Sentences with phrase «orbiting telescopes»

While the differences between orbiting telescopes are a bit complicated, we should be clear that space telescopes in general are going to provide us with a sharper picture than terrestrial ones.

Earlier that year, the agency's Space Science Advisory Committee had vetoed yet another proposal of his for a mission to Mars, preferring to spend money on orbiting telescopes and on relaunching Cluster.

The data collected by the Kepler space telescope this year may reveal more, Mendez said, referring to the sun - orbiting telescope launched in 2009 and whose mission was to detect Earth - like planets in the Milky Way.

Indeed, Hubble is one of the more important in a considerably long list of orbiting telescopes, or astronomy satellites.

A host of Earth - based and orbiting telescopes also observed the unique celestial event.

Ground - based and orbiting telescopes employ exquisitely sensitive detectors to search for objects that are much farther away, and much fainter, than could have been detected just a few years ago.

The reconnaissance satellites under discussion are essentially small orbiting telescopes aimed at the Earth, attached to a video camera that transmits images back to a ground station.

Ground - based telescopes often follow up on Hubble's sightings, as does the Chandra X-ray Observatory, along with other orbiting telescopes.

Two seconds after the gravitational waves, orbiting telescopes detected a powerful, short gamma ray burst.

In May 2016, using an Earth - orbiting telescope called Chandra, the researchers saw a single X-ray source whose brightness waxed and waned and was located within a vigorous star - forming region of Tol 1247 - 232.

The largest datasets exist for Earth, followed by Saturn, Jupiter and Mercury (Krupp 2015), whereas important information has also been obtained from ground - based or Earth - orbiting telescopes as well as analytical and numerical models.

So far, Kepler, a NASA orbiting telescope that searches for planets beyond our solar system, has detected over 1,200 exoplanets.

Problems in testing the orbiting telescope's components and integrating them together means further launch delays are likely, GAO found.

In mid-December the orbiting telescope captured a rare glimpse of x-radiation from the early phases of a supernova, one of the most violent events in nature.

Getting a solid body of data using Hubble can be a tricky business; securing observing time on the orbiting telescope is a highly competitive endeavor.

Now, two orbiting telescopes, the Italian Space Agency's AGILE telescope and NASA's Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope, have detected gamma rays emanating from Cygnus X-3, some more than 1000 times more energetic than previous measurements.

An orbiting telescope has revealed their structure.

A team of researchers, following a 5 - year campaign investigating candidate alien worlds spotted by NASA's Kepler mission, found that more than half of the giant exoplanets spotted by the orbiting telescope are not planets at all but a pair of stars orbiting each other, or a brown dwarf — or failed star (pictured)-- orbiting another star.

The orbiting telescope determines only an exoplanet's size and, given more observing time, the distance from its star.»

The High - Definition Space Telescope (HDST), if built by NASA, would be five times as large as Hubble, the orbiting telescope launched by NASA in 1990.

The orbiting telescope on the Russian RadioAstron mission combined Read more about Getting closer than ever before to what a black hole spits out - Scimex

Orbiting telescopes have a leg up over their land - bound colleagues, since they can see the infrared or ultraviolet rays that terrestrial telescopes absorb [source: Melina].

He traces how our ideas about life on Mars have been refined by landers and rovers, terrestrial and Mars - orbiting telescopes, spectroscopy, and even a Martian meteorite.

As the study of space and photography techniques have progressed, observatories and orbiting telescopes have expanded the tradition of photographing astronomical objects.

In the first weeks after launch, scientists and engineers will «test the deployment of the reflecting mesh telescope in orbit, the wide - band data link from the satellite to the ground, the performance of the low noise amplifiers in orbit, and the high - precision orbit determination and attitude control necessary for VLBI observations with an orbiting telescope,» according to Dr. Joel Smith, manager of the U.S. Space VLBI project at JPL.