Sentences with phrase «of powerful telescopes»

But a team of astronomers is developing a new technique for use by the next generation of powerful telescopes, allowing them to precisely measure the chemicals in exoplanet atmospheres.

With an ever increasing range of powerful telescopes, astronomers have recently started to unveil the answers to many of these intriguing questions.

With some luck, you may see the noisy howler monkeys or the gentle three - toed sloth, especially with the aid of a powerful telescope.

Not exact matches

Using powerful telescopes, they can spot planets far outside of the reach of our solar system when they cross in front of their sun — it's how we recently found a triad of planets around a red sun 40 light - years away.

More powerful and sensitive than the Hubble and other telescopes that came before it, the JWST can surely give us a selfie of our galaxy like we've never seen before.

A few weeks ago, in the country, far from the lights of the city, I saw the entire sky «powdered with stars» (in Milton's words); such a sky, I imagined, could be seen only on high, dry plateaus like that of Atacama in Chile (where some of the world's most powerful telescopes are).

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A group of people gathered at the Battery Park City esplanade on Fri., June 3, when B.P.C. resident, physician and amateur astronomer Sheldon Palgon examined Saturn through his powerful telescope.

Since his facility boasts one of the most powerful privately owned telescopes in the country, he has also worked with NASA on projects like tracking the orbits of hundreds of faintly visible known asteroids to determine whether they are on a collision course with Earth.

And it is definitely beyond the reach of even the most powerful Earth - bound telescopes.

[3] These comparatively small telescopes, equipped with suitable spectrographs, are powerful tools for this kind of research.

Finding Life Beyond Earth PBS As manned space programs face an uncertain future, powerful telescopes are uncovering a wealth of new planets across the galaxy — some of which could harbor life.

Amateur astronomers, long major players in ascertaining the exact orbits of asteroids, are likely to play less and less of a role as professionals turn their powerful telescopes to the objects once considered too mundane for academics to study at all.

The statistic is based on counts of visible stars begun at the turn of the 20th century, when telescopes were less powerful.

Though the galaxy is over 2 million light - years away, the Hubble telescope is powerful enough to resolve individual stars in a 61,000 - light - year - long stretch of the galaxy's pancake - shaped disk.

Atop neighboring Mount Wilson, Edwin Hubble was using the most powerful astronomical tool in history, the 100 - inch Hooker telescope, to determine that the night sky was teeming with galaxies equal in size and magnitude to our own Milky Way, and that these galaxies appeared to be racing away from us, an indication of an expanding universe.

In recent years, they have found evidence of matter vanishing in the region of a suspected black hole, suggesting that it has been swallowed — and powerful telescopes may be able to take direct pictures of the traces of a black hole within the next few years.

Powerful telescopes, clever astronomy and trips to some of Earth's most extreme and remote places are helping identify the most promising places to start

Using the most powerful radio telescope in the world, an international team of astronomers has set out to look for answers in the star L2 Puppis.

But even the most powerful telescopes of the time could detect Cepheids only in a handful of nearby galaxies.

Yesterday's inauguration of the first element of an international telescope array in Namibia provides astronomers with the most sensitive high - energy gamma ray observatory ever — a powerful new tool for studying the most violent processes in the universe.

Astronomers have produced a highly detailed image of the Crab Nebula, by combining data from telescopes spanning nearly the entire breadth of the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves seen by the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to the powerful X-ray glow as seen by the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory.

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.

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.

In the past decade, as powerful new telescopes capable of observing faint spectral lines have come online, the search for alien molecules has accelerated.

Remember, things have to happen quickly because these small NEOs are only visible to even the most powerful of telescopes for a short period of a few days during their flyby of Earth.

Immediately, researchers aimed some of the world's most powerful telescopes — including the twin 10 - metre Keck telescopes in Hawaii — at the region.

The optical signature of the gases might be detectable by powerful telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled for launch in 2018.

It is now already halfway to Jupiter, too far for a rendezvous mission and rapidly fading from the view of Earth's most powerful telescopes.

Using a combination of data gathered from powerful radio telescopes and supercomputer simulations, the teams found that a quasar spits out cold gas at speeds up to 2000 kilometres per second, and across distances of nearly 200,000 light years — much farther than has been observed before.

Now, a team led by Oliver Krause at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, has spotted telltale signs of a type Ia supernova using the powerful 8.2 - metre Subaru telescope in Hawaii.

Australia today marked the completion of what it bills as the most powerful radio survey telescope in the world.

A bit more than half of the hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way travel in pairs, nearly all of them orbiting so close that they can't be distinguished individually except by powerful telescopes.

Astrophysicists using a telescope embedded in Antarctic ice have succeeded in a quest to detect and record the mysterious phenomena known as cosmic neutrinos — nearly massless particles that stream to Earth at the speed of light from outside our solar system, striking the surface in a burst of energy that can be as powerful as a baseball pitcher's fastball.

But they are rare, so finding them requires extensive observing surveys using powerful, large telescopes that take images across a large part of the sky.

«Observations with the next generation of radio telescopes will tell us more about what actually happens when a star is eaten by a black hole — and how powerful jets form and evolve right next to black holes,» explains Stefanie Komossa, astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany.

Probing the finer details of those ancient, extragalactic stars» chemical structures would take many years, even with the most powerful telescopes on Earth or in space.

As a result of this massive «meal» the black hole begins to launch a powerful jet that we can detect with radio telescopes.

As they rotate, an outside observer with an X-ray telescope, situated at the right angle, would see flashes of powerful light as the beam swept periodically across the observer's field of view, like a lighthouse beacon.

More intensive studies of Pluto begin in the spring, when the cameras and spectrometers aboard New Horizons will be able to provide image resolutions higher than the most powerful telescopes on Earth.

Pulsars emit powerful beams of radio waves that sweep across space like a lighthouse, but radio telescopes only notice these if Earth is in their path.

If the Princeton - Ball team's telescope ultimately gets built, it will be an achievement so unexpected nobody could even have imagined it a few years ago and so powerful it could reveal Earth's sister planets by the score, bringing us closer to answering a question that has plagued us for most of our existence: Are we alone?

The NASA chief also stressed JWST's potential to revolutionize our understanding of the universe, invoking Hubble's great achievements as an example of what such powerful telescopes can do.

Next month, astronomers will harness radio telescopes across the globe to create the equivalent of a single Earth - spanning dish — an instrument powerful enough, they hope, to image black holes backlit by the incandescent gas swirling around them.

With 85 nights of observations on mid-size telescopes across the globe and 11 nights on one of the powerful 10 - meter Keck telescopes atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the Kepler team thoroughly checked out 50 of those possible planetary systems, Batalha says.

MAUNA KEA, HI — A primitive ocean on Mars once held more water than Earth's Arctic Ocean, according to NASA scientists who measured signatures of water in the planet's atmosphere using the most powerful telescopes on Earth including the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii.

Milner's money gives Siemion at Berkeley the means to purchase blocks of expensive observing time on some of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world — from West Virginia to China.

Kamuela, Hawaii — An international team of scientists using the most powerful telescope on Earth has discovered the moments just after the Big Bang happened more like the theory predicts,... Read more»

«Keck Observatory operates the only telescopes in the world powerful enough to have made this observation,» Kirby said of the twin, ten - meter telescopes housed on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

By using some of the world's most powerful telescopes at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii and by analyzing star velocities, the astronomers came to a startling conclusion.