Sentences with phrase «powerful telescope for»

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[3] These comparatively small telescopes, equipped with suitable spectrographs, are powerful tools for this kind of research.

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.

Some researchers involved with HDST worry, however, that no matter how broadly appealing such a powerful instrument might be, any proposal for a supersize space telescope is destined to be a nonstarter: although giant observatories are astronomically useful for researchers, they also tend to be deemed astronomically expensive, especially lately.

Powerful radio and optical telescopes will be drafted to listen and look for interstellar broadcasts, Milner announced July 20 at a news conference in London.

After that we have to build a powerful telescope that examines the planets around nearby stars and looks for water, carbon dioxide, and oxygen in their atmospheres — signs that they could support life.

Using the most powerful radio telescope in the world, an international team of astronomers has set out to look for answers in the star L2 Puppis.

Yesterday's inauguration of the first element of an international telescope array in Namibia provides astronomers with the most sensitive high - energy gamma ray observatory ever — a powerful new tool for studying the most violent processes in the universe.

In the past decade, as powerful new telescopes capable of observing faint spectral lines have come online, the search for alien molecules has accelerated.

Remember, things have to happen quickly because these small NEOs are only visible to even the most powerful of telescopes for a short period of a few days during their flyby of Earth.

Some are so distant when discovered that their size and makeup are difficult for even our most powerful telescopes to discern.

The optical signature of the gases might be detectable by powerful telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled for launch in 2018.

It is now already halfway to Jupiter, too far for a rendezvous mission and rapidly fading from the view of Earth's most powerful telescopes.

Now, a team led by Oliver Krause at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, has spotted telltale signs of a type Ia supernova using the powerful 8.2 - metre Subaru telescope in Hawaii.

The SETI Institute uses powerful radio telescopes on Earth to search for narrow - band signals, or signals focused at one spot on the radio dial, Shostak said.

«Observations with the next generation of radio telescopes will tell us more about what actually happens when a star is eaten by a black hole — and how powerful jets form and evolve right next to black holes,» explains Stefanie Komossa, astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany.

If the Princeton - Ball team's telescope ultimately gets built, it will be an achievement so unexpected nobody could even have imagined it a few years ago and so powerful it could reveal Earth's sister planets by the score, bringing us closer to answering a question that has plagued us for most of our existence: Are we alone?

Named for famed 18th century astronomer William Herschel, the space telescope was the most powerful infrared observatory ever launched to space until it stopped functioning this week.

The International LOFAR Telescope has issued a Call for Proposals with a submission deadline of Wednesday 8 March 2017, 12 UT The International LOFAR Telescope (ILT), a powerful next - generation radio telescope, offering synthesis imaging, beam - formed and time - series observing modes at frequencies below 240 MHz, solicits proposals from the international astronomical community for observations to be -LSB-...]

Revealed by the potent combination of two powerful astronomy tools, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the Keck II telescope's DEIMOS instrument, these faint, ghost - like galaxies are amazing laboratories for simultaneously advancing science and raising new questions about the cosmos.

But a team of astronomers is developing a new technique for use by the next generation of powerful telescopes, allowing them to precisely measure the chemicals in exoplanet atmospheres.

The International LOFAR Telescope (ILT), a powerful next - generation radio telescope, offering synthesis imaging, beam - formed and time - series observing modes at frequencies below 240 MHz, solicits proposals from the international astronomical community for observations to be made during Cycle - 8, that will last between 15 May 2017 and 14 November 2017.

Researchers have found that if organisms with nonphotosynthetic pigments — those that process light for tasks other than energy production — cover enough of a distant exoplanet's surface, their spectral signal could be strong enough to be detected by powerful future telescopes now being designed.

Astronomers in Japan found evidence for the new object when they turned a powerful telescope in the Atacama desert in Chile towards the gas cloud in the hope of understanding the strange movement of its gases.

For this study, the researchers could only make computer models of the atmosphere as we don't currently have telescopes that are powerful enough to actually «see» the chemicals it contains, but when the next - generation Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) eventually goes online, we'll be able to scan exoplanets» atmospheres to see what they're really made of.

The 120 full - time staff has an excellent track record of meeting the Observatory's commitment to making the powerful telescopes and their instrumentation available for research purposes every night.

Like other powerful telescopes, radio telescopes are often placed at high altitudes for better perception.

«Our new method first identifies galaxies that are more likely to have intervening DLA gas clouds and then searches for them using long, deep exposures on the powerful Keck Observatory 10m telescopes on Maunakea and deep data from the VLT 8m telescopes in Chile,» Cooke said.

Kamuela, Hawaii — An international team of scientists using the most powerful telescope on Earth has discovered the moments just after the Big Bang happened more like the theory predicts, eliminating a significant discrepancy that troubled physicists for two decades.

Redshift is a measure of how much the Universe has expanded since the light left a distant source and can only be determined for faint objects with a spectrograph on a powerful large telescope such as the Keck Observatory's twin 10 - meter telescopes, the largest on Earth.

The world's most powerful radio telescope has peered deep into a system of stars and found they're surrounded by chemicals that are necessary for life to form.

By studying these stars, and using additional telescope facilities such as the powerful Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, the study will provide new and unique insight into the timescale for the formation of stars and planets, including whether planets form during or after the assembly of the star.

The debate raged on for years because astronomers needed larger, more powerful, telescopes to resolve the details.

Pulsars, those spinning, superdense neutron stars that send powerful «lighthouse beams» of radio waves and light flashing through the Universe, have been «lying about their ages,» leading astronomers, and possibly particle physicists, to erroneous conclusions for the past 30 years, according to researchers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope.

Powerful telescopes can see and precise orbits are known for 2,300 TNOs.

The Geneva team used data from HARPS, or the High Accuracy Radial Velocity for Planetary Searcher, a powerful spectrometer on a 3.6 - meter telescope in Chile.

A powerful new array of radio telescopes is being deployed for the first time this week, as the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile joins a global network of antennas poised to make some of the highest resolution images that astronomers have ever obtained.

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An international team of scientists using the most powerful telescope on Earth has discovered the moments just after the Big Bang happened more like the theory predicts, eliminating a significant discrepancy that troubled physicists for two decades.

science.slashdot.org - NASA has been planning to launch a powerful new telescope that can see across the universe and perhaps to the beginning of time for many years now.