Sentences with phrase «of big telescopes»

Today «the discovery of planets around other stars has become blazing hot for administrators of big telescopes,» says Geoff Marcy of the University of California at Berkeley.

Astronomer Mike Brown used one of the biggest telescopes on Earth, the monster 10 - meter Keck eye in Hawaii, to observe Neptune in September 2011, getting this lovely infrared picture of it.

A natural tinkerer with things, Nelson grew interested in astronomical instruments, and in 1977 made a proposal to the University of California to build a telescope with a mirror 10 meters across, twice the size of the biggest telescope in the United States at the time.

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Our telescopes have driven it back to the Big Bang, our paleontologists back to the origins of life on Earth.

Earth is part of our solar system, our solar system is a very small neighborhood in a spiral arm of our galaxy, our galaxy is one of the smaller of the billions of galaxies that are the residue of the Big Bang - this is where we are at right now... using several different types of telescopes analyzing several types of radiation and using our mathematics to calculate distortions in light waves to calculate dimensions, distance and mass — doing this we can generate a physical picture of what is actually happening our there.

A team of astrophysicists had used the BICEP2 South Pole telescope to identify a pattern in the polarisation maps of the cosmic microwave background radiation (rather like an echo of the Big Bang).

[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.»

According to Mather and other leading astronomers now working on a report to be released this summer by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), that quest and others require an even bigger space telescope that would observe, as Hubble does, at optical, ultraviolet and near - infrared wavelengths.

But in January, astronomers used optical and infrared telescopes to look back nearly to the beginning of the universe, just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, where they saw newborn ellipticals — ancient galaxies so dusty they're nearly invisible.

The viewfinder on the side of the telescope makes it easy for children to point the scope at what they want to see, which is a big plus and prevents frustration.

We don't want brain and data drain from Africa to the U.S.» The biggest game - changer on the continent will be the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), the world's largest network of radio telescopes designed to survey the sky faster than any instrument before it.

From a beginning that resembles an upside - down bowl to an end called the Big Rip, the Planck telescope's new map is changing our understanding of the universe

Ellis, his PhD student Dan Stark and their colleagues trained one of the world's biggest telescopes, the Keck 2 atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea, to scan light grazing massive clusters of closer galaxies [see image above], which focused the light coming from more ancient galaxies behind them and magnified it 20 times in a process called gravitational lensing.

«After the telescope was nearly killed because of cost overruns,» Mather says, «no one wants to think big anymore.»

Astonishingly, this species of planet is the most common in the Milky Way, making up some 77 percent of the planetary quarry snagged by our biggest survey to date, with the Kepler space telescope.

Theorists have predicted that telescopes could see such events from a time just a few hundred million years after the big bang, near the margins of the visible universe.

In the big scheme of things two months of observing time on our best space telescope might be worthwhile if it reveals something there associated with life.»

But in March, the European Space Agency announced that its orbiting Planck telescope had taken the temperature of 50 million tiny patches of sky, creating the highest - resolution baby picture of the whole universe ever taken, and allowing astronomers to better understand the first moments after the Big Bang.

Now, the European Space Agency's Herschel telescope has detected heat from five of these dusty galaxies, opening a window into the universe's biggest stellar construction boom.

To find another Earth, the thinking goes, one must first build a planet - imaging telescope of such size, sophistication and cost that it becomes too big to fail.

Breakthrough Listen's search for radio signals of extraterrestrial origin is using a new telescope at Green Bank that's vastly bigger and more sensitive.

Radio and microwave telescopes expose the cold and quirky cosmos — from the chilled - out radiation of the big bang to extreme pulsars and quasars

Atlas of Astronomical Discoveries by Govert Schilling A must - have for stargazers, this book explains and illustrates astronomy's biggest milestones through breathtaking telescope and satellite photos.

Imagine being able to view microscopic aspects of a classical nova, a massive stellar explosion on the surface of a white dwarf star (about as big as Earth), in a laboratory rather than from afar via a telescope.

More in - depth studies that could seek signs of life in the atmospheres or on the surfaces of any worlds around Alpha Centauri would have to wait, however, for the development of bigger and more expensive telescopes.

That prospect sends chills down the spines of some astronomers, who hope to build even bigger space telescopes using the new technologies developed at such great cost for Webb.

But by stretching the limits of the world's biggest telescopes, astronomers have seen a handful of planets directly.

Europe's Spectro - Polarimetric High - contrast Exoplanet REsearch (SPHERE) and the U.S. - backed Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) are attached to big telescopes in Chile and employ sophisticated masks, called coronagraphs, to block out the light of the star.

From the size of those variations, you can calculate how far the radiation from the Big Bang has been traveling to reach our telescopes.

The oldest galaxies seen directly with telescopes sent their starlight from significantly later: several hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang, which occurred about 13.8 billion years ago.

Using archival data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and the XMM - Newton and Chandra X-ray telescopes, a team of astronomers have discovered a gigantic black hole, which is probably destroying and devouring a big star in its vicinity.

Also, big optical telescopes are being designed and built with the goal of monitoring the variable sky, and will greatly contribute to solving the mystery of the black hole eating habits.

Using a mirror 28 feet wide — five times as big as the Pan-STARRS telescopes — and a camera the size of a pickup truck, it will be able to survey the entire sky in three days.

The SKA will take us to within a few hundred million years after the big bang, and probe the universe's dark ages — an epoch invisible to today's optical telescopes — to glimpse the birth of the first stars and galaxies.

At Caltech, you have access to really big telescopes — some of the greatest in the world — but for only a few nights a year.

«Big science needs a lot of compute power — right now we're designing systems to manage data for several large facilities around the world and the next generation of radio telescopes, including China's 500m radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array and the SKA's pathfinder telescopes that are already up and running in outback Western Australia.»

The study, conducted by the BICEP2 team that claimed the discovery and scientists with the Planck space telescope, nullifies a result that would have provided the first direct evidence of cosmological inflation, a brief moment after the Big Bang when the universe rapidly ballooned in size.

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.

His text begins at the centre of the Earth and travels to the most distant Galaxy, and his timescale stretches from the all - creating big bang to the present day, with its large powerful telescopes and orbiting spacecraft.

If you are going to spend more than a billion dollars building one of the world's biggest telescopes, you'll want to put it in a place with the best possible view of the stars.

These groundbreaking results came from observations by the BICEP2 telescope of the cosmic microwave background — a faint glow left over from the Big Bang.

You praise big science's recent triumphs — the discovery of the Higgs boson and the Planck telescope's new map of...

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.

Gilmore hadn't intended to make a big announcement, but on 3 February he appeared with others at a press conference in London to publicize the work of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), one of whose telescopes the team is using.

If finding life on other planets is really NASA's most important goal, then the Terrestrial Planet Finder is the big enchilada of the entire spaced - based telescope effort.

The densest part of the coma — the inner region near the nucleus — is the part of a comet that's visible to telescopes and cameras as a big fuzzy ball.

A team led by solar physicist Haimin Wang of the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark tracked a batch of sunspots on 20 February with a telescope at the Big Bear Solar Observatory near San Bernardino, California.

The telescope has helped researchers detect such clusters by exploiting a phenomenon known as the Sunyaev - Zel «dovich effect, which causes massive galaxy clusters to leave an impression on the cosmic microwave background: a faint, universe - spanning glow of light left over from the big bang.

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.