Sentences with phrase «maps of the sky»

A WATERY telescope has just released its debut map of the sky, measuring for the first time how often black holes flicker on and off.

With the Aug. 14 detection of spacetime ripples, scientists were able to home in on the location of gravitational wave flinging black holes more precisely than ever before, illustrated in lime green on a map of the sky.

Maps of the sky are described according to the season.

The complete results have yet to be released, but one of the Planck presentation slides showed a preliminary polarization map of the sky.

From the first year's data, the COBE team were able to make maps of the sky at each of the three frequencies sampled by the DMR.

The pulsar was identified by analysing fluctuations in gamma - ray maps of the sky made using the Large Area Telescope aboard the Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope, which launched on 11 June.

Its first full maps of the sky are expected in 2012.

NASA's recently launched GLAST gamma - ray observatory has made its first map of the sky, and now the agency has given it a new name: the Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope.

In the broadest sense, the goal is to make the greatest - ever digital map of the sky, according to Zeljko Ivezic, the University of Washington astronomer charged with coordinating LSST's science initiatives.

During that first summer, teacher teams used the 40 Foot to makes maps of the sky around Cygnus A and Virgo A, and to measure the telescope's efficiency and beam shape.

DS: We're releasing the first data from the initial 2D map of the sky that will identify the galaxies that will be the targets for our spectroscopic measurements once DESI is built.

A map of the sky can be thus be assembled bit by bit and used to create tables that give the positions of stars, planets, the Moon and so on for the purposes of navigation or determining the exact time.

When radio telescopes were first used to make detailed maps of the sky in the 1950s, many strong sources of radio emission seemed to have no counterparts in visible light.

«Developed during the 60's and 70's, the paintings and drawings gathered together here anticipate and embrace achievements in science and visual mapping of the skies that would break ground in the international space race,» said Bowdoin College Museum of Art Co-Director Anne Collins Goodyear.

Not exact matches

The VISTA telescope, located in Chile, has a wide field of view and extremely sensitive detectors that make it the world's largest telescope dedicated to mapping the sky.

They mapped out how far star - forming regions were from the sky, using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Long Baseline Array of telescopes, and calculating how far these war form Earth.

Why, I ask myself, shouldn't the shining dots of the sky be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?

It is designed to probe dark energy and dark matter, take a thorough inventory of the solar system, map the Milky Way in unprecedented detail, and generally watch for anything that changes or moves in the sky.

The all - sky infrared survey should also map out the history of light production by galaxies and — closer to home — the distribution of ices in embryonic planetary systems.

Thanks to about a thousand hours of observation by the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have compiled a dark matter map of a tiny slice of the sky, about two square degrees of the entire sky's 40,000 - square - degree span.

Last spring, Geha and Josh Simon, a colleague at Caltech, used the 10 - meter Keck II telescope on Hawaii's Mauna Kea to study the mass of eight newly discovered satellite galaxies, detected over the last two years by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, an ongoing effort to make a detailed map of a million galaxies and quasars.

Using these new data, a research team led by Charles L. Bennett of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and David Spergel of Princeton University compiled a full sky map that reveals our universe in its earliest stages.

In 2010, sky maps made by NASA's Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope revealed two lobes of particles billowing out from the heart of the Milky Way, each one stretching for 25,000 light years.

Lemonick provides a behind - the - scenes look at an eight - year quest by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) team to produce the first all - sky map of the early universe.

Investigators have now uncovered an even longer wall as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which is mapping 1 million galaxies across a quarter of the sky with telescopes at Apache Point Observatory in New MexiSky Survey, which is mapping 1 million galaxies across a quarter of the sky with telescopes at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexisky with telescopes at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico.

The Cambridge team plans to build a larger version of cat in the Canary Islands in order to map these cosmic wriggles all over the sky.

«We have spent five years collecting measurements of 1.2 million galaxies over one quarter of the sky to map out the structure of the Universe over a volume of 650 cubic billion light years,» says Jeremy Tinker of New York University, a co-leader of the scientific team carrying out this effort.

LiDAR is a method of mapping from the sky: An airplane - mounted device sends a constant pulse of laser light across a swath of terrain; precise measurements of how long it takes the emitted breams to bounce off surfaces are taken and translated into topographic data.

The Dark Energy Survey has now mapped one - eighth of the full sky (red shaded region) using the Dark Energy Camera on the Blanco telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile (foreground).

Check out Planck's full - sky map and focus on anything that's out of balance.

Their map, which covers 100 times as much sky as previous surveys, reveals giant heaps of dark matter enveloping galaxies.

NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), slated for launch no earlier than 6:09 A.M. Pacific Standard Time on December 11, is charged with mapping the sky in the mid-infrared to create an atlas of objects whose emitted light is invisible to human eyes and largely absorbed by Earth's atmosphere.

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov observatory has released its first map of the high - energy sky, catching pulsars, supernova remnants and blazars switching on and off

Scientists with the Dark Energy Survey created the map by scanning a large swath of sky with a 570 - megapixel camera hooked up to a 4 - meter telescope in Chile.

Once the families were identified using the chemical DNA, their evolution was studied with the help of their ages and kinematical properties obtained from the space mission Hipparcos, the precursor of Gaia, the spacecraft orbiting Earth that was launched by the European Space Agency and is almost halfway through a 5 - year project to map the sky.

«It has a very large field of view to quickly map the sky and great sensitivity, enabling us to look at very faint stars.

Planck mapped the polarization of the entire sky at seven frequencies, many of which are more sensitive to dust.

DUST MAP In this map of the entire sky, Planck measured regions heavily contaminated by dust (red) and relatively clean ones (bluMAP In this map of the entire sky, Planck measured regions heavily contaminated by dust (red) and relatively clean ones (blumap of the entire sky, Planck measured regions heavily contaminated by dust (red) and relatively clean ones (blue).

From the sky map of the cosmic rays (left), physicists deduce the hotspot by counting the rays within 20 ° of each point on the sky.

She compares fluorescence microscopy to searching an image of the night sky for stars, whereas using H&E is more like picking out cities on Google Maps, a much harder computational problem.

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is an amazing project: map out the positions and colors of objects in the sky to high precisiSky Survey is an amazing project: map out the positions and colors of objects in the sky to high precisisky to high precision.

Astronomers working with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have used a 2.5 - meter telescope at the Apache Point Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, to map the location of more than 930,000 nearby galaxies, determining the distance to each by how much the expansion of the universe has stretched, or «redshifted,» the wavelength of the galaxy's light.

Using this data covering an incredible 1/4 of the entire sky, astronomers created the map above of 900,000 luminous galaxies: ones that are brighter than usual.

The new instrument on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope on Mauna Kea allows astronomers to map areas of the sky in wavelengths some 1,000 times longer than visible light.

This allows astronomers to make a mosaic image of any size... so they created this astonishing map of the constellations Cassiopeia (the Queen) and Cepheus (the king), covering over 1000 square degrees of sky!

Planck recently produced the best - ever full - sky map of this light, revealing new details about of our cosmos» age, contents and origins.

But the all - sky maps that chart the CMB also contain details of everything the light passed on its way to our telescopes.

Unlike the famous Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which mapped only part of the sky, the new 2MASS Redshift Survey covers 95 % of surrounding space, skipping over only the region near the plane of our own galaxy, where the Milky Way's stars and dust block the view of remote objecSky Survey, which mapped only part of the sky, the new 2MASS Redshift Survey covers 95 % of surrounding space, skipping over only the region near the plane of our own galaxy, where the Milky Way's stars and dust block the view of remote objecsky, the new 2MASS Redshift Survey covers 95 % of surrounding space, skipping over only the region near the plane of our own galaxy, where the Milky Way's stars and dust block the view of remote objects.

He estimates that a few hundred of these magnified galaxies could turn up by March 2011, when Herschel will complete a deep - space map of 1.5 per cent of the sky.

Turn on any local TV weather forecast and you can get a map of where skies are blue or cloudy.