Sentences with phrase «orbiting telescopes as»

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.

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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.

Because planets that are close to their stars are easier for telescopes to see, most of the rocky super-Earths discovered so far have close - in orbits — with years lasting between about two to 100 Earth days — making the worlds way too hot to host life as we know it.

Discovery of the gamma - ray «bang» from FRB 131104, the first non-radio counterpart to any FRB, was made possible by NASA's Earth - orbiting Swift satellite, which was observing the exact part of the sky where FRB 131104 occurred as the burst was detected by the Parkes Observatory radio telescope in Parkes, Australia.

Amateur astronomers, long major players in ascertaining the exact orbits of asteroids, are likely to play less and less of a role as professionals turn their powerful telescopes to the objects once considered too mundane for academics to study at all.

As the spacecraft plunged through these orbits, a radio telescope in Argentina, run by the European Space Agency, NASA's partner on the mission, listened for tiny Doppler shifts in Cassini's signal.

To fit inside its rocket, the JWST's 6.5 - metre - high reflector, six times larger than Hubble's, is folded into 18 hexagonal pieces, which will assemble to function as a single giant mirror once the telescope is in orbit.

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.

Though the French won the race into orbit, Kepler will have a telescope measuring 95 centimeters (37.4 inches), 3.5 times the diameter of Corot's, with a field of view more than 10 times as large.

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.

By next spring, the planet - hunting space telescope known as Kepler — rejected by NASA three times but then approved after those initial detections of exoplanets in the 1990s — will most likely report the discovery of the first known Earth - like planet in an Earth - like orbit.

As improved telescope technology finds smaller and more distant asteroids, astronomers have identified clusters of similar - looking bodies clumped in analogous orbits.

Using data from a trio of orbiting X-ray telescopes, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Swift Satellite as well as ESA's XMM - Newton, researchers found evidence of a massive «tidal disruption event» (TDE).

Astronomers have produced a highly detailed image of the Crab Nebula, by combining data from telescopes spanning nearly the entire breadth of the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves seen by the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to the powerful X-ray glow as seen by the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory.

The upper stages of these rockets contain small compartments that could easily hold Seager's telescopes and drop them in the same orbit as the rest of the rocket's payload.

RCT Consortium telescope The Robotically Controlled Telescope was built in 1965 as a test bed for future orbiting space telescopes.

At the same meeting, astronomer Thomas Beatty of Ohio State University, Columbus, announced the discovery of just such a system with the small KELT telescope in Arizona: a brown dwarf 27 times as massive as Jupiter, orbiting its hot parent star every 30 hours.

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.

More than a star map, Sky is an interface that astronomers, educators and students can use to contribute their own findings to a community of like - minded users, says Carol Christian, an astronomer with STScI, which serves as the science operations center for the orbiting Hubble telescope.

Using these new parameters to time their observations, the scientists also used a satellite - based telescope to collect light data from the planet as it orbited closest to its star.

An international team, using telescopes in Hawaii and Chile, detected movement in the star — at speeds as low as 30 centimeters per second — caused by the gravity of the orbiting planets.

As the sibling sun's distance decreases, the orbits of that system's planets become misaligned, rendering it impossible for the Kepler telescope to detect planets — which no longer cross in the front of the suns.

Maybe an intervening cloud or dense sheet of this material blocks a shifting fraction of light as Kepler's line of sight passes through different parts of it during the telescope's orbit around the sun.

Through the newly invented telescope Galileo had seen many things that couldn't be explained by the dominant cosmology of the time, rooted in the idea that all things revolved around Earth: things like moons crossing the face of Jupiter, or the changing phases of Venus as sunlight caught it at different angles — an impossibility if Venus's orbit encircled Earth.

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

Astronomers using the TRAPPIST - South telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory, the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal and the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, as well as other telescopes around the world [1], have now confirmed the existence of at least seven small planets orbiting the cool red dwarf star TRAPPIST - 1 [2].

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

The planet was found using the radial velocity method: Telescopes scrutinize a star's light to see if its frequency is periodically stretched and squeezed by the Doppler effect as the star is tugged, first away and then toward us, by an orbiting planet.

«It's remarkable that the Kepler telescope is now pointed in the ecliptic, the plane that Earth sweeps out as it orbits the Sun,» Fulton explains.

Kepler, launched in 2009, was reborn in 2014 as «K2» with a clever strategy of pointing the telescope in the plane of the Earth's orbit to stabilize the spacecraft.

Known as a liquid mirror telescope (LMT), it wouldn't view space from Earth's orbit, as Hubble does.

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 mega-Earth was discovered by Kepler as the space telescope observed the dimming of the host star as the planet orbited in front of it, a process known as the transit method.

The international team of researchers used data from three orbiting X-ray telescopes — NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Swift Satellite as well as the European Space Agency's XMM - Newton.

The agency has suggested that it could ensure said stability by putting ATLAST into the same orbit as the James Webb telescope (set to orbit 1.5 million km / 1 million miles from Earth).

The James Webb Space Telescope — which is scheduled for launch in 2018 — can be thought of as the «successor» to the Hubble telescope, which went into orbit in 1990.

A tennis - court - sized telescope orbiting far beyond Earth's moon, Webb will detect infrared radiation and be capable of seeing in that wavelength as well as Hubble sees in visible light.

The telescope's design and instruments have been altered time and again as their designers encountered, then overcame, obstacles thrown in their paths by the harsh demands of a space orbit at such a vast distance.

He also works as Project Manager and co-Principal Investigator of the HiRISE high resolution telescope that is currently orbiting Mars and sending back detailed photographs of the Martian surface.

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.

Through a telescope, one can make out the system's two stars Alpha Centauri A and its smaller, dimmer companion Alpha Centauri B. Each has a mass that is about the same as the Earth's sun, and they orbit one another at about the same distance that Uranus orbits the sun.

It would require an as - yet unplanned telescope to get a better look at the smaller planets that orbit close to their parent stars.

On December 16, 2009, a team of astronomers (including David Charbonneau, Zachory K. Berta, Jonathan Irwin, Christopher J. Burke, Philip Nutzman, Lars A. Buchhave, Christophe Lovis, Xavier Bonfils, David W. Latham, Stéphane Udry, Ruth A. Murray - Clay, Matthew J. Holman, Emilio E. Falco, Joshua N. Winn, Didier Queloz, Francesco Pepe, Michel Mayor, Xavier Delfosse, and Thierry Forveille) announced the discovery of a planet «b» of 6.55 ± 0.98 Earth - masses in a tight inner orbit using the «transit method» of planetary detection using «a fleet of ground - based telescopes no larger than those many amateur astronomers have in their backyards» as part of the MEarth Project (CfA news release).

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.

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

The scientists used data from NASA's Kepler telescope to measure how much starlight each of the four planets block as they pass in front of their star, and to detect slight changes in each of the planets» orbits.

The ideal would be using a telescope in orbit because scattering occurs in Earth's atmosphere from light pollution and also from natural events — even something as simple as a sunset.

On December 16, 2009, a team of astronomers announced the discovery of a super-Earth in an inner orbit using the «transit method» of planetary detection using «a fleet of ground - based telescopes no larger than those many amateur astronomers have in their backyards» as part of the MEarth Project (CfA news release).

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).

Kepler - 16b was the Kepler telescope's first discovery of a planet in a «circumbinary» orbit — circling both stars, as opposed to just one, in a double - star system.