Sentences with phrase «giant telescope»

But making all of the 12 - metre dishes function like a single giant telescope will be a challenge.

How does it differ from the other giant telescopes?

Going outside at night at one of these observatories and seeing the eyes of giant telescopes staring up at the sky, gathering in photons from distant objects, is an extraordinary experience.

But moving the TMT to Chile would put all three giant telescopes in the Southern Hemisphere, where they would be unable to see much of the northern sky.

He worked alongside Roger Angel in concept design for giant telescopes and initiated Mt. Graham as an observatory site.

Researchers have invented a range of instruments from giant telescopes to rovers to search for life in outer space, but so far, these efforts have yielded no definitive evidence that it exists beyond Earth.

-- But, by extending 66 antennas up to 16 km and combining received signals, we can make a virtual giant telescope ALMA that can clearly image this disk object in such details.

Make giant telescope to search for aliens?

Since then the four original giant telescopes have been joined by the four small Auxiliary Telescopes that form part of the VLT Interferometer (VLTI).

The TMT is one of three giant telescopes expected to dominate ground - based optical astronomy beginning in the next decade.

For the past 3 years, Gilmore and his team have been using giant telescopes to map the positions and velocities of thousands of stars in 10 minigalaxies around the Milky Way.

The W. M. Keck Foundation, best known for funding giant telescopes that help scientists peer into the distant universe, has decided to invest $ 110 million to help life on Earth.

Looking upward, the vastness of the heavens is accessible through giant telescopes that collect light from the beginning of time.

This is especially true for astronomy, where giant telescopes are the essential tools for studying the faintest whispers of cosmic energy.

Several giant telescopes slated for development include the $ 1.1 - billion Giant Magellan Telescope sited for Chile, the $ 1.4 - billion Thirty - Meter Telescope sited at Mauna Kea in Hawaii, and the European Extremely Large Telescope.

The radio telescope combines signals from each, working as an interferometer, in other words, a single giant telescope equal in size to the total array.

The 2010 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics was awarded to Roger Angel, Jerry E. Nelson and Raymond N. Wilson (European Southern Observatory, Germany) for their contributions to the development of giant telescopes.

But, it had only been able to be detected since then from Earth, from giant telescopes, 8 to 10 metres in diameter.

ALMA is a radio telescope or radio interferometer that combines 66 parabolic antennas working as a single virtual giant telescope.

It's the latest example of Native Hawaiian activists taking a stand on cultural issues and sacred places, such as challenging a giant telescope planned for a Hawaiian mountain and blocking the U.S. military from using an uninhabited Hawaiian island as a live - fire testing site.

Until recently, the dimmest thing ever perceived, with the use of lengthy electronic image - intensifying exposures on giant telescopes, was magnitude 29.

But the giant telescopes stare at such small parts of the sky that they miss most sudden belches of radio signals.

Second was a giant telescope of the country's own.

VLA measures correlations between signals from pairs of antennas to reconstruct images of the sky, as though they were one single, giant telescope — and so VLA, too, is sensitive to ionospheric fluctuations.

Chile could one day be home to yet another giant telescope.

While many astronomers are queuing up for time on the giant telescopes just coming on line, others are drawing plans for even larger telescopes.

If the project collapses, what impact will the absence of a giant telescope in the Northern Hemisphere have for astronomy?

Other setbacks for science included revelations of sexist attitudes and sexual harassment, and a court - ordered halt to construction of a giant telescope.

With any luck, the giant telescope will soon get up to speed, and such celestial treasure will take on wholly new scientific significance.

Meanwhile, the European Southern Observatory and its partners are moving ahead with a third plan for a giant telescope, the 39.3 - meter European Extremely Large Telescope, also in Chile.

While we wait for the construction of the new generation of giant telescopes, such as the GMT, telescopes such as the Magellans at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile will continue to play a crucial role in the study of the early universe,» added Las Campanas Director Leopoldo Infante.

Stellar archaeologists are eager to get their hands on the new class of giant telescopes that will be going online in the early 2020s, including the Thirty Meter Telescope, the Giant Magellan Telescope and more.

By cleverly masking parts of a giant telescope, a team captured images, unveiled in today's Nature, showing a graceful spiraling dust trail that models suggest was created by colliding stellar winds.

Or gathering data from a giant telescope.

The giant telescope will make its presence known by the impact it has on the way we view the universe, and the horizons it opens on its 10 - year journey through the cosmos.

Ultimately, ALMA will have a total of 66 antennas distributed over about 200 pads, spread over distances of up to 18.5 km and operating as a single, giant telescope.

In an airplane hangar in Columbus, Ohio, some 80 tons of steel, electronics and cryogenic equipment are about to come together — and deposit one ounce of aluminum in a whisper - thin coating on a giant telescope mirror.

Highlight of the ALMA inauguration — President Piñera On 13 March 2013 the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) was inaugurated at an official ceremony in the Chilean Andes, marking the completion of all the major systems of the giant telescope and the formal transition from a construction project to a fully fledged observatory.

This event marks the completion of all the major systems of the giant telescope, and the formal transition from a construction project to a fully fledged observatory.

The dry air of the Atacama Desert and the flat land and high mountains offer the perfect place for building these giant telescopes.

The TIO puts the giant telescope into standby position, closes the building, and the TIO and astronomers return to the Residencia to rest and sleep.

When MIT ended its contract with the NRAO for use of the 43 - meter in 2011, once again, the giant telescope say waiting — but not for long.

THE 2010 KAVLI PRIZE IN ASTROPHYSICS is awarded to Jerry Nelson, Ray Wilson, and Roger Angel «for their contributions to the development of giant telescopes.»

VLBI experiments with the 140 - foot telescope and others around the United States commenced within a couple of years of this giant telescope coming online.

The first million was distributed around the time protesters decrying building a giant telescope on a mountain many Native Hawaiians consider sacred forced construction to halt.

The TMT will have almost 36 times the light - gathering power of the Hale Telescope and will push astronomy into a new era of giant telescopes.

In 1999, this giant telescope officially ceased observations as an open - access instrument and was mothballed to await a new benefactor.

Activists consider the construction of a giant telescope on the island of Hawaii to be a desecration of their sacred land.

Independent investigators discovered that unforeseeable stress factors cracked a steel connector plate that just happened to be a key but hidden member of the support structure of the giant telescope.