Sentences with phrase «telescope national facility»

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) is in the process of transforming its Very Large Array radio telescope into the — wait for it — Expanded Very Large Array, thanks to digital technology that will boost the Socorro, N.M., facility's already impressive ability to tune in on black holes, supernovae and the rest of the deep space menagerie.

The team observed CI Tau dozens of times from the University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory near Fort Davis, Texas; the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz.; the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility and the Keck II telescopes on Mauna Kea, Hawaii; and the Kitt Peak National Observatory's 2.1 - and 4 - meter telescopes in southern Arizona.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has decided to award a 5 - year contract for the facility, home to the largest radio telescope in the world, to a consortium comprising SRI International, the Universities Space Research Association, Universidad Metropolitana, and other institutions.

«The opportunity for these projects to use significant time on the world's best scientific instruments is occurring in part because of the limitations in government funding for these facilities,» Worden says, noting that flat or shrinking NASA and National Science Foundation budgets for astronomy have left the Parkes and Green Bank radio telescopes — as well as many other observatories — scrambling for new sources of financial support.

The National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy — which supports major research infrastructure like telescopes and high - end computing facilities — survives, but will receive AU$ 150 million following the expiration of existing funding.

Thus were established, after World War II, the NOAO and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)-- also among the first National Science Foundation (NSF) entities to be federally funded — with the aim of giving all U.S. astronomers access to top facilities.6 These observatories quickly adopted a so - called open skies policy (OSP), which guaranteed any researcher, U.S. or international, equal and free access to the federally funded NOAO / NRAO telescopes.

Radio telescopes, including major facilities of the National Science Foundation's National Radio Astronomy Observatory, have provided data needed to measure the winds encountered by the Huygens spacecraft as it descended through the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan last month — measurements feared lost because of a communication error between Huygens and its mother ship Cassini.

In addition to the NRAO telescopes, the JPL Doppler Wind Experiment will use the Australia Telescope National Facility and other radio telescopes in Parkes, Mopra, and Ceduna, Australia; Hobart, Tasmania; Urumqi and Shanghai, China; and Kashima, Japan.

Within the first year of GBI observations, the major astronomy report from the National Academy of Sciences recommended the immediate funding and building of a large - scale radio telescope array as a national science fNational Academy of Sciences recommended the immediate funding and building of a large - scale radio telescope array as a national science fnational science facility.

That's how long radio astronomer Frank D. Drake pointed the 26 - meter telescope at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) research facility in Green Bank, West Virginia, toward the heavens, looking for signs of intelligent life beyond Earth.