Sentences with phrase «there's no telescoping»

SpaceX is about to launch NASA's revolutionary planet - hunting telescope.

It boils down to Hubble's capabilities, plus what the telescope took pictures of.

Massive storms periodically appear in Saturn's cloud tops, known as Great White Spots, observable by Earthbound telescopes.

Using powerful telescopes, they can spot planets far outside of the reach of our solar system when they cross in front of their sun — it's how we recently found a triad of planets around a red sun 40 light - years away.

«We have taken our telescope, and we have counted up how many planets are similar to the Earth in this part of the sky,» Susan Thompson, a Kepler research scientist at the SETI Institute, said during a press conference at NASA Ames Research Center on Monday.

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, Kepler researchers suspect that almost countless Earthlike planets are waiting to be found, because the telescope can «see» only exoplanets that pass in front of their stars.

According to NASA, «viewing this event safely requires a telescope or high - powered binoculars fitted with solar filters made of specially - coated glass or Mylar.»

Thompson said this new Kepler data analysis would be the last for this leg of the telescope's first observations.

Kepler finished collecting its first mission's data in May 2013, when two hardware failures limited the telescope's ability to aim at one area of the night sky and stare at sunlike stars.

The telescopes came from the NRO (National Reconnaissance Office), a hybrid intelligence agency staffed by members of the military, the CIA and civilian personnel from the Defense Department.

The telescopes have 2.4 - meter (7.9 - foot) mirrors, just like the Hubble, but they have 100 times the field of view.

Made of high - strength textiles, the kite is launched off a telescoping mast with a winch, and tethered to the ship by a tear - proof synthetic cable.

Joel Achenbach at the Washington Post was the first to report the NRO had given the two «exquisite» flight - qualified telescopes — which it didn't need anymore — to NASA just over a week ago:

Achenbach reported the telescopes had never left the ground, which prompted a number of questions about the mysterious NRO hardware.

NASA only found out about the powerful telescopes, which were built in the late 1990s, after the NRO approached the space agency recently.

They're «space qualified,» as NASA puts it, but they're a long way from being functioning space telescopes.

But any information about the NRO program that produced the once - secret telescopes was denied, with NASA staffers referring to the stock answer: «Due to classification or policy guidance, we can not discuss the program office or directorate that produced the hardware.»

«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.

Nightly rooms at the Sheraton Grand hotel in Nashville start at $ 359, but includes a penthouse viewing party, and in Jackson Hole, Wyo., the well heeled will take a gondola up to the top of the ski mountain for a viewing party at 10,450 feet, complete a resident astronomer, telescopes and mimosas.

The store is always packed with customers, browsing through hundreds of varieties of camera bags with every possible combination of lens compartments; the room full of telescopes; and, of course, enough lenses to burn all the ants in the Sahara to a crisp.

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.

Sometimes when you turn the telescope the other way, things look so different.

Three new planets were discovered by the European Southern Observatory with its Belgian Trappist telescope.

The radio telescope should be able to pick up signals was faint as those from a cellphone.

Before these space probes reached the planets, often all we had were grainy, black - and - white images of them from telescopes here on Earth.

Special equipment — telescopes, binoculars — is not necessary to view the Lyrid meteor shower, which is safe to view with the naked eye.

The telescope was able to capture this star cluster that orbits our Milky Way galaxy and is about 120 light - years across in fine detail.

They glimpsed the image with the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, or VISTA telescope, the European Southern Observatory reported today.

Combining images from the various telescopes, an international team found that the asteroid varies in brightness by a factor of about 10 every 7.3 hours, matching its spin about its axis.

Astronomers have trained a flurry of telescopes on the object discovered last month, and now we're being rewarded with super-exciting details.

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.

The mission aims to identify planets ranging from Earth - sized to gas giants, using an array of telescopes to perform a two - year survey.

«Oumuamua (official designation 1I / 2017 U1 - the «I» is for «interstellar») was first spotted by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii in late October, and it didn't take long for astrophysicists to figure out that both its trajectory and its velocity indicated that it was an extrasolar stranger, perhaps flung out by a neighboring star.

More powerful and sensitive than the Hubble and other telescopes that came before it, the JWST can surely give us a selfie of our galaxy like we've never seen before.

When «Oumuamua was discovered, telescopes around the world set to make observations.

The newly discovered exoplanets, or planets outside of the earth's solar system, were found after researchers applied the same AI techniques that help computers recognize images like cats in photos to data gathered from the Kepler space telescope.

To sift through this dust, the astronomers analyzed observations made with a telescope located in South Africa.

With a dish the size of 30 football fields, it will be the largest radio telescope in the world when it is completed in 2016.

A burst of gravitational waves alerted astronomers to the collision, prompting them to turn telescopes toward the crash site some 130 million light - years from Earth.

Some tested software to help satellites to avoid smacking into each other in space, while others investigated ways to build large telescopes out of a bunch of small, autonomous robots.

Much of the telescope's chassis, including a series of giant gold - plated mirrors, have been fully assembled and tested.

When you think of NASA, you probably think of spaceships, telescopes and lunar expeditions.

The Foundation runs the Musk Mars Desert Observatory telescope in Utah.

Its second spacecraft is to carry a shoebox - size experimental telescope for the International Lunar Observatory Association.

When analyzing an investment, sometimes I use a microscope and other times I use a telescope.

For cannabis stocks, I am using my telescope.

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While there is no tariff on telescoping umbrellas, China is one of the US's and the world's only suppliers.

It's a great company, but it's nowhere near as sexy as a space telescope or microgravity research or rockets.