The very intensity of a prophet's vision and his overpowering sense of its reality cause the interval before its fulfillment to
be telescoped in his mind.
Our recent observations at the KPNO 2.1
m telescope in 2002 demonstrate a short term Doppler precision of ~ 3 m / s with eta Cas (V = 3.5), a RV stable star and also obtained a RV curve for 51 Peg.
The challenge, however, is that Hubble
is a telescope in high demand — and the same is expected of Webb after its launch.
What's really needed
is a telescope in a much closer orbit to look outwards and tell us what it sees.
Not exact matches
Using powerful
telescopes, they can spot planets far outside of the reach of our solar system when they cross
in front of their sun — it
's how we recently found a triad of planets around a red sun 40 light - years away.
«We have taken our
telescope, and we have counted up how many planets
are similar to the Earth
in this part of the sky,» Susan Thompson, a Kepler research scientist at the SETI Institute, said during a press conference at NASA Ames Research Center on Monday.
However, Kepler researchers suspect that almost countless Earthlike planets
are waiting to
be found, because the
telescope can «see» only exoplanets that pass
in front of their stars.
NASA only found out about the powerful
telescopes, which
were built
in the late 1990s, after the NRO approached the space agency recently.
The store
is always packed with customers, browsing through hundreds of varieties of camera bags with every possible combination of lens compartments; the room full of
telescopes; and, of course, enough lenses to burn all the ants
in the Sahara to a crisp.
The
telescope was able to capture this star cluster that orbits our Milky Way galaxy and
is about 120 light - years across
in fine detail.
«Oumuamua (official designation 1I / 2017 U1 - the «I»
is for «interstellar»)
was first spotted by the Pan-STARRS 1
telescope in Hawaii
in late October, and it didn't take long for astrophysicists to figure out that both its trajectory and its velocity indicated that it
was an extrasolar stranger, perhaps flung out by a neighboring star.
The newly discovered exoplanets, or planets outside of the earth's solar system,
were found after researchers applied the same
AI techniques that help computers recognize images like cats
in photos to data gathered from the Kepler space
telescope.
With a dish the size of 30 football fields, it will
be the largest radio
telescope in the world when it
is completed
in 2016.
A newly released image from NASA Hubble
telescope reveals that a huge cluster of galaxies called Abell 370, has an array of galaxies guarding it and
is useful
in studying far - flung galaxies by its gravitational lensing property.
The term
is ambiguous and would have needed to
be defined
in any such legislation; a federal ban that
was in place from 1994 to 2004 applied to semiautomatic weapons with two or more of a list of specific features (for example, a
telescoping stock and a pistol grip).
A few weeks ago,
in the country, far from the lights of the city, I saw the entire sky «powdered with stars» (
in Milton's words); such a sky, I imagined, could
be seen only on high, dry plateaus like that of Atacama
in Chile (where some of the world's most powerful
telescopes are).
LoL Unless of course you
're saying they had powerful
telescopes in 7th century Arabia LoL.
Need I remind you that the expansion of the universe
was only confirmed via Hobble
telescope in the early 1990's?!
Though plagued by cost overruns, and a ghastly blunder
in manufacturing the main mirror that had to
be corrected by a Space Shuttle mission
in December 1993 (which, essentially, put corrective eyeglasses on the
telescope), the....
If I
were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there
is a china teapot revolving about the sun
in an elliptical orbit, nobody would
be able to disprove my assertion provided I
were careful to add that the teapot
is too small to
be revealed even by our most powerful
telescopes.
(Job 26:7) Now how could Job know that the earth
is» suspended upon nothing» over 3,500 years ago, since the earliest
telescope was only made
in the 17th century C.E. by Galileo?
If you
're looking
in a microscope or a
telescope, you
're right.
Dreaming innocence
is not, however, human life, and when Lewis contrasts Malacandra and «the silent planet» (earth), his low estimate of human life becomes evident: when Ransom acknowledges to one of the rational creatures that the speck through the
telescope is his planet, «It
was the bleakest moment
in all his travels.»
What I like the most it does not get
in the way of the scientific method or the exploration
being done by NASA, CERN, Hubble or Kepler
telescopes.
She
is a PhD who worked on a bloody
telescope but has no objectivity as she already believes
in what she believes
in.
Telescopes instead would do the work and look for a mixture of chemicals
in the atmosphere that
's close to Earth
's.
Particle accelerators and all the new
telescopes and devices
in space and on earth that probe the Universe
are expensive things that may also have no practical purpose.
will have to
be assumed and
telescoped; but I will concentrate on what I think
are critical questions — critical
in the sense that they represent, at least
in my opinion, points on which greater clarity
is required if the community of Christ's discipleship
is to move into the post-Christendom future with something like apostolic confidence.
In Acts, Jesus» sending of his apostles to the ends of the earth
is illumined with an image of Earth from space taken by the Hubble
telescope.
question
are much more likely to
be found
in Einstein's equations, quantum physics, large particle accelerators and radio
telescopes than
in Genesis Chapters 1 through 20.
Also — keep
in mind that these books
were written before space travel, the Hubble
telescope, and flight, when nobody could see above the clouds and all sorts of myths could
be created about what
's on top of them.
But
is it not possible that we have
been looking through the wrong end of the
telescope, or seeing things
in the wrong light?
This process
is called accretion, and you can see it at work over and over again
in real life as we currently can watch other new (planetary systems) forming
in our own galaxy with a large thing called a
telescope.
Earth
is part of our solar system, our solar system
is a very small neighborhood
in a spiral arm of our galaxy, our galaxy
is one of the smaller of the billions of galaxies that
are the residue of the Big Bang - this
is where we
are at right now... using several different types of
telescopes analyzing several types of radiation and using our mathematics to calculate distortions
in light waves to calculate dimensions, distance and mass — doing this we can generate a physical picture of what
is actually happening our there.
It
was through the use of
telescopes that we managed to prove that the earth
is not
in the center of the universe, and by the use of microscopes that we started our journey to understand the smallest building materials of life.
If we now consider the number of the stars (15,000 x 106 visible to the optical
telescope alone) you will understand how it
is possible to say, cosmically speaking, that we
are enveloped
in a sort of monstrous gas formed of molecules as heavy as the Sun moving at distances from each other so great that they have to
be reckoned
in light - years (bearing
in mind that light travels at a speed of 186,000 miles per second, and that we
are only 8 light - minutes distant from the sun)-- a gas made of stars!
Here and there small milky patches
are to
be discerned
in the sky, which the
telescope shows to
be spiral clouds containing sparks of brilliance.
We feel the answers to such a question
are much more likely to
be found
in Einstein's equations, quantum physics, large particle accelerators and radio
telescopes than
in Genesis Chapters 1 through 20.
«
In particular, the event horizon — the boundary within which nothing can escape —
is typically very small, so even our best
telescopes have yet to measure one.»
In the book, as the Dalai Lama grows up he
is often pictured looking down on his people from a temple with a
telescope.
Pleides
is a group of stars originally thought to
be 5 - 7 stars, but with modern
telescopes there
are about 250 stars that
are traveling together
in space as if they
are bound together.The belt of [
in the contilation of] Orion
is made up several stars that
are constantly moveing
in irregular paths as learned only by the use of
telescopes.
For example,
telescoping (leaving out some names for the sake of brevity)
is common
in Biblical genealogies but
is rare
in modern genealogies.
Indeed, the radio -
telescope at Jodrell Bank can detect «radio» vibrations from exceedingly distant stars whose light - vibrations can not
be received at all by any optical
telescope in the world.
It
is natural to explore beyond the distant hills; spiritual
telescopes can regularly pierce through the clouds and mist to focus with greater clarity
in infinite regions; theology
is constantly developing.
Is it possible that a man of Barr's education really wonders why some of us would not accept a natural explanation for the formation of stars and planets
in light of discoveries made possible by the Hubble
telescope?
After all, as we
are informed
in The Five Gospels, «the Christ of creed and dogma, who had
been firmly
in place
in the Middle Ages, can no longer command the assent of those who have seen the heavens through Galileo's
telescope....
It means that the earth on which we live
is not the center of the physical universe, but a comparatively small planet revolving round a very average - sized star, which
in turn
is but one of a hundred thousand million others forming the galaxy we call the Milky Way, and that part of the universe that our existing
telescopes have so far penetrated contains about a hundred million star systems or nebulae, similar to our galaxy.
The least general species, affine geometry, isolates those properties which remain constant when a figure
is uniformly stretched or shrunk, For example, parallel lines remain parallel when viewed through a
telescope or microscope, yet lose their parallelism
in the distortion produced by a fish - eye lens.
A special touch guests revel
in is a
telescope for viewing the spectacular night sky, complete with detailed astrological chart.
Making sure the water stays heated and properly filtered
in such pools
is the job of the professional pool man, who wields his
telescoping leaf rake with practiced ease.