Sentences with phrase «radio telescope array»

Now, a team using the world's largest radio telescope array has found evidence for a close - in formation.
This poignant moment was captured by the ALMA radio telescope array in Chile last October.
The VLA is the most advanced radio telescope array on Earth, a customizable interferometer that spans up to 22 miles across.
The ALMA radio telescope array was able to observe the faint millimeter - wavelength «glow» emitted by DeeDee, confirming the object is roughly 395 miles (635 kilometers across).
U.K. researchers trained radio telescope arrays at Jodrell Bank in England and the Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico toward the star HL Tau, 520 light - years away, where they identified a clump of small pebbles that they believe will condense into a gas giant planet some 14 times heavier than Jupiter.
Scientists are predicting an astronomy renaissance on the African continent in coming years, thanks in part to a giant radio telescope array being built there.
A second viewing by an earthbound radio telescope array confirmed the size of the expansion, and team members calculated that the debris of G1.9 +0.3 is moving faster than any supernova remnant ever seen before — some 15,000 kilometers per second.
The international team, led by Jun Yang (Onsala Space Observatory, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden), studied the new - born jet in a source known as Swift J1644 +57 with the European VLBI Network (EVN), an Earth - size radio telescope array.
Using the combined power of nine radio telescopes arrayed across the Southern Hemisphere, the images reveal features just 15 light - days across in the heart of the nearby galaxy Centaurus A, 12 million light - years away.
In 2010 a sensitive radio telescope array in Chile, called ALMA, will begin operation, giving researchers an unprecedented ability to locate substances that suggest we are not alone.
A new radio telescope array operating at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory in California has the ability to image the entire sky simultaneously at radio wavelengths with unmatched speed, helping astronomers to search for objects and phenomena that pulse, flicker, flare, or explode.
The authors then compare this signature to the detection capabilities of upcoming radio telescope arrays.
Within the first year of GBI observations, the major astronomy report from the National Academy of Sciences recommended the immediate funding and building of a large - scale radio telescope array as a national science facility.
This will be the widest radio telescope array when it opens and one of the most precise when it begins operation in 2020, combining 250 dishes while leaning on other facilities for a little extra oomph.
But Mooley and colleagues continued tracking the glow with three radio telescope arrays on three continents for more than 100 days after the collision.
A range of large radio telescope arrays are under construction, such as the LOFAR telescope in the Netherlands and Germany.
As for helium hydride, he allows himself a flicker of optimism about two new observatories coming later this decade: ALMA, a radio telescope array in Chile, and the James Webb Space Telescope, a giant successor to Hubble due to launch in a few years.
Black holes emit no light, so to get the shot, the radio telescope array will focus on the hot gas circling the event horizon that surrounds the tiny target.
If HERA succeeds, this radio telescope array in South Africa could reveal new information about the slow roast of universal reionization, the identities of the very first massive objects, the evolution of the cosmic ingredients list and perhaps even clues about the mechanism behind the formation of the first massive objects.
Without this effect, we would need a radio telescope array the size of the sun to measure this object,» said Greg Taylor, who led the effort to observe the object with the VLBA.
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