Sentences with phrase «first space telescope»

«Spitzer is the first space telescope to make a microlens parallax measurement for a planet,» says Yee.

It is the first Canadian scientific satellite in orbit in 33 years, and it is the first space telescope to be entirely designed and built in Canada.

The NuSTAR satellite will be the first space telescope capable of focusing high - energy x-rays into high - quality imagery — a feat that requires some incredibly intricate optics

Not exact matches

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 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 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

So Aderin - Pocock enrolled in a build - your - own - telescope class in London, where she made her first space instrument.

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

In 2011, the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope became the first Earth - based telescope to snap an image of the auroras on Uranus.

The team observed the star with the infrared Spitzer and ultraviolet Swift space telescopes from October 2015 to December 2016 — the first observations in multiple wavelengths of light.

But in March, the European Space Agency announced that its orbiting Planck telescope had taken the temperature of 50 million tiny patches of sky, creating the highest - resolution baby picture of the whole universe ever taken, and allowing astronomers to better understand the first moments after the Big Bang.

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.

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.

By next spring, the planet - hunting space telescope known as Kepler — rejected by NASA three times but then approved after those initial detections of exoplanets in the 1990s — will most likely report the discovery of the first known Earth - like planet in an Earth - like orbit.

Although studied for centuries through small ground - based telescopes, the Spot only received its first close - ups in the latter half of the 20th century through a progressive series of close encounters with NASA's Pioneer, Voyager and Galileo spacecraft — as well as through detailed remote monitoring by the Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories.

Rowe's team analysed the first two years» worth of data from the Kepler space telescope, which has identified hundreds of confirmed planets as well as thousands of planet candidates.

«These signals would have begun their journey before our planet even existed, and after five billion years of travelling through space without hitting anything, they've fallen into the telescope and allowed us to see this distant galaxy for the very first time.»

The Planck space telescope's newest map shows that the first stars formed later than previously believed, extending an era known as the cosmic dark ages

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).

The study, conducted by the BICEP2 team that claimed the discovery and scientists with the Planck space telescope, nullifies a result that would have provided the first direct evidence of cosmological inflation, a brief moment after the Big Bang when the universe rapidly ballooned in size.

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.

In February, for example, scientists announced that NASA's Kepler space telescope had detected 1,235 candidate alien worlds in its first four months of operation.

PS1 is the first telescope built that is capable of turning up these smaller space rocks.

Next generation telescopes, whether in space or ground - based, such as the future Thirty - Meter - Telescope (TMT), will definitely show how the first generation galaxies formed in the primordial Universe and more clearly define the process of transition from an opaque, neutral - hydrogen - filled Universe to a transparent, re-ionized one.

The B612 Foundation — named for the asteroid that was home to the prince in The Little Prince — has announced a plan to build, fly and operate the first private space telescope.

«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 Dolag.

The gulf in time and space is so great that even the most powerful telescopes can't see the faint light from those first stars.

The B612 Foundation — named for the asteroid that was home to The Little Prince — today announced their plan to build, fly and operate the first private space telescope: an asteroid hunter called Sentinel.

But although many planets are first discovered using telescopes on the ground, most of the spectroscopic measurements that have afforded astronomers a glimpse at their atmospheres have come from space - based observatories such as the Hubble and the Spitzer space telescopes, which operate outside the obscuring veil of Earth's own atmosphere.

Earlier this year the scientists of NASA's Kepler mission announced that their planet - hunting space telescope had identified more than 1,200 possible exoplanets (worlds orbiting stars other than our own sun) in its first few months on the job.

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

First developed by British radio astronomers in 1946, arrays make use of several radio telescopes spaced some distance apart, «synthesizing» a single telescope with an aperture equal to the spacing between the farthest elements.

Porco, who grew up in the Bronx, got her first glimpse of space through a telescope in a friend's backyard at the age of 13.

The Kepler space telescope, which simultaneously and continuously measured the brightness of more than 150,000 stars, is NASA's first mission capable of detecting Earth - size planets around stars like our sun.

Indeed, asked about Kepler - 20, Daniel Fabrycky of the University of California, Santa Cruz, confirmed that it is the first genuine five - planet system found by the space telescope.

MOFFET FIELD, CALIFORNIA — NASA's Kepler space telescope appears to have confirmed the existence of an alien world smaller than our own Earth — the first time such a planet has been discovered around a star like our sun.

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 concept has a long history: In 1974 astronomer Frank Drake used the Arecibo radio telescope to broadcast the first deliberate message from Earth to outer space.

ON THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN IN THE PACIFIC BASIN, A 10 - YEAR ODYSSEY WILL CULMINATE IN THE CAPTURE OF FIRST LIGHT FOR A TELESCOPE THAT MAY SURPASS SPACE - BASED OBSERVATORIES

This is Hubble's first picture of the entire nebula, taken to celebrate the anniversary of its launch — the space telescope blasted off aboard the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990.

It was the first cosmic event in history to be witnessed via both traditional telescopes, which can observe electromagnetic radiation like gamma rays, and gravitational wave detectors, which sense the wrinkles in space - time produced by distant cataclysms.

The APEX telescope in Chile has mapped the full area of the Galactic Plane visible from the southern hemisphere for the first time at submillimetre wavelengths — between infrared light and radio waves — and in finer detail than recent space - based surveys.

The first signals of the planet's existence were measured by NASA's Kepler space telescope during its K2 mission.

The first X-ray telescope was the Apollo Telescope Mount, which studied the Sun from on board the American space station Skylab.

Our telescopes in Green Bank were the first to participate in Space VLBI decades ago, when we worked with the HALCA radio telescope launched and operated by Japan in the 1990s.

Who knows, maybe it won't be the next generation of space telescopes that discovers the first instance of extraterrestrial life — maybe it'll be a NASA rover, right here in our own Solar System.

«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 first TPF telescope, an optical telescope several times the size of the Hubble Space Telescope is scheduled to launch in 2015.

Kepler - 10c was one of the first exoplanets found by the Kepler space telescope.

The fifth gravitational wave event (GW170817), detected in mid-August 2017, was probably even more important than the first detection because it was the first one whose source also produced electromagnetic radiation we could observe with ground and space - based telescopes.