Sentences with phrase «region of sky»

The Supernova Survey was a time - domain survey, involving repeat imaging of the same region of sky every other night, weather permitting.

Photographed about eight days after it exploded, Supernova 1997ff (SN1997ff) was found by astronomers comparing the northern Hubble Deep Field, a 10 - day observation of a tiny region of sky first explored by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995, with a follow - up observation in 1997.

This region of sky includes glowing red clouds of mostly hydrogen gas, blue regions where starlight is being reflected from tiny particles of dust and also dark regions where the dust is thick and opaque.

However, the telescope will explore a much larger region of the sky than Kepler, with an emphasis on detecting rocky planets on Earth - like orbits that receive a similar amount of radiation as our own planet (the so - called habitable zone).

In addition to the NVSS, the VLA also is making another, more detailed, survey of a smaller region of the sky.

Located in a South Polar region of the sky that lacks bright stars above 5th magnitude and other interesting objects, Constellation Mensa was named by the Abbé [Abbot] Nicholas Louis de La Caille (1713 - 1762).

Kepler focuses on one region of sky, viewing fields again and again, looking for subtle changes in the light output of stars.

In this particular, even the scientists established that the region of sky where the source was located was around 60 square degrees big and was searched by 25 different groups of astronomers.

«For a number of years now, I've been routinely looking toward the region of sky where we thought this thing might be,» said Frail, «hoping the magnetar would show itself.»

Since 1986, The Center for Astrophysics (CfA) at Harvard University has continued surveying this region of the sky.

This map below is a plot of the brightest galaxies (from the Principal Galaxies Catalogue) in this region of the sky.

This region of the sky looks directly down Orion Arm of our Galaxy and there are a lot of nebulae in and around this region.

Astronomers at LCO then used the GLADE catalog (Galaxy List for the Advanced Detector Era) to identify galaxies in this region of the sky and then applied an algorithm to identify which of these galaxies would be most likely to host a kilonova based on properties such as their distance and luminosity.

Van Maanen measured motion in seconds of arc per year, an angular rate of motion, by comparing photographs of the same region of the sky taken years apart.

This is not a complete list - many of the dwarf galaxies in this region of the sky have never been properly studied.

That means if an FRB is detected by any of the world's radio telescopes, Vandenbroucke and his team can analyze IceCube data for that region of the sky at the time the radio pulse was detected.

These new results will provide even more extraordinary views of this region of the sky and will be shared with the public in the coming months.

But if approved, K2 will be looking at a much more diverse region of sky with a wide range of astronomical and astrophysical phenomena: planets with short orbits around cooler stars (which, if in their star's habitable zone, could still harbor water); young, still - forming proto - stars, which could provide insight into star and planet formation; and supernovae and galaxy clusters.

TESS will typically observe each region of sky for 30 days.

They will stare at a particular region of the sky for between 27 and 351 days each, before moving on to another area.

It came from a region of sky that was underneath the Fermi satellite, so the spacecraft's detectors were essentially seeing the signal in their peripheral vision.

Based on everything the Fermi team knows about the gamma - ray sky, Goldstein said there is about a «one in 500 chance» that the gamma - ray signal is not associated with the gravitational wave signal, and just happened to appear in the same region of sky at about the same time.

The POLARBEAR experiment examined a small (30 degree square) region of the sky to produce high resolution maps of B - mode polarization, which enabled the team to determine that the amplitude of gravitational fluctuations they measured was consistent with the leading theoretical model of the universe, known as the Lambda Cold Dark Matter cosmological model.

The background image shows a wider view of the region of sky in the southern constellation Centaurus that Proxima is traversing.

Of course, the region of the sky 42 degrees away from that point is not just one direction but a whole collection of directions, one that forms a circle around the antisolar point.

A graduate student working with Rudnick made the connection between the survey and the microwave map: The cold spot corresponds to a region of the sky, 40 times the area of the full moon as seen from Earth, where relatively few galaxies have turned up.

Located in a region of the sky known as the Chandra Deep Field - South (CDF - S), the X-ray source has remarkable properties.

But most surveys haven't looked at a wide enough region of the sky to be able to find such a void relatively close to Earth.

X-ray image of the Chandra Deep Field - South, the region of the sky where the flaring X-ray source was discovered.

So whereas NASA's TESS exoplanet - hunting mission, which could launch in 2017, will spend just 1 month gazing at any one region of the sky and as a result be limited to «hot» planets closer to their parent stars, PLATO will have up to 3 years at a time.

In February and March of 2012, Condon and his colleagues studied a region of sky that previously had been observed by the original, pre-upgrade, VLA, and by the Spitzer space telescope, which observes infrared light.

That signal also is observed by comparing CIBER and Spitzer images of the same region of sky.

After gravitational waves narrowed down the region of sky where two neutron stars collided, telescopes pinpointed a spot of light (right, indicated with red lines) where none had been before (left).

«These seemed to indicate that the region of the sky chosen for our observations had dust polarisation much lower than the detected signal.»

They located galaxies in ultra-deep field Hubble photographs — in visible light and infrared — of the same region of sky and pinpointed where those galaxies ought to be in the Chandra image.

The region of sky pictured is listed in the Sharpless catalogue of H II regions: interstellar clouds of ionised gas, rife with star formation.

The Hubble Deep Field (HDF) is an image of a small region of the sky, based on the results of a series of observations by the Hubble Space Telescope.

A worldwide network of telescopes sprang into action to look for light in the region of the sky where LIGO and Virgo predicted the waves came from.

Publicly available logs from astronomical observatories indicate that several telescopes have been zeroing in on one particular region of the sky, potentially in response to a detection of ripples in spacetime by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, LIGO.

Likewise, the Chandra X-ray Observatory targeted the same region of sky on August 19.

Because this survey pertains to such a small piece of the sky, the implications are staggering: if the region of sky demarked by the «bowl» of the Big Dipper were surveyed to the same depth, it would contain about 32 million galaxies!»

This survey, called the «Hubble Ultra Deep Field,» (in 1995 and 1998) was targeted on a region of the sky that was nearly devoid of known objects, so as to be (hopefully) representative of conditions in the distant Universe.

When sunlight is scattered by raindrops, why is it that colorful arcs appear in certain regions of the sky?

It is therefore important to know how many brown dwarfs really exist in different regions of the sky in order to achieve a better understanding of star formation and of the motion of stars in the Milky Way.

As a unique and powerful tool for discovery MUSE uses 24 spectrographs to separate light into its component colours to create both images and spectra of selected regions of the sky.

The study targeted one of the best studied regions of the sky: the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), first imaged in depth by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2003/2004.

However, scientists from the Canadian - French - Hawaiian project OSSOS detected biases in their own observations of the orbits of the TNOs, which had been systematically directed towards the same regions of the sky, and considered that other groups, including the Caltech group, may be experiencing the same issues.

The DMR measures temperature differences between regions of the sky 60 degree apart at three frequencies: 31.5, 53 and 90 gigahertz (wavelengths of 9.5, 5.7 and 3.3 millimetres).

The ATA will conduct the surveys while simultaneously searching for SETI signals from a few stars in the same regions of the sky.

In this case, they have been able to narrow the possible regions of sky that could host the source of the gravitational waves by 10 times more than with LIGO alone.