Sentences with phrase «much larger telescope»

She adds that it helps offer a «sneak preview of what universe would look like if we could build a much larger telescope than Hubble.»

His team had just figured out that the telescope they had built so far could form a cell of a much, much larger telescope.

With its huge corrected field of view and specially designed 256 - megapixel camera, OmegaCAM, the VST can produce deep images of large areas of sky quickly, leaving the much larger telescopes — like ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT)-- to explore the details of individual objects.

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We feel the answers to such a question are much more likely to be found in Einstein's equations, quantum physics, large particle accelerators and radio telescopes than in Genesis Chapters 1 through 20.

Armed with an 8.4 - meter (27 - foot) optical telescope and a 3,200 - megapixel camera — the world's largest — the LSST will record as much data in a couple of nights as the Sloan Survey did in eight years.

There is no evidence, nor is it sensible to believe, that either the TMT or GMT would be much advanced if more money had been available; the technical challenges of very large telescopes are daunting, and these have set the pace.

Survey telescopes look at much larger areas of the sky — up to half the sky, at any point — than does the Hubble Space Telescope, for instance, which focuses more on individual objects.

It argues that Australia needs to be part of projects like the VLT because the cost of building and maintaining ever larger telescopes is too much for one country.

And that made it possible for the researchers via Hubble and VLT to study in detail the distribution of stars in the galaxy as well as the patterns of stellar rotation, says Sune Toft: «Thanks to the natural lens we were able to to gaze into the core of this galaxy, which would otherwise have appeared not much larger than a star to our telescopes.

Funded by tech entrepreneur Yuri Milner, it will set two of the world's largest radio telescopes surveying the million closest stars across a broader swathe of the radio spectrum, and will cover 10 times as much sky as all previous searches combined.

«Having a very large telescope there allows us to study those in much greater depth.»

About 4,500 light - years away in the direction of the constellation Monoceros, the nebula is large enough to be visible through small telescopes; if it were bright enough in the visible spectrum it could be seen by the naked eye, occupying several times as much of the sky as the full moon.

The Australian SKA Pathfinder telescope (ASKAP), a precursor to the much larger Square Kilometre Array (SKA) which will begin construction later this decade, today released its first images of the southern sky.

The subtle signals from stretched rocky planets could be found by some current telescopes, and certainly by much more powerful observatories like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) that are due to enter service in the next few years.

Space - based telescopes can search larger swaths of the sky, but they are much more expensive to operate.

The team's technique could be used on other telescopes, Swain says, opening up much larger instruments for use than those available in space.

«While ground - based telescopes will always have to contend with the obscuration and instability in our own atmosphere, development of successful observing techniques like this will enable us to throw much larger apertures at the problem than we will ever have available in space,» Grillmair says.

With its wide field of view, the new telescope will be able to quickly find promising targets for the much larger Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array, the world's premier telescope for observing in the submillimeter band.

The mirror diameter is 17 inches while the entire telescope length spans almost 10 feet and weighs almost 1000 pounds, making it much too large to fly on a satellite.

The galaxies are much fainter than the quasars so only the largest telescopes can gather enough light to create a spectrum for those far away galaxies.

A much larger search was made by the Breakthrough Foundation, which uses the Australian radio telescope («The Dish») operated by CSIRO at Parkes, New South Wales, and the Green Bank telescope in West Virginia, in the United States.

A thick layer of interstellar dust obscures much of the Galaxy from scrutiny by optical telescopes, and astronomers can determine its large - scale structure only with the aid of radio and infrared telescopes, which can detect the forms of radiation that penetrate the obscuring matter.

Redshift is a measure of how much the Universe has expanded since the light left a distant source and can only be determined for faint objects with a spectrograph on a powerful large telescope such as the Keck Observatory's twin 10 - meter telescopes, the largest on Earth.

When the 300 - foot telescope observed galaxies, it saw invisible gas extending farther out than the visible galaxy — the galaxy was much larger than it appeared to optical telescopes.

Project Blue will demonstrate and test coronagraph and wavefront technologies similar to ones that could be used on much larger future space telescopes currently being studied by NASA (e.g., HabEX, LUVOIR), and thus help to retire technical risks and hone the observing techniques and data processing algorithms for those missions.

However, the telescope will explore a much larger region of the sky than Kepler, with an emphasis on detecting rocky planets on Earth - like orbits that receive a similar amount of radiation as our own planet (the so - called habitable zone).

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That is distressing, disaster experts say, because near - earth objects this size are presumed to be much more common than larger space rocks, and they are too small to be easily spotted long in advance with the telescopes used to track such debris.