Sentences with phrase «new observatory»

A plethora of new observatories — chief among them NASA's multi-billion-dollar James Webb Space Telescope, slated to launch in 2019 — could soon begin studying the planets of TRAPPIST - 1 and other nearby red - dwarf planets for signs of habitability and life.

New observatories draw out more details as shock waves from the explosion keep plowing through interstellar gas.

As for helium hydride, he allows himself a flicker of optimism about two new observatories coming later this decade: ALMA, a radio telescope array in Chile, and the James Webb Space Telescope, a giant successor to Hubble due to launch in a few years.

The next decade, he says, promises to be a boom for young astronomers as new observatories and facilities come online.

Ambitious new observatories are in the works.

But over the past decade, the Hubble Space Telescope - along with a group of powerful new observatories on the ground - has allowed astronomers to watch this dying stage with new understanding.

As the Hubble Space Telescope ages, NASA is readying a new observatory to pick up where its predecessor left off.

On the occasion of his recent visit, the Pope blessed the new observatory premises, and visited the observatory's collection of astronomical equipment and artefacts, including (to the delight of Br Guy Consolmagno, whorecounted it the next day at a talk in London) the Vatican's collection of meteorites.

He did, but even if you don't know what that means, and simply put he found that a planet's orbital period and distance are related, very soon you can gaze through the new observatory here at the same stars and planets that Kepler observed 400 years ago.

A new observatory called ABISS that can transmit video and long - term chemical measurements at broadband speeds from the seafloor using a system of flashing lights instead of a traditional tether.

A prolonged shutdown could also halt the construction of two new observatories being funded by the National Science Foundation.

Soon after the space shuttle atlantis launched a new observatory into orbit in 1991, Gerald Fishman of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center realized that something very strange was going on.

Located in the ocean off Canada's Nunavut province, the new observatory will monitor in real - time environmental factors like temperature, salinity and ice thickness.

Finally, a public contest to name a new observatory module to be connected this year to the international space station has gone awry after Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert asked followers to add his name to the write - in ballots.

On the other hand, you can build new observatories,» Christensen said.

Schilling's book is short on details, but his book leaves no doubt that the new observatories are essential, and will probably provide him with a worthy sequel.

Remaining hiccups in Uranus's orbit led scientists to think that there might yet be one more planet, and in 1906 Percival Lowell, a wealthy tycoon, began the search for what he called «Planet X» at his new observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.

According to a statement from the Indian Cabinet, «LIGO - India will also bring considerable opportunities in cutting edge technology for the Indian industry,» which will be responsible for the construction of the new observatory's 4 - kilometer - long beam tubes.

NASA officials, meanwhile, are hopeful that the JWST's predecessor — the iconic Hubble Space Telescope — will still be functioning by the time the new observatory launches.

After arriving to Hobart in November 2012, the new telescope has been assembled at UTAS, then moved to the new observatory.

Opening of the new observatory building at Pasadena City College (PCC)- dedicated by Albert Einstein

«We need a garden so students have a peaceful, tranquil place,» says Jeter, 46, a Stoneman Douglas astronomy teacher since 1994, who collaborates with Hogg on many science projects, including a new observatory.