Sentences with phrase «build a space telescope»

«This is a journey where the end point is investigating planetary atmospheres to look for signs of life, and this result shows it's justifiable to build a space telescope to do exactly that.»

To do so will require a purpose - built space telescope and a parasol the size of a baseball diamond

The non-profit B612 Foundation plans to build a space telescope to scan for small asteroids but it won't launch until at least 2017 (see «The people's asteroid defence «-RRB-.

The privately - led mission aims to build a space telescope the size of a washing machine and point it at Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to Earth, in the hope of glimpsing a rocky world or two where life may have gained a foothold.

Not exact matches

NASA only found out about the powerful telescopes, which were built in the late 1990s, after the NRO approached the space agency recently.

Some tested software to help satellites to avoid smacking into each other in space, while others investigated ways to build large telescopes out of a bunch of small, autonomous robots.

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

So Aderin - Pocock enrolled in a build - your - own - telescope class in London, where she made her first space instrument.

«WISE is not the greatest telescope ever built,» says astrophysicist Xavier Koenig of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, «but it lets you see everything.»

No space probe or telescope built by humans has ever escaped the Milky Way to turn back and take a portrait; because we are embedded in our galaxy's disk, we can only see it as a bright band of stars across the sky.

Indeed, snapping such images is so challenging that NASA's tentative plans call for putting it off for perhaps 20 years or more as the agency develops the technology and budgetary breathing room to build an entirely new space telescope after WFIRST.

Astronomers are already dreaming of a future space telescope purpose - built to produce a crude image of an Earth - sized planet.

We could build a special kind of space telescope to help us tell the difference.

That prospect sends chills down the spines of some astronomers, who hope to build even bigger space telescopes using the new technologies developed at such great cost for Webb.

But it also made possible the building and continuous operation of at least a small and creaky space station; the launching and in - orbit repair of hundreds of satellites, telescopes, detectors, and space probes; and the conducting of a slew of space - based experiments that contributed immensely to a range of fields.

Auspace built the Endeavour telescope with funds from the Australian Space Office.

Data from WISE may generate proposals for telescope time on Herschel for more detailed follow - up observations, says Paul Goldsmith, project scientist for Herschel at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. (Goldsmith's JPL colleagues will manage ground operations for WISE; Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory in North Logan, Utah, designed and built its instrumentation, and Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colo., built the spacecraft itself.)

«But to do that we'll need to rapidly develop our understanding of this incredible observatory, the most complicated space telescope that humankind has ever built.»

RCT Consortium telescope The Robotically Controlled Telescope was built in 1965 as a test bed for future orbiting space telescopes.

PS1 is the first telescope built that is capable of turning up these smaller space rocks.

The B612 Foundation — named for the asteroid that was home to the prince in The Little Prince — has announced a plan to build, fly and operate the first private space telescope.

Future space observatories like Webb or Hubble - like telescopes built for infrared with apertures of around three meters could also aid in the hunt.

The beneficiaries will be a new European neutron source soon to be built in Sweden, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope, and an exoplanet - hunting mission by the European Space Agency (ESA).

Corey S. Powell graduated from Harvard with a degree in history and science and performed an early stint as a research assistant at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, building and testing gamma ray telescopes.

The B612 Foundation — named for the asteroid that was home to The Little Prince — today announced their plan to build, fly and operate the first private space telescope: an asteroid hunter called Sentinel.

It will be the most powerful space telescope ever built.

NASA is building an innovative and risky space telescope that promises to surpass the hugely successful Hubble.

«However, the universe is not teeming with aliens with human - like intelligence that can build radio telescopes and space ships.

Steve: And we've got another, the Square Kilometer Array, a gigantic radio telescope, is supposed to go up in, it's not going to be in space, it's Earth based, supposed to be built by 2020; and that ought to maybe provide some information if you get to the bottom of this.

To get a good look at it, Bock, Cooray, and an international team of colleagues built a detector, called the Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (CIBER), that could be launched to the edge of space on a rocket and collect images with two 11 - centimeter telescopes.

Mainzer built the sensor for the Spitzer Space Telescope, a NASA infrared telescope that's been going strong for the last 10 years in deep sSpace Telescope, a NASA infrared telescope that's been going strong for the last 10 years in deep spacespace.

Newly arrived at UC Berkeley, Townes soon learned of plans by young professor William «Jack» Welch to build a short - wavelength radio telescope, and offered some of his startup funds to build a maser amplifier and microwave spectrometer so the telescope could be used to search for evidence of complex molecules, like ammonia, in space.

Prior to joining SRON in 1995, Dr Whyborn was Head of Engineering at the Onsala Space Observatory, Sweden for 7 years where the group built several mm - wave instruments for the SEST and Onsala telescopes.

These collaborations bring me to work with the data collected by professional astronomers operating the most powerful telescopes and detectors ever built, like the NASA / ESA's Hubble Space Telescope and the ESO's Very Large Telescope.

It is important because most discoveries today are made by telescopes that were designed and built ten to twenty years ago — and what discoveries we may make in the future depends on what telescopes, instruments, and space missions we are building now.

The study builds on input from the exoplanet community to identify the most interesting science questions that we may be able to study in the future with direct imaging missions — that is, space telescopes that can directly image exoplanets (separating their light from that of their host stars).

The High - Definition Space Telescope (HDST), if built by NASA, would be five times as large as Hubble, the orbiting telescope launched by NASA in 1990.

WASHINGTON — The Herschel Observatory, a European space telescope for which NASA helped build instruments and process data, has stopped making observations after running out of liquid coolant as expected.

On Earth, for apertures above a few meters, atmospheric distortion limits the resolution of terrestrial telescopes, but in space, there is no atmospheric distortion and the achievable resolution rises steadily with size; if you build it, it will see.

It is the first Canadian scientific satellite in orbit in 33 years, and it is the first space telescope to be entirely designed and built in Canada.

The High - Definition Space Telescope, if built, would dwarf Hubble, the orbiting NASA telescope seen here in a photograph from 2009.

LLNL led the team, including researchers from Columbia University (New York, New York) and DTU - Space (Copenhagen, Denmark), that designed, built, installed and calibrated the X-ray telescope that was one of the key technologies that enabled this result.»

The 2010 Kavli Prize laureates were chosen for research that has transformed our knowledge of basic units of matter, laid the foundations for the field of nanotechnology, revealed the molecular basis for the transfer of brain signals and other physiological functions, and made possible the building of telescopes that can see deeper into space and further back in time.

And you might be surprised to learn that while NASA helped build the first satellite telescope, it was the United Kingdom who sent the first telescope into space.

Building on past observations of the white dwarf called SDSSJ1043 +0855 (the dead core of a star that originally was a few times the mass of the Sun), which has been known to be gobbling up rocky material in its orbit for almost a decade, the team used Keck Observatory's HIRES instrument fitted to the 10 - meter Keck I telescope as well as data from the Hubble Space Telescope to measure and characterize the material being accreted by the star.

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The Herschel telescope is a Cassegrain design with a primary mirror diameter of 3.5 metres, the largest ever built for use in space.

The AURA report describes the scientific and technological case for building a «super-Hubble» space telescope that would view the universe with five times greater sharpness than Hubble can achieve, and as much as 100 times more sensitivity than Hubble to extraordinarily faint starlight.

Dubbed Project Blue, the mission aims to build and launch a space telescope with a single goal in mind: to image any planets in the habitable zones of the nearest Sun - like stars.

We should work on further developing in - space manufacturing, but in my opinion, we should start by building structures a lot easier than an optical telescope.»