Sentences with phrase «orbiting telescopes employ»
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.
Using the ten - meter Keck I telescope fitted with the HIRES instrument, the team employed the radial velocity method to measure how much an orbiting planet causes its star to wobble, to determine the planet's mass.