Sentences with phrase «centimeter telescope»

The scientists were using a small, 26 - centimeter telescope but surrounded it with material cooled to a few degrees above absolute zero so that it would be sensitive enough to measure subtle patterns in the incredibly weak background radiation.

A privately backed organization called Project Blue is seeking $ 70 million to build and launch a 50 - centimeter telescope that would stare at Alpha Centauri.

Depending on future funding, the initial BlackGEM array of three 65 - centimeter telescopes may be expanded to five or even to 15 instruments in the years to come.

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.

Not exact matches

By finding places in the sky where radio telescopes pick up these 21 - centimeter emissions, astronomers can identify light from faraway, hydrogen - rich regions so ancient they date back to the era when stars were starting to form.

MeerLICHT, a 65 - centimeter optical telescope, is expected to help identify the sources of fast radio bursts (FRBs)-- extremely brief, energetic flashes of radio waves from remote galaxies.

Though the French won the race into orbit, Kepler will have a telescope measuring 95 centimeters (37.4 inches), 3.5 times the diameter of Corot's, with a field of view more than 10 times as large.

The spacecraft's 27 - centimeter (10.6 - inch) telescope monitors up to 12,000 sunlike stars at once.

That distinctive «21 centimeter» radiation can be traced with a radio telescope even if the scope does not have enough angular resolution to resolve individual galaxies, Chang says.

The group plans to deploy a small proof - of - concept experiment on the ISS, with a small, 20 - centimeter version of the EUSO telescope and a laser with 100 fibers.

An international team, using telescopes in Hawaii and Chile, detected movement in the star — at speeds as low as 30 centimeters per second — caused by the gravity of the orbiting planets.

That careful timekeeping enables scientists at Haystack to correlate observations made at different spots on Earth's surface, taking into account the curvature of the Earth and the location of each telescope to within a centimeter.

When all 36 dishes of ASKAP are operational, it will be 25 times faster still and will be the world's top survey telescope at centimeter wavelengths.

Using their laser on the 3.5 - meter telescope at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico like a radar, they immediately measured the distance from Earth to the reflector to within a centimeter.

The principle idea is to use a radio telescope to map neutral hydrogen, which emits or absorbs radio waves with a wavelength of 21 centimeters.

Unfortunately the largest operating telescope is only 60 centimeters [24 inches] in diameter, but there are plans to build a 3 - meter [118 - inch] telescope in Kashan, a desert town in central Iran.

The 45 - centimeter Dutch Open Telescope (DOT) could open the door to bigger solar optical telescopes by eliminating the need for putting the telescope mirror in a vacuum to prevent heat from distorting the image.

Astrochemistry & Molecular Spectroscopy: During its years of science observations, the 140 - foot telescope detected nearly one half of all known molecules that naturally radiate at centimeter wavelengths.

Astronomers are able to use radio telescopes to detect the characteristic 21 - centimeter radiation emitted naturally by neutral atomic hydrogen.

Supplementing the space telescopes, researchers also observed the star in visible light during the same period using AstroLAB IRIS, a public observatory with a 27 - inch - wide (68 centimeter) reflecting telescope located near the Belgian village of Zillebeke.

I am open to correction on this, but as best I can tell, the Hubble telescope would have something like 15 - centimeter resolving power if it were pointed at something on the Earth, like the Statue of Liberty (if you are a telescope expert, please write in and correct me if I am wrong).

The observatory resembles a Greek temple and is home to a 15 - centimeter (6 - inch) refractor in the dome and 16 - centimeter (6.4 - inch) transit telescope in the east wing.

Altrock sifted through 40 years of observations from NSO's 16 - inch (40 centimeters) coronagraphic telescope.