Sentences with phrase «area of the sky»

It enables an efficient search for very faint dwarf satellites over large areas of the sky.

But in the same area of sky we may be looking at a star that is taking us back a million years.

Within minutes, they could determine the general area of the sky where the explosion would occur, point their infrared telescopes in that direction, and wait for the fireworks.

This combination allowed the scientists to capture a wider area of the sky at once.

This study takes in the largest total area of the sky to ever be mapped with this technique so far.

Right, the same area of sky, but with the invisible dark matter rendered in pink.

Other points of criticism include a slight pink cast that is sometimes noticeable in outdoor images, and and a hue - shift towards cyan in areas of the sky that are close to saturation.

Deep - field surveys are intended to look at faint galaxies; they point at small areas of the sky for a longer period of time, meaning the total volume of space being sampled is relatively small.

Seb Oliver, Head of the HerMES survey said: «The fantastic thing about Herschel - SPIRE is that we are able to scan very large areas of the sky with sufficient sensitivity and image sharpness that we can find these rare and exotic things.

So Jewitt and Luu carried out two parallel surveys: they used the Palomar Observatory's Schmidt telescope equipped with conventional glass photographic plates to scan large areas of the sky for the very faintest objects, while also watching a narrow field of view in the plane of the planets for rare but slightly brighter objects using MIT's 1.3 - metre telescope fitted with a CCD.

This one was much less energetic, but it was coming from the same general area of the sky as the X-ray outbursts.

This impressively detailed image of Orion A establishes a new observational foundation for further studies of star and cluster formation and once again highlights the power of the VISTA telescope to image wide areas of sky quickly and deeply in the near - infrared part of the spectrum [5].

Just two weeks after Spahr's asteroid whizzed by, researchers at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, given the task by the military of spotting enemy spy satellites, unveiled a novel approach for monitoring large areas of the sky using sophisticated software.

With its huge corrected field of view and specially designed 256 - megapixel camera, OmegaCAM, the VST can produce deep images of large areas of sky quickly, leaving the much larger telescopes — like ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT)-- to explore the details of individual objects.

v Reported variations in the CMB spanned areas of the sky that were 100 or 1,000 times too broad to produce galaxies.

Now, despite the depth of the Hubble observations, MUSE has — among many other results — revealed 72 galaxies never seen before in this very tiny area of the sky.

Weather patterns and a telescope's location, for instance, determine what areas of the sky it can look at and when.

On 29 September, it resumed taking observations, in a low - power mode that lets the sky drift across the field of view; on 7 November, it resumed pointing the dish at specific areas of the sky.

Luckily enough, the two flagship X-ray observatories, the ESA - led XMM - Newton and the NASA - led Chandra took snapshots of the same area of the sky close in time to the peak of the flare, and again about ten years later.

The astronomers used the VLA and ALMA to study galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, a small area of sky observed since 2003 with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST).

To maximize the chances of finding a type Ia supernova in the very early stages, the team used Hyper Suprime - Cam mounted on the Subaru Telescope, a combination which can capture an ultra-wide area of the sky at once.

TESS will target areas of the sky where new planets will likely be easier to spot than those studied by the venerable Kepler Space Telescope, giving observatories on the ground a better chance of confirming the discovery of new exoplanets.

In certain areas of the sky, galaxies migrate toward a common point, just as all the rain in a watershed flows into a single lake or stream.

The small area of sky imaged, seemingly devoid of light, provides a «keyhole» view of the universe's past; reaching across space and time to reveal infant galaxies.

DECam has the largest field - of - view of any 4 - meter or larger telescope, giving it unprecedented ability to search large areas of sky for faint objects.

This program will continue to explore much wider areas of the sky and is expected to find more satellites like Virgo I.

To find out how numerous dark galaxies really are, he will soon scan large areas of the sky using the giant 1,000 - foot radio telescope at Arecibo.

There are alternative scenarios, but none explains why most of the 20 or so hypervelocity stars found so far are all in the same area of sky, in the Leo and Sextans constellations.

Ground - based cameras called all - sky cameras, run by the University of Calgary and University of California, Berkeley, took pictures of large areas of the sky and captured Steve and the auroral display far to the north.

Subaru is currently undertaking a massive survey to image a large area of the sky at an unprecedented depth with Hyper Suprime - Cam as part of the Subaru Strategic Program.

Gamma - ray emission, on the other hand, is produced at higher altitudes in a larger region, allowing the respective pulses to sweep larger areas of the sky.

NGC 3532 covers an area of the sky that is almost twice the size of the full Moon.

NASA supports the Spaceguard survey to the tune of $ 4.1 million per year, but that sum of money is not enough to cover the cost of continually monitoring all areas of the sky for near - Earth objects.

OmegaCAM produces images that cover an area of sky more than 300 times greater than the largest field of view imager of the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope, and can observe over a wide range of wavelengths from the ultraviolet to the infrared.

Over 150 days this summer, COROT will capture data from an area of sky roughly equal to the size of the constellation Orion.

«The discovery of so many satellites in such a small area of the sky was completely unexpected,» said Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy's Sergey Koposov, the Cambridge study's lead author.

The existence of the Kuiper belt was confirmed by direct observation in the early 1990s, when astronomers began to use high - sensitivity digital cameras and motion - sensing computer software to survey large areas of the sky.

Survey telescopes look at much larger areas of the sky — up to half the sky, at any point — than does the Hubble Space Telescope, for instance, which focuses more on individual objects.

A repeating burst was discovered in 2012, however, providing an opportunity for a team of researchers to repeatedly monitor its area of the sky with the Karl Jansky Very Large Array in New Mexico and the Arecibo radio dish in Puerto Rico, in hopes of pinpointing its location.

The flare looks identical to the flare from the first flash, which appeared in the area of sky to the top - left of the moon.

The velocities of hundreds of stars were simultaneously recorded toward the constellation of Sagittarius over an area of the sky larger than the full moon.

The new instrument on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope on Mauna Kea allows astronomers to map areas of the sky in wavelengths some 1,000 times longer than visible light.

In 2013, another study compared how the cosmic X-ray background (CXB) detected by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory compared to the CIB in the same area of the sky.

The Taurid meteors are named after the constellation Taurus, because their paths can be traced back to that area of sky.

The map can't directly help with the dust controversy — the area of the sky mapped by BICEP2 is masked in the early map because the emission is very weak and researchers are still analyzing it.

The discovery was possible because, unlike conventional radio telescopes that observe tiny patches of the sky at a time, the MWA sweeps large areas of the sky and is capable of observing across a broader range of wavelengths.

Rather than looking at distant stars in a small area of sky, like Kepler did, TESS will look at closer stars over 85 per cent of the sky.

TESS will be able to search 350 times more area of the sky than Kepler can, and is expected to find about 20,000 exoplanets in its first two years alone.

At first glance, it appeared to have originated in an area of the sky around the Magellanic Clouds, two small satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way at a distance of about 200,000 light - years.