Sentences with phrase «big optical telescopes»

Big optical telescopes are also being designed and built with the goal of monitoring the variable sky, and will greatly contribute to solving the mystery of black hole eating habits.

Also, big optical telescopes are being designed and built with the goal of monitoring the variable sky, and will greatly contribute to solving the mystery of the black hole eating habits.

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA — When the biggest optical telescope in the eastern U.S. starts scanning the sky early next year, it won't be distracted by supernovas or gamma ray bursts.

For nearly a decade now, two university consortia in the United States have been in a race to build two ground - based telescopes that would be several times bigger than today's biggest optical telescope.

Not exact matches

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.

But in January, astronomers used optical and infrared telescopes to look back nearly to the beginning of the universe, just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, where they saw newborn ellipticals — ancient galaxies so dusty they're nearly invisible.

The SKA will take us to within a few hundred million years after the big bang, and probe the universe's dark ages — an epoch invisible to today's optical telescopes — to glimpse the birth of the first stars and galaxies.

The 45 - centimeter Dutch Open Telescope (DOT) could open the door to bigger solar optical telescopes by eliminating the need for putting the telescope mirror in a vacuum to prevent heat from distorting the image.

In the late 2020s, the Thirty Meter Telescope will become the world's biggest ground - based optical telescope and, when used in conjunction with HDC, astronomers will soon be able to study the atmospheres of potentially habitable worlds orbiting red dwarfs.

The main instruments of the Observatory are the Big Telescope Alt - azimuthal (BTA), an optical reflector with the primary mirror 6 metres in diameter and the radio telescope RATAN - 600 (abbreviated from the RAdio Telescope of the Academy of Sciences) with a 600 metre multielement ring antenna.

In 1985, construction began on what was to become, and still remain, the biggest optical / infrared telescopes on Earth.