Sentences with phrase «large space telescopes»

Many research teams have previously suggested assembling large space telescopes from smaller modules, with examples ranging from 30 to 100 meters in diameter.

Any planets Project Blue finds will be excellent potential targets for future large space telescopes being developed by NASA and other space agencies.

NASA's astrophysics director Charlie Pellerin had conceived of the «Great Observatories» program; envisioning four large space telescopes operating simultaneously to cover a large swath of the electromagnetic spectrum.

One size fits all This is not the first time astronomers have lobbied for such a large space telescope.

This will be feasible when we have a larger space telescope with a 16 meter - diameter mirror.

A National Research Council (NRC) report released today lauds the additional science that could be obtained using hardware transferred to NASA from the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) for the next large space telescope, but worries about the cost and potential impact on the balance of programs within NASA's astrophysics portfolio, especially if a coronagraph is added.

Hubble's spectrographs — partially fulfilling the promise of a large space telescope envisioned by Spitzer all those years ago — were critical in allowing astronomers to map the web - like structure of intergalactic gas in the universe, now termed the «cosmic web.»

A colour A5 leaflet that opens out into an A2 double - sided wallchart describing the largest space telescope ever to be launched.

Not exact matches

Some tested software to help satellites to avoid smacking into each other in space, while others investigated ways to build large telescopes out of a bunch of small, autonomous robots.

The team used NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope along with observations from telescopes on Earth, including ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile and others in Morocco, Hawaii, Spain, and South Africa.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is in the process of transforming its Very Large Array radio telescope into the — wait for it — Expanded Very Large Array, thanks to digital technology that will boost the Socorro, N.M., facility's already impressive ability to tune in on black holes, supernovae and the rest of the deep space menagerie.

A point of light was shining where nothing was visible before and this set off one of the largest multi-telescope observing campaigns ever — among these telescopes was the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope [2].

The NSF's Very Large Array radio telescope is getting a digital makeover that will give it the sensitivity to pick up a cell phone signal on Jupiter, and to probe deeper into outer space

Before NASA kicks off the design and construction of its next large - scale space telescope, an independent review board will evaluate the scope and expected cost of the project, the agency announced Thursday (April 27).

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For some questions, only a large, broadband space telescope offers hope of answers.

The James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to be the largest space - based infrared telescope in history, will be able to see some of the light radiated from those very early galaxies; so where HERA sees a bubble, Webb should see a bright source of light, Hewitt Space Telescope, scheduled to be the largest space - based infrared telescope in history, will be able to see some of the light radiated from those very early galaxies; so where HERA sees a bubble, Webb should see a bright source of light, Hewitt space - based infrared telescope in history, will be able to see some of the light radiated from those very early galaxies; so where HERA sees a bubble, Webb should see a bright source of light, Hewitt said.

If these giant moons around giant planets exist, they might already be present in the available data of NASA's Kepler space telescope, or they could be detectable with the European Space Agency's upcoming PLATO space mission and European Southern Observatory's ground - based European Extremely Large Telesspace telescope, or they could be detectable with the European Space Agency's upcoming PLATO space mission and European Southern Observatory's ground - based European Extremely Large TelesSpace Agency's upcoming PLATO space mission and European Southern Observatory's ground - based European Extremely Large Telesspace mission and European Southern Observatory's ground - based European Extremely Large Telescope.

The inspiration for the paper stemmed from Bean's membership on the Science and Technology Definition Team that is assessing the potential for a new space telescope, NASA's proposed Large UV / Optical / Infrared Survey (LUVOIR).

That level of fascination made sense in the days before telescopes could observe details in planetary atmospheres, before space probes had explored Mars and bulldozed into a comet, and before we understood the history of asteroid and comet collisions, linking celestial bodies large and small.

Some astronomers are campaigning for a new space telescope, larger than Hubble but sensitive to the same range of wavelengths — «Hubble on steroids.»

If so, an orbiting space telescope could upstage the Large Hadron Collider in the search for the elusive particle.

But in the near future new large telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to be launched in 2018, will be able to detect the first explosions of stars in the Universe, and may be able to identify them using this method.

After its brief period of visibility, the comet will travel back out towards the depths of space where it will be only be detected by large telescopes.

Survey telescopes look at much larger areas of the sky — up to half the sky, at any point — than does the Hubble Space Telescope, for instance, which focuses more on individual objects.

Astronomers are now using the largest existing telescopes on the ground and in space to better assess the composition, size and shape of the newly discovered ancient galaxies.

An image of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant that was assembled by combining data from five telescopes spanning nearly the entire breadth of the electromagnetic spectrum: the Very Large Array, the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope, the XMM - Newton Observatory, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

Sune Toft and his collaborators had access to the Hubble - telescope in space as well as the Earth - based Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile — yet they struggled to get information about MACS2129 - 1.

Using a large antenna from NASA's Deep Space Network of radio telescopes tuned in to a special transponder on Juno provided by the Italian Space Agency, the team repeatedly searched for any unexplained anomalies in the spacecraft's trajectory.

Astronomers have already begun leveraging Hubble and other space telescopes to create a preview of what Webb may reveal, staring at some of the largest galaxy clusters in a project called «Frontier Fields.»

Along with Hubble, which shows where the old and the new stars are, the researchers used the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), the Herschel Space Observatory, the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM - Newton), the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)'s Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA), the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO)'s Kitt Peak WIYN 3.5 meter telescope, and the Magellan Baade 6.5 meter telescope.

Out in space, astrophysicists are looking hard to see if large black holes are shrinking on a time scale that might be detected by modern telescopes.

Upcoming instruments like the European Extremely Large Telescopeor the Cheops space telescope might be able to see the new planet, but the best option could be a small satellite dedicated to staring at Alpha Centauri.

Vovk and his colleagues have now scoured the data from the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi space telescope looking for such flare ups in the gamma ray region.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has decided to award a 5 - year contract for the facility, home to the largest radio telescope in the world, to a consortium comprising SRI International, the Universities Space Research Association, Universidad Metropolitana, and other institutions.

But Irwin Shapiro, an astrophysicist at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., who chaired the 2010 Committee to Review Near - Earth - Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies for the U.S. National Research Council, says that ground - based observatories such as the planned Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) on Cerro Pachón in Chile are better value for money than space telescopes, because they last longer and are less expensive.

The Science and Technology Facilities Council, which sets research priorities and disburses government monies, said that cost overruns have forced it to withdraw support from experiments, including the International Linear Collider (a proposed follow - up to the Large Hadron Collider) and a number of ground - based telescopes, as well as trim its investments in planned space missions such as the European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft (set to study the early univespace missions such as the European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft (set to study the early univeSpace Agency's Planck spacecraft (set to study the early universe).

While the new Russian space observatory, RadioAstron, is only a thirtieth the size of the largest radio telescopes on Earth, it could reveal more about the universe than any of them.

The subtle signals from stretched rocky planets could be found by some current telescopes, and certainly by much more powerful observatories like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) that are due to enter service in the next few years.

Space - based telescopes can search larger swaths of the sky, but they are much more expensive to operate.

«Large astronomical projects such as the space telescopes Euclid or eRosita, which are to be launched in the next few years, will observe large areas of the Universe, as well as provide further insight into the evolution of the first structures of the Universe so that the significance of cosmological hydrodynamic simulations will even increase in future,» says Klaus DLarge astronomical projects such as the space telescopes Euclid or eRosita, which are to be launched in the next few years, will observe large areas of the Universe, as well as provide further insight into the evolution of the first structures of the Universe so that the significance of cosmological hydrodynamic simulations will even increase in future,» says Klaus Dlarge areas of the Universe, as well as provide further insight into the evolution of the first structures of the Universe so that the significance of cosmological hydrodynamic simulations will even increase in future,» says Klaus Dolag.

The team's technique could be used on other telescopes, Swain says, opening up much larger instruments for use than those available in space.

The NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope is already being used to search for atmospheres around the planets and team member Emmanuël Jehin is excited about the future possibilities: «With the upcoming generation of telescopes, such as ESO's European Extremely Large Telescope and the NASA / ESA / CSA James Webb Space Telescope, we will soon be able to search for water and perhaps even evidence of life on these worlds.»

The double asteroid 90 Antiope has come into sharp new detail, thanks to observations from the European Space Agency's Very Large Telescope and other smaller telescopes, which spied on the pair as it waltzed around the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Astronomers using the TRAPPIST - South telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory, the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal and the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, as well as other telescopes around the world [1], have now confirmed the existence of at least seven small planets orbiting the cool red dwarf star TRAPPIST - 1 [2].

«While ground - based telescopes will always have to contend with the obscuration and instability in our own atmosphere, development of successful observing techniques like this will enable us to throw much larger apertures at the problem than we will ever have available in space,» Grillmair says.

Herschel boasts a 3.5 - meter (11.5 - foot) telescope mirror, the largest yet flown in space.

[1] As well as the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, the team used many ground - based facilities: TRAPPIST - South at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile, HAWK - I on ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile, TRAPPIST - North in Morocco, the 3.8 - metre UKIRT in Hawaii, the 2 - metre Liverpool and 4 - metre William Herschel telescopes at La Palma in the Canary Islands, and the 1 - metre SAAO telescope in South Africa.

For example, Sagawa notes, it may be possible to study air showers over a vastly larger area using space - borne fluorescence telescopes.

The world's largest telescope is about to catch its first glimpse of outer space.