Sentences with phrase «radio astronomer heino»

That's how long radio astronomer Frank D. Drake pointed the 26 - meter telescope at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) research facility in Green Bank, West Virginia, toward the heavens, looking for signs of intelligent life beyond Earth.

Zane Zaminsky (Charlie Sheen), a radio astronomer working for SETI, discovers an extraterrestrial radio signal from Wolf 336, a star 14 light years from Earth.

In The Fence (Lake Kickapoo, Texas)(2010) Paglen worked with a radio astronomer to map a vast and extremely powerful radar system surrounding the United States used to detect ballistic missiles, and made of electromagnetic waves invisible to the naked eye.

Ellie grows up to become Jodie Foster, a dedicated / fanatical radio astronomer in search of funding as well as father figures.

For Diamond, a 35 - year radio astronomer, his key interest is not in the extraterrestrial but rather how our own galaxy has evolved.

Since that first summer with teachers, the Observatory has offered Radio Astronomer for a Day to students in grades 5 - graduate school!

The Green Bank Observatory Radio Astronomer for a Day program provides an authentic research experience for students in grades 5 and up.

Our signature «Radio Astronomer for a Day» program engages youth real radio astronomy as they investigate cosmic objects with the NRAO's 40 foot diameter radio telescope!

Radio astronomer Bernie Fanaroff Adds 52nd Jansky Lectureship Award to his prominent list of accomplishments.

He is a radio astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, based in Charlottesville, Va..

Radio astronomer Robert Wilson recalls a pair of pigeons who almost thwarted the discovery of cosmic background radiation.

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The first serious SETI search was made in 1960 by the radio astronomer Frank Drake, and SETI has continued on the world's largest telescopes ever since.

One fun bit of synchronicity: I met a radio astronomer from the Netherlands, and she uses Breakthrough Listen data to search for fast radio bursts, or FRBs.

In addition to her own programs, she has built partnerships to host several successful on - site programs such as Star Quest Star Party, the Society for Amateur Radio Astronomer's Conference and Chautauqua short courses for college teachers.

Since joining the Observatory in 1989, Sue Ann has pioneered immersive, hands - on field trip opportunities such as the Radio Astronomer for a Day program that has served over 30,000 students.

The findings open «a new window on what we believe to be a new regime of physics,» said John Kovac, a radio astronomer at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and one of the project's lead scientists.

You choose where to explore, and a radio astronomer talks to you about each stop.

The cosmic call is only the second intentional interstellar broadcast ever made; U.S. radio astronomer Frank Drake sent the first one in 1974.

Now Patricia Henning, a radio astronomer at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, says a survey of the southern skies has finally uncovered a leading arm of gas as well, which suggests gravitational tides are at work.

Monstein, an amateur radio astronomer, began working on the CALLISTO prototype in 2002, when digital radio tuners became available on the consumer market.

Following the announcement, every radio astronomer who had access to the right equipment was observing the known pulsars and searching for more.

So I thought, «Right, then I can be a radio astronomer.»

Whatever caused the signal, «it's bound to be exciting,» says radio astronomer Lawrence Rudnick of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Discovering molecules like amino acetonitrile is a big deal, because it's not easy for them to materialize in the extreme temperatures of space, says radio astronomer Anthony Remijan of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia: «Too hot and they are destroyed, too cold and they can't form.»

Radio astronomer Mark Reid's work to map the Milky Way galaxy may be set back a year by the closure of U.S. radio telescopes.

Yet it somehow devours only a tiny fraction of its available food supply — a smorgasbord of gas and dust cast off by nearby stars, notes radio astronomer Heino Falcke of Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands.

In a pair of papers in the 1 November issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters, radio astronomer Nichi D'Amico of the Bologna Astronomical Observatory in Italy and his colleagues report that the pulsar's faint radio blips disappear during nearly half of its orbit, presumably eclipsed by a shroud of gas from its companion.

(Those reflectors were knocked askew by Hurricane George in 1998, says Cornell radio astronomer Donald Campbell.)

Radio astronomer Frank Drake's landmark Project Ozma was certainly a triumph of hope over daunting odds.

«It's really a big gift that nature has given us,» says Alessandra Corsi, a radio astronomer at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.

Drake was a young radio astronomer at the time, working at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia.

Jodie Foster believably evokes the psychology of a real scientist as rarely shown on screen when she plays Ellie Arroway, a dedicated radio astronomer.

«Millisecond pulsars have extremely predictable arrival times, and our instruments are able to measure them to within a ten - millionth of a second,» said Maura McLaughlin, a radio astronomer at West Virginia University in Morgantown and member of the NANOGrav team.

«Since gamma ray bursts are usually so well behaved, this really stood out,» says radio astronomer Dale Frail of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Soccorro, New Mexico.

For instance, radar on driverless cars could affect radio astronomy operations up to 100 kilometers away, said Harvey Liszt, a radio astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Va..

asks Tom Bania, a radio astronomer at Boston University involved in some of the southern surveys.

The display is «magnificent,» says radio astronomer K. R. Anantharamiah of the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore, India, who helped collect the original data during visits to New Mexico in the 1980s.

The likeliest mechanism is the arrival of a second massive black hole during a galaxy collision, say Merritt and his colleague, radio astronomer Ron Ekers of the Australia Telescope National Facility in Sydney.

For Dr. Bernie Fanaroff, a distinguished radio astronomer who until 2015 led South Africa's SKA Project and currently acts at the project's strategic adviser, science diplomacy is paramount.

And another thing coming from a radio astronomer and particle physics nerd.

Those shifts would occur over years, but radio astronomers already have 30 years of data they can search through, she says.

Fast radio bursts, which astronomers refer to as FRBs, were first discovered in 2007, and in the years since radio astronomers have detected a few dozen of these events.

Radio astronomers have used a similar approach for many years, with great success, but light waves are more than a million times smaller than radio waves, meaning optical interferometry requires a million times greater accuracy.

In fact, Swift X-ray and optical observations were carried out two days after FRB 131104, thanks to prompt analysis by radio astronomers (who were not aware of the gamma - ray counterpart) and a nimble response from the Swift mission operations team, headquartered at Penn State.

Ten years ago, radio astronomers at the Very Large Array in Socorro, New Mexico — a Y - shaped bank of telescopes made famous in the movie Contact — tried to capture this large region in a single image.

«Without spectrum protection, radio astronomers would lose the ability to observe,» Liszt said.

Radio astronomers search instead for the gravitational signals from these binaries.

The more radio astronomers learn about fast radio bursts (FRBs), the more confused they get.

Radio astronomers are truly in a Catch 22 - situation and they would not have the advantage that the optical astronomers could gain from better use of lighting.