Sentences with phrase «m telescope in»

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 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.

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.