Sentences with phrase «first large telescope»

The 2.2 - meter telescope was the first large telescope constructed on Mauna Kea.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The domes housing each of the four 8 - metre mirrors that make up the Very Large Telescope spin around almost silently, and mighty doors slide open to give the telescopes their first glimpse of the emerging stars.

This success for the team comes after the first 178 hours of observing time with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope for a new survey of the sky called the «COSMOS HI Large Extragalactic Survey», or CHILES for short.

Large ripples, loops and arcs embedded in the starry outer envelope were first observed in the 1970s, and they remain an active field of study for contemporary astronomers, who use the latest telescope technology to observe the finer details of NGC 1316's unusual structure through a combination of imaging and modelling.

But the small telescope may be better at looking even farther into the past than the larger arrays, allowing it to look at hydrogen atoms heated by the very first stars, Bowman says.

The Australian SKA Pathfinder telescope (ASKAP), a precursor to the much larger Square Kilometre Array (SKA) which will begin construction later this decade, today released its first images of the southern sky.

«Large astronomical projects such as the space telescopes Euclid or eRosita, which are to be launched in the next few years, will observe large areas of the Universe, as well as provide further insight into the evolution of the first structures of the Universe so that the significance of cosmological hydrodynamic simulations will even increase in future,» says Klaus DLarge astronomical projects such as the space telescopes Euclid or eRosita, which are to be launched in the next few years, will observe large areas of the Universe, as well as provide further insight into the evolution of the first structures of the Universe so that the significance of cosmological hydrodynamic simulations will even increase in future,» says Klaus Dlarge areas of the Universe, as well as provide further insight into the evolution of the first structures of the Universe so that the significance of cosmological hydrodynamic simulations will even increase in future,» says Klaus Dolag.

Supersize ground telescopes — such as the Thirty Meter Telescope planned for Mauna Kea, Hawaii, and the European Extremely Large Telescope, spanning 42 meters (140 feet)-- will help astronomers probe the properties of the first galaxies, starting around 2018.

The world's largest telescope is about to catch its first glimpse of outer space.

The puzzle first emerged when Rudnick, who had decided to study a large cold spot in the cosmic microwave background, found some strange data in a radio telescope survey of distant galaxies.

The joint research team led by graduate student and JSPS fellow Takuma Izumi at the Graduate School of Science at the University of Tokyo revealed for the first time — with observational data collected by ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array), in Chile, and other telescopes — that dense molecular gas disks occupying regions as large as a few light years at the centers of galaxies are supplying gas directly to the supermassive black hLarge Millimeter / submillimeter Array), in Chile, and other telescopes — that dense molecular gas disks occupying regions as large as a few light years at the centers of galaxies are supplying gas directly to the supermassive black hlarge as a few light years at the centers of galaxies are supplying gas directly to the supermassive black holes.

The JRAF is a community of the Japanese radio astronomers, which was established in 1970 with the aim of realizing the first large - scale radio telescope.

Using data collected from the W. M. Keck Observatory, the largest optical telescopes in the world, researchers led by Neil Crighton (MPIA and Swinburne University of Technology) have now made the first unambiguous detection of this accretion of pristine gas onto a star - forming galaxy, that was previously theorized to exist based on cosmological simulations of galaxy formation.

The twin 10 - metre Keck telescopes were the first test of Nelson's segmented mirror design — each with 36 tiles — followed by the 9.2 - metre mirrors of the Hobby - Eberly Telescope and the South African Large Telescope, and the 10.4 - metre Grand Canaries Telescope.

The Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) joins for the first time the Global mm - VLBI Array (GMVA) and the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), Earth - sized virtual observatories, which are made possible by an international collaboration of radio telescopes.

The first serious SETI search was made in 1960 by the radio astronomer Frank Drake, and SETI has continued on the world's largest telescopes ever since.

When the National Radio Astronomy Observatory was first founded, it was with the understanding that, fairly quickly, it should be able to offer the world a large, single dish radio telescope.

ALMA joins the Global Millimeter VLBI Array (GMVA) and the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) The Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) joins for the first time the Global mm - VLBI Array (GMVA) and the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), Earth - sized virtual observatories, which are made possible by an international collaboration of radio telescopes.

«This is the first time anyone has seen anything like this, and it means that the process of forming planets from such disks is more complex than we previously expected,» said Anthony Remijan, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, who with his colleague Jan M. Hollis, of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, used the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array radio telescope to make the discovery.

The Event Horizon Telescope has probed the neighborhood of each of these behemoths before, but this is the first time the network has included the South Pole telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA), a group of 66 radio dishes in Chile.

The twin 10 - metre Keck telescopes were the first test of Nelson's segmented mirror design — each with 36 tiles — followed by the 9.2 - meter mirrors of the Hobby - Eberly Telescope and the South African Large Telescope, and the 10.4 - meter Grand Canaries Telescope.

With the first detailed observations through imaging interferometry of a lava lake on Io, Jupiter's innermost Galilean moon, the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory places itself as the forerunner of the next generation of extremely large telescLarge Binocular Telescope Observatory places itself as the forerunner of the next generation of extremely large telesclarge telescopes.

When the Green Bank, West Virginia site was first purchased in 1957, large telescopes were still being planned, and the first would not come into operation until 1959.

Another week would pass before the Very Large Array radio telescopes in New Mexico detected the first radio signals from the merger.

Within the first year of GBI observations, the major astronomy report from the National Academy of Sciences recommended the immediate funding and building of a large - scale radio telescope array as a national science facility.

Astronomers have used the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array radio telescope to make the first detection of radio emission from a cosmic gamma - ray burst.

The 42 - foot telescope was hauled first to a location 8 miles from its larger siblings.

Stellar beginnings are shrouded in dust and difficult to observe, and the next generation of large telescopes will offer transformative opportunities to understand this first chapter of the star formation story.

The first images of an exoplanet in 2004 (2M1207b) and a family of exoplanets in 2008 (HR 8799) demonstrated the powerful ability of adaptive optics on large ground - based telescopes to spot massive exoplanets.

The first Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics system on a large telescope was commissioned on the Keck II telescope in 2004 and, among many other firsts, helped reveal the black hole at the center of the Milky Way — one the most significant astronomical discoveries.

While the concept won't get the same scientific return as say a flagship - style mission or a large, ground - based telescope, it could enable first order of scientific investigations or be flown as a constellation of similarly equipped CubeSats, added Kostiuk.

Right on schedule, a handful of X-rays were detected by NASA's orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory nine days after the merger; 16 days post-merger, Caltech assistant professor of astronomy Gregg Hallinan and his colleagues picked up the first radio photons with the Very Large Array, a collection of 27 radio telescopes in New Mexico operated by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

For these reservation - required events, a group of 15 participants get to use this large research - grade telescope first - hand.

A powerful new array of radio telescopes is being deployed for the first time this week, as the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile joins a global network of antennas poised to make some of the highest resolution images that astronomers have ever obtained.

The first one will harness the largest telescopes present on the Earth, to all the data from the Milky Way, nearest million stars and 100 galaxies.