Sentences with phrase «build bigger telescopes»

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.

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

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

«Ever since Galileo, astronomers have been building bigger telescopes to collect more light to observe more distant objects,» said Peter Wizinowich, who leads the Adaptive Optics development at Keck Observatory.

Not exact matches

To find another Earth, the thinking goes, one must first build a planet - imaging telescope of such size, sophistication and cost that it becomes too big to fail.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A natural tinkerer with things, Nelson grew interested in astronomical instruments, and in 1977 made a proposal to the University of California to build a telescope with a mirror 10 meters across, twice the size of the biggest telescope in the United States at the time.

KIPAC is leading the design and construction of the telescope's six - foot - tall, three - billion pixel camera — the biggest digital camera ever built.