Sentences with phrase «as bigger telescopes»

Just as bigger telescopes collect more light and enable viewing of fainter objects, increasing the mass of germanium allows for a greater probability of observing the rare decay.

Not exact matches

[As Micah and others have noted, those of us without access to big telescopes and high - powered microscopes accept much of this information on faith.

According to Mather and other leading astronomers now working on a report to be released this summer by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), that quest and others require an even bigger space telescope that would observe, as Hubble does, at optical, ultraviolet and near - infrared wavelengths.

A new space telescope bigger than Hubble will reveal the young universe as never before, say Michael Rowan - Robinson and Matt Griffin

Imagine being able to view microscopic aspects of a classical nova, a massive stellar explosion on the surface of a white dwarf star (about as big as Earth), in a laboratory rather than from afar via a telescope.

The same is true for astronomers — as they build bigger telescopes and develop new techniques to see farther into the Universe, they look further and further back in time.

Using a mirror 28 feet wide — five times as big as the Pan-STARRS telescopes — and a camera the size of a pickup truck, it will be able to survey the entire sky in three days.

Telescopes peering back in time to less than a billion years after the Big Bang have spotted individual galaxies with dust that weighs hundreds of millions of times as much as the sun.

In 1972, astronomers at NRAO had a second go, this time using a bigger telescope that collected as much data in a minute as...

Although telescopes can't see the infant galaxies around the quasars, Loeb says they had to be at least as big as the Milky Way.

The densest part of the coma — the inner region near the nucleus — is the part of a comet that's visible to telescopes and cameras as a big fuzzy ball.

From the beginning, he notes, they were convinced that — in addition to individual grants — the technological challenges facing neuroscience today require coordinated «big science» investments in technology, such as the national telescopes and particle accelerators that revolutionized astronomy and physics.

The telescope has helped researchers detect such clusters by exploiting a phenomenon known as the Sunyaev - Zel «dovich effect, which causes massive galaxy clusters to leave an impression on the cosmic microwave background: a faint, universe - spanning glow of light left over from the big bang.

As the decades advanced, telescopes got bigger and better able to spot small, faint objects.

«A digital brain will be a resource for the entire scientific community: researchers will reserve time on it, as they do on the biggest telescopes, to conduct their experiments,» Markram wrote in SA.

As its name implies, the 120 - foot long horn antenna was used to gather data that could be used to compare with observations made by the big dish telescopes.

Astronomy, Hawaiian cultural practices and economic realities were major themes yesterday as the state Board of Land and Natural Resources unanimously approved siting the 14th and biggest telescope...

WFIRST was designed around repurposing an existing telescope about as big as the Hubble Space Telescope.

Dr Roberto Gilmozzi: The Kecks are bigger as individual telescopes; the VLT however has twice as many telescopes and so the total collecting area of the VLT is larger than the total collecting area of the two Kecks.

«We are using the massive amounts of dark matter surrounding galaxies half - way across the Universe as cosmic telescopes to make even more distant galaxies appear bigger and brighter.»

NASA's next generation of telescopes will collect 1,736 times more light than the Hubble and will penetrate the depths of the universe to see objects nearly as old as the Big Bang.

A telescope as big as our planet has begun the monumental task of observing the behemoth black hole at the center of our galaxy.

With ten giant dish antennas spread from Hawaii in the Pacific to St. Croix in the Caribbean, all working together as a single telescope, the VLBA is «the world's biggest astronomical instrument,» Vanden Bout said.

Hubble, about as big and heavy as a school bus but a lot faster — it orbits some 350 miles above Earth at 17,500 miles per hour — is much more than a swiftly careening camera, and it gets much better resolution than earthbound telescopes because there's no terrestrial atmosphere in the way.

Meanwhile the actual exploration of the cosmos gets treated as a kind of shabby nostalgia — What are a couple of far - off nebulae against this big new shiny telescope?

it's same as if Tony was showing a mouse eating a cup of grain from the bushel — as proof that: the WHOLE planet is cooler by 0,12 C, because of it — or looking at a bucket of water, and declaring that: the temp of all the seven seas are warmer by 0,03 C. I always had binoculars and a telescope, not big one, but understand what can be seen and what can not.

But as I have outlined above, few have a deeper understanding of the basic science of climate than I. Almost all big modern telescopes use my sodium guidestar to correct for atmospheric turbulence.