Sentences with phrase «own big telescope»

[As Micah and others have noted, those of us without access to big telescopes and high - powered microscopes accept much of this information on faith.

«Everyone is trying to get time to look at this thing on big telescopes right now, urgently, within the next few days,» she explains.

All that sends you to space, and makes you build big telescopes.

In general, the bigger the telescope's aperture the better!

That's because a bigger telescope will let in more light (meaning your eyes can see faint objects better).

Ellis, his PhD student Dan Stark and their colleagues trained one of the world's biggest telescopes, the Keck 2 atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea, to scan light grazing massive clusters of closer galaxies [see image above], which focused the light coming from more ancient galaxies behind them and magnified it 20 times in a process called gravitational lensing.

We also have around 10 nights per year observation time on bigger telescopes in public and professional observatories, which allows us to employ a narrow band methane filter to detect fireballs in Jupiter's upper atmosphere more efficiently.

[These Are the Biggest Telescopes on Earth]

«You might think that building a big telescope on the Earth could be substitute for sending a camera to a planet,» Loeb says.

«The more dust there is, the bigger the telescope has to be to image a planet,» Ertel said.

But by stretching the limits of the world's biggest telescopes, astronomers have seen a handful of planets directly.

Europe's Spectro - Polarimetric High - contrast Exoplanet REsearch (SPHERE) and the U.S. - backed Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) are attached to big telescopes in Chile and employ sophisticated masks, called coronagraphs, to block out the light of the star.

The same is true for astronomers — as they build bigger telescopes and develop new techniques to see farther into the Universe, they look further and further back in time.

At Caltech, you have access to really big telescopes — some of the greatest in the world — but for only a few nights a year.

If you are going to spend more than a billion dollars building one of the world's biggest telescopes, you'll want to put it in a place with the best possible view of the stars.

In 1972, astronomers at NRAO had a second go, this time using a bigger telescope that collected as much data in a minute as...

Closer to home, the big telescopes have an equally intriguing assignment: to see planets outside our solar system.

Today «the discovery of planets around other stars has become blazing hot for administrators of big telescopes,» says Geoff Marcy of the University of California at Berkeley.

The bigger a telescope's aperture, or «eye,» the smaller the features it can detect.

There are two promises that we make with bigger telescopes: that they can see fainter things and that they see more detail.

Just as bigger telescopes collect more light and enable viewing of fainter objects, increasing the mass of germanium allows for a greater probability of observing the rare decay.

But astronomers say the new technique used promises to reveal much more when combined with better spectrographs and bigger telescopes now in the works.

It's big, about 4 times the diameter of Earth, but so far away - 4.4 billion kilometers (2.7 billion miles) away at its closest - that even in big telescopes it's hard to see detail.

Astronomer Mike Brown used one of the biggest telescopes on Earth, the monster 10 - meter Keck eye in Hawaii, to observe Neptune in September 2011, getting this lovely infrared picture of it.

Whichever method ends up working, Marley thinks that with bigger telescopes and better instruments, we'll detect a handful of exomoons by 2030.

Even big telescopes can't really spot the source of the pull.

«You employ cheaper resources to vet out the false positives before you send these candidates to the really expensive, big telescopes like Keck [in Hawaii] or the HARPS telescope,» Batalha says.

You know, just the past year alone has seen a lot of new breakthroughs, discoveries, and they're constantly talking about the instruments that they're building, the bigger telescopes that are coming online soon.

This means that with bigger telescopes, we can collect a lot more photons.

«A digital brain will be a resource for the entire scientific community: researchers will reserve time on it, as they do on the biggest telescopes, to conduct their experiments,» Markram wrote in SA.

McGrath, the Butler University professor who studies religion and science fiction, said Smith's cosmology has to be understood through the prism of his times, when astronomers, armed with ever bigger telescopes, explored deeper into the solar system than they ever had before.

YM: «We will have signed the deals with the biggest telescopes in the world to allow for the best scientists and analysts to be able to accumulate a significant amount of information and to be able to look through that information for the signals of extraterrestrial nature.»

«Ever since Galileo, astronomers have been building bigger telescopes to collect more light to observe more distant objects,» said Peter Wizinowich, who leads the Adaptive Optics development at Keck Observatory.

«Big telescopes demand big partnerships,» said France A. Cordova, the director of NSF in her video message for the ceremony.

The bigger the telescope, the better its vision.

Recent results suggest that the era of finding new icy Pluto - sized bodies has come to an end or at least a lull until much bigger telescopes equipped with wide - field cameras come online in the next decade.

However, now that adaptive optics is beginning to give very good results, then there are some wavelength regions where things can be done from the ground probably with a much cheaper experiment than you would be able to do from space or for the same amount of money with much bigger telescopes.

A natural tinkerer with things, Nelson grew interested in astronomical instruments, and in 1977 made a proposal to the University of California to build a telescope with a mirror 10 meters across, twice the size of the biggest telescope in the United States at the time.

Astronomy, Hawaiian cultural practices and economic realities were major themes yesterday as the state Board of Land and Natural Resources unanimously approved siting the 14th and biggest telescope...

We can not resolve a planet's silhouette against its star, even with our biggest telescopes.

«Their clamor to use Keck Observatory because we have the biggest telescopes in the world and have this enormous light grasp and fantastic instrumentation has attracted a class of astronomers that are incredibly motivated and very talented.

The bigger the telescope's aperture, the more light is collected and therefore the dimmer and more distant the objects in the night sky that can be imaged.

«The Next Generation Laser System is the third generation of lasers at Keck Observatory, which has been pioneering Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics on big telescopes since 2001,» said Jason Chin, the project manager for the new laser at Keck Observatory.

However, its never - before - attempted engineering would take some time... a little too much time, and anxious astronomers sought a «quick and dirty» big telescope to span the wait.

Jewitt and Luu's success caused others to join the hunt and won them access to bigger telescopes.

Not exact matches

The balloon - borne microwave telescope (called «Boomerang») examined the cosmic background radiation left over from the Big Bang.The angular power spectrum showed a peak value at exactly the value predicted by the inflationary hot Big Bang model dominated by cold dark matter.

Our telescopes have driven it back to the Big Bang, our paleontologists back to the origins of life on Earth.

There are times when it's necessary to look through a telescope for the big picture and other times when it's necessary to look through a microscope for the small picture.

Earth is part of our solar system, our solar system is a very small neighborhood in a spiral arm of our galaxy, our galaxy is one of the smaller of the billions of galaxies that are the residue of the Big Bang - this is where we are at right now... using several different types of telescopes analyzing several types of radiation and using our mathematics to calculate distortions in light waves to calculate dimensions, distance and mass — doing this we can generate a physical picture of what is actually happening our there.

A team of astrophysicists had used the BICEP2 South Pole telescope to identify a pattern in the polarisation maps of the cosmic microwave background radiation (rather like an echo of the Big Bang).