Sentences with phrase «large telescopes»

Seeing the universe through large telescopes in great detail has exposed a whole new layer of worry, however.

Follow - up studies with large telescopes on the ground revealed that the cluster is 7 billion light - years away, which means its light took 7 billion years to reach us.

At that time, the best pictures of the planets were fuzzy photographs taken with large telescopes.

Even in the era of extremely large telescopes smaller telescopes dedicated to specific tasks can remain very valuable.

Even large telescopes, those equipped with complex adaptive optics imaging cameras, could only make blurry images in visible light.

He believes it also would work for larger telescopes, particularly those comprised of multiple mirror segments.

This is why people use large telescopes to detect the light from distant stars.

This means that the images must be very sensitive to detect them: very large telescopes must be used that can collect a lot of light.

His team had just figured out that the telescope they had built so far could form a cell of a much, much larger telescope.

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.

So that really shows why we need larger telescopes.

He wanted larger telescopes not because of what he knew he would find, but for what he didn't know was out there.

In this way, an array of dishes can make images of cosmic sources with very high angular resolution without having to build a single large telescope.

In most large telescopes, a large primary mirror captures light and reflects it off one or two secondary mirrors to the telescope's instruments.

The problem with galaxies is that they are far away, so we need pretty large telescopes to do that.

While I would be faithful to my current research topic, my dream would be to have unlimited observation time, or larger telescopes in space.

We will focus on key open questions that can be solved in the upcoming era of extremely large telescopes.

For a time telescopes were developed with either lenses or mirrors, but the understanding of telescope design improved, and telescopes using mirrors became the choice for larger telescopes.

This light, once analyzed with larger telescopes, may give scientists detailed information about the planet's surface composition and reflective properties.

The first serious SETI search was made in 1960 by the radio astronomer Frank Drake, and SETI has continued on the world's largest telescopes ever since.

Angel created mirrors made of cheap glass and molded them to incorporate a honeycomb pattern of holes, to reduce their weight and increase their rigidity, allowing the building of larger telescopes.

To map the three - dimensional distribution of the foreground galaxies, spectrographs on large telescopes like the 6.5 - meter MMT disperse the light with a grating.

The team then turned to ground - based observatories including the University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory, the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory on Mt. Hopkins, Arizona, and the world's largest telescopes at Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaii for confirmation.

Inexpensive, but at a price As large telescopes go, SALT was a bargain, costing just $ 20 million to build.

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 plans to continue searching for similar quasars using Gemini and other large telescopes around the world.

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.

TMT is not the only large telescope that astronomers are hoping to build in the next decade.

Large telescopes do not have a very wide field of view although they can go very deep; typically they don't do it on a very large portion of the sky and to detect asteroids the larger your field of view the likelier it is that you can see them.

A team led by astronomer Dimitar Sasselov of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, used several large telescopes to scrutinize 59 candidate stars that OGLE singled out for a closer look via subtle dips in their light outputs.

Large telescope designs have changed significantly over the last few decades, with an growing emphasis on using segmented mirrors.

Shectman investigates the large - scale structure of the distribution of galaxies; searches for ancient stars; develops novel and creative astronomical instruments; and constructs large telescopes.

Galaxies, nebulas, and almost all other deep - space objects appear dim even through large telescopes, so at best we see only a portion of their true colors.

Space Telescope Institute Council (STIC) recommends, as a successor to Hubble, a significantly larger telescope capable of seeing infrared light.

New strategies for an extremely large telescope dedicated to extremely high contrast: The Colossus Project, Moretto, G., Kuhn, J.R., Thiebaut, E., Langlois, M., Berdyugina, S.V., Harlingten, C., Halliday, D., SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 9145, id.

The world's largest telescope array has glimpsed exoplanets being born, showing that simulations are accurate except in one key detail.

The relative closeness of GJ 1214 b to the solar system should allow more detailed study by large telescopes already in operation.

The 2.2 - meter telescope was the first large telescope constructed on Mauna Kea.

The committee recommends, as a successor to Hubble, a significantly larger telescope capable of seeing infrared light.

The chemical elements have been carefully measured from data coming from ground - based high - resolution spectra taken with large telescopes located in the north of Chile.

«The largest obstacle in studying Y dwarfs is that they are extremely faint, so we require the absolute largest telescopes on Earth and the Hubble Space Telescope and in some cases these telescopes are probably still not sensitive enough.»

The 72 - inch mirror, scavenged from the Multiple Mirror Telescope on nearby Mount Hopkins, makes it the world's largest telescope devoted exclusively to searching for comets and asteroids.

«So we had to start building larger telescopes again if we were going to gather more light.»

«Having a very large telescope there allows us to study those in much greater depth.»

Larger telescopes exist today, and the glow of Los Angeles» city lights severely hampers observations from the Hooker.

The TMT, which will be one of the world's largest telescopes when it begins operating next decade, got into hot water because Native Hawaiian activists objected to its siting on Mauna Kea.