Sentences with phrase «are telescopes already»

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She is a PhD who worked on a bloody telescope but has no objectivity as she already believes in what she believes in.
But now, with Webb years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget, Dressler says choosing such a big, complex mirror for an already ambitious cryogenic telescope was «a bridge too far,» caused by «trying to make too much innovation in one step.»
Tomczyk and the crew, meanwhile, are already backing up their data and taking the telescopes off their tripods.
Tuesday's protests came on top of years of coordination difficulties and delay as a result of concern from native Hawaiians and environmentalists alike over construction of the $ 1.4 billion telescope on the volcano, which is already home to more than a dozen telescopes.
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.
If these giant moons around giant planets exist, they might already be present in the available data of NASA's Kepler space telescope, or they could be detectable with the European Space Agency's upcoming PLATO space mission and European Southern Observatory's ground - based European Extremely Large Telescope.
An optics specialist, Cui heads a group at CAS's Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics & Technology (NIAOT) that had developed LAMOST and was already working on a 12 - meter telescope design.
The telescope has already observed a fast radio burst, one of a new class of astronomical phenomena that Arecibo is well suited to study with its enormous dish.
Astronomers are already dreaming of a future space telescope purpose - built to produce a crude image of an Earth - sized planet.
Jupiter enthusiasts are already uploading images from backyard telescopes to a periodically updated global map that showcases the latest goings - on in Jupiter's atmosphere.
«Big science needs a lot of compute power — right now we're designing systems to manage data for several large facilities around the world and the next generation of radio telescopes, including China's 500m radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array and the SKA's pathfinder telescopes that are already up and running in outback Western Australia.»
By contrast, the Webb telescope is already on Twitter, and it hasn't even launched yet.
Telescopes in Arizona, California and Hawaii are already connected in this way, and Doeleman soon hopes to bring other existing telescopes, at a half - dozen or so spots around the globe, into theTelescopes in Arizona, California and Hawaii are already connected in this way, and Doeleman soon hopes to bring other existing telescopes, at a half - dozen or so spots around the globe, into thetelescopes, at a half - dozen or so spots around the globe, into the EHT fold.
Breakthrough representatives say the organization is already in discussions to augment its search with additional Southern Hemisphere observatories, and is also investigating possibilities for launching small, planet - finding space telescopes.
The northern site, which is operated by the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canaries, sits at an altitude of 2200 meters and is already home to the 2 MAGIC gamma - ray telescopes (pictured above).
«But there may be habitable planets [around Alpha Centauri A and B] that we could already see with current telescopes, so we will give it a try,» Kasper says.
It is now already halfway to Jupiter, too far for a rendezvous mission and rapidly fading from the view of Earth's most powerful telescopes.
There is no greater survey telescope planned after LSST — «a scary thing to think about,» Brown says — but we already know that the solar system keeps going far beyond that instrument's limits.
Native groups say state officials had no right to issue permits for the project in March and say that research groups have mismanaged the mountain's summit, which is already home to 13 telescopes.
Marla Geha of the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Victoria, British Columbia, and Joshua Simon of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena focused on eight candidate objects that had already been located by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which uses a 2.5 - meter telescope at Apache Point, New Mexico, to survey a quarter of the sky.
One message has already been transmitted to the Great Cluster in Hercules by the Arecibo radio telescope, but only as a kind of symbol of the capabilities of our existing radio technology.
The NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope is already being used to search for atmospheres around the planets and team member Emmanuël Jehin is excited about the future possibilities: «With the upcoming generation of telescopes, such as ESO's European Extremely Large Telescope and the NASA / ESA / CSA James Webb Space Telescope, we will soon be able to search for water and perhaps even evidence of life on these worlds.»
More than 75 percent of the telescope's hardware has already been delivered, Bolden said.
Because Tabby's star has cultivated such an air of mystery, the response to its new dimming has been quick and enthusiastic, with some telescope observations of the star already planned over the next few days.
The individual unit telescopes, with their 8.2 - metre mirrors, are already among the largest visible - light telescopes on the planet.
However, the apparent size of the Eye of Sauron's ring is so small, the observations were carried out using the Keck Interferometer, which combines Keck Observatory's twin 10 - meter telescopesalready the largest telescopes on Earth — to achieve the resolving power of an 85m telescope.
With 14 space telescopes on orbit and several more in development, NASA's budget for starting astrophysics missions was already stretched before the new JWST cost estimates were released.
It was a process he had already worked through for KELT, the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope: a pair of small, land - based telescopes built and operated by Vanderbilt and Ohio State University that are designed specifically for identifying bright stars with planets.
Since the research team had already conducted radio observations of various molecular emissions in this galaxy with the 45 - m telescope at the Nobeyama Radio Observatory of NAOJ, they aimed to develop their research further with ALMA and identify the difference in chemical composition between AGNs and starburst regions.
This program has already been put into practice at NAOJ Mitaka Campus and other facilities around Japan and Subaru telescope at the NAOJ Hawaii Observatory (Hiro, Hawaii Island, US), and has newly started at the Joint ALMA Observatory (Santiago, Chile) this year.
Stargazers are already capturing stunning images of the comet through telescopes.
Then the work really started: we needed to understand which of our questions will be answered in the next decade or so by telescopes already being built (such as NASA's JWST, TESS, or the 30m - class ground - based telescopes)-- none of those questions were interesting for our report.
Already, telescopes are located there from the US, Europe and the Eso's newest member, the UK.
And if no one would have imaged the area again within the few days the object would not have been discovered at all [now only a week later, it has already dimmed beyond the point where even large telescopes would be able to image it].
First, to detect the debris, they propose using a telescope with a 2.5 - meter mirror that's already planned to be put on board ISS in 2017.
Once it starts operating at full capacity, which should be early in 2013, the telescope is expected to deliver a ten-fold improvement over its already impressive capabilities.
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — Hawaii's W. M. Keck Observatory has successfully deployed a $ 4 million laser system that provides a marked increase in the resolution and clarity of what are already the most scientifically productive telescopes on Earth.
Already in operation is the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope in northern Chile.
Using just 16 of the 66 state - of - the - art antennas that will be in the completed array, it will already surpass the capabilities of all existing telescopes of its kind.
Early risers will already be aware that there's currently a lot of planetary activity in the morning sky, but at dawn in Western Europe on Monday, 2 April, Mars and Saturn will be just 1 1/4 degrees apart and seen in the same field of view of telescopes at 30x magnification.
It was already known to be a binary star (two stars rotating around each other); however, the separation between them is so small that this famous pair has never been resolved into two stars in a direct telescope photo.
Using a revolutionary telescope ALMA, various types of complex organic molecules have already been found in planet forming regions.
The 3 - meter Lick and 8 - meter Subaru telescopes are already equipped with adaptive optics, which creates sharper images by removing the jiggle in stars caused by turbulence in the atmosphere.
So the Lisbon girls are introduced to the boys of the neighborhood, who have already been watching the girls from afar through half - opened window shades, binoculars, and telescopes.
This adds to an already generous standard - equipment list, which includes air conditioning, tilt / telescoping steering column, keyless remote entry and AM / FM / CD / MP3 radio, all of which come standard on base S models.
In contrast to the rather straightforward footage of the beetles, Thater's use of graphic animation enhances the motion of the already highly mediated depictions of the stars that were sourced from major astronomical research programs and institutions, like the Hubble telescope and Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.
During a visit to the office of President Obama's science adviser last spring, still in the early days of the administration, I was struck by how many photos were already on the wall showing the president peering through a telescope, examining solar panels or honoring scientists and engineers.
I had already been introduced to atmospheric physics whilst on an Erasmus year in Spain, and I knew I liked modelling after having modelled galactic hydrogen lines in my final year physics project (we had to model them, as the radio telescope was kaput - even when pointed at the sun we got no signal).
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