Sentences with phrase «of telescopes»

The interference patterns of the telescopes» combined radio wave observations told astronomers about position, size, and strength of objects in space.

The difference between the two types of telescopes is the wavelength of the radiation detected.

Since its discovery in Sept. 2012, Comet ISON has been observed by an armada of spacecraft, studied at wavelengths across the electromagnetic spectrum, and photographed by thousands of telescopes on Earth.

Ultimately, I gained a new appreciation for the operators of these telescopes.

Over the past week, astronomers have trained a network of telescopes around the world at a single point at the centre of our galaxy to finally catch a glimpse of a black hole.

Hawaii's cluster of telescopes on the dormant volcano of Mauna Kea will have to make room for a new big sibling.

With the ability of the VLBA, one of the telescopes of the NRAO, to make extremely precise position measurements, the astronomers expect to improve the accuracy of their distance determination even more.

This detail is about the same as we achieve here at Jodrell Bank with our e-MERLIN array of telescopes working at centimetre wavelengths but with telescopes spread up to about 200 km apart.

These models also reveal what information about cloudy exoplanetary atmospheres could be obtained with the next generation of telescopes (i.e. JWST, ELT, ARIEL).

«Interestingly, about half the catalogued sources still remain unidentified, an aspect which will inspire astronomers to search for answers using different kinds of telescopes, operating in the radio to the X-ray bands,» says Associate Professor Rowell.

«With LIGO - India added to the network, we will not only detect more sources, we will dramatically increase the number of sources that can be pinpointed so that they can be studied using other types of telescopes.»

This process left us with high - level, important, but often very tough questions that will not be answered with any of the telescopes currently existing or being built.

X-ray: NASA / CXC / CfA / J. Wang et al.; Optical: Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, La Palma / Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope; Radio: NSF / NRAO / VLA

The measurement of the expansion rate requires the use of telescopes to measure the distance (or light travel time) of objects seen at different size scales (or redshifts) in the history of the universe.

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According to a NASA announcement on Friday, «TESS will use an array of telescopes to perform an all - sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets ranging from Earth - sized to gas giants, in orbit around the nearest and brightest stars in the sky.

Also on tap: a new generation of telescopes, including NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which could find chemical fingerprints of oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and other molecules in the atmospheres of extrasolar planets.

But the discovery of what kinds of potentially habitable planets are out there and how far away they are will inform the designs of the next generation of telescopes.

Back then, new types of telescopes permitted Brahe, Galileo and Kepler to accurately map the precise positions of stars and planets.

The spatial resolution and sensitivity of telescopes prior to 1950 were insufficient to detect the source.

While the long - term future of studying exoplanet atmospheres surely rests in the next generation of telescopes and instruments that will enable us to directly image smaller and cooler exoplanets, transiting exoplanets like the ACCESS targets are the cosmic lighthouses that are providing the first insights into the natures of other worlds.

The WHT is operated on the island of La Palma by the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias.

Use of these telescopes was generally restricted to the community they served, even excluding other astronomers within the same nation.

But because of the great distances and the limitations of telescopes, no one had been able to observe another star's magnetism directly.

The observations have involved dozens of telescopes around the world and in space and at wavelengths from visible light through the infrared to radio.

Astronomers have that, too — yet they never seem to ever catch UFOs in the viewfinders of their telescopes.

Scientists subsequently used a number of telescopes around the world to observe it and determined that it has a redshift of 6.29, which translates to a distance of almost 12.6 billion light - years from Earth.

Initial imaging of Hanny's Voorwerp by a wide range of telescopes on the ground and in space indicated that it was a giant cloud of hot gas.

Second, to find a planet like Earth, and especially to see it directly rather than just detecting it by the wobble caused by its gravitational pull on its sun, the array of telescopes used to create the interferometer would have to be launched into space to get them above our planet's murky atmosphere.

Fantastic physical phenomena were first discovered not through the lenses of telescopes, but within the squiggles Einstein had scratched out on paper to make the world make sense — to him.

The more sensitive eyes of the next generation of telescopes should help solve the puzzle.

But even without the help of telescopes like the VLT, a glance towards the southern constellation of Dorado (The Swordfish or Dolphinfish [1]-RRB- on a clear, dark night reveals a blurry patch which, at first sight, appears to be just like a cloud in Earth's atmosphere.

Advancing adaptive optics technology with the use of multiple lasers would increase the scientific potential of today's technology and enable the application of this technology to the next generation of telescopes, she said.

The quality of the telescopes» optics also far exceeds that of Hubble, indicating that the spy agency employs telescope technology beyond what NASA has developed.

TA currently has three batteries of telescopes and researchers are hoping the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) will pay for two more, says Douglas Bergman, a physicist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

Astronomers have yet to find one of these, but it should be possible to see up to 10 per year thanks to a new generation of telescopes capable of spotting small changes in bright galactic cores.

While biomarkers have never been spotted in observations of an exoplanet, because their signal is so faint, the new generation of telescopes being planned today, such as the European Extremely Large Telescope, may be sensitive enough to detect them.

The NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope is already being used to search for atmospheres around the planets and team member Emmanuël Jehin is excited about the future possibilities: «With the upcoming generation of telescopes, such as ESO's European Extremely Large Telescope and the NASA / ESA / CSA James Webb Space Telescope, we will soon be able to search for water and perhaps even evidence of life on these worlds.»

For several years, scientists involved in the TMT and GMT projects have been pressing NSF to put its weight behind one or both of the telescopes, so that U.S. astronomers might have access to a Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope (GSMT) before 2020.

The impact sequence was followed not only by telescopic eyes in space, such as LRO and the Hubble Space Telescope, but also by hundreds of telescopes, both professional and amateur, in North America, where the skies were mostly clear.

Linda Tacconi, an astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany, and her colleagues used an array of telescopes on a remote plateau in the French Alps to look for the spectroscopic evidence of carbon monoxide, a key tracer gas, in galaxies that existed roughly three billion to 5.5 billion years after the big bang.

But phase two will look deeper at the optical abilities of the telescopes.

The NSF mandates that all of its telescopes, including Arecibo, must conduct a program of observations proposed and selected via peer review by the U.S. astronomy community.

The relatively brief occultation (it had been predicted to last nearly 2 minutes), combined with negative observations from a pair of telescopes in Argentina, suggested right away that Eris wasn't as large as thought.

The report, «Advancing Astronomy in the Coming Decade: Opportunities and Challenges,» has been controversial: both the NSF's National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the NANOGrav Collaboration (which uses GBT as one of its telescopes to observe pulsars to detect gravitational waves) issued responses, and a public comment forum filled with debate over the telescope's future.

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 ever increasing power of telescopes and closer surveillance by space missions shows how the physical and chemical natures of these individual worlds have been revealed.

Chinese scientists have found evidence that our airless, dry - as - a-bone satellite actually contains enough water vapor to complicate the operations of some telescopes.

This new generation of telescopes will allow huge advances in studies of the early universe, of Earth - like planets around other stars, and of the mysterious dark matter and dark energy that influence the structure and expansion of the universe.

Now, scientists have studied Vega with the CHARA interferometer, an array of telescopes in California yielding crisp views of stars, and modeled the observations by using new computations of how fast - spinning stars age.