Sentences with phrase «radio telescopes»

With a dish the size of 30 football fields, it will be the largest radio telescope in the world when it is completed in 2016.

Now, a team using the world's largest radio telescope array has found evidence for a close - in formation.

It is the most powerful, flexible and widely - used radio telescope in the world.

As a result of this massive «meal» the black hole begins to launch a powerful jet that we can detect with radio telescopes.

A large existing tracking station at each of these sites has also been converted to an extremely sensitive radio telescope for simultaneous observations with the satellite.

Before this, all observations at this wavelength were made with single dish radio telescopes.

Next, they would reach out to astronomers around the world who could target the object with other radio telescopes.

One of the world's most powerful radio telescopes is back online months after sustaining hurricane damage.

Will radio telescopes ever find life out in space?

Radio telescopes receive only, they do not transmit.

An ever - increasing number of satellites broadcast signals from the sky that radio telescopes pick up.

When radio telescopes were first used to make detailed maps of the sky in the 1950s, many strong sources of radio emission seemed to have no counterparts in visible light.

An array is a group of several radio telescopes observing together as if it were a single telescope many miles across.

Do you love to build complex electrical systems that help drive some of the most advanced radio telescopes in the world?

It seems unlikely that any existing major radio telescope would be given over to such an intensive program to the exclusion of its usual work.

There are about 60 radio telescopes scanning the skies for these signals right now.

In 1962, a second radio telescope was put in place.

The individual radio telescopes were combined into larger «virtual telescopes» capable of producing extremely detailed images.

Explore what radio telescopes have taught us so far.

The program introduces new astronomical insight to be unveiled by this ultimate radio telescope with comments from researchers engaged in the project.

The 40 - Foot telescope is a working radio telescope outfitted specifically for use by students and teachers.

In the next photo, an astronomer sits atop a huge radio telescope.

Applications discussed include DVDs and Blue - ray discs and large aperture radio telescopes.

Thanks to the amazing precision possible with the network of radio telescopes, the scientists were able to search for signs of motion in the jet, despite its huge distance.

Try building a large optical / radio telescope in that type of gravity.

To detect these signals, astronomers use radio telescopes.

The project seeks, essentially, to turn the entire planet into a large radio telescope dish.

Pulses of radio waves were beamed at the planet using the 300 - meter radio telescope at Arecibo Observatory, and the echoes revealed two highly reflective regions, designated the Alpha and Beta regions.

This radiation can not be measured by radio telescopes on Earth because we produce a lot of it ourselves at the same frequencies, and because our atmosphere absorbs it.

Meanwhile, astronomers at the Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico were detecting the burst's radio - wave aftermath, another first.

The message was broadcast into space via frequency modulated radio waves at a ceremony to mark the remodeling of the Arecibo radio telescope on 16 November 1974.

HALCA was launched in 1997 and made astronomical observations in conjunction with ground - based radio telescopes from 14 countries.

The lofty goals laid out in the address will be achieved by employing the project's impressive war chest to fund access to some of the world's premier space observatories such as the 64 - meter Parkes radio telescope located in the Parkes Observatory, and the Automated Planet Finder Telescope at the Lick Observatory, California, and the 100 - meter Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia.

The program focuses on the history of research on planetary formation by Japanese astronomers over 30 years from radio telescopes at Nobeyama and Subaru Telescope in Hawaii through the ALMA Telescope in Chile.

In 1960 astronomer Frank Drake periodically pointed an 25 - meter radio telescope at two nearby sunlike stars, Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridanus, hoping to tune in to any transmissions.

A budget struggle has the world's largest steerable radio telescope making sacrifices in the name of science

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.

The wavelength of the light has stretched with it into the microwave part of the electromagnetic spectrum, and the CMB has cooled to its present - day temperature, something the glorified thermometers known as radio telescopes register at about 2.73 degrees above absolute zero.

Fu and his team located the quasars in March 2016 with the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA), a bank of radio telescopes located more than 16,000 feet above sea level in northern Chile.

Dr Rita Colwell, director of the U.S. National Science Foundation, and Dr Catherine Cesarsky, director general of the European Southern Observatory, today signed a historic agreement jointly to construct and operate ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, the world's largest and most powerful radio telescope operating at millimeter and sub-millimeter wavelengths.

To find out how numerous dark galaxies really are, he will soon scan large areas of the sky using the giant 1,000 - foot radio telescope at Arecibo.

This poignant moment was captured by the ALMA radio telescope array in Chile last October.

With a purpose - built radio telescope, the approach could map as much as 50 % of the observable universe far faster and cheaper than galaxy surveys can, Loeb says.

While zipping around Earth several hundred miles above the planet's surface, European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano drove a 220 - pound (100 kilograms) rover across a moon - mimicking landscape here at NASA's Ames Research Center, even ordering the robot to deploy a simulated film - based radio telescope antenna.

The report also urges refurbishing the Australia Telescope, the 64 - metre radio telescope at Parkes in NSW, so that it can be used for infrared astronomy and the support of site testing for a possible international observatory on the Antarctic plateau.

First discovered in 2007, fewer than two dozen have been detected by gigantic radio telescopes like the Parkes Observatory in Australia or the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

The VLBA, part of the Long Baseline Observatory, is a continent - wide radio telescope system using ten, 240 - ton dish antennas distributed from Hawaii to St. Croix in the Caribbean.