Sentences with phrase «future space telescope»

Astronomers are already dreaming of a future space telescope purpose - built to produce a crude image of an Earth - sized planet.

Using a web interface, interested scientists can, for example, select objects from the raw simulation data, process it, and even create virtual observations mimicing existing or future space telescopes.

Or, future space telescopes might even be able to pick up signatures of oxygen, water, carbon dioxide and methane — indicators that the planet might be somebody's home.

TESS will observe these brighter nearby stars for exoplanets in order to identify a list of the best targets for follow - up observations by ground - based observatories and future space telescopes.

Project Blue will demonstrate and test coronagraph and wavefront technologies similar to ones that could be used on much larger future space telescopes currently being studied by NASA (e.g., HabEX, LUVOIR), and thus help to retire technical risks and hone the observing techniques and data processing algorithms for those missions.

Not exact matches

Finding Life Beyond Earth PBS As manned space programs face an uncertain future, powerful telescopes are uncovering a wealth of new planets across the galaxy — some of which could harbor life.

Current telescopes such as the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite, and future telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an infrared observatory, and the Wide Field Infrared Space Telescope (WFIRST), also could help astronomers make better measurements of the expansion rate.

Due to a single discovery announced last month, that future may play out over the next several years with astronomers using existing and under - construction telescopes on the ground and in space, rather than in fanciful far - future observatories.

Chances are we'll never know for sure without an armada of space telescopes, and their future looks uncertain.

«And the coronagraph technology this would test will help us plan for future missions, the huge space telescopes we want to launch decades from now.

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.

The delay also jeopardizes the next decadal survey, a once - every -10-years strategic plan produced by the National Academies that assesses the research landscape and makes recommendations to federal agencies and Congress about developing and funding future generations of ground - and space - based telescopes.

RCT Consortium telescope The Robotically Controlled Telescope was built in 1965 as a test bed for future orbiting space telescopes.

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.

Future space - based telescopes will allow researchers to begin receiving data on these exoplanets» atmospheres, helping them confirm whether they are «Venuses» or «Earths.»

A future European space telescope called Euclid will carry out these two types of observations simultaneously, she says.

Future space observatories like Webb or Hubble - like telescopes built for infrared with apertures of around three meters could also aid in the hunt.

She also points out that, in order to fully exploit this method and attempt to understand what dark energy actually is, «a much wider survey is necessary,» such as those planned for the future space - telescope missions such as the United States proposed Joint Dark Energy Mission and Europe's proposed Euclid satellite.

«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 NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope is already being used to search for atmospheres around the planets and team member Emmanuël Jehin is excited about the future possibilities: «With the upcoming generation of telescopes, such as ESO's European Extremely Large Telescope and the NASA / ESA / CSA James Webb Space Telescope, we will soon be able to search for water and perhaps even evidence of life on these worlds.»

His model also makes specific predictions about the effect these clouds will have on the planet's climate and the types of information that future telescopes, like the James Webb Space Telescope, will be able to gather.

The space telescope has also paved the way for future missions focused on observing the universe in infrared wavelengths, ESA officials added.

Hubble astrophysicist Dr. Mario Livio discusses Hubble's past, its successes, what comes next, and the future of space telescopes in this Nature article.

It is important because most discoveries today are made by telescopes that were designed and built ten to twenty years ago — and what discoveries we may make in the future depends on what telescopes, instruments, and space missions we are building now.

The study builds on input from the exoplanet community to identify the most interesting science questions that we may be able to study in the future with direct imaging missions — that is, space telescopes that can directly image exoplanets (separating their light from that of their host stars).

The discovery by a ground - based telescope is expected to assist future space missions to search for transiting exoplanets.

Future telescopes such as NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will allow us to count almost all of the stars in the bulge down to the faintest ones, which today's telescopes, even Hubble, can not see.»

Space telescopes in the future will be technically capable of registering the huge light issued by the explosion of this type of stars, but the opportunities to do so — even once — during the life span of an observatory are rare.

We also may employ future telescopes, like the James Webb Space Telescope, to study Europa and other bodies within our solar system.

What does the future hold for the great observatory, and will its space telescope successor measure up to Hubble?

Future telescopes, like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), will be able to give researcher more information about distant planets.

NASA is investing in technology concepts that include meteoroid impact detection, space telescope swarms and small orbital debris mapping technologies that may one day be used for future space exploration missions.

Not only will Project Blue look for Earth - like planets right in our backyard, it will be the proving ground for future missions like the ASTRO - 1 space observatory, a privately - funded UV - Visible space telescope mission that will provide unprecedented views of the cosmos and alien worlds.

Any planets Project Blue finds will be excellent potential targets for future large space telescopes being developed by NASA and other space agencies.

In the future, planetary scientists will increasingly rely on telescopes based in space to locate even tinier Earth candidates.

Swiss architect Mario Botta delivered a classically proportioned red ziggurat whose boldly striped oculus was telescoped to the future and would have taken it there, but for the gift by the Fishers of an art collection that mandated twice the space.