Sentences with phrase «based telescopes»

Because of its optimal conditions, Haleakala is one of the most renown locations for ground - based telescopes with experts arriving from far and wide to study at the Haleakala Observatory, an astrophysical complex run by the University of Hawaii, United States Air Force, and other partners; not open to the public.

Over the past 15 years, he has dedicated his research to the study of our solar system using mainly ground - based telescopes equipped with adaptive optics.

BeppoSAX is an Italian - Dutch satellite, launched late last year, that detects gamma ray bursts and provides precise sky positions to allow ground - based telescopes to observe them.

With ground - based telescopes, astronomers can tell the supernova's color and how it changes with time, which lets them figure out what chemicals are present in the explosion.

On November 21, 2012, astronomers using seven different Earth - based telescopes (including three operated by the European Southern Observatory) announced that Make - make may lack a «significant atmosphere» like Pluto or Sedna.

We can then use our conventional, light - based telescopes to look at the transient light signals from the merged neutron star, which we actually think will be powered by the decay of these precious elements.

3) All ground - based telescopes must observe through the terrestrial atmosphere.

To add 3 - D distance information, the Hubble observations were combined with multicolor data from powerful ground - based telescopes.

This orbit provides a wide range of distances between the satellite and ground - based telescopes, which is important for producing a high - quality image of the radio source being observed.

Observations from large ground - based telescopes will continue until the object becomes too faint to be detected, sometime after mid-December.

A coinventor of the laser guide star technique for astronomical adaptive optics, she has helped revolutionize the capabilities of ground - based telescopes.

By taking this technique into space for the first time, astronomers will approximately triple the resolving power previously available with only ground - based telescopes.

On December 16, 2009, a team of astronomers announced the discovery of a super-Earth in an inner orbit using the «transit method» of planetary detection using «a fleet of ground - based telescopes no larger than those many amateur astronomers have in their backyards» as part of the MEarth Project (CfA news release).

The GISS exoplanet project in many ways looks forward to the time when NASA has a powerful exoplanet direct imaging telescope in the sky, perhaps in the 2030s, or when the next generation of vastly enlarged ground - based telescopes have been built and commissioned.

However, they are also qualified to work in planetariums running science shows, to assist astronomers doing research, and to operate space - based and ground - based telescopes and other astronomical instrumentation.

Hubble can observe ultraviolet radiation, which is blocked by the atmosphere and therefore unavailable to ground - based telescopes.

Ground - based telescopes so far have not found any larger than about 65 feet across, which is the smallest they could detect.

More specifically, the researchers sought out to determine whether NASA's infrared orbiting observatory could be used to make space - based parallax measurements of microlensing events soon after they had been recorded from ground - based telescopes.

Domains of Observability in the Near - Infrared with HST / NICMOS and (Adaptive Optics Augmented) Large Ground - Based Telescopes G. Schneider

The HDST would be able to study extremely faint objects that are 10 to 20 times dimmer than anything that could be seen from the ground with the planned large, ground - based telescopes.

The first images of an exoplanet in 2004 (2M1207b) and a family of exoplanets in 2008 (HR 8799) demonstrated the powerful ability of adaptive optics on large ground - based telescopes to spot massive exoplanets.

Such a telescope would use large arrays of ground - based telescopes to detect blue flashes of Cerenkov radiation, which are caused by very high energy gamma - ray photons from cosmic sources smashing into the atmosphere.

The roadblock has been the fact that ground - based telescopes can not easily resolve the stars closest to the suspected black hole.

The large ground - based telescopes, in turn, would be as good or better than HDST for measuring the spectra of objects.

«Traditional parallax techniques that employ ground - based telescopes are not as effective at such great distances.»

The discovery of these planets has encouraged astrobiology and in particular has motivated proposals for several space - based telescopes designed (1) to search for smaller, Earth - size worlds and (2) if such worlds are found, to analyze spectrally the light reflected by the planets» atmospheres in the hope of detecting oxygen, methane, or other substances that would indicate the presence of biota.

Astronomers who make observations with ground - based telescopes may spend many hours working in observatories; this work usually involves travel to remote locations and may require working at night.

The HDST is needed to complement the powerful capabilities of a new generation of ground - based telescopes.

In many of these studies, HDST will operate in tandem with the next generation of 30 - meter ground - based telescopes, in much the same way that Hubble and 10 - meter telescopes operate cooperatively today.

Such a telescope would use large arrays of ground - based telescopes to detect blue flashes of

The HDST would have comparable clarity at UV / optical wavelengths as the giant ground - based telescopes get in the near infrared and as ALMA gets at millimeter wavelengths.

Ground - based telescopes are limited in their resolution by the Earth's atmosphere, which causes a variable distortion in the images.

From ground - based telescopes, the glowing gaseous debris surrounding dying, sun - like stars in a nearby galaxy, called the Large Magellanic Cloud, appear as small, shapeless dots of light.

But in this age of space - based telescopes, you may have wondered how a ground - based observatory like TMT (or some of the other next - generation large terrestrial telescopes) will get past the challenges of being on the ground instead of up in orbit.

Over the past decade, major breakthroughs in planetary geophysics have been made by spacecraft missions, space - based telescopes, and ground - based observatories including Keck.

He has extensive astronomical observing experience on space - and ground - based telescopes, with a focus on using Hubble for studies of the dynamics of galaxies and the presence of black holes at their centers.

The researchers achieved this extraordinary discovery of exoplanets by combining NASA's K2 mission data with follow - up observations by Earth - based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, the twin Gemini telescopes on Maunakea and in Chile, the Automated Planet Finder of the University of California Observatories and the Large Binocular Telescope operated by the University of Arizona.

For now, Pevtsov, Panasenco, and Martin, and other solar physicists, will continue to mine data from space - and ground - based telescopes for common symptoms that lead to more reliable prediction tools.

The researchers achieved this extraordinary «roundup» of exoplanets by combining data with follow - up observations by earth - based telescopes including the North Gemini telescope and the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, the Automated Planet Finder of the University of California Observatories, and the Large Binocular Telescope operated by the University of Arizona.

On December 16, 2009, a team of astronomers (including David Charbonneau, Zachory K. Berta, Jonathan Irwin, Christopher J. Burke, Philip Nutzman, Lars A. Buchhave, Christophe Lovis, Xavier Bonfils, David W. Latham, Stéphane Udry, Ruth A. Murray - Clay, Matthew J. Holman, Emilio E. Falco, Joshua N. Winn, Didier Queloz, Francesco Pepe, Michel Mayor, Xavier Delfosse, and Thierry Forveille) announced the discovery of a planet «b» of 6.55 ± 0.98 Earth - masses in a tight inner orbit using the «transit method» of planetary detection using «a fleet of ground - based telescopes no larger than those many amateur astronomers have in their backyards» as part of the MEarth Project (CfA news release).

Many of the planets discovered by EDEN around nearby stars will be suitable for in - depth atmospheric characterization, mass, radius, and bulk density measurements through follow - up observations with large ground - and space - based telescopes, such as NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

His research interests are concentrated on developing and applying new instrument techniques and instruments for new astronomical observations with ground - based and space - based telescopes.

In particular, there were distinctive absorption bands, matching mixtures containing ammoniated minerals, associated with wavelengths that can't be observed from Earth - based telescopes.

The proven segmented mirror design of the Keck Observatory telescopes is now the preferred solution for all other large telescopes, including the next space telescope, JWST, and the even larger ground ‑ based telescopes astronomers will use to continue exploring our Universe.

With an orbit that carries it more than 13,000 miles above the Earth, HALCA, working with the ground - based telescopes, extends the «sharp vision» of radio astronomy farther than ever before.

An AO system allows ground - based telescopes to achieve higher quality images by correcting for the blurring caused by the Earth's atmosphere.

Astronomers have dubbed the entire nebula the «Southern Crab Nebula» (He2 - 104), because, from ground - based telescopes, it looks like the body and legs of a crab.

By exploiting both ground - and space - based telescopes, therefore, astronomers today can combine observations from across the spectrum, which has produced a previously hidden and extremely captivating picture of the Universe (Figure 3 and Figure 4).

Astronomers using ground - based telescopes also found various asymmetries in the star's disk.

The dust disk was first imaged by ground - based telescopes in 1984.