Sentences with word «observatory»

Using one of the two world's largest telescopes at Keck Observatory in Hawaii, scientists confirmed 41 of the exoplanets discovered by Kepler and determined the masses of 16.

NIRES arrived at Keck Observatory in April.

In the summer of 2010, Hessl and her colleague Neil Pederson, a forest ecologist then working at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, were in Mongolia sampling larch trees.

By studying variations in tree rings in forests around the world, Neil Pederson and colleagues at the Tree Ring Laboratory at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory in New York have created a record of droughts and wet periods dating back hundreds to thousands of years.

Now researchers led by Bryan Butler of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Socorro, New Mexico, have found a smaller stealthy region in the southern hemisphere of Mars.

The Very Large Telescope is a telescope facility operated by the European Southern Observatory on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile.

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) and the National Astronomy Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) have successfully developed a...

A mysterious flash of X-rays has been discovered by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in the deepest X-ray image ever obtained.

The Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) and the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) created the VAO, LLC to manage and operate the Virtual Astronomical Observatory for NSF and NASA.

This article covers what happens when stars die and shows some very awesome images from the European Space Observatory of the surface of some stars.

Fine details of a magnetic flux rope captured by the New Solar Telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory for Solar Active Region 11817 on 2013 August 11.

And a lot more — 3.6 x 1049 watts, or 36 septillion yottawatts — blasted out of the black hole collision that the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory detected in September.

Harvey, 70, came to the National Solar Observatory on Kitt Peak near Tucson in the 1960s while completing his thesis at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

The Green Bank Observatory Radio Astronomer for a Day program provides an authentic research experience for students in grades 5 and up.

And Mauna Loa isn't the only place this pattern is seen; data from observatories in Alaska, American Samoa and Antarctica all show the same upward trend.

The large area of the Pierre Auger Observatory of about 3000 km2 compensates for the low flux of such particles and allows us to search for an excess / deficit of events arriving from different directions in the celestial sphere.

Using space based observatories like Hinode and STEREO, solar physicists have recently discovered a new type of jet known as «blowout» jets, which seem to be like the Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) that can disrupt the magnetic field of Earth, but on a much smaller scale.

NASA will make another attempt to get the Orbiting Carbon Observatory into space to answer questions about global warming

In 1974, scientists beamed a radio message to space from the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope in Puerto Rico.

In 1968, the 46 - metre radio telescope was used in conjunction with the 26 - metre instrument at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory of Penticton, British Columbia, to simulate the resolution of a giant 3,074 - kilometre radio telescope (the physical distance separating the two instruments).

Actor Jamie Bell attends the Burberry «London in Los Angeles» event at Griffith Observatory on April 16, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.

Indulge in a buffet lunch with seafood as well as snorkelling, submarine and glass bottom boat tours, a marine life touch tank, underwater observatory as well as a unique Seawalker helmet diving experience, just to name a few!

Gemini Observatory Southern Operations Center c / o AURA, Casilla 603 La Serena, Chile Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone] Gemini Staff Directory

Japan's Hinode spacecraft picked up low - energy X-rays, depicted in green, while NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory imaged areas with extreme ultraviolet light, shown in yellow and red.

«The evidence that these new gravitational waves are from merging neutron stars has been captured, for the first time, by observatories on Earth and in orbit that detect electromagnetic radiation, including visible light and other wavelengths,» said Chad Hanna, assistant professor of physics and of astronomy & astrophysics and Freed Early Career Professor at Penn State.

He also worked for McDonald Observatory as a writer for this website.

Merging X-ray data (blue) from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory with microwave (orange) and visible images reveals the jets and radio - emitting lobes emanating from Centaurus A's central black hole.

The protests began on 16 February, when Sivaranjan Uppala, a 29 - year - old Ph.D. biomolecular imaging student at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali, began a hunger strike at Jantar Mantar, an ancient astronomical observatory near New Delhi.

The charming town of La Fortuna, Costa Rica is 6.4 kilometers (4 miles) from the Arenal Volcano and 22 kilometers (13.7 miles) from Arenal Observatory Lodge & Spa.

Francis Halzen, principal investigator of the international IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole and neutrino specialist at the University of Wisconsin, gave the summer institute's opening lecture.

In 1996 I came to Lowell Observatory because NASA privatized SOFIA.

The LISA Pathfinder mission is the first step towards a gravitational wave observatory in space, which promises to revolutionise astronomy

Set on a ridge miles from the Arenal Volcano Arenal Observatory Lodge offers the adventurous traveler front row - seating for one of the world's most thrilling fireworks display the volcanic eruption of Arenal The hotel sits...

I am a graduate student at Steward Observatory working with Daniel Apai.

But most importantly, the team detected the host star's telltale wobble using several nights of observations on the world - class HARPS spectrograph at La Silla Paranal Observatory in Chile.

The MPG / ESO 2.2 - metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile has captured a richly colourful view of the bright star cluster NGC 3532.

This project is based on one of the Science Buddies — Lick Observatory Astronomy Contest winning projects: Boulos, Bassam N. (2011).

Built in June by Dr. Henry Loescher, the tower, located high on a ridge overlooking the Trans - Alaska Pipeline and Dalton Highway, is collecting data on prevailing wind directions and annual temperature variations that are crucial for the design and construction of a National Ecological Observatory Network research site.

During his PhD he worked with The Michelson Doppler Imager on - board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory satellite measuring the size and shape of the Sun.

But Father Coyne, the director of the Vatican Observatory for 28 years, is an outspoken supporter of Darwin's theory, arguing that it is compatible with Christianity.»

This previously unreported story also shows why launching the long - mothballed Deep Space Climate Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) is more urgent now than ever.

David Golimowski, Palomar Observatory Larger discovery image of Star C, with dark circular coronagraphic stop at center of Gl 105 A for suppressing light scatter.

This amount includes funding for the extension of the Kepler mission and NASA's partnership with the Keck Observatory used for all NASA astrophysics science programs.