Sentences with phrase «meter solar telescope»

Not exact matches

Those observations, using the ginormous Gemini 8 - meter telescope, were among the first exoplanets directly imaged (as opposed to inferred using indirect techniques), and they made up the first exoplanet solar system ever directly seen.

Captured by the 4.1 - meter VISTA telescope in northern Chile, the image, released online today by the European Southern Observatory, reveals solar - system - sized clumps and strands of hydrogen gas.

A number of other celebrated telescopes would lose NSF's support as well, all of them located on Kitt Peak in Tucson, Arizona: the 3.5 - meter WIYN Telescope, the 4 - meter Mayall Telescope, another 2.1 meter telescope, and the McMath - Pierce Solar Telescope.

The telescope's state - of - the - art instrumentation, including a 4 - meter primary mirror polished to a surface roughness of 2 nanometers (2 billionths of a meter), will give scientists an unprecedented view of the sun, and help answer long - standing fundamental questions in solar physics.

With its one - meter mirror, Sunrise is the largest solar telescope to fly above the atmosphere.

PUKALANI, HAWAII — Trucks carrying the primary mirror for the world's largest solar telescope advanced past a line of protesters in the early morning hours on Wednesday, delivering it to the top of Haleakalā, the 3055 - meter summit of Maui.

The delivery of the 4 - meter mirror marks an important milestone for the DKIST, which will be the largest solar telescope in the world when it opens in 2019.

The quest for higher resolution is in full swing with even larger, 4 - meter aperture solar telescopes (ATST and EST) on the horizon.

Title: Progress in High - Resolution Solar Physics Abstract: A new generation of solar telescopes (NST and GREGOR) has risen above the 1 - meter aperture limit of traditional evacuated telescopes and now delivers first science Solar Physics Abstract: A new generation of solar telescopes (NST and GREGOR) has risen above the 1 - meter aperture limit of traditional evacuated telescopes and now delivers first science solar telescopes (NST and GREGOR) has risen above the 1 - meter aperture limit of traditional evacuated telescopes and now delivers first science data.

The report recommends the 8 - meter monolithic space telescope, Solar Probe 2, Interstellar Probe, solar polar imager, and Neptune Orbiter with probes for further study for the Constellation SySolar Probe 2, Interstellar Probe, solar polar imager, and Neptune Orbiter with probes for further study for the Constellation Sysolar polar imager, and Neptune Orbiter with probes for further study for the Constellation System.

He testified strongly in support of major telescope projects, including the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) on Haleakala, and the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on Maunakea.