Sentences with phrase «different telescopes»

Rumors have been swirling that such a case has occurred after astronomers last month trained several different telescopes on a particular galaxy.

Using a variety of data from different telescopes and armed with the new distance measurement, they determined that the neutron star is between 16 and 25 miles in diameter.

You might be wondering which telescope to buy or what different telescope terms actually mean.

Nii Are you making an argument that older ideas about the origin of the universe, ideas made before the invention of different telescopes expanded the range of our senses, are better than modern ones?

And Anglada - Escudé concludes: «These new results highlight how valuable it can be to re-analyse data in this way and combine results from different teams on different telescopes.»

By analyzing various plates taken with different telescopes over the past 100 years, along with records from ancient China, Korea and Japan, they were able to narrow down the candidate stars to just one.

The colored lines represent the paths of the stars moving behind MU69 as observed by different telescopes around the world.

After decades of study using different telescopes sensitive to a range of frequencies, astronomers thought these two types of AGN were one and the same — the reason for the two types was just a matter of perspective.

To maintain a single perfect focus in the Keck telescopes, for example, each mirror segment has several externally mounted actuators that deform the mirrors into the specific shapes required at different telescope orientations.

The scientists used an instrument called SPHERE on the Very Large Telescope (VLT)-- an array of four different telescopes run by the European Southern Observatory (ESO)-- to take the new images of infant solar systems and their protoplanetary disks.

Eight different telescopes followed up on the neutrino triplet, checking for some sign of the particles» origins.

Different moon filters fit different telescopes.

But to photograph Sagittarius A *'s event horizon — the region surrounding a black hole where not even light can escape a black hole's gravity — we need a technique that combines the power of many different telescopes.

On November 6, 2010, three teams of astronomers using three different telescopes tracking the occultation of a 17th - magnitude star in the north - central part of Constellation Cetus by Eris revealed preliminary results indicating that the dwarf planet may be smaller in diameter than Pluto after all, based on the unexpectedly short times of occultation reported.

Interferometry — combining light collected at the exact same time at several different telescopes — performed in infrared light is, so far, the only technique that allows this kind of system to be discovered and studied.

In the meantime, Zhao and her colleagues have succeeded in ruling out the presence of giant planets around either star, based on a decade's worth of data from three instruments on different telescopes.

«Various observations of one particular star over the years and with different telescopes have revealed vastly different things — at one time a pulsar and the other an X-ray binary,» said Alessandro Papitto of the Institute of Space Sciences (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas — Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya) in Barcelona, Spain, and lead author of a paper published in the journal Nature.

Modern astronomers often try to target many bands, using different telescopes, since each set of observations provides a complementary piece of the puzzle; this approach is called multi-wavelength astronomy.

RIGHT ROUND Dwarf galaxies near the giant galaxy Centaurus A, shown here in a composite of images from three different telescopes, seem to orbit it in an unexpectedly organized loop.

However, different telescopes have observed a bright light source at the location of the stars» collision, which provides clear evidence against the hypothesis of collapse.

Optical interferometry at CHARA requires collecting the light beams from six different telescopes, sifting through multiple gigabytes of data, and then combining the beams to synthesize the kind of image that otherwise would be possible only with an enormous space telescope.

The MIT - led team looked through data collected by two different telescopes and identified a curious pattern in the energy emitted by the flare: As the obliterated star's dust fell into the black hole, the researchers observed small fluctuations in the optical and ultraviolet (UV) bands of the electromagnetic spectrum.

But by using a method where you gather images from several different telescopes that you observe simultaneously, you can get far more details than you could achieve with even with the largest telescopes individually.

This image combines data from five different telescopes: The VLA (radio) in red; Spitzer Space Telescope (infrared) in yellow; Hubble Space Telescope (visible) in green; XMM - Newton (ultraviolet) in blue; and Chandra X-ray Observatory (X-ray) in purple.

«Every day, I was working on a different telescope and with a different form of light,» she says.

«If you get the same result from two different patches, two different telescopes, and two different foregrounds, then it's much more convincing.»

First, they winnowed the dozen objects studied by Sheppard and Trujillo to the six most distant — discovered by six different surveys on six different telescopes.

Different telescopes and observational techniques are great for answering different questions: no telescope can do it all.

These photographers can mount and hook up recording instruments to different telescopes of varying magnification levels in order to improve imaging power.

The supermassive black hole at the core of the spiral galaxy NGC 4151 has created an odd structure — seen here in a composite photo combining images taken by several different telescopes — that some astronomers have dubbed «The Eye of Sauron.»

Researchers using three different telescopes — NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM - Newton in space, and the Parkes radio telescope in Australia — may have found the fastest moving pulsar ever seen.

«These new results highlight how valuable it can be to re-analyze data in this way and combine results from different teams on different telescopes,» Anglada - Escudé said.

The different telescopes provided different views, which could be combined to get the best insight yet into the nature of this unusual object.

In our pilot study we are characterizing the photometric precision and reliability of the different telescopes to identify the ideal setup and any necessary modifications for the efficient EDEN survey.

Professional astronomers took over and observed KIC 8462852 with different telescopes and instruments to try to figure out what was going on.

Astronomers combined images taken with three different telescopes to produce this one.

To achieve this goal, the Legacy Surveys are conducting 3 imaging projects on different telescopes, described in more depth at the following links: