Sentences with phrase «orbiting observatories such»

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If it is in the most distant part of its orbit, the world's largest telescopes — such as the twin 10 - meter telescopes at the W. M. Keck Observatory and the Subaru Telescope, all on Mauna Kea in Hawaii — will be needed to see it.

An international observing campaign calls on large observatories in Chile and Hawaii, backyard amateur telescopes and orbiting instruments such as Hubble to see what's going on in the rest of Jupiter's atmosphere.

For example, X-ray astronomy is nearly impossible when done from the Earth, and has reached its current important stand within astronomy only due to orbiting satellites with X-ray telescopes such as the Chandra observatory or XMM - Newton observatory.

The older idea that acoustic waves flowing out of lower levels heats the corona was abandoned in the 1970s, when the Orbiting Solar Observatory 8 spacecraft did not see such waves in the chromosphere, the layer just above the photosphere (the apparent «surface» of the sun in visible light).

What is more, improved technology should also allow larger observatories such as Keck to move from the few giant planets already imaged — all of which orbit their host stars at relatively large distances — to closer - in worlds more like our own.

An international observing campaign is calling on large observatories in Chile and Hawaii, orbiting instruments such as Hubble, and amateurs armed with backyard telescopes to all keep an eye out for what's going on in the rest of Jupiter's atmosphere.

The 2009 Orbiting Carbon Observatory launch failure (same Taurus XL rocket, same problem) was equally such — and is now tentatively scheduled for a 2013 re-launch.