Sentences with phrase «generation sky survey»

This next - generation sky survey helps scientists look at the structure of the galaxy and distant stars at low latitudes.

New data from existing experiments, and next - generation sky surveys such as the Berkeley Lab - led Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) now under construction at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona should provide even more detailed data about these filaments, he added.

The CFHTLS is also well representative of the data quality expected from several next - generation sky surveys, such as DES, KiDS, HSC and LSST.

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Thanks to the new generation of digital sky surveys, astronomers have discovered more than 200,000 quasars, with ages ranging from 0.7 billion years after the Big Bang to today.

The current and next - generation space - based transit surveys, K2 and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), are focused on finding large planets on short orbits (less than 75 days) around the brightest stars in the sky.

Abstract: The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS - IV) began observations in July 2014.

This paper describes the first data release from SDSS - IV, Data Release 13 (DR13), which contains new data, reanalysis of existing data sets and, like all SDSS data releases,... ▽ More The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS - IV) began observations in July 2014.

Like all previous SDSS releases, DR14 is cumulativ... ▽ More The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS - IV) has been in operation since July 2014.

Dr Alexander explained the importance of this new development: «The SKA will be 100 times more sensitive than the radio telescopes of the present generation, and will be able to survey the sky up to one million times faster.