Sentences with phrase «m telescopes also»

Not exact matches

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.

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.

I am also rather tall (6» 3 ″), so am concerned about accidentally kicking the rear axle on the Versa, and the telescoping handle on the Flip XT sounds like a real plus.

A telescoping pedestal adjusts the height as the baby grows and toys are also stored inside the pedestal.

I am easily able to bring the twins with me and the telescoping handle makes it easy for my son to also help when he wants.

Several hours later, a team of astronomers known as the ROTSE (Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment) collaboration, led by Carl Akerlof of the University of Michigan, reported that the visible - light counterpart of the burst was also seen in the images taken with a small, robotic telescope operated by their team, starting only 22 seconds after the burst.

And get this: this ultra-convenient cooler is also equipped with two durable wheels and a telescoping handle for easy portability.

The spiral galaxy M101 takes center stage in this photo from the Dragonfly telescope, but astronomers are also interested in the fainter galaxies lurking in the background.

Being a refractor telescope, the image is always right - side - up so you can also use it for daytime viewing.

In addition to its work for the NSF, the VLA site is also playing an important role in the development of another radio telescope, the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA).

This telescope type is also called catadioptric or «Schmidt - Cassegrain» telescope.

It's one of the best telescopes for beginners and also very affordable.

It is an affordable way to protect the sensitive optics while also making it much easier to take your telescope with you anywhere.

Namibia is also the site of one of the largest and most sensitive gamma ray telescopes in the world.

Telescopes are also on the lookout for telltale gamma rays from space, in case dark matter commits the particle version of suicide and self - destructs.

As with all refractor telescopes, the AstroMaster can also be used for daytime viewing because its image is shown right - side - up.

This type of telescope is also called catadioptric or «Schmidt - Cassegrain» telescope.

But without the right preparation and knowledge it can also be frustrating to use your first telescope.

Later, telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope, also scheduled to launch in 2018, will be able to check the atmospheres of those planets for signs of life.

New and very precise observations using the HARPS spectrograph at the ESO 3.6 - metre telescope at La Silla, Chile, have now not only detected the motion of the spots due to the rotation of Ceres about its axis, but also found unexpected additional variations suggesting that the material of the spots is volatile and evaporates in sunlight.

MeerLICHT is also the prototype for BlackGEM — another automated telescope project led by Radboud that will be constructed in Chile in 2018.

Since his facility boasts one of the most powerful privately owned telescopes in the country, he has also worked with NASA on projects like tracking the orbits of hundreds of faintly visible known asteroids to determine whether they are on a collision course with Earth.

The signature also shows the velocities (bottom) of stars in the galaxies (blue regions are moving toward the telescope; red areas, away).

«In June last year, using a simple 28 - cm telescope belonging to the Aula EspaZio Gela (Space Lecture Room), we discovered the presence of a white spot on Saturn «s equator that was moving at speeds of 1,600 km / h, a speed that had not been observed on Saturn since 1980,» said Agustín Sánchez - Lavega, lead author of the work and also director of the Aula EspaZio Gela and Planetary Sciences Group of the UPV / EHU - University of the Basque Country.

Earth's turbulent, starlight - blurring atmosphere is also a severe obstacle to imaging faint planets from ground - based observatories, and most experts agree that the solution is to use space telescopes.

Images obtained by observers in other countries using small telescopes were also used in the study.

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.

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

So far not precluding a starshade closely resembles a concerted effort to build one: when NASA first announced the formal start of WFIRST, it also confirmed that the telescope would be launched into an orbit 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, where conditions are tranquil enough for a starshade to function.

There are also plans for a $ 730 - million optical telescope to orbit near the space station.

Johansen is also heartened by a recent discovery from ALMA, a submillimeter array of telescopes in Chile, of young planets sweeping clear paths through millimeter - sized dust grains in a protoplanetary disk no more than a million years old.

Some researchers involved with HDST worry, however, that no matter how broadly appealing such a powerful instrument might be, any proposal for a supersize space telescope is destined to be a nonstarter: although giant observatories are astronomically useful for researchers, they also tend to be deemed astronomically expensive, especially lately.

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.

The findings could also prove useful in optical systems, such as microscopes and telescopes, for viewing faint objects that are close to brighter objects — for example, a faint planet next to a bright star.

Now readings from ANITA, a balloon - borne neutrino telescope based in Antarctica that can also detect monopoles, suggest that the maximum is just 1/10, 000 th of the Parker bound for monopoles moving close to the speed of light, says David Besson at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, and colleagues (arxiv.org/abs/1008.1282).

Not only did Hubble use the telescope to reveal the vast cosmos beyond our galaxy and redefine our universe, but observations with the same telescope also showed that our universe is expanding.

That's a happy conclusion, given that red dwarfs are the most common stars in the galaxy and also the easiest targets for ground - based telescopes.

The difference between the telescope and the microscope is not simply the configuration of lenses; it is also in human perception and the anticipation of what is seen.

In space, above our atmosphere, stars do not twinkle; in space a telescope is also beyond day and night and can thus stare at the same star for weeks on end, gradually teasing from its light the barely perceptible but regular flickers caused by a small orbiting planet.

Although stories of Galileo and his telescope abound, a somewhat lesser - known fact is that he also developed a microscope around 1619.

Also, last May Debra Fischer of San Francisco State University began training a small telescope in Chile on Alpha Centauri, a pair of sunlike stars that are the closest ones to Earth.

It would also be swimming in stellar glare, meaning Project Blue's telescope would have to filter out on the order of 10 billion stellar photons to gather just one photon of planetary light.

But Mars» ring may reflect enough light to make Mars slightly brighter as seen from Earth, he said, and through a telescope the shadows of the rings might also be visible on the surface.

Earth - based and space telescopes, including NASA's iconic Hubble Space Telescope, also will be in position to observe the unique celestial object.

Also, big optical telescopes are being designed and built with the goal of monitoring the variable sky, and will greatly contribute to solving the mystery of the black hole eating habits.

While the committee is glad that plans are still proceeding to launch the telescope, it also warns that adding too many features to the mission could lead to similar cost overruns to those plaguing JWST.

Although there is a small chance that the Pistol could turn out to be two smaller stars huddled together — Figer's team is taking a sensitive new infrared detector to the Keck telescope in Hawaii next summer to find out — it could also turn out to be even more massive than the initial estimates.

Though the engineers complete the initial alignment with NIRCam, Feinberg explained they also test the alignment with Webb's other instruments to ensure the telescope is aligned «over the full field.»

The report also urges refurbishing the Australia Telescope, the 64 - metre radio telescope at Parkes in NSW, so that it can be used for infrared astronomy and the support of site testing for a possible international observatory on the Antarctic plateau.

The size of a telescope's aperture (or primary optical element) not only determines how many pesky little photons it can capture, but also the ultimate resolution of the image that can be formed.