Sentences with phrase «bigger telescopes now»

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

Not exact matches

Earth is part of our solar system, our solar system is a very small neighborhood in a spiral arm of our galaxy, our galaxy is one of the smaller of the billions of galaxies that are the residue of the Big Bang - this is where we are at right now... using several different types of telescopes analyzing several types of radiation and using our mathematics to calculate distortions in light waves to calculate dimensions, distance and mass — doing this we can generate a physical picture of what is actually happening our there.

But now, with Webb years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget, Dressler says choosing such a big, complex mirror for an already ambitious cryogenic telescope was «a bridge too far,» caused by «trying to make too much innovation in one step.»

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

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.

Now, the European Space Agency's Herschel telescope has detected heat from five of these dusty galaxies, opening a window into the universe's biggest stellar construction boom.

«Big science needs a lot of compute power — right now we're designing systems to manage data for several large facilities around the world and the next generation of radio telescopes, including China's 500m radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array and the SKA's pathfinder telescopes that are already up and running in outback Western Australia.»

In this two - part special, Nova traces the telescope's evolution from two little lenses in a tube to the great observatories that now peer back nearly all the way to the Big Bang.

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.

The biggest infrared telescope in space now is the compact Spitzer Space Telescope, which has a 2.7 - foot (0.8 - meter) mirror.

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.