Sentences with phrase «first is the telescope»

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Thompson said this new Kepler data analysis would be the last for this leg of the telescope's first observations.

Joel Achenbach at the Washington Post was the first to report the NRO had given the two «exquisite» flight - qualified telescopes — which it didn't need anymore — to NASA just over a week ago:

«Oumuamua (official designation 1I / 2017 U1 - the «I» is for «interstellar») was first spotted by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii in late October, and it didn't take long for astrophysicists to figure out that both its trajectory and its velocity indicated that it was an extrasolar stranger, perhaps flung out by a neighboring star.

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This is the first stroller that has a unique frame that telescopes in and out to turn the stroller the length of a single to the length of a double in seconds.

The first complaint is about the telescoping handle with a couple of reviews saying that the button on the handle that controls the telescope doesn't work.

Those observations, using the ginormous Gemini 8 - meter telescope, were among the first exoplanets directly imaged (as opposed to inferred using indirect techniques), and they made up the first exoplanet solar system ever directly seen.

In the spacecraft's first record - breaking accomplishment, reported June 16 in Science, the satellite used onboard lasers to beam down pairs of entangled particles, which have eerily linked properties, to two cities in China, where the particles were captured by telescopes (SN: 8/5/17, p. 14).

The first thing you'll notice about this rod is it's telescoping.

One size fits all This is not the first time astronomers have lobbied for such a large space telescope.

A far - flung star's extra wink, spotted in data from the Kepler space telescope and further probed by the Hubble Space Telescope, may be the first evidence for an exomoon — a moon orbiting a planet orbiting a distant star.

A far - flung space telescope is peering into galactic nuclei to spot one for the first time

Don't cry for the crippled Kepler space telescope — it was always meant to be the first word in planetary discovery, not the last.

But without the right preparation and knowledge it can also be frustrating to use your first telescope.

You can't see a black hole directly, but you can see its shadow — and now vast telescopes are ready to get their first glimpse of the cosmic monster at the heart of our galaxy

The flare was first discovered on Nov. 11, 2014, and scientists have since trained a variety of telescopes on the event to learn more about how black holes grow and evolve.

With $ 25,000, help from volunteers, donations of equipment — and despite a fire that nearly destroyed the observatory while it was under construction — «first light» (the first time a telescope is used to make an astronomical observation) was achieved in early 2000.

This new picture celebrates an important anniversary for the Very Large Telescope — it is fifteen years since the first light on the first of its four Unit Telescopes, on 25 May 1998.

Discovery of the gamma - ray «bang» from FRB 131104, the first non-radio counterpart to any FRB, was made possible by NASA's Earth - orbiting Swift satellite, which was observing the exact part of the sky where FRB 131104 occurred as the burst was detected by the Parkes Observatory radio telescope in Parkes, Australia.

Researchers are rushing around this brand - new compound of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in anticipation of the launch of the nation's first X-ray telescope.

Plain ol' Earth - size worlds, the first of which are now trickling into our exoplanet catalogs, will remain too small for our telescopes to study in any detail for years to come.

So far not precluding a starshade closely resembles a concerted effort to build one: when NASA first announced the formal start of WFIRST, it also confirmed that the telescope would be launched into an orbit 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, where conditions are tranquil enough for a starshade to function.

The star was discovered using the ANU SkyMapper telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory, which is searching for ancient stars as it conducts a five - year project to produce the first digital map the southern sky.

«It's like the first time a telescope was pointed at the sky.»

The team will also make modifications to the telescope's instrumentation, which will allow scientists to look even further back in time, to before there were enough stars to form galaxies, when the very first population of very massive objects began to blossom.

A transit was first seen in 1631, two decades after the invention of the telescope, by French astronomer Pierre Gassendi.

Kepler 10b: Kepler's Calling Card Announced in January 2011, Kepler 10b was the mission's first discovery of a small, rocky planet, proof of the Kepler telescope's planet - hunting prowess.

The first camera to be completed and go on the telescope is going to find all the low - hanging fruit.

The poet Alfred Noyes, who was at Mount Wilson on November 1, 1917, when the completed telescope first turned to the sky, later wrote of the scientists: «Where was the gambler that would stake so much, — / Time, patience, treasure, on a single throw?

Physics was the first science to be transformed by accurate information, first with telescopes that revealed the heavens and culminating in massive modern - day experiments like the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland.

Data from the BICEP2 telescope (shown) may have provided the first evidence of gravitational waves and cosmic inflation, but scientists aren't sure how galactic dust affects the signal.

During an evening telescope workshop, a University College London professor and his four undergraduates spotted the first type Ia supernova to be discovered in 4 decades.

When completed around 2024, the telescope will be able to image the Universe at the time when the first stars and galaxies began to form.

The first evidence for an exomoon — a moon orbiting a planet orbiting a distant star — may have been spotted in data from the Kepler space telescope.

He persuaded Caltech to install an 18 - inch Schmidt telescope that became the first astronomical instrument on Mount Palomar, and soon national media were regularly keeping a running tab of how many «star suicides» his survey of the heavens had discovered and how bright they were: 400 to 600 million times as luminous as the sun.

Jupiter's radiation belts prevent ground - based telescopes from seeing deeper, and so scientists are relying on Juno's daring, swooping polar orbit to provide one of the first views into the deep underworld of Jupiter's atmosphere.

Ever since LIGO announced the first gravitational - wave event in early 2016, networks of small telescopes around the world have been poised to detect an «optical counterpart.»

But in the near future new large telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to be launched in 2018, will be able to detect the first explosions of stars in the Universe, and may be able to identify them using this method.

«It's like Galileo pointing the first telescope to the sky.

Or the survey for astronomy might continue on schedule without knowing whether Webb will be successful, particularly if it treats the troubled telescopes as first and foremost a cautionary tale against similarly ambitious future missions.

Meanwhile, astronomers at the Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico were detecting the burst's radio - wave aftermath, another first.

The 10,000 th near - Earth object, asteroid 2013 MZ5, was first detected on the night of June 18, 2013, by the Pan-STARRS-1 telescope, located on the 10,000 - foot (convert) summit of the Haleakala crater on Maui.

The first orbiting facility of its kind, for 27 years the telescope has been exploring the wonders of the cosmos.

The last one seen in our galaxy was recorded by Johannes Kepler in 1604, five years before Galileo turned his first telescope skyward.

(He was the first to use a telescope to formally observe the sky, though.)

The Kepler space telescope has bagged its first confirmed planet since being benched in the summer of 2013 by a broken part used to steady the spacecraft (SN: 9/21/13, p. 18).

In spring 2003, the center of our Galaxy and the remnants of the explosion of a massive star were the first two sources identified by HESS's Cherenkov telescopes, then still being tested.

Enthusiasts began searching for such signals from nearby stars in the early 1990s, but the new telescope will be the first to examine the entire sky for artificial pulses of light.

The resolving power of modern telescopes has exceeded Einstein's expectations; the first gravitational lens was discovered in 1979 from ground - based observations.

Located 620 light - years away, it is the first planet found by NASA's Kepler space telescope to reside in its star's habitable zone — a region that can support liquid water, a key requirement for life on Earth.