Sentences with phrase «bigger telescopes»

This means that with bigger telescopes, we can collect a lot more photons.

All that sends you to space, and makes you build big telescopes.

Even big telescopes can't really spot the source of the pull.

It's a very big telescope with very good cameras in an amazing photographing location, so that helps in getting a nice shot.

«Everyone is trying to get time to look at this thing on big telescopes right now, urgently, within the next few days,» she explains.

We also have around 10 nights per year observation time on bigger telescopes in public and professional observatories, which allows us to employ a narrow band methane filter to detect fireballs in Jupiter's upper atmosphere more efficiently.

Today «the discovery of planets around other stars has become blazing hot for administrators of big telescopes,» says Geoff Marcy of the University of California at Berkeley.

«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.

Recent results suggest that the era of finding new icy Pluto - sized bodies has come to an end or at least a lull until much bigger telescopes equipped with wide - field cameras come online in the next decade.

At Caltech, you have access to really big telescopes — some of the greatest in the world — but for only a few nights a year.

Just as bigger telescopes collect more light and enable viewing of fainter objects, increasing the mass of germanium allows for a greater probability of observing the rare decay.

«Big telescopes demand big partnerships,» said France A. Cordova, the director of NSF in her video message for the ceremony.

«It's time for China to have its own big telescope.»

«The Next Generation Laser System is the third generation of lasers at Keck Observatory, which has been pioneering Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics on big telescopes since 2001,» said Jason Chin, the project manager for the new laser at Keck Observatory.

But astronomers say the new technique used promises to reveal much more when combined with better spectrographs and bigger telescopes now in the works.

The same is true for astronomers — as they build bigger telescopes and develop new techniques to see farther into the Universe, they look further and further back in time.

Europe's Spectro - Polarimetric High - contrast Exoplanet REsearch (SPHERE) and the U.S. - backed Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) are attached to big telescopes in Chile and employ sophisticated masks, called coronagraphs, to block out the light of the star.

There are two promises that we make with bigger telescopes: that they can see fainter things and that they see more detail.

«Big telescopes like the Gran Telescopio Canarias, and instruments like the CanariCam, deliver real results,» said co-lead author Professor Pat Roche, from the University of Oxford.

However, now that adaptive optics is beginning to give very good results, then there are some wavelength regions where things can be done from the ground probably with a much cheaper experiment than you would be able to do from space or for the same amount of money with much bigger telescopes.

[As Micah and others have noted, those of us without access to big telescopes and high - powered microscopes accept much of this information on faith.

In general, the bigger the telescope's aperture the better!

That's because a bigger telescope will let in more light (meaning your eyes can see faint objects better).

Ellis, his PhD student Dan Stark and their colleagues trained one of the world's biggest telescopes, the Keck 2 atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea, to scan light grazing massive clusters of closer galaxies [see image above], which focused the light coming from more ancient galaxies behind them and magnified it 20 times in a process called gravitational lensing.

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«You might think that building a big telescope on the Earth could be substitute for sending a camera to a planet,» Loeb says.

«The more dust there is, the bigger the telescope has to be to image a planet,» Ertel said.

But by stretching the limits of the world's biggest telescopes, astronomers have seen a handful of planets directly.

Back in March, Anil Ananthaswamy explained what's at stake for the biggest telescope ever

But while Captain Kirk and co could cover the 4.25 light years to Proxima b in hours, all we can do is strain our biggest telescopes to glean a few facts about our new neighbour.

On September 23, observatory director Francisco Córdova posted a picture to the observatory's Facebook page of two staff members standing in front of the big telescope dish with an outstretched Puerto Rican flag.

If you are going to spend more than a billion dollars building one of the world's biggest telescopes, you'll want to put it in a place with the best possible view of the stars.

In 1972, astronomers at NRAO had a second go, this time using a bigger telescope that collected as much data in a minute as...

Closer to home, the big telescopes have an equally intriguing assignment: to see planets outside our solar system.

After a two - month pause and potential game over, construction on the biggest telescope on Mauna Kea will resume — but protests continue

«I only began to see it later when there were problems — people looting antiquities from the mountain, building these bigger telescopes that really affected the landscape, and destroying important landmark features.»

The bigger a telescope's aperture, or «eye,» the smaller the features it can detect.

It's big, about 4 times the diameter of Earth, but so far away - 4.4 billion kilometers (2.7 billion miles) away at its closest - that even in big telescopes it's hard to see detail.

Astronomer Mike Brown used one of the biggest telescopes on Earth, the monster 10 - meter Keck eye in Hawaii, to observe Neptune in September 2011, getting this lovely infrared picture of it.

Whichever method ends up working, Marley thinks that with bigger telescopes and better instruments, we'll detect a handful of exomoons by 2030.

In the face of these potentially life - threatening cuts, some additional sources of revenue have been found — but the big telescope's future still hangs in the balance.

The world's biggest telescope is getting smaller — but more affordable.

When it reaches an orbit that will extend almost as far as the moon, the RadioAstron mission will sync up with radio antennas on the ground, effectively forming the biggest telescope yet built, with a «dish» spanning almost 30 times the Earth's diameter.

You know, just the past year alone has seen a lot of new breakthroughs, discoveries, and they're constantly talking about the instruments that they're building, the bigger telescopes that are coming online soon.

«In an ideal world,» says Kasdin, «we'd be doing the bigger telescope, then eventually moving on to the full - size Terrestrial Planet Finder.

YM: «We will have signed the deals with the biggest telescopes in the world to allow for the best scientists and analysts to be able to accumulate a significant amount of information and to be able to look through that information for the signals of extraterrestrial nature.»

«A digital brain will be a resource for the entire scientific community: researchers will reserve time on it, as they do on the biggest telescopes, to conduct their experiments,» Markram wrote in SA.

McGrath, the Butler University professor who studies religion and science fiction, said Smith's cosmology has to be understood through the prism of his times, when astronomers, armed with ever bigger telescopes, explored deeper into the solar system than they ever had before.

Keck Observatory, which operates the two biggest telescopes in the world, has been a prime innovator in the field of AO, currently delivering images three to four times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope.