"Powerful telescopes" refers to advanced, advanced optical devices used in astronomy to observe distant objects in space with greater clarity and detail.
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Stars are so distant that detail can not be resolved on their surfaces, even using the
most powerful telescopes in the world.
The funding has given him and his colleagues the ability — and time — to stare across the universe, using some of the most
powerful telescopes on the planet.
With an ever increasing range
of powerful telescopes, astronomers have recently started to unveil the answers to many of these intriguing questions.
To see the dynamic dance of dust, stars, and gas clouds being shred apart and falling into a black hole, astronomers
need powerful telescopes.
Remy Indebetouw of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and his coworkers studied it
using powerful telescopes high in the mountains of Chile.
It was only by using infrared analysis and the most
powerful telescopes in existence that the Yale team could confirm the exact nature of Sparky.
Astronomers are able to piece together the history of our Sun by analyzing similar main sequence stars in the various stages of their evolutionary cycle,
through powerful telescopes such as Hubble and Kepler.
The optical signature of the gases might be detectable by
powerful telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled for launch in 2018.
A bit more than half of the hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way travel in pairs, nearly all of them orbiting so close that they can't be distinguished individually except
by powerful telescopes.
This discovery also allows astronomers to pinpoint the exact location of the SGR to allow further study of the magnetar with
other powerful telescopes.
* Update, 20 November, 12:50 p.m.: During the brief visit by this interstellar visitor over the past month, many of the world's most
powerful telescopes swung to take a look.
His text begins at the centre of the Earth and travels to the most distant Galaxy, and his timescale stretches from the all - creating big bang to the present day, with its
large powerful telescopes and orbiting spacecraft.
All this comes as missions beyond the Moon provide greater insights into our solar system and more
powerful telescopes give us a glimpse at exoplanets light years away.
One is cosmology because the fact that you have a very
powerful telescope means that you can observe very faint objects and mostly in astronomy very faint means also very far.
It's actually that nifty bonus the review team recommended the project ditch, arguing that would trim $ 400 million off WFIRST's pricetag while retaining the
incredibly powerful telescope.
ALMA will be the most
powerful telescope for observing these extremely cold clouds, and it will deliver images of them with an unprecedented degree of detail.
However, as more
powerful telescopes begin peering even farther into space, these problems will worsen and more attention will be focused on them.
Not all of these methods
require powerful telescopes and expensive instrumentation: in fact, the most exciting currently known exoplanetary system TRAPPIST - 1 — which hosts three earth - sized planets in its habitable zone — was found with a relatively small research telescope equipped with a standard astronomical camera.
Probing the finer details of those ancient, extragalactic stars» chemical structures would take many years, even with the most
powerful telescopes on Earth or in space.
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We're not going to know if Proxima b is habitable until we can point some very
powerful telescopes at it, which won't happen until next year.
I think that any of the very
powerful telescopes in the USA outdo any amount of awe that these buildings can generate, and have certainly helped us understand the universe better as well.
Powerful telescopes such as ALMA and VLT / SPHERE, with their unprecedented sensitivity and spatial resolution, are revealing fascinating structures in protoplanetary disks at different wavelengths.
More intensive studies of Pluto begin in the spring, when the cameras and spectrometers aboard New Horizons will be able to provide image resolutions higher than the
most powerful telescopes on Earth.
Astronomers» newfound success at imaging planets trillions of miles away comes with the use of
more powerful telescopes, improved optics techniques, and software that compares images to minimize background starlight.
Using
powerful telescopes, they can spot planets far outside of the reach of our solar system when they cross in front of their sun — it's how we recently found a triad of planets around a red sun 40 light - years away.
NASA only found out about
the powerful telescopes, which were built in the late 1990s, after the NRO approached the space agency recently.
A few weeks ago, in the country, far from the lights of the city, I saw the entire sky «powdered with stars» (in Milton's words); such a sky, I imagined, could be seen only on high, dry plateaus like that of Atacama in Chile (where some of the world's most
powerful telescopes are).
LoL Unless of course you're saying they had
powerful telescopes in 7th century Arabia LoL.
'' If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my a.ssertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most
powerful telescopes.
A group of people gathered at the Battery Park City esplanade on Fri., June 3, when B.P.C. resident, physician and amateur astronomer Sheldon Palgon examined Saturn through
his powerful telescope.
Upon its completion around 2021, TMT will be one of the most
powerful telescopes in the world, allowing scientists to see deep into the universe, address questions about star and planet formation, and unravel the history of galaxies and the development of large - scale structures in the universe.
Finding Life Beyond Earth PBS As manned space programs face an uncertain future,
powerful telescopes are uncovering a wealth of new planets across the galaxy — some of which could harbor life.