Sentences with phrase «gather radio signals»

Its unique design will allow scientists to gather radio signals from tens of billions of light years away.

By gathering the radio signals emitted by any particular quasar at various far - flung points about the globe and measuring the tiny time lag between the signal's arrival at the different locations, people like Ma and Behrend can tell exactly how far apart those locations are.

Not exact matches

The battery - free phone prototype can operate on power gathered from ambient radio signals transmitted by a base station up to 31 feet away.

There are still ways to make the hypothesis work: a megastructure swarm might radiate its gathered energy away as radio or laser signals instead of heat; it might not form a spherical swarm but a ring precisely aligned with our line of sight; it might use technology beyond our understanding of physics that emits no heat at all.

China's awesome Five - hundred - meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, the world's largest of its kind, will be able to peer further into the past than previous radio telescopes to gather weaker and more distant signals that promise to provide clues to the origins and evolution of the universe, probe gravitational waves and dark matter, and listen for transmissions from extraterrestrial civilizations.

The panels gather radio waves from the sky and focus them onto a feed antenna (2) that amplifies the signals and sends them to a control room where data are analyzed.

By looking for unique chemical signatures in light and radio signals gathered by telescopes, researchers have observed more than 140 molecules — including increasingly complex organic ones — surrounding stars or in interstellar space.