Sentences with phrase «first research telescope»
WIYN 0.9 - meter telescope A consortium of three universities (Wisconsin, Indiana, and Yale) and one institution (National Optical Astronomy Observatory) recently upgraded Kitt Peak's first research telescope, which began operating in 1962.
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Although perhaps my area of research may appear cryptic, the underlying concept is surprisingly easy to grasp, and visually impactful; I find that an image taken though the telescope or a simulation video impresses people just as much as it first impressed me.
The father of the space telescope, astrophysicist Lyman Spitzer, first proposed the idea in 1946, championed it in the halls of Congress in the 1970s, and lived to conduct research with it before his death in 1997.
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 holes.
Harriet's first postdoctoral position was as a National Research Council fellow at the NASA Ames Research Center in California, which at that time was home base for the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, a flying telescope that was the forerunner of SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy that is currently being built.
Since 1998, when Antu, the first of the unit telescopes, saw its first light, the VLT has been at the forefront of astronomical research.
In this phase, the telescope will be used for scientific research for the first time, even though it is still under construction.
For these reservation - required events, a group of 15 participants get to use this large research - grade telescope first - hand.
VDOE's Share the Skies initiative is the nation's first statewide program enabling students to study astronomy during the day using research - grade telescopes.