Sentences with phrase «major radio telescope»
It seems unlikely that any existing major radio telescope would be given over to such an intensive program to the exclusion of its usual work.
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The SKA will also be the first astronomy project gathering three of the five major emerging national economies: India, China, and South Africa — the last of which will host the core of the radio telescope in its Karoo Desert.
For example, the Spitzer infrared astronomers favour a two major arm model because red giant stars (which emit a lot of infrared) are largely confined to the Perseus and Centaurus arms, whereas radio astronomers tend to favour a four major arm model because radio telescopes can detect atomic hydrogen in all four arms.
Radio telescopes, including major facilities of the National Science Foundation's National Radio Astronomy Observatory, have provided data needed to measure the winds encountered by the Huygens spacecraft as it descended through the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan last month — measurements feared lost because of a communication error between Huygens and its mother ship Cassini.
The scientists also want to make use of the two major European millimeter radio observatories (NOEMA and the IRAM 30m telescope) operated by IRAM, a joint German / French / Spanish radio astronomy institute.
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory announces completion of a major construction milestone on the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope — the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (Radio Astronomy Observatory announces completion of a major construction milestone on the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope — the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (radio telescope — the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT).
Within the first year of GBI observations, the major astronomy report from the National Academy of Sciences recommended the immediate funding and building of a large - scale radio telescope array as a national science facility.
The radio telescope's first major task will be to investigate the Sun to provide earlier warnings of solar storms that, if left unchecked, could fry satellites and power grids across the globe.
The project is a major international undertaking, with about 40 radio telescopes from more than 15 countries having committed time to co-observe with the satellite.