«You employ cheaper resources to vet out the false positives before you send these candidates to the really expensive,
big telescopes like Keck [in Hawaii] or the HARPS telescope,» Batalha says.
Not exact matches
A team of astrophysicists had used the BICEP2 South Pole
telescope to identify a pattern in the polarisation maps of the cosmic microwave background radiation (rather
like an echo of the
Big Bang).
The fact she wants «a
big stick
like Daddy» and a «A little wheel» on her Santa letter should tell you something She turns a turkey baster into a
telescope, a toilet brush into a wand...
The study, published online today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, describes how the researchers used the powerful MOSFIRE instrument on the W. M. Keck Observatory's 10 - meter
telescope in Hawaii to peer into a time when the universe was still very young and see what the galaxy looked
like only 670 million years after the
big bang.
That piece of sky is
like a piece of pie pointed at the
telescope: it includes a much
bigger volume of space — and many more galaxies — at a distance of 4 billion light - years than at 100 million light - years.
Aliens could always find us in other ways besides transits, for example, with
telescopes so
big they could snap pictures of our planet from light - years away
like galactic paparazzi.
In March, researchers working with BICEP2, a specialized
telescope at the South Pole, reported at a press conference that they had seen pinwheel -
like swirls in the polarization of the afterglow of the
big bang — the cosmic microwave background (CMB)-- that came from gravitational waves rippling through the infant universe.
Kamuela, Hawaii — An international team of scientists using the most powerful
telescope on Earth has discovered the moments just after the
Big Bang happened more
like the theory predicts,... Read more»
If we strike out again,
big league
telescopes like the James Webb Telescope will do the trick one day — fingers crossed.
Kamuela, Hawaii — An international team of scientists using the most powerful
telescope on Earth has discovered the moments just after the
Big Bang happened more
like the theory predicts, eliminating a significant discrepancy that troubled physicists for two decades.
They began discussing how SAP HANA could be used to address the
Big Data challenges presented by the massive
telescopes like SKA and the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array in Chile, where Dr. Henning worked.
Space
telescopes like Planck that observe the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation have mapped the light from the very early Universe, just after the moment of the
Big Bang.
«Let us suppose that an objective etiologist would be on another planet,
like Mars, and would observe the social behavior of man with a
telescope too weak to recognize and follow individuals, but still capable of seeing
big phenomena,
like migrations, wars, etc..
It's the same with Computer Science — we've kind of forced them to do the
telescopes first and then say «well, if you survive that then maybe you'll
like the
bigger science around it».
Well, she could've, if she'd used the glasses the doctor gave her — those
big things that look
like telescopes on her face — but she wouldn't.
An international team of scientists using the most powerful
telescope on Earth has discovered the moments just after the
Big Bang happened more
like the theory predicts, eliminating a significant discrepancy that troubled physicists for two decades.
Like Buffett, we can also use a
telescope to examine the
big picture.