Sentences with phrase «much bigger telescopes»

However, now that adaptive optics is beginning to give very good results, then there are some wavelength regions where things can be done from the ground probably with a much cheaper experiment than you would be able to do from space or for the same amount of money with much bigger telescopes.

Recent results suggest that the era of finding new icy Pluto - sized bodies has come to an end or at least a lull until much bigger telescopes equipped with wide - field cameras come online in the next decade.

Not exact matches

[As Micah and others have noted, those of us without access to big telescopes and high - powered microscopes accept much of this information on faith.

But now, with Webb years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget, Dressler says choosing such a big, complex mirror for an already ambitious cryogenic telescope was «a bridge too far,» caused by «trying to make too much innovation in one step.»

BICEP2 and similar telescopes hunt for gravity waves with a much lower frequency, signaling reverberations from a split - second span just after the Big Bang called inflation, when space itself stretched rapidly.

Telescopes peering back in time to less than a billion years after the Big Bang have spotted individual galaxies with dust that weighs hundreds of millions of times as much as the sun.

In 1972, astronomers at NRAO had a second go, this time using a bigger telescope that collected as much data in a minute as...

That piece of sky is like a piece of pie pointed at the telescope: it includes a much bigger volume of space — and many more galaxies — at a distance of 4 billion light - years than at 100 million light - years.

One of the project's biggest challenges will be coping with the volume of data the telescope will produce, far too much to be processed by human beings.

But astronomers say the new technique used promises to reveal much more when combined with better spectrographs and bigger telescopes now in the works.

An influential group of US astronomers has laid out its vision for the biggest and best space telescope yet — a worthy successor to the much - loved Hubble Space Telescope that some say could cost US$ 10 billion or more.

Since the invention of the telescope 400 years ago, we have been looking at the sky in with much bigger manmade eyes, seeking to learn more and more about our Universe.

However, its never - before - attempted engineering would take some time... a little too much time, and anxious astronomers sought a «quick and dirty» big telescope to span the wait.

Hubble, about as big and heavy as a school bus but a lot faster — it orbits some 350 miles above Earth at 17,500 miles per hour — is much more than a swiftly careening camera, and it gets much better resolution than earthbound telescopes because there's no terrestrial atmosphere in the way.