Sentences with phrase «orbiting telescope called»

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And this is just the latest in a series of stunning finds from Kepler, a space telescope designed to search for Earth - size planets orbiting other stars in what is called «the Goldilocks zone.»

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.

ESO's Very Large Telescope was immediately called into action to measure the object's orbit, brightness and colour more accurately than smaller telescopes could achieve.

You are dealing on Mars with what I call extremophile extreme environments on steroids,» she says, «and you don't look for microbial life with telescopes from Mars orbit.»

To test the concept, scientists have built two small satellites called cubesats that will practice lining up in orbit to construct a single telescope with a focal length as large as the distance between them.

Last October ESA launched a gamma - ray telescope called Integral as a companion to its successful X-ray telescope XMM - Newton, already in orbit.

On July 18, 2011, the Russian Space Agency launched a satellite into orbit that unfolded into a 10 - meter (33 - foot) dish radio telescope called Spektr - R.

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.

Radio telescopes can be called into service to receive the transmissions from spacecraft in orbit around the Earth or traveling across the Solar System.

Building on past observations of the white dwarf called SDSSJ1043 +0855 (the dead core of a star that originally was a few times the mass of the Sun), which has been known to be gobbling up rocky material in its orbit for almost a decade, the team used Keck Observatory's HIRES instrument fitted to the 10 - meter Keck I telescope as well as data from the Hubble Space Telescope to measure and characterize the material being accreted by the star.

Immediately after its discovery, telescopes around the world, including ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile, were called into action to measure the object's orbit, brightness and color.

However, the telescope will explore a much larger region of the sky than Kepler, with an emphasis on detecting rocky planets on Earth - like orbits that receive a similar amount of radiation as our own planet (the so - called habitable zone).