Sentences with phrase «based astronomical observatory»
Kamuela, HI — The Board of Directors of the W. M. Keck Observatory announced today that Taft Armandroff, executive director of the world's premier ground - based astronomical observatory, will step down on June 1 to become a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and director of its McDonald Observatory.
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Kamuela, HI — The Board of Directors of the W. M. Keck Observatory announced today that Taft Armandroff, executive director of the world's premier ground - based astronomical observatory,... Read more»
Ahead you of are 8 days of intensive work at ALMA, arguably the most important ground - based astronomical observatory in the world, given that it is an international effort of peaceful cooperation among more than 20 nations to understand our place in the cosmos.
ESO is the foremost intergovernmental astronomy organisation in Europe and the world's most productive ground - based astronomical observatory by far.
Rules like this are accepted as the norm for ground and space - based astronomical observatories and some interplanetary missions, mainly those performing in - depth mapping of planets that have been visited before.
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Nowhere on earth is there a place more suitable for powerful astronomical ground - based observatories than Chile.
If clock time gets more than about 0.4 seconds out of step with astronomical time then the Earth Orientation Center of the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) based in the Paris Observatory announce a leap second needs to be inserted so that the two time scales always agree to better than one second.
On 13 March 2013 the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA)- the largest ground - based astronomical project in the world - will be inaugurated, marking the transition from construction project to fully fledged observatory.
European Virtual Observatory (EURO - VO)-- global electronic access to the available astronomical data archives of space and ground - based observatories and other sky survey databases.