Sentences with phrase «is a telescope which»

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Joel Achenbach at the Washington Post was the first to report the NRO had given the two «exquisite» flight - qualified telescopes — which it didn't need anymore — to NASA just over a week ago:

NASA only found out about the powerful telescopes, which were built in the late 1990s, after the NRO approached the space agency recently.

Special equipment — telescopes, binoculars — is not necessary to view the Lyrid meteor shower, which is safe to view with the naked eye.

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....

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.

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.

26th November to Astronomy Conference which was on «From Galileo's telescope to evolutionary cosmology.

«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.»

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.

The Haba Binocular from their Terra kids range, which is oddly named because it is not two lenses but one and is more like a mini telescope!

Other great features on this stroller which boasts of being one of the best tandem stroller includes an adjustable telescoping handle bar which makes it great for parents of varied heights and for the security purpose; it has a large canopy with pop out sunvisor; it is roomy with adjustable leg rest; never flat tires; all wheel suspension; deep one hand recline; and five point harness.

The adjustable telescoping handle bar out from 39 ″ all the way up to 41 ″ from the ground & it is cover with leather cover which is very comfortable to hold.

The telescoping handle bar has 3 different positions and goes from 38 ″ to 42 ″ from the ground.The handle bar is covered with rubber instead of foam which is good to hold.

On Sept. 20, 2016, Buso of Rosario, Argentina, was testing a new camera on his 16 - inch telescope by taking a series of short - exposure photographs of the spiral galaxy NGC 613, which is about 80 million light years from Earth and located within the southern constellation Sculptor.

Tuesday's protests came on top of years of coordination difficulties and delay as a result of concern from native Hawaiians and environmentalists alike over construction of the $ 1.4 billion telescope on the volcano, which is already home to more than a dozen telescopes.

In the spacecraft's first record - breaking accomplishment, reported June 16 in Science, the satellite used onboard lasers to beam down pairs of entangled particles, which have eerily linked properties, to two cities in China, where the particles were captured by telescopes (SN: 8/5/17, p. 14).

One of the best things about this camera is that it fits into any 1.25 - inch telescope focuser which makes it really versatile.

Traditional black hole seeds, on the other hand, which derive from dead stars, are likely to be too faint for the JWST or other telescopes to see.

Leaders of the experiment, which used a telescope at the South Pole to search for signs of inflation, were concerned that a competitor experiment was hot on the trail.

A competing team is refining an alternative approach, called an internal coronagraph, which blots out starlight from inside the telescope.

The viewfinder on the side of the telescope makes it easy for children to point the scope at what they want to see, which is a big plus and prevents frustration.

Alberto Sanna of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, and his colleagues used the Very Long Baseline Array of radio telescopes in New Mexico to track a star - forming region in the outer Scutum - Centaurus spiral arm, which is on the opposite side of the Milky Way from the local arm where the sun resides.

Most importantly, they fixed the problem with the telescope's primary mirror, which had been ground into the wrong shape and therefore produced blurry images; the astronauts on the servicing mission essentially added spectacles that corrected the flaw.

Following the April 1990 flight that deployed Hubble in orbit, which was piloted by current NASA administrator Charles Bolden, five servicing missions have traveled to the telescope.

Our knowledge of planetary, stellar and galactic systems will likely be rewritten by these telescopes, which will have exquisite resolution and a variety of instruments to record light at different wavelengths.

That's why we made telescopes, which use lenses or mirrors to gather and focus light, revealing the details of faraway planets, stars and galaxies.

SMM J21350 - 0102 is shrouded in dust, which hides it from most telescopes.

Discovery of the gamma - ray «bang» from FRB 131104, the first non-radio counterpart to any FRB, was made possible by NASA's Earth - orbiting Swift satellite, which was observing the exact part of the sky where FRB 131104 occurred as the burst was detected by the Parkes Observatory radio telescope in Parkes, Australia.

These measurements were made with «Very Large» telescopes, which are about 10 - meters wide.

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.

The CHARA interferometer is an array of six telescopes on Mount Wilson in California, US, which can produce exceptionally sharp images.

The telescope focused on a small square of the sky in the Southern Hemisphere for nearly 300 hours to create the photo, which is stunningly sharp even by Hubble's aesthetic standards.

Another plan Rubio is working on is developing the Atacama Astronomical Park, a 36,347 - hectare protected area around the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array, which CONICYT plans to use to attract future telescopes from Brazil and the United States, and maybe also from China, South Korea and Thailand.

She is now helping to build an astronomical telescope based on a new concept which will be developed over the next 15 to 20 years.

Plain ol' Earth - size worlds, the first of which are now trickling into our exoplanet catalogs, will remain too small for our telescopes to study in any detail for years to come.

HERA has also been dubbed a precursor instrument to the Square Kilometer Array, which is scheduled to be the largest radio telescope ever built.

The star was discovered using the ANU SkyMapper telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory, which is searching for ancient stars as it conducts a five - year project to produce the first digital map the southern sky.

The telescope identified the spectral signature of the hydrogenic ion, which has been detected in our own solar system in the upper atmospheres of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus.

And Minniti is one of the leaders at the VISTA infrared survey telescope at the European Space Organization's Paranal Observatory in northern Chile, which has created a catalogue of more than 84 million stars in the central parts of the Milky Way.

Lu is co-founder of the non-profit B612 Foundation, which plans to launch an asteroid - hunting space telescope in 2017.

Optical telescopes are wonderful at spotting stars, which radiate most of their energy as visible light, but these telescopes are blind to anything that does not shine.

The team will also make modifications to the telescope's instrumentation, which will allow scientists to look even further back in time, to before there were enough stars to form galaxies, when the very first population of very massive objects began to blossom.

It just so happened that a pair of optical telescopes on the ground was observing the last GRB, 080319A, which had gone off 30 minutes before in the same part of the sky.

Investigators have now uncovered an even longer wall as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which is mapping 1 million galaxies across a quarter of the sky with telescopes at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico.

- The giant radio telescopes of NASA's Deep Space Network — which perform radio and radar astronomy research in addition to their communications functions — were tasked with observing radio emissions from Jupiter's radiation belt, looking for disturbances caused by comet dust.

One really exciting thing on the horizon is a new camera called the Gemini Planet Imager, which will be attached to the Gemini South telescope in Chile.

Cui says the issue is not with the telescope, but with increasing dust and humidity at the site, which now gets only 120 clear nights a year, down from more than 200 when LAMOST was being planned.

The message, he suggested, could be sent in the spare time of the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, which astronomer Frank Drake used to send a coded message to a distant star cluster in 1974.

To fit inside its rocket, the JWST's 6.5 - metre - high reflector, six times larger than Hubble's, is folded into 18 hexagonal pieces, which will assemble to function as a single giant mirror once the telescope is in orbit.