Sentences with phrase «faint objects at»

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They found 126 fast - moving, faint objects and then tracked them for 4 nights from the 4 - meter Blanco telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.

Scientists have now had a first look at most of the survey area, but data from the next three years of the survey will likely allow them to find objects that are even fainter, more diffuse or farther away.

To help pull in faint objects, Chandra contains a series of nested mirrors that each funnel X-rays to a sharp focus at its narrow end, where a camera sits.

XMM - Newton is on a distended orbit that takes it one - third of the way to the moon; this keeps it out of Earth's shadow long enough to stay pointed at — and collecting photons from — the same faint object for more than a day.

«Thanks to this detection, the team has been able to study for the first time the properties of extremely faint objects formed not long after the big bang,» said lead author Leopoldo Infante, an astronomer at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile).

«It's five times fainter than any other object detected with ground - based spectroscopy at this wavelength,» Skemer said.

Still, the zodiacal light illuminates the heavens there and obscures faint objects; it is the main diffuse background at visible wavelengths.

This more sensitive survey will reach objects at least 10 times fainter than the all - sky survey.

Instead of looking at distant and faint objects for long periods to get enough light, LSST will look at things that change fast.

David Jewitt of the University of Hawaii and Jane Luu, now at Stanford University, found a faint slow - moving object beyond the orbit of Pluto a year ago, and a second in March.

Deep Ecliptic Survey In this study, a mosaic of eight CCD detectors coupled to the 3.8 - meter Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona, scanned for faint Kuiper belt objects as small as 30 miles in diameter.

It is one of the faintest objects in the sky, discovered using a 25» Schmidt camera in 1952 by G.A Shajn and V.E. Hase at the Crimean Astrophyical Observatory at Simeis (in the former U.S.S.R).

When Webb turns its attention to extremely faint, faraway objects, it will take a long time — at least a day, or as long as a week — for NIRSpec to collect enough light to see a good spectrum.

Adaptive optics images made with ARIES at the MMT of 87 Kepler Objects of Interest place limits on the presence of fainter stars in or near the Kepler aperture.

Adaptive optics images made with ARIES at the MMT of 87 Kepler Objects of Interest place limits on the presence of fainter stars in or near the Kepler... ▽ More The Kepler mission has revolutionized our understanding of exoplanets, but some of the planet candidates identified by Kepler may actually be astrophysical false positives or planets whose transit depths are diluted by the presence of another star.

The JWST, a joint NASA / ESA / CSA venture that is due to launch in 2018, has a primary mirror (partially pictured at the top of the story) that's about five times larger than Hubble's, meaning it can resolve much fainter signals, locating stars and other objects that have never been seen before.

A faint, slowly moving dot discovered by computer shows clear signs of being a deep Solar System object at least as large as Pluto.

For a fainter object such as HR8799d, a 13 ~ \ MJ planet at a distance of 27 ~ AU, IRDIS could obtain a relative astrometric error of 3 ~ mas.

Once more massive and brighter than Gacrux and so burnt out much faster, it is now probably a few hundred times fainter than Sol, with 0.6 to 1.4 times its mass and less than one percent of its diameter — a very dense object at planetary size.

My colleagues and I were using the Echellette Spectrograph and Imager (ESI) instrument, which looks at faint objects in the visible wavelengths, to study star clusters and small galaxies.

Quick follow - up observations undertaken with the 8.2 - m Antu instrument at European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in the Paranal and the 1.5 - meter Danish telescope at La Silla identified a faint, point - like object in visible light that was fading rapidly, the optical counterpart of the gamma - ray burst called the «afterglow» (Pedersen et al, 2000).

Initial data came from the TRENDS (TaRgetting bENchmark - objects with Doppler Spectroscopy) high - contrast imaging survey that uses adaptive optics and related technologies to target older, faint objects orbiting nearby stars, and precise measurements were made at the W. M. Keck Observatory on the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

A new analysis of galaxy colors, however, indicates that the farthest objects in the deep fields must be extremely intense, unexpectedly bright knots of blue - white, hot newborn stars embedded in primordial proto - galaxies that are too faint to be seen even by Hubble's far vision — as if only the lights on a distant Christmas tree were seen and so one must infer the presence of the whole tree (more discussion at: STScI; and Lanzetta et al, 2002).

This was necessary because if the telescope were not cooled down, its own thermal radiation at infrared wavelengths would swamp the much fainter radiation from astronomical objects.

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