Sentences with phrase «by telescopes»

In any case, that Pluto is a planet ain't decided by telescopes alone.

In an accompanying perspective article in Science, she and José Cernicharo of the Institute of Materials Science of Madrid explain that until now, most compounds in space have been detected by telescopes that scanned different wavelengths.

This 2.5 day course is designed to celebrate more than 50 years of contributions to the forefront of astronomy by the telescopes of the Green Bank Observatory and is open to educators of all disciplines.

This catalog shows what we dream of at Disk Detective: disks that have been «resolved» by telescopes.

Prizes: 10 complects (DVD's Eyes on the Skies, European Southern Observatory and 10 astronomical photografs, made by the Telescopes in National astronomical observatory - Rozhen, Bulgaria)

Sixth place Prizes: 10 complects (DVD's Eyes on the Skies, European Southern Observatory and 10 astronomical photografs, made by the Telescopes in National astronomical observatory - Rozhen, Bulgaria)

«With these missions we will learn about the most extreme states of matter by studying neutron stars and we will identify many nearby star systems with rocky planets in the habitable zone for further study by telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope.»

Then the work really started: we needed to understand which of our questions will be answered in the next decade or so by telescopes already being built (such as NASA's JWST, TESS, or the 30m - class ground - based telescopes)-- none of those questions were interesting for our report.

Matter that is too dim to be detected by telescopes.

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.

Although much progress will be made on these questions over the next two decades by telescopes being built now, we found that no telescope will be able to give us the complete picture: some will detect only close - in planets, others only dust disks, yet others only planets far out.

This brightening fluctuation can reveal the planet, which can be too faint, in some cases, to be seen by telescopes.

The «habitable zone» is the region around a star in which water on a planet's surface is liquid and signs of life can be remotely detected by telescopes.

By looking for unique chemical signatures in light and radio signals gathered by telescopes, researchers have observed more than 140 molecules — including increasingly complex organic ones — surrounding stars or in interstellar space.

An image recorded by our telescopes today tells us how that object looked long ago when its light was emitted.

«While the largest radio telescopes in the network contribute to the great sensitivity, the larger field of view provided by telescopes like the 25 - m radio telescopes in Sheshan and Nanshan (China), and in Onsala (Sweden) played a crucial role in the investigation, allowing us to simultaneously observe Swift J1644 +57 and a faint reference source,» he says.

Jonathan Grindlay, an astronomer at Harvard University, leads the Digital Access to a Sky Century at Harvard program, which will digitize more than 500,000 glass plates — some showing as many as 100,000 stars — taken by telescopes around the world between 1880 and 1985.

Black hole hair would change how such objects orbit near the hole, and these changes could be detectable by telescopes that will come online within the next decade.

When you see Jupiter shining in the night sky, for example, you're looking about an hour back in time, whereas the light from distant galaxies captured by telescopes today was emitted millions of years ago.

Previously, the oldest light gathered by telescopes emanated from galaxies formed a few billion years after the Big Bang.

In some cases the text is not as up to date as you might expect and in the chapters on Jupiter and Saturn particularly, it seems that too much attention is paid to older observations carried out by telescopes that are fairly obviously inadequate.

Most stars have such tails, as here imaged by telescopes.

Mikko Tuomi, of the University of Hertfordshire in England, and his colleagues examined data taken by telescopes in Chile, Hawaii and Australia that looks for wobbles in a star's movement that could be due to planets» gravitational tug.

«Because ultraviolet light from objects in space can be detected only by telescopes located outside Earth's atmosphere, Swift's UVOT telescope provided unique data on this event.

Most of the extrasolar planets that have been found by telescopes have been located in disks similar to the one around this unusual red dwarf.

Our knowledge of planetary, stellar and galactic systems will likely be rewritten by these telescopes, which will have exquisite resolution and a variety of instruments to record light at different wavelengths.

Enormous clouds of these tiny grains scatter and absorb some of the radiation emitted from the stars — especially visible light — limiting what can be seen by telescopes here on Earth.

In the spacecraft's first record - breaking accomplishment, reported June 16 in Science, the satellite used onboard lasers to beam down pairs of entangled particles, which have eerily linked properties, to two cities in China, where the particles were captured by telescopes (SN: 8/5/17, p. 14).

Black hole coalescences aren't expected to generate light that could be spotted by telescopes, but another prime candidate could: a smashup between two remnants of stars known as neutron stars.

The eyes of cephalopods, fish, amphibians, and snakes usually have fixed lens shapes, and focusing vision is achieved by telescoping the lens - similar to how a camera focuses.

Magnification is determined by your telescope's focal length (see above) and your eyepiece.

As a brown dwarf rotates, its clouds move in and out of the hemisphere seen by the telescope, causing changes in the brightness of the brown dwarf.

Most are found on the unseen far side of the Moon, but one famous swirl called Reiner Gamma can be seen by telescope on the southwestern corner of the Moon's near side.

Scientists from Auspace and the Mount Stromlo Observatory, which designed the experiments carried out by the telescope, will bring back from Florida the magnetic tapes containing the data collected by the telescope.

The light from the star is collected by the telescope and then passed through an instrument called a spectrograph, which splits the light into detailed rainbows, or spectra.

A beam tightly focused by a telescope could greatly outshine a planet's host star at a particular wavelength, Townes realized, popping out as clearly as a red laser pointer aimed at someone from across a stadium flooded with white lights.

A small amount of the light scatters back towards the LIDAR instrument, where it is collected by a telescope.

This is the region where gamma rays have the greatest chance of exiting the ergosphere and being detected by a telescope.

Each infrared wavelength in the range captured by the telescope will be assigned a color.

Construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on the Mauna Kea volcano will resume on Wednesday, 24 June, according to a statement issued Saturday by the telescope's governing board.

The FORTIS spectrographic element splits the light captured by the telescope into segments of varying wavelength intensity, which help scientists discern hydrogen emission and absorption.

The program documents some of the first observations made by the telescope, foreshadowing the scientific rewards that will be its heritage.

Looking through the data collected by the telescope, astronomers were able to detect a pattern of spikes for various life - supporting molecules: water, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, methanol, dimethyl ether, hydrogen cyanide, sulfur oxide and sulfur dioxide.

Other weird worlds discovered by the telescope include Kepler - 62e and Kepler - 62f, two water worlds that likely have a global ocean — as opposed to Earth, which has a significant fraction of dry land.

Just before sunset, the astronomers are joined by the telescope and instrument operator (TIO).

Kepler investigators, however, will get the second chance to look at planets discovered by the telescope during the second year of TESS's operations.

To commemorate the occasion, NASA and the European Space Agency released a stunning image of the aptly - named «Bubble Nebula,» captured in unprecedented detail by the telescope earlier this year.

On Friday, NASA released another such image captured by the telescope — a planetary nebula named NGC 2440 located roughly 4,000 light - years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Puppis.

Behold the lightest planet ever imaged by a telescope: an extremely young, Jovian - like planet that's twice the size of Jupiter.

He faced the same problems encountered by all telescope designers of the time: how do you keep your mirror in its ideal shape as it moves to different inclinations, while also dealing with wind and temperature variations?