Sentences with phrase «of space observatories»

Abstract: Owing to the remarkable photometric precision of space observatories like Kepler, stellar and planetary systems beyond our own are now being characterized en masse for the first time.

The volu... ▽ More Owing to the remarkable photometric precision of space observatories like Kepler, stellar and planetary systems beyond our own are now being characterized en masse for the first time.

Recently, this paradigm had been challenged by far - infrared / sub-millimeter observations brought about by the advent of space observatories like Herschel and ground based interferometers like the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA).

An armada of space observatories measured gamma rays from the burst, while radio telescopes on Earth helped pinpoint the source of the activity.

The construction of the Webb telescope's 18 - mirror mosaic provides an important engineering pathway to demonstrating proof - of - concept for this type of space observatory architecture.

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Even by traditional reckoning, the start of the new millennium should be January 2001, as the Royal Greenwich Observatory has declared and the title of the popular film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, suggests.

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Critics of ambitious proposals like HDST note that smaller, more modest space observatories could seek signs of life on a few potentially habitable exoplanets much sooner and for less money.

To fully utilize the long - awaited James Webb Space Telescope, researchers will have to squeeze a generation of scientific studies into the multibillion - dollar observatory's short lifetime

Instead of constructing and testing such a giant observatory on the ground, Dressler speculates, it might make more sense to launch HDST in modular pieces to be assembled in space by astronauts or robots.

A plethora of new observatories — chief among them NASA's multi-billion-dollar James Webb Space Telescope, slated to launch in 2019 — could soon begin studying the planets of TRAPPIST - 1 and other nearby red - dwarf planets for signs of habitability and life.

The space agency must find $ 156 million in its 2012 budget to pay the skyrocketing costs of the long - delayed James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), its flagship observatory and successor to the Hubble Space Telesspace agency must find $ 156 million in its 2012 budget to pay the skyrocketing costs of the long - delayed James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), its flagship observatory and successor to the Hubble Space TelesSpace Telescope (JWST), its flagship observatory and successor to the Hubble Space TelesSpace Telescope.

NASA has confirmed that new data from this trio of high - energy telescopes, and archival data from Chandra, Swift and the European Space Agency's XMM - Newton observatory, all show that the object has the properties of a magnetar, making it only the 30th known.

That's why it was a surprise when physicists with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced in February 2016 that they had detected ripples in space from the violent merger of two black holes 29 and 36 times as massive as our sun.

Within 12 hours observatories had identified the source of the event within the lenticular galaxy NGC 4993, shown in this image gathered with the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

So one team of astronomers used data from the Gaia space observatory to simulate the interiors of solar - type stars, which are similar in mass and age to our own sun.

This intriguing fingerprint quickly triggered additional observations by teams of astronomers worldwide who obtained observing time with additional space observatories including NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR).

Now, 10 years later, Tepfer and Sydney Leach, an emeritus physicist at Paris - Meudon Observatory in France, have taken a closer look at the DNA of some of these space - traveling seeds.

The eLISA mission, a space observatory consisting of three miniature satellites, will hunt for waves with frequencies under 1 hertz when it launches in the 2030s.

The orbiting Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, a joint project between NASA and the European Space Agency, is currently out of contact with Earth because of its location, so observers will not be able to see any coronal mass ejections caused by this morning's flares until 10:30 p.m. EDT (1830 GMT), Battams wrote on Twitter.

In fact many scientists regard the planet - hunting space observatory as one of NASA's most successful scientific ventures.

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The Methods: Photochemical modeling by a Caltech team indicates that ethane, a hydrocarbon detected on Titan by both of the Voyager spacecraft and the European Infrared Space Observatory, is created when solar ultraviolet light breaks down methane, a minor component of Titan's nitrogen - rich atmosphere, into a stew of organic molecules that form a dense orange - brown smog.

«There are sound waves going every which way in the sun,» says group member Philip Scherrer, one of the 12 principal investigators for the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a joint project of NASA and the European Space Agency.

Neither of NASA's next - generation observatories — the 6.5 - meter James Webb Space Telescope and a 2.4 - meter repurposed infrared spy satellite called WFIRST — will fill these wavelength gaps.

Current telescopes such as the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite, and future telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an infrared observatory, and the Wide Field Infrared Space Telescope (WFIRST), also could help astronomers make better measurements of the expansion rate.

And Minniti is one of the leaders at the VISTA infrared survey telescope at the European Space Organization's Paranal Observatory in northern Chile, which has created a catalogue of more than 84 million stars in the central parts of the Milky Way.

The last of the Great Observatories, now bearing the dreary moniker of Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), aims to tackle the other end of the spectrum.

In 2012 and 2014 a team led by an astronomer from Paris Observatory took a second look at the auroras using the ultraviolet capabilities of the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) installed on Hubble.

If these giant moons around giant planets exist, they might already be present in the available data of NASA's Kepler space telescope, or they could be detectable with the European Space Agency's upcoming PLATO space mission and European Southern Observatory's ground - based European Extremely Large Telesspace telescope, or they could be detectable with the European Space Agency's upcoming PLATO space mission and European Southern Observatory's ground - based European Extremely Large TelesSpace Agency's upcoming PLATO space mission and European Southern Observatory's ground - based European Extremely Large Telesspace mission and European Southern Observatory's ground - based European Extremely Large Telescope.

The White House would also turn off the Earth - observing instruments on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft, which capture full - disk images of Earth from about 1.6 million miles away.

At both observatories, extremely sensitive laser measurements inside miles - long tunnels caught the waves» tiny stretches and squeezes of space - time.

The LRP lists the projects the panel deems most crucial to the future of Canadian Astronomy, including the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)-- a giant ground - based radio observatory in Chile — and the James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble's successor.

Most of what researchers already know about the auroras comes from observatories closer to home, such as the Hubble Space Telescope.

In June it was reported that the LISA Pathfinder, the forerunner to eLISA, had successfully demonstrated the technology that opens the door to the development of a large space observatory capable of detecting gravitational waves in space.

Nico Roos of Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands, Jelle Kaastra of the Leiden Laboratory for Space Research in the Netherlands and Christian Hummel of the US Naval Observatory in Washington DC have focused their attention on the quasar 4C 73.18.

Nevertheless, astronomers have gathered an impressive haul of exoplanetary data from NASA's Kepler space observatory, which has operated since 2009.

New space observatories, huge earthbound telescopes and a continent - sized radio array will probe the origins of stars, elements and the universe itself

The successful technology demonstration paves the way for detecting mergers of supermassive black holes with future space - based observatories

In an effort to keep the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) focused on its expensive, flagship weather satellites, the Senate, in its version of the spending bill, had given NASA control of two smaller missions, Jason - 3, an ocean altimetry satellite, and the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a space weather satelSpace Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a space weather satelspace weather satellite.

Last year the Herschel Space Observatory detected wisps of water vapor around the dwarf planet, and since its arrival at Ceres, Dawn has imaged oodles of highly reflective bright spots on the Cereian surface that may be sites of exposed water ice.

«You don't necessarily have to have a «dirtier» snowpack to make it dark,» said lead author Marco Tedesco, a research professor at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory and adjunct scientist at NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies.

This space observatory will be able to study supernovas that exploded as far back as 10 billion years to analyze the shifting relationship between the pull of mass and the push of dark energy.

Although studied for centuries through small ground - based telescopes, the Spot only received its first close - ups in the latter half of the 20th century through a progressive series of close encounters with NASA's Pioneer, Voyager and Galileo spacecraft — as well as through detailed remote monitoring by the Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories.

The ability to control quantum noise could one day be used to improve the precision of very sensitive measurements, such as those obtained by LIGO, the Laser Interferometry Gravitational - wave Observatory, a Caltech - and - MIT - led project searching for signs of gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space - time.

In 1997, the ESA Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) detected water vapor in the stratosphere of Jupiter.

Piggy - backing in the nose of a single Ariane V rocket will be the Planck microwave telescope and an infrared telescope, the Herschel Space Observatory.

As astronomers report online today in Nature, the Herschel Space Observatory has discerned a watery spectral line at the far - infrared wavelength of 538 microns.

One of those telescopes is Herschel, a space - based infrared observatory launched in May by the European Space Agency in collaboration with space - based infrared observatory launched in May by the European Space Agency in collaboration with Space Agency in collaboration with NASA.

The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO), designed to detect gamma rays from distant astrophysical objects such as neutron stars and supernova remnants, had also begun recording bright, millisecond - long bursts of gamma rays coming not from outer space but from Earth below.