Sentences with phrase «telescope wide field»

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The VISTA telescope, located in Chile, has a wide field of view and extremely sensitive detectors that make it the world's largest telescope dedicated to mapping the sky.

The $ 600,000 telescope is designed around an off - the - shelf charge - coupled device (CCD) detector that permits a large field of view, comparable to that of MeerKAT, and more than three times as wide as the full moon.

Current telescopes such as the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite, and future telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an infrared observatory, and the Wide Field Infrared Space Telescope (WFIRST), also could help astronomers make better measurements of the expansion rate.

eXTP will also carry a wide - field telescope to hunt for unusual, transient signals.

And next decade, spacecraft such as NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope and ESA's Planetary Transits and Oscillations will join the hunt, alongside a new generation of enormous ground - based telescopes with mirrors 30 meters across or more.

This image from the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG / ESO 2.2 - metre telescope at La Silla, shows the cluster and the gas clouds surrounding it, which glow in orange and red hues due to the radiation coming from nearby hot stars.

This rich view of a tapestry of colorful stars was captured by the Wide Field Imager (WFI) camera, on the MPG / ESO 2.2 - meter telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile.

So Anita Cochran of the University of Texas and her colleagues turned to the Hubble telescope's Wide Field / Planetary Camera, which can spot much fainter objects.

The Wide Field Imager on the MPG / ESO 2.2 - metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile captured this new picture.

The astronomers made the discovery using data gathered with the Murchison Wide - field Array (MWA), an interferometric radio telescope in the Western Australian outback.

Using large telescopes with wide - field cameras, the teams are starting to rule out parts of the sky in which they think the planet lurks.

Y dwarfs are too faint to be detected by visible - light telescopes, but NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite, which can sense infrared heat, picked them up easily.

That won't be a problem for PLATO, which will use 34 separate small telescopes to observe a wide field of view in order to monitor large numbers of bright, relatively nearby stars.

To visually track down his putative Planet 9, Brown is requesting 20 nights of observing time on the Subaru telescope in Hawaii, the only large instrument with a wide enough field of view to practically pull off such a search.

The gravity field was measured using the Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's Magellan telescope and Wide - Field Imfield was measured using the Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's Magellan telescope and Wide - Field ImField Imager.

In 2009 nasa launched the 1,433 - pound wise satellite, carrying a wide - field infrared telescope designed in part to detect such stunted stars; it has since turned up 100 of them within 20 light - years of Earth.

This rich view of an array of colorful stars and gas was captured by the Wide Field Imager (WFI) camera, on the MPG / ESO 2.2 - meter telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile.

«This is a very exciting discovery, found by scouring the new generation of wide - area, sensitive surveys astronomers are conducting using NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer in orbit and ground - based telescopes in Chile and Hawaii,» said Daniel Stern of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadwide - area, sensitive surveys astronomers are conducting using NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer in orbit and ground - based telescopes in Chile and Hawaii,» said Daniel Stern of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in PasadWide - field Infrared Survey Explorer in orbit and ground - based telescopes in Chile and Hawaii,» said Daniel Stern of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

The initial discovery of this quasar (given the identity J1342 +0928) came to light thanks to the mining of three large area surveys: the DECam Legacy Survey (DECaLS) that is being carried out with the Dark Energy Camera on the National Science Foundations Blanco 4 - m telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, NASAs Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (ALLWISE), and the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large Area Survey.

In a May space shuttle mission to Hubble, spacewalking astronauts completed a slew of repairs and upgrades to the 19 - year - old observatory, including replacing the telescope's workhorse camera with an enhanced successor, the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).

Astronomers obtained this image of Barnard's Galaxy using the Wide Field Imager attached to the 2.2 - meter MPG / ESO telescope at the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory in northern Chile.

With its wide field of view, the new telescope will be able to quickly find promising targets for the much larger Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array, the world's premier telescope for observing in the submillimeter band.

Frustrated, Tyson realized he needed a totally new type of telescope, one that could take wide - field images of the deepest universe in a matter of seconds.

Such fast wide - field optics require a radically new design, involving three mirrors: a smaller secondary mirror near the mouth of the telescope and two highly curved mirrors, the primary and tertiary, arranged concentrically at the back end.

The telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 had detected water vapor in the atmospheres of 10 of these planets, and no water on the other nine.

A «brown dwarf» star that appears to be the coldest of its kind — as frosty as Earth's North Pole — has been discovered by a Penn State University astronomer using NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Spitzer Space Telescopes.

Eight of the newly discovered clouds were more energetic than would be expected given the amount of radiation coming from the host quasar, even when observed in infrared light by NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope.

He participates in the HATSouth survey, a global network of automated wide - field telescopes dedicated to discovering transiting exoplanets, and is the PUC principal investigator of ACCESS, the Arizona - CfA - Católica Exoplanet Spectroscopy Survey, which will provide the first homogeneous database of ground - based exoplanetary transmission spectra in the optical using the IMACS instrument in Chile.

«The Wide - Field Instrument will give the telescope the ability to capture a single image with the depth and quality of Hubble, but covering 100 times the area.

This new portrait of NGC 6334 (the Cat's Paw Nebula) was created from images taken with the Wide Field Imager instrument at the 2.2 - metre MPG / ESO telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, combining images taken through blue, green and red filters, as well as a special filter designed to let through the light of glowing hydrogen.

Recent results suggest that the era of finding new icy Pluto - sized bodies has come to an end or at least a lull until much bigger telescopes equipped with wide - field cameras come online in the next decade.

A new image of the Trifid Nebula, named by English astronomer John Herschel, was taken with the Wide - Field Imager camera attached to the MPG / ESO 2.2 - metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in northern Chile.

Scientists using NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer telescope were able to detect four such events by measuring the infrared glow of dust heated by the flares.

This new image of the Orion Nebula was captured using the Wide Field Imager camera on the MPG / ESO 2.2 - meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile.

Astronomers made the latest discovery by using data from the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera 3 on board Hubble, as well as other ground - based telescopes including European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope.

Therefore, smaller telescopes with a much wider field of view are used to detect asteroids.

Kepler uses a very wide field telescope and a photometer (light meter) to measure brightness variations in more than 156,000 stars simultaneously [source: Ames Research Center, NASA Finds Earth - size Planet Candidates].

A third mission, called PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars), proposed using a number of small, optically fast, wide - field telescopes to detect and characterize a large number of close - by exoplanetary systems.

Each animation in this «Backyard Worlds: Planet 9» project, launched Feb. 15, is composed of four infrared images taken of the same patch of sky over the course of the past five years by NASA's WISE (Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer) space telescope.

Wide - field imaging surveys on moderate - size telescopes can now efficiently derive rotation periods for hundreds to thousands of open cluster members, providing unprecedented sample sizes which are ripe for exploration.

The Wide - Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) would launch in 2020 as one of the next generation of telescopes that should target the early universe, search for nearby habitable planets and test the boundaries of fundamental physics, according to the Astro2010 Decadal Survey by the National Academy of Sciences.

At the institute, Dr. van der Marel previously led the telescopes group, which is responsible for issues related to the optics, focus, wavefront sensing and control, and guiding for the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), as well as the team that is responsible for the calibration and user support of the Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2).

When the telescope is serviced later this year, and the new Wide Field & Planetary Camera is installed with its corrective optics, we plan to use the same technique on galaxies up to 50 million light - years away, which will allow us to measure the Hubble Constant, the rate of expansion of the universe.

This image was created from exposures taken through blue, green and near - infrared filters, using the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG / ESO 2.2 - metre telescope at La Silla Observatory, Chile.