Sentences with phrase «of optical telescopes»

Those capabilities allow SST to see more, and smaller, objects than existing systems, like the network of optical telescopes known as the Ground - based Electro - Optical Deep Space Surveillance (GEODSS).

This principle had been used for a long time by astronomers for design of optical telescopes, to avoid chromatic aberration.

Astronomers also keep track of cosmic dust, tiny mineral grains that obscure the views of our optical telescopes.

In this way, observations by ALMA and other radio telescopes complement those of optical telescopes.

It just so happened that a pair of optical telescopes on the ground was observing the last GRB, 080319A, which had gone off 30 minutes before in the same part of the sky.

But, when we compare the eyesight between an optical and a radio telescope with the same size of aperture, the vision of a radio telescope is equivalent to only 1/10, 000 of an optical telescope.

Founded by a small international group of academic scientists, we aim to build a new class of optical telescope powerful enough to see continents on exoplanets like Proxima b.

Not exact matches

If we now consider the number of the stars (15,000 x 106 visible to the optical telescope alone) you will understand how it is possible to say, cosmically speaking, that we are enveloped in a sort of monstrous gas formed of molecules as heavy as the Sun moving at distances from each other so great that they have to be reckoned in light - years (bearing in mind that light travels at a speed of 186,000 miles per second, and that we are only 8 light - minutes distant from the sun)-- a gas made of stars!

Those 19th - century notions proved to be the products of poor telescopes and wishful thinking — the canals were an optical illusion.

Several hours later, a team of astronomers known as the ROTSE (Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment) collaboration, led by Carl Akerlof of the University of Michigan, reported that the visible - light counterpart of the burst was also seen in the images taken with a small, robotic telescope operated by their team, starting only 22 seconds after the burst.

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.

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.

MeerLICHT, a 65 - centimeter optical telescope, is expected to help identify the sources of fast radio bursts (FRBs)-- extremely brief, energetic flashes of radio waves from remote galaxies.

Optical interferometry at CHARA requires collecting the light beams from six different telescopes, sifting through multiple gigabytes of data, and then combining the beams to synthesize the kind of image that otherwise would be possible only with an enormous space telescope.

For hundreds of years, optical devices like telescopes and microscopes have relied on solid lenses that slide up and down to magnify and to focus.

With instruments capturing ultraviolet, optical and infrared light, the combined collecting area of the telescope's 492 mirror segments will be more than two orders of magnitude larger than Hubble's.

The MIT - led team looked through data collected by two different telescopes and identified a curious pattern in the energy emitted by the flare: As the obliterated star's dust fell into the black hole, the researchers observed small fluctuations in the optical and ultraviolet (UV) bands of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Providing $ 100 million in funding over the next decade to top SETI researchers, Breakthrough Listen will allow new state - of - the - art radio and optical surveys to take place using the world's premiere telescopes, creating the most ambitious and robust SETI program yet performed.

The world's largest optical / near - infrared telescope will be built on a 3,000 - meter peak in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.

Optical routers can't read data from such tightly compressed light pulses, however, so a second time telescope would be needed to decompress data at the receiving end of a link, says Foster.

Most of us are used to the silvery Moon as it appears in the visible part of the spectrum to our eyes or in photographs made with optical telescopes (left).

These telescopes, along with Swift's own UV / Optical Telescope and other robotic telescopes alerted by the satellites, monitored the six - week afterglow of visible light following the burst.

By 2020, when the European Extremely Large Telescope is due to be completed, the country is expected to host 70 % of the global observation surface for large optical and infrared telescopes.

Optical telescopes are wonderful at spotting stars, which radiate most of their energy as visible light, but these telescopes are blind to anything that does not shine.

Most of this material can not be seen with optical telescopes.

The ground detectors of the Auger observatory record these secondary particles, while 24 optical telescopes around the perimeter of the array record how the particle shower made the atmosphere fluoresce.

So, the optical design of the telescope was inverted and put into a new housing.

In theory a starlight - blocking device called a coronagraph could perform this extreme feat of optical wizardry — but in practice all coronagraphs tend to leak trickles of unwanted starlight into a telescope's delicate sensors.

Ever since LIGO announced the first gravitational - wave event in early 2016, networks of small telescopes around the world have been poised to detect an «optical counterpart.»

«This milestone signifies that all of the hexagonal shaped mirrors on the fixed central section of the telescope structure are installed and only the 3 mirrors on each wing are left for installation,» said Lee Feinberg, NASA's Optical Telescope Element Manager at NASA Goddard.

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.

The SDSS has been observing a large fraction of the night sky with its optical telescope.

Capable of collecting nine times as much light as any other optical telescope, it could discover Earth - like planets in the habitable zones around other stars and search for changes over time in the fundamental physical constants.

Optical telescopes swung into operation and detected a fading spot of ordinary light at the position of the gamma - ray burst.

Unlike optical telescopes, radio telescopes can pick up interfering signals outside their line of sight.

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.

Over the next two years in preparation for launch, various components of the Webb telescope will endure rigorous environmental and optical testing.

Using the optical 8.1 - meter Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, astronomers then managed to determine the galaxy's distance: more than 3 billion light - years, as reported in a second paper in the same issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters.

«The light from each segment will interfere with adjacent segments, and if the segments are not aligned to better than a wavelength of light, that interference shows up like barber pole patterns,» explained Lee Feinberg, optical telescope element manager for the Webb telescope at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

They then took a closer look at the spectrum of radiation emitted by each of these objects, using optical telescopes in Arizona and the world's largest radio telescope, the 305 - metre dish at Arecibo in Puerto Rico.

A new generation of telescopes that embrace huge light - collecting mirrors and cunning optical technology promises a tremendous leap in astronomers» ability to explore the universe.

The VLT system comprises a powerful orange laser that sits inside a special clean - room next to the telescope and an optical fibre that sends the laser light to a small «launch» telescope at the top of Yepun.

The size of a telescope's aperture (or primary optical element) not only determines how many pesky little photons it can capture, but also the ultimate resolution of the image that can be formed.

Horowitz says the telescope could detect optical pulses as brief as one - billionth of a second.

The TMT is one of three giant telescopes expected to dominate ground - based optical astronomy beginning in the next decade.

WIYN 0.9 - meter telescope A consortium of three universities (Wisconsin, Indiana, and Yale) and one institution (National Optical Astronomy Observatory) recently upgraded Kitt Peak's first research telescope, which began operating in 1962.

«The optical telescopes play an important role, as their observations can be used to improve our prediction of the orbital path, as well as provide data that helps us establish the rotation rate of an asteroid,» said Chodas.

Instead of searching for the light from individual galaxies with an optical telescope, the team stalked a different quarry, red - shifted radio waves emitted by hydrogen atoms floating in huge clouds within the galaxies.

The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) observes millions of stars every night with telescopes in Chile to find microlensing events.