Sentences with phrase «powerful telescopes in»

Stars are so distant that detail can not be resolved on their surfaces, even using the most powerful telescopes in the world.

LoL Unless of course you're saying they had powerful telescopes in 7th century Arabia LoL.

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.

It uses a powerful telescope in Chile to study large patches of the sky.

Not exact matches

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).

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 assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes.

This year, Doeleman is heading to the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array in Chile, the world's most powerful radio telescope network, to install extraordinarily precise atomic clocks that will allow researchers to combine the Chilean telescopes» data with those from observatories in Hawaii, Spain and eventually the South Pole.

Since his facility boasts one of the most powerful privately owned telescopes in the country, he has also worked with NASA on projects like tracking the orbits of hundreds of faintly visible known asteroids to determine whether they are on a collision course with Earth.

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.

Though the galaxy is over 2 million light - years away, the Hubble telescope is powerful enough to resolve individual stars in a 61,000 - light - year - long stretch of the galaxy's pancake - shaped disk.

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.

This beautiful structure, unobserved in visible light but detected by the NSF's recently refurbished and re-dedicated Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope, has been produced by powerful events over roughly the last 10,000 years.

Atop neighboring Mount Wilson, Edwin Hubble was using the most powerful astronomical tool in history, the 100 - inch Hooker telescope, to determine that the night sky was teeming with galaxies equal in size and magnitude to our own Milky Way, and that these galaxies appeared to be racing away from us, an indication of an expanding universe.

In recent years, they have found evidence of matter vanishing in the region of a suspected black hole, suggesting that it has been swallowed — and powerful telescopes may be able to take direct pictures of the traces of a black hole within the next few yearIn recent years, they have found evidence of matter vanishing in the region of a suspected black hole, suggesting that it has been swallowed — and powerful telescopes may be able to take direct pictures of the traces of a black hole within the next few yearin the region of a suspected black hole, suggesting that it has been swallowed — and powerful telescopes may be able to take direct pictures of the traces of a black hole within the next few years.

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.

But even the most powerful telescopes of the time could detect Cepheids only in a handful of nearby galaxies.

In particular, he was on good terms with some skillful Roman lens makers who provided him with especially powerful telescopes.

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.

The study, published online today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, describes how the researchers used the powerful MOSFIRE instrument on the W. M. Keck Observatory's 10 - meter telescope in Hawaii to peer into a time when the universe was still very young and see what the galaxy looked like only 670 million years after the big bang.

The KELT North telescope in Arizona and its twin, KELT South in South Africa, are no more powerful than high - end digital cameras, but they've proven that small telescopes can make big planet discoveries.

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

Confirming this assumption in principle requires more powerful space telescopes than are currently available.

Immediately, researchers aimed some of the world's most powerful telescopes — including the twin 10 - metre Keck telescopes in Hawaii — at the region.

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

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.

Australia today marked the completion of what it bills as the most powerful radio survey telescope in the world.

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.

Astrophysicists using a telescope embedded in Antarctic ice have succeeded in a quest to detect and record the mysterious phenomena known as cosmic neutrinos — nearly massless particles that stream to Earth at the speed of light from outside our solar system, striking the surface in a burst of energy that can be as powerful as a baseball pitcher's fastball.

The subtle signals from stretched rocky planets could be found by some current telescopes, and certainly by much more powerful observatories like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) that are due to enter service in the next few years.

The gulf in time and space is so great that even the most powerful telescopes can't see the faint light from those first stars.

«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.

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.

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.

Pulsars emit powerful beams of radio waves that sweep across space like a lighthouse, but radio telescopes only notice these if Earth is in their path.

With 85 nights of observations on mid-size telescopes across the globe and 11 nights on one of the powerful 10 - meter Keck telescopes atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the Kepler team thoroughly checked out 50 of those possible planetary systems, Batalha says.

In addition to using the world's most powerful telescope, the team relied on gravitational lensing to see the incredibly faint object born just after the Big Bang.

MAUNA KEA, HI — A primitive ocean on Mars once held more water than Earth's Arctic Ocean, according to NASA scientists who measured signatures of water in the planet's atmosphere using the most powerful telescopes on Earth including the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii.

Milner's money gives Siemion at Berkeley the means to purchase blocks of expensive observing time on some of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world — from West Virginia to China.

«Keck Observatory operates the only telescopes in the world powerful enough to have made this observation,» Kirby said of the twin, ten - meter telescopes housed on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

By using some of the world's most powerful telescopes at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii and by analyzing star velocities, the astronomers came to a startling conclusion.

In fact, microlensing is such a powerful tool that it can uncover planets whose host stars can not be seen by most telescopes.

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.

After observing the spicules through a powerful telescope, scientists were able to formulate a computer model of what is actually happening in the corona of the Sun.

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.

This particular binary system was detected in the quasar PSO J334.2028 +01.4075 with the help of powerful ground - based telescopes.

In making the new trans - Neptunian object discoveries, Sheppard and Trujillo relied on data from some of the world's most powerful cameras and telescopes including the Dark Energy Camera on the NOAO Blanco telescope in Chile and the Japanese Hyper Suprime Camera on the Subaru telescope in HawaiIn making the new trans - Neptunian object discoveries, Sheppard and Trujillo relied on data from some of the world's most powerful cameras and telescopes including the Dark Energy Camera on the NOAO Blanco telescope in Chile and the Japanese Hyper Suprime Camera on the Subaru telescope in Hawaiin Chile and the Japanese Hyper Suprime Camera on the Subaru telescope in Hawaiin Hawaii.

In recent decades, astronomers armed with radio telescopes, orbital observatories and other powerful high - tech tools have begun to answer that question.