Sentences with phrase «existing telescopes»

To verify its capability, astronomers observe well - known objects and compare the results with those with existing telescopes.

On one side is an established engineering team, led by a veteran optics expert responsible for the nation's largest existing telescope, that is eager to push ahead with an ambitious design.

«It's remarkable what we can do by pushing the limits of existing telescopes and instruments, despite the complications posed by the Earth's own turbulent atmosphere,» says study co-author Ray Jayawardhana of York Univerity in Canada.

Telescopes in Arizona, California and Hawaii are already connected in this way, and Doeleman soon hopes to bring other existing telescopes, at a half - dozen or so spots around the globe, into the EHT fold.

Earlier in the evening, organizer Kahele Dukelow vowed to continue to oppose future construction and to ultimately bring existing telescopes down.

«Even though many of the astronomers assumed that this would be a fertile high - mass star forming region, we couldn't probe the kinematics of gas around high - mass protostars at the level of resolution provided by existing telescopes,» Higuchi said.

Astronomers are now using the largest existing telescopes on the ground and in space to better assess the composition, size and shape of the newly discovered ancient galaxies.

It can collect data faster for dimmer objects than existing telescopes in the Space Surveillance Network.

The board placed 43 conditions on the permit, including a previously negotiated plan requiring the University of Hawaii to decommission three existing telescopes atop Mauna Kea, where the TMT is to be built, and barring any future telescopes on the mountain.

There are relatively few candidate stars that are young enough, bright enough to view in sufficient detail with existing telescopes and still retain circumstellar disks of gas and dust from which planets form.

ALMA can produce a high - resolution image of the universe by receiving weak radio signals with a sensitivity 100 times higher and a resolution (corresponding to a visual acuity of the human eye) several tens of times higher than other existing telescopes.

It means that the earth on which we live is not the center of the physical universe, but a comparatively small planet revolving round a very average - sized star, which in turn is but one of a hundred thousand million others forming the galaxy we call the Milky Way, and that part of the universe that our existing telescopes have so far penetrated contains about a hundred million star systems or nebulae, similar to our galaxy.

«Even using just the first 16 of its 66 antennas, ALMA will already surpass the capabilities of all existing telescopes of its kind, and will provide new insights into star formation as well as the origins of galaxies and planets,» says Paola Andreani, manager of the European ALMA Regional Centre at the European Southern Observatory.

It included a call to remove about one - quarter of Mauna Kea's 13 existing telescopes and alter the management of some of the volcano's summit.

That decision had been expected after ESO's site selection committee declared in March that Armazones was its favored location — all of ESO's existing telescopes have been built in Chile.

Enough to devote an appreciable effort with existing telescopes to search for life elsewhere in the universe?

To detect an unambiguous signal of something like oxygen, for example, is beyond the scope of any existing telescope, says Kipping.

Clouds are intrinsically complex and multi-dimensional structures; however, no existing telescope can spatially resolve brown dwarfs.

WFIRST was designed around repurposing an existing telescope about as big as the Hubble Space Telescope.

Such a telescope could have three times the diameter, 10 times the light - collecting area and 80 times the near - infrared sensitivity compared to existing telescopes, assuming that it used the adaptive optics technology which

Using just 16 of the 66 state - of - the - art antennas that will be in the completed array, it will already surpass the capabilities of all existing telescopes of its kind.

Such a telescope could have three times the diameter, 10 times the light - collecting area and 80 times the near - infrared sensitivity compared to existing telescopes, assuming that it used the adaptive optics technology which eliminates the atmosphere's blur effect.

There are other existing telescopes that observe millimeter / submillimeter waves, but ALMA is an outstanding telescope with exceptionally high sensitivity and resolution capable of imaging the unknown universe that was never possible to see before.

TMT is expected to deliver sharper and deeper images than existing telescopes both on the ground and in space.