Sentences with phrase «distant galaxies using»

Now the researchers hope that future observations of a large number of distant galaxies using the ALMA telescopes could help unravel how frequently such evolved galaxies occur in this very early epoch of the history of the universe.

When the astronomers looked at several distant galaxies using the New Technology Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile and two telescopes at the Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales, they found that their observations tied in exactly with Dopita's predictions.

Research co-author Professor Liliya Williams, of the University of Minnesota, said: «We got a higher resolution view of the distant galaxy using ALMA than from even the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Astronomers exploit this property of space to use the clusters as a zoom lens to magnify the images of far - more - distant galaxies that otherwise would be too faint to be seen.

To locate the source, a group directed by Puget and David L. Clements in Paris has started the first far - infrared search for distant galaxies, using the European Space Agency's Infrared Space Observatory (ISO).

In fact, though, von Humboldt was not the first to use the term Weltinseln to refer to the nebulae as distant galaxies.

It has been used to detect planets around distant stars within the Milky Way galaxy, and was among the first methods used to confirm Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.

The other method, practised by Riess and his colleagues, measures how distant galaxies appear to recede from us as the universe expands, using stars and supernovae of known brightness to gauge the distance to those galaxies.

Using the Very Large Array of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in the US, the team observed radio emission from hydrogen in a distant galaxy and found that it would have contained billions of young, massive stars surrounded by clouds of hydrogen gas.

The team made a 3 - D map by collecting light from over 70,000 galaxies, peering all the way into the distant universe, and by using this light to measure how far these galaxies are from our own Milky Way.

It is primarily used to study infrared rays — slightly longer than visible light — from young stars and distant galaxies.

Using the European Very Large Telescope (VLT), a French - Italian team of astronomers has found many more galaxies in the distant past than had been previously observed.

Researchers then used computer software to unwarp SPD.81's smudge and, for the first time for such a distant galaxy, discern small areas of intense star formation, some less than 150 light - years across.

It is also possible to use the way the gravity of clusters of galaxies distort more distant background galaxies, weak gravitational lensing, as another tracer.

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, the international team of collaborators peered across cosmic time to observe 65 distant galaxy clusters whose light has taken billions of years to reach Earth.

Astronomer George Djorgovski of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena used adaptive optics on the 10 - meter Keck telescope, also on Mauna Kea, to reveal orbiting pairs of black holes in 16 distant galaxies.

Distant galaxy J1415 +1320 dimmed and brightened over the course of a year in 2009 and 2014 (shaded regions), causing a U-shaped dip in the data used to track its brightness.

An international team used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope array to observe gas clouds in a very distant galaxy.

An international team of astronomers, led by Imperial College London, used a new way of combining data from the two European Space Agency satellites, Planck and Herschel, to identify more distant galaxy clusters than has previously been possible.

This image of Abell 2744 is the first to come from Hubble's Frontier Fields observing programme, which is using the magnifying power of enormous galaxy clusters to peer deep into the distant Universe.

The flare from a recent supernova has been used to map out a distant galaxy in 3D.

Radio astronomers have used a radio telescope network the size of the Earth to zoom in on a unique phenomenon in a distant galaxy: a jet activated by a star being consumed by a supermassive black hole.

To do so, they used the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) to look at distant galaxies seen as they were some 10 billion years ago.

The Atacama Large Millimeter / Submillimeter Array (ALMA), a massive observatory now under construction five kilometers above sea level in Chile, should further illuminate the workings of distant galaxies when it opens for scientific use in 2011.

Rather than studying bright stars, the two students used Hubble Space Telescope data from 274 dwarf stars, which were serendipitously observed by the orbiting observatory while it was looking for the most distant galaxies in the early Universe.

For instance, look at the recent use of the Cosmic Evolution Survey, using the Hubble Space Telescope to study gravitational lensings [in which the gravitational pull of galaxies and dark matter bends the light from more distant objects] in an area of the sky nine times the apparent surface area of the full moon.

In addition to studying distant stars and galaxies, scientists use the Arecibo telescope to detect and track objects that pass close to Earth.

19 Today general relativity is so well understood that it is used to weigh galaxies and locate distant planets by the way they bend light.

Astronomers also use NIRC2 to map surface features of solar system bodies, detect planets orbiting other stars, and study detailed morphology of distant galaxies.

Researchers were able to confirm characteristics of the Little Cub galaxy using Keck Observatory's Low Resolution Imaging Spectrograph, a faint - light instrument capable of taking spectra and images of the most distant known objects in the universe.

Hubble was used to observe ultraviolet, visible and near - infrared wavelengths, but only with Spitzer have we been able to jump through the cosmic dust and clutter to see distant reaches of the galaxy with such amazing clarity.

Science Interests Formation of galaxies and black holes in the early universe and their growth over cosmic time; large surveys with Hubble and other telescopes to discover new populations of distant galaxies and black holes; physical properties of active galactic nuclei using observations from radio, infrared, optical, ultraviolet through to X-ray energies.

The SpARCS team have developed new techniques using Spitzer Space Telescope infrared observations to identify hundreds of previously - undiscovered clusters of galaxies in the distant Universe.»

«Using the Hubble Space telescope, astronomers have detected light from the most distant object yet found — a fledgling galaxy that existed when the Universe was just over 420 million years old.»

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) have discovered jets of plasma blasted from the cores of distant galaxies at speeds within one - tenth of one percent of the speed of light, placing these plasma jets among the fastest objects yet seen in the Universe.

Supergiant luminosities are not as well known or uniform as the Type Ia supernovae, so astronomers prefer to use the Type Ia supernovae to derive the distances to the very distant galaxies.

Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes discovered swarms of similar quasars hiding in dusty galaxies in the distant universe.

Hubble's latest discovery of 250 faint galaxies — formed 600 million to 900 million years after the Big Bang — in the early universe using three galaxy clusters to magnify the light given off by these distant objects.

A galaxy could be used as magnifying glass as light from a distant galaxy is warped around the closer object.

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array is used to study the formation of planets, stars, distant galaxies, galaxy clusters and interstellar matter.

By studying the statistical properties of the shapes of very distant galaxies and quasars, astronomers can use the effects of weak lensing to study the distribution of dark matter in the universe.

AMiBA, a millimeter interferometer like ALMA, was constructed by ASIAA (Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics) and National Taiwan University for polarimetry of microwave background radiation and detection of distant clusters of galaxies using the Sunyaev Zeldovich effect.

It was also used to observe several hundred specific radio sources, such as quasars and distant galaxies.

«We are using the massive amounts of dark matter surrounding galaxies half - way across the Universe as cosmic telescopes to make even more distant galaxies appear bigger and brighter.»

While probing space in depth — let us bear in mind that the further we look, the more we go back in time — ALMA detects the glow of tepid dust present in the most distant galaxies, i.e., the earliest ones, with better resolution than could be possible in the deepest observations using visible or infrared light.

I use gravitational lensing to search for distant galaxies in Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescope images.

My research focuses on the formation and evolution of distant galaxies, often using Hubble observations.

MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — An International team led by scientists at ETH Zurich in Switzerland used the W. M. Keck Observatory to study the role of star formation rates in metal contents of distant galaxies.

Although the signal is extremely weak and so very fuzzy, the astronomers have been able to enhance it using techniques they normally apply to observations of distant galaxies and produce a video of the planet's surface.

The scientists used the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to study a star - forming galaxy that lies directly between a more - distant quasar and Earth.