernova remnants, had also begun recording bright, millisecond - long bursts of gamma rays coming not from outer space but from Earth below.

This space tremor was detected by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO), a discovery that was named Science's Breakthrough of the Year for 2016 and won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics.

UCI's celestial census began more than a year and a half ago, shortly after the news that the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, or LIGO, had detected ripples in the space - time continuum created by the distant collision of two black holes, each the size of 30 suns.

The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) first detected the event as its shock waves rippled through space.

The galaxy was detected as part of the Frontier Fields program, an ambitious three - year effort, begun in 2013, that teams Hubble with NASA's other Great Observatories — the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory — to probe the early universe by studying large galaxy clusters.

Similar bursts are detected daily by the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, a telescope placed in orbit in 1991 by one of NASA's space shuttles.

MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — A team of Caltech - led researchers discovered the youngest fully - formed exoplanet ever detected using the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaii and the Kepler Space Telescope.

When an astronomical observatory detected two black holes colliding in deep space, scientists celebrated confirmation of Einstein's prediction of gravitational waves.

The researchers observed SN1987A with the Herschel Space Observatory in far - infrared and detected large amount of dust with the mass of 0.4 - 0.7 solar masses around SN1987A.

The signal picked up by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - wave Observatory (LIGO) in the US on September 14 last year lasted just a fifth of a second but brought to an end a decades - long hunt to directly detect the ripples in space - time known as gravitational waves.

The group in which he works is involved in the instrumental development for the LISA PathFinder mission (ESA), a technology precursor mission for a future space - based gravitational - wave observatory, LISA, which will detect the gravitational radiation from low frequency sources like massive black hole mergers, inspiraling stellar compact objects into massive black holes, and galactic binaries.

Researchers said that Chandra and European Space Agency's XMM - Newton Observatory detected diffuse X-ray emission that came from a large amount of hot gas, which, according to astronomers, is a major defining feature of a true galaxy cluster.

Inset: The water absorption signal detected by the European Space Agency's Herschel space observatory on Oct. 11, Space Agency's Herschel space observatory on Oct. 11, space observatory on Oct. 11, 2012.

While NASA's Kepler space observatory has discovered thousands of planets, it does so indirectly by detecting a loss of starlight as a planet passes in front of its star, the Gemini Planet Imager was designed specifically for discovering and analyzing faint, young planets orbiting bright stars.

Beginning in 1979, orbiting space observatories began to detect sungrazing comets using instruments called coronagraphs.

Using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, the researchers detected a very large, luminous nebula of gas extending about 2 million light - years across intergalactic space.

Professor Mavalvala worked with researchers at the US - based underground detectors Laser Interferometer Gravitational - wave Observatory (LIGO) Laboratory to build sophisticated sensors to detect gravitational ripples created from the collision of two black holes some 1.3 billion years ago and had been hurtling through space to reach Earth on September 14, 2015.

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In each of the three bands, we have not detected a signature of the central excess component in contrast to the previous report on the detection by Infrared Space Observatory (ISO).