Sentences with phrase «powerful telescopes on»

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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.

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.

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.

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,... Read more»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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).

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.

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.

The statistic is based on counts of visible stars begun at the turn of the 20th century, when telescopes were less powerful.

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

The results are passed on to more powerful telescopes to do the essential spectroscopy.

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 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.

«The VLA has been and still remains the most powerful and flexible radio synthesis imaging telescope on earth,» says veteran VLA researcher Rick Perley.

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.

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.

The scientists from the USA, Australia, and Europe used the powerful DEIMOS spectrograph installed on the world's largest optical telescope at Keck Observatory to conduct a major survey of nearby galaxies called SLUGGS, which mapped out the speeds of their stars.

TMT will be a powerful telescope with which to observe and monitor exciting climate change on Titan.

That means that if we were on those far distant galaxies — right this second — looking at Earth with a powerful telescope, we'd be watching the dinosaurs trample around our planet.

Astronomers have now peered beneath the outer layer of clouds on Jupiter using a powerful network of radio telescopes.

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

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 Hawaii.

This successful test at the W.M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea makes the linked telescopes, which together are called the Keck Interferometer, the world's most powerful optical telescope system.

Using some of the planet's most powerful telescopes, astronomers decided to zoom - in on the galactic oddity called Dragonfly 44 to find it wasn't one of your run - of - the - mill galaxies, it is in fact a galaxy rammed full of material we can't see.

«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.

Their idea is to first detect the debris with a telescope mounted on the outside of the ISS, and then if they find something, they'll zap it with powerful lasers.

The ultraviolet Hubble data was captured after astronomers detected powerful solar winds heading towards Uranus, and tasked the telescope with observing the effects on the planet's atmosphere and magnetic field

Founded by a small international group of academic scientists, we aim to build a new class of optical telescope powerful enough to see continents on exoplanets like Proxima b.

The required data can only be obtained with the largest telescopes on Earth such as the Keck Observatory on the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii equipped with the powerful High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES) spectrograph to disperse the stellar light into its constituent colors and absorption features.

However, as more powerful telescopes begin peering even farther into space, these problems will worsen and more attention will be focused on them.

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 first images of an exoplanet in 2004 (2M1207b) and a family of exoplanets in 2008 (HR 8799) demonstrated the powerful ability of adaptive optics on large ground - based telescopes to spot massive exoplanets.

That measurement is in line with a 2011 study on the dust that used data from a less powerful telescope.

On August 23, scientists will mark the 20th anniversary of the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array, the most powerful, flexible and widely - used radio telescope in the world.

Now, as the TMT International Observatory (TIO)-- founded as a nonprofit limited liability company on May 6, 2014 — the project has the official green light to begin constructing a powerful next - generation telescope.

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

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.

This money will be used to buy time on two of the world's most powerful telescopes (the Green Bank in West Virginia and the Parkes in Australia).