Sentences with phrase «as new observatories»

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As the Hubble Space Telescope ages, NASA is readying a new observatory to pick up where its predecessor left off.

Even by traditional reckoning, the start of the new millennium should be January 2001, as the Royal Greenwich Observatory has declared and the title of the popular film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, suggests.

Previous to that position, he served as executive director of the Ashuelot Valley Environmental Observatory in Keene, NH and earlier taught science and ecology in Pennsylvania, Costa Rica, and New Hampshire.

The New York Times also drew attention to Policy Network's Social Democracy Observatory, quoting director Olaf Cramme: «There's little sign that the center - left is regaining the confidence of the electorate, let alone presenting itself as a competent contender for power.

In coming years NASA's Webb and WFIRST telescopes will probably attempt such observations on a handful of the nearest, brightest promising exoplanets, as will a new generation of ground - based 30 - meter - class observatories now under construction.

The ability to detect gravitational waves, as demonstrated recently by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO), has the potential to shed new light on the issue.

This image from the New Technology Telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory shows Nova Centauri 2013 in July 2015 as the brightest star in the centre of the picture.

The lead author of the new study, Paolo Molaro, at the INAF - Trieste Astronomical Observatory, takes up the story: «As soon as the Dawn spacecraft revealed the mysterious bright spots on the surface of Ceres, I immediately thought of the possible measurable effects from EartAs soon as the Dawn spacecraft revealed the mysterious bright spots on the surface of Ceres, I immediately thought of the possible measurable effects from Eartas the Dawn spacecraft revealed the mysterious bright spots on the surface of Ceres, I immediately thought of the possible measurable effects from Earth.

Investigators have now uncovered an even longer wall as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which is mapping 1 million galaxies across a quarter of the sky with telescopes at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico.

These will include planet - hunting stalwarts such as the HARPS instrument at the European Southern Observatory in La Silla, Chile, and the new Miniature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array (MINERVA)- Australis, a group of five planned 0.7 - metre telescopes near Toowoomba, Australia.

Using this new data from the HAWC observatory, researchers made the first detailed measurements of two pulsars previously identified as possible sources of the excess.

«Even using just the first 16 of its 66 antennas, ALMA will already surpass the capabilities of all existing telescopes of its kind, and will provide new insights into star formation as well as the origins of galaxies and planets,» says Paola Andreani, manager of the European ALMA Regional Centre at the European Southern Observatory.

We are currently establishing the Liverpool Earth Observatory (LEO), which will allow us together with our international partners, to carry out similar studies in other tectonically active regions such as northern Chile, Indonesia, New Zealand and the northwest coast United States.

Orazi considers this broad scope to develop and pursue new ideas as a very positive aspect of his career at the Observatory.

Known as FRB 121102, its location on the sky has now been monitored for many tens of hours by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) in Socorro, New Mexico (an array of 27 radio dishes), and the European VLBI Network (EVN)-- a continent - wide collaboration of radio telescopes.

So astronomers are scratching their heads this week as new data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory indicate that such an event formed only a neutron star.

After decades trying to directly detect the waves, the recently upgraded Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, now known as Advanced LIGO, appears to have succeeded, ushering in a new era of astronomy.

New features on the horizon promise to further refine Sky's ability to serve as a virtual observatory and deliver images of unfolding cosmic events as they occur.

Today, using an Internet - based telescope such as the Seeing in the Dark scope at New Mexico Skies, any amateur can command a robotic observatory while lounging at home.

The earliest supermassive black holes were first sighted in 2001 through a telescope at New Mexico's Apache Point Observatory as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

On 18 September, Pope Francis appointed Jesuit brother Guy Consolmagno, 63, as the new director of the Vatican Observatory, which employs a dozen astronomers to study asteroids, meteorites, extrasolar planets, stellar evolution, and cosmology.

Some of that promises to come from a new version of the Eye that was deployed in January as part of the Monterey Accelerated Research System (MARS), an underwater observatory in Monterey Bay off the coast of California.

«The opportunity for these projects to use significant time on the world's best scientific instruments is occurring in part because of the limitations in government funding for these facilities,» Worden says, noting that flat or shrinking NASA and National Science Foundation budgets for astronomy have left the Parkes and Green Bank radio telescopes — as well as many other observatories — scrambling for new sources of financial support.

Lick's supporters say the observatory has made key contributions to the development of new scientific instruments and to recent research, such as discovering new extrasolar planets.

But new images from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii reveal Uranus as a stormy, dynamic world.

Oceanographer Vicki Ferrini, who for more than 10 years has managed the Marine Geoscience Data System as a research scientist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, doesn't see herself as a programmer.

Howarth and Wallace Broecker, the geochemist at the Lamont - Doherty Geological Observatory in New York who identified soil bacteria as the cause of the oxygen loss, urged Space Biosphere Ventures to postpone the next manned phase of the project until they had addressed the basic biogeochemical imbalance inside Biosphere 2.

The first seismic waves generated by temblors and explosions — those from mining operations as well as underground nuclear tests — are sharp and distinct, says Göran Ekström, a seismologist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York.

The new research could have implications for follow - up studies with future space observatories, such as NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

Robert Hazen, executive director of the Deep Carbon Observatory in Washington, D.C., who was not involved in the research, sees the group's new detector as «a radical departure from traditional mass spectrometer techniques.

As the New Year approaches I am pleased to report that 2017 was yet another exciting and fruitful year for the W. M. Keck Observatory.

As we celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the dedication of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and radio astronomy in Green Bank, we invite you to enjoy our brand new, interactive timeline on our website at greenbankobservatory.org/timeline-green-bank - Observatory and radio astronomy in Green Bank, we invite you to enjoy our brand new, interactive timeline on our website at greenbankobservatory.org/timeline-green-bank - observatoryobservatory

The new research findings used data collected from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, both of W. M. Keck Observatory's Keck I and Keck II telescopes, as well NASA's FUSE telescope, and are reported today in the journal Science.

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.

New data from existing experiments, and next - generation sky surveys such as the Berkeley Lab - led Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) now under construction at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona should provide even more detailed data about these filaments, he added.

A Caltech Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus, Co-founder of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO), and a recipient of the Nobel Prize for his instrumental role in the first direct detection of ripples in spacetime known as gravitational waves, Dr. Thorne's work is making history and ushering in an exciting new era in astronomy.

A new study using NASA's Spitzer and Swift missions, as well as the Belgian AstroLAB IRIS observatory, suggests that the cause of the dimming over long periods is likely an uneven dust cloud moving around the star.

You have most likely seen the giant antennas and radio telescopes, such as the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico that was featured in the James Bond Movie «Golden Eye» and the Parkes Telescope in New South Wales, Australia featured in the movie «Dish» that look out into interplanetary and deep space for answers.

Developed in a collaboration between 13 different institutions harking from Australia, U.S.A., India and New Zealand, the new telescope array is located at the Murchison Radio - astronomy Observatory (MRO) around 800 km (497 miles) from Perth, a site that has also been selected as the future home for a portion of the Square Kilometre ArrNew Zealand, the new telescope array is located at the Murchison Radio - astronomy Observatory (MRO) around 800 km (497 miles) from Perth, a site that has also been selected as the future home for a portion of the Square Kilometre Arrnew telescope array is located at the Murchison Radio - astronomy Observatory (MRO) around 800 km (497 miles) from Perth, a site that has also been selected as the future home for a portion of the Square Kilometre Array.

«We are delighted to welcome Hilton Lewis as the new Director of Keck Observatory.

«Collectively we as humans are at a point in which, technologically, there's at least one feasible path to getting to another star within our generation,» former NASA astronaut Mae Jemison said at a news briefing Tuesday at the One World Observatory in New York City.

Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other similar facilities to discover a new rotating neutron star, which is claimed to be one of the most extreme pulsars ever detected as its spin period is thousands of times longer than any such objects found so far.

This committee has been instrumental in the United States with the development of this observatory, as they oversee the budget of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the institute that provides the funds for ALMA from North America,» said Sean Dougherty, the new Director of ALMA.

Not only I never visited before the north of my country, with a visit to the National University of Salta included, I was traveling to collaborate in the project of a new astronomical observatory that is starting to work at the same time that I keep my formation as Telescope Operator and advancing in my Astronomy career with help of exceptional people.

In developing strategies for the new decade, the committee convened an ad hoc cross-panel working group chaired by F. Bash, 2 NSF - funded National Observatories, to review the functioning of all NSF - funded observatories and initiate discussion with the relevant panels and with the committeObservatories, to review the functioning of all NSF - funded observatories and initiate discussion with the relevant panels and with the committeobservatories and initiate discussion with the relevant panels and with the committee as a whole.

As many of you are likely aware, the Green Bank Observatory has a new website, greenbankobservatory.org

Flagship missions such as the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray Observatory occur about twice per decade and produce outstanding science that defines substantive new areas of research in astronomy.

To catch more FRBs, astronomers use new technology, such as Parkes» multibeam receiver, the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) in Western Australia, and the upgraded Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope near Canberra.

New in DR14 is the first public release of data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS); the first data from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory (APO) Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE - 2), including stellar parameter estimates from an innovative data driven machine learning algorithm known as «The Cannon»; and almost twice as many data cubes from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA) survey as were in the previous release (N = 2812 in total).

Mizuno: In a conventional method, railroad tracks and wagons were used for antenna transportation in radio interferometers with multiple antennas like ALMA, such as the Nobeyama Millimeter Array (NMA * Ended its scientific operations), and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA * One of the large radio telescopes operated by the U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory) in New Mexico.