Sentences with phrase «new space observatory»

LONG BEACH, Calif. — NASA's James Webb Space Telescope — the notoriously over-budget new space observatory slated to launch in 2018 — is on time and still within its new budget, the project's chief said Wednesday (Jan. 9).

New space observatories, huge earthbound telescopes and a continent - sized radio array will probe the origins of stars, elements and the universe itself

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

Even by traditional reckoning, the start of the new millennium should be January 2001, as the Royal Greenwich Observatory has declared and the title of the popular film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, suggests.

The yearlong and multimillion - dollar project transformed the iconic globe into a four - story stargazing observatory with new spaces and a menu that brings new excitement to the brand.

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.

NASA has confirmed that new data from this trio of high - energy telescopes, and archival data from Chandra, Swift and the European Space Agency's XMM - Newton observatory, all show that the object has the properties of a magnetar, making it only the 30th known.

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 goinspace 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 goinSpace Flight Center realized that something very strange was going on.

The new $ 8 billion price tag doesn't include operating costs of about $ 780 million for the far - seeing infrared observatory's first 5 years in space.

Along with Hubble, which shows where the old and the new stars are, the researchers used the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), the Herschel Space Observatory, the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM - Newton), the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)'s Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA), the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO)'s Kitt Peak WIYN 3.5 meter telescope, and the Magellan Baade 6.5 meter telescope.

Located 9,200 feet above sea level, atop the Apache Point Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey telescope can not match the incredibly sharp vision of the Hubble Space Telescope, which orbits above Earth's blurring atmosphere.

Led by astrophysicist Paul Crowther of the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom, the group sifted through observations taken by the Hubble Space Telescope earlier in this decade and combined them with new images by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Cerro Paranal, Chile.

But new observations by Herschel, a far infrared space observatory operated by the European Space Agency, show that massive elliptical galaxies can form from the merger of two large galaspace observatory operated by the European Space Agency, show that massive elliptical galaxies can form from the merger of two large galaSpace Agency, show that massive elliptical galaxies can form from the merger of two large galaxies.

A new citizen science initiative within the EVE Online game will ask players to find distant worlds lurking in data from space observatory missions

The findings should provide some «interesting food for thought» for NASA's new Solar Dynamics Observatory mission, says space scientist Scott McIntosh of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, also in Boulder.

While the new Russian space observatory, RadioAstron, is only a thirtieth the size of the largest radio telescopes on Earth, it could reveal more about the universe than any of them.

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.

Until a few years ago, astronomers did not expect to be able to see this far with the Hubble Space Telescope, but the observatory's new Wide Field Camera 3 — installed during a servicing mission in 2009 — has stunned researchers with its capabilities.

Modern astronomy has moved light years ahead with the opening up to observation of new parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, from infrared (the Spitzer Space Telescope, launched in 2003) to gamma (the Integral Space Observatory, launched in 2002).

Beyond the wavelength coverage of the space - borne observatories, the spectra taken in Hawaii even turned up a curious new feature — a boost in emissions of unknown origin at wavelengths of about 3.3 microns.

In the past year astronomers working at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Green Bank Telescope have identified eight new molecules that are some of the largest and most complex compounds discovered in space.

The Hubble Space Telescope passed its 20th anniversary of reaching orbit on April 24, an occasion marked with the release of a new image from the venerable observatory, depicting a star - forming region of the Milky Way some 7,500 light - years away called the Carina Nebula.

Howarth and Wallace Broecker, the geochemist at the Lamont - Doherty Geological Observatory in New York who identified soil bacteria as the cause of the oxygen loss, urged Space Biosphere Ventures to postpone the next manned phase of the project until they had addressed the basic biogeochemical imbalance inside Biosphere 2.

The new research could have implications for follow - up studies with future space observatories, such as NASA's James Webb Space Telesspace observatories, such as NASA's James Webb Space TelesSpace Telescope.

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.

This image can give us new clues to the structure of M 82 and why so many stars are being formed there,» says John Conway, part of the team and director of Onsala Space Observatory where Sweden's Lofar station is located.

The new research findings used data collected from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, both of W. M. Keck Observatory's Keck I and Keck II telescopes, as well NASA's FUSE telescope, and are reported today in the journal Science.

With the implementation of ESA's Cosmic Vision Programme building upon discoveries made by several present - day space observatories, space watchers can look forward to new discoveries shedding light upon how the universe and Solar System was made, and our role in it.

Mauna Kea, HI — A team of scientists led by astronomers at the University of California, Riverside has used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the W. M. Keck Observatory to uncover the long - suspected underlying population of galaxies that produced the bulk of new stars during the universe's early years.

However, the Spitzer Space Telescope, the newest and final telescope of NASA's Great Observatories program, has been stealing the show lately.

While the space observatory ceased its original data collection mission in May 2013 it has led to the discovery of 961 new planets.

TESS will target areas of the sky where new planets will likely be easier to spot than those studied by the venerable Kepler Space Telescope, giving observatories on the ground a better chance of confirming the discovery of new exoplanets.

«We have built an exact copy of that instrument that can be used in the LIGO - India Observatory, ensuring that the new detector can both quickly come up to speed and match the U.S. detector performance,» says David Shoemaker, leader of the Advanced LIGO Project, director of the MIT LIGO Lab, and a member of the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.

The announcement will take place at One World Observatory in New York at 12 pm EDT, a day that also marks the 55th anniversary of the first ever human space flight by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

New Horizons is currently so far from Earth that transmitting data to or from the spacecraft that radio signals racing through space at over 186,000 miles a second, take nearly five hours to travel between the interplanetary observatory and mission engineers on our home planet.

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.

According to a new study, the Gaia space observatory could help that figure grow by a factor of ten by the end of the decade, reaching 70,000 planets after 10 years.

Our laboratory experiments show that methyl isocyanate can indeed be produced on icy particles under very cold conditions that are similar to those in interstellar space This implies that this molecule — and thus the basis for peptide bonds — is indeed likely to be present near most new young solar - type stars,» said Niels Ligterink at the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands.

You have most likely seen the giant antennas and radio telescopes, such as the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico that was featured in the James Bond Movie «Golden Eye» and the Parkes Telescope in New South Wales, Australia featured in the movie «Dish» that look out into interplanetary and deep space for answers.

Marking an important new milestone in radio astronomy history, scientists at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro, New Mexico, have made the first images using a radio telescope antenna in spanew milestone in radio astronomy history, scientists at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro, New Mexico, have made the first images using a radio telescope antenna in spaNew Mexico, have made the first images using a radio telescope antenna in space.

Flagship missions such as the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray Observatory occur about twice per decade and produce outstanding science that defines substantive new areas of research in astronomy.

Additional data was collected using the Very Large Telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory, the New Technology Telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory and the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

The research team members are: Jeong - Eun Lee (Kyung Hee University), Seokho Lee (Kyung Hee University), Michel Dunham (State University of New York at Fredonia), Ken» ichi Tatematsu (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan / SOKENDAI), Minho Choi (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute), Edwin A. Bergin (University of Michigan), Neal J. Evans II (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute / The University of Texas at Austin)

In Wild World and Animal Crossing: City Folk, she runs the observatory, where players are able to stargaze and create their own constellations, on the second floor of the museum, but in Animal Crossing: New Leaf, she instead is the proprietor of the museum's gift shop, as well as the handler of the second floor's four free exhibit spaces.

Similar ornamental motifs are deployed in a several entirely abstract meditations, Crescent Totem, and in two works (Observatory and Muscorum) that revisit the Artificial Paradise series of 2008, a title that references the dark, refined sensuality of Charles Baudelaire and the new frontiers of poetical and pictorial space explored in his writings.

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«Natural droughts like the 1930s Dust Bowl and the current drought in the Southwest have historically lasted maybe a decade or a little less,» said Ben Cook, climate scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University in New York City, and lead author of the study.

«Natural droughts like the 1930s Dust Bowl and the current drought in the Southwest have historically lasted maybe a decade or a little less,» said Ben Cook, climate scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University in New York City, and lead author of the paper, in a statement.

To learn more about how scientists measure surface temperatures from space and the ground, read the new Earth Observatory feature, Where is the Hottest Place on Earth?.

NASA will take on a new groundbreaking earth science mission: the Geostationary Carbon Cycle Observatory (GeoCARB), an official press release from the space agency said last Dec. 7.