Sentences with phrase «of solar telescopes»

Title: Progress in High - Resolution Solar Physics Abstract: A new generation of solar telescopes (NST and GREGOR) has risen above the 1 - meter aperture limit of traditional evacuated telescopes and now delivers first science data.

Bernard Lyot constructed another type of solar telescope in 1930 at Pic du Midi Observatory in France.

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.

The scientists used an instrument called SPHERE on the Very Large Telescope (VLT)-- an array of four different telescopes run by the European Southern Observatory (ESO)-- to take the new images of infant solar systems and their protoplanetary disks.

According to NASA, «viewing this event safely requires a telescope or high - powered binoculars fitted with solar filters made of specially - coated glass or Mylar.»

The newly discovered exoplanets, or planets outside of the earth's solar system, were found after researchers applied the same AI techniques that help computers recognize images like cats in photos to data gathered from the Kepler space telescope.

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.

The phenomenon of «solar braiding,» hypothesized 30 years ago, has now been validated by images from an orbital telescope.

«We never change Kepler's attitude except to rotate it once every 90 days to keep its solar arrays pointed at the sun, and the sun shades in place to keep the sunlight out of the barrel of the telescope.

Online reader Jim Reed wondered about the likelihood of the Kepler space telescope spotting another solar system like ours.

The telescope identified the spectral signature of the hydrogenic ion, which has been detected in our own solar system in the upper atmospheres of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus.

Using data from our solar system and observations of huge planets far beyond the visual range of any telescope, astrophysicists René Heller and Ralph Pudritz have shown that some moons of those planets could be habitable.

Kepler wouldn't detect an entire solar system identical to ours, but the telescope could find individual planets passing in front of their host star.

To date, telescopes have revealed more than 400 KBOs in our outer solar system with diameters of at least 100 kilometers; 70,000 such bodies may exist.

Using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), an interlinked system of 10 radio telescopes stretching across Hawaii, North America and the Caribbean, the astronomers have directly measured the distance to an object called G007.47 +00.05, a star - forming region located on the opposite side of the galaxy from our solar system.

Based on telescope observations of young sunlike stars, researchers estimate that «super» solar flares bombarded Earth with energetic particles at least once a day around 4 billion years ago.

A large shield blocks out solar radiation, and the telescope orbits millions of miles from Earth's heat.

Today's best telescopes can penetrate only to the nearest part of the solar system's outer regions, known as the Kuiper belt.

But corona - graphs, which are installed on satellites and ground - based telescopes, are not ideal; to protect other instruments from potential damage caused by stray sunlight, they obscure an area slightly larger than the solar disk, blotting out a bit of the corona.

The Oort Cloud is too distant to be seen by current telescopes, but is thought to be a spherical distribution of small icy bodies at the outermost edge of the solar system.

The CubeSat mission, called the Colorado Student Space Weather Experiment (CSSWE), housed a small telescope to measure the flux of solar energetic protons and Earth's radiation belt electrons.

The Planet Observer's Handbook begins with a general description of the Solar System, followed by an account of the celestial sphere and a particularly good chapter on telescopes and accessories — the diagrams here are among the best I have seen for a long time.

In the past few years, space probes, improved ground - based telescopes, and orbiting observatories have shown us close - up pictures of hundreds of objects in our solar system.

In a decade, NASA hopes to launch a network of space - based telescopes that will be able to pinpoint Earth - like planets in other solar systems and see whether life has altered their atmosphere in the same way it has here on Earth — flooding it with oxygen, for example.

With them it will peer through the creaking, dusty cosmic eons to study much that astronomers using Hubble and other telescopes have barely begun to glimpse: the universe's very first galaxies, nascent stars and planets in mid-creation in nebulous wombs, the atmospheres of worlds both within and beyond our solar system.

Captured by the 4.1 - meter VISTA telescope in northern Chile, the image, released online today by the European Southern Observatory, reveals solar - system - sized clumps and strands of hydrogen gas.

Razdow telescope A companion to the Kitt Peak Vacuum and McMath - Pierce Solar telescopes, the tiny Razdow used to monitor sky conditions and warn observers inside the other two facilities of conditions that would degrade their observations.

Infrared images from the Keck and Gemini telescopes reveal three giant planets orbiting counterclockwise around a young star, in a scaled - up version of our solar system.

The study makes use of a wealth of data captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, JAXA / NASA's Hinode, and several ground - based telescopes in support of the launch of the NASA - funded VAULT2.0 sounding rocket.

For astronomers, the proposed new telescope represents tremendous promise: With a mirror nearly three times larger than any other on Earth, it could detect signs of life in other solar systems and provide clues to the origins of the universe.

Trying to observe the details of Saturn's auroras has essentially been a hit - and - miss proposal, the researchers say: The times at which solar flares strike the planet aren't readily predictable, and until now the Hubble telescope hasn't been looking at Saturn at the proper wavelengths just when a solar flare arrived.

Current telescopes could barely detect light reflected from a hole at the outskirts of our solar system, even if astronomers knew where to look.

That in turn will set the stage for the work of future telescopes, like the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope under construction in Maui, Hawaii, which will come online in 2019.

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, Califosolar 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, CalifoSolar Observatory near San Bernardino, California.

A group of researchers and engineers led by Nathalia Alzate from the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy whisked the solar filters off their telescopes to begin taking images of the corona.

A number of other celebrated telescopes would lose NSF's support as well, all of them located on Kitt Peak in Tucson, Arizona: the 3.5 - meter WIYN Telescope, the 4 - meter Mayall Telescope, another 2.1 meter telescope, and the McMath - Pierce Solar Telescope.

Alzate and the rest of the Solar Wind Sherpas create their corona temperature maps using sets of telescopes, each with a filter that allows it to view one particular ion in the plasma.

The spacecraft carries four telescopes that together will survey a strip of sky extending from the solar system's pole to its equator, known as the ecliptic.

This spacecraft and the ground - based telescope study the lower layers of the solar atmosphere, where the spicules form: chromosphere and the region of transition

The panel may also recommend the launch of a survey telescope into a solar orbit similar to that of Venus.

The observations were made with IRIS (NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph), a 20 cm ultraviolet space telescope with a spectrograph able to observe details of about 240 km, and the Swedish Solar Telescope, located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory.

A team led by solar physicist Bart De Pontieu of the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo Alto, California, used a Swedish telescope equipped with a rapidly flexing mirror, which cancels the blur caused by Earth'ssolar physicist Bart De Pontieu of the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo Alto, California, used a Swedish telescope equipped with a rapidly flexing mirror, which cancels the blur caused by Earth'sSolar and Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo Alto, California, used a Swedish telescope equipped with a rapidly flexing mirror, which cancels the blur caused by Earth's air.

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.

In fact, it's a representation of the numbers 1 through 10; the atomic numbers of several elements important to life on Earth; information about DNA; a representation of the human form; a graphic of the solar system; and a graphic of the transmitting telescope.

A flood of information from planet - hunters such as NASA's Kepler space telescope, coupled with improved models of how planets and solar systems work, is forcing us to reconsider another set of geocentric views — this time about what a planet capable of harbouring life should look like.

A network of radio telescopes providing information on radio bursts is run by the US Air Force's Radio Solar Telescope Network.

From a small blue planet, tiny conscious parts of our universe have begun gazing out into the cosmos with telescopes, repeatedly discovering that everything they thought existed is merely a small part of something grander: a solar system, a galaxy and a universe with over a hundred billion other galaxies arranged into an elaborate pattern of groups, clusters and superclusters.

NASA is funding a wide range of life - detecting instruments, from rovers that prowl across Mars to telescopes that will gaze at distant solar systems.

Atop Haleakalā on Maui, Hawaii, construction of NSF's DKIST — the world's soon - to - be largest solar telescope — nears completion.

The telescope's state - of - the - art instrumentation, including a 4 - meter primary mirror polished to a surface roughness of 2 nanometers (2 billionths of a meter), will give scientists an unprecedented view of the sun, and help answer long - standing fundamental questions in solar physics.