Sentences with phrase «single giant telescope»

The radio telescope combines signals from each, working as an interferometer, in other words, a single giant telescope equal in size to the total array.

But making all of the 12 - metre dishes function like a single giant telescope will be a challenge.

Not exact matches

The next giant leap was optical interferometry, merging the light beams from two or more telescopes to create, in effect, a single telescope as large as the distance between the two.

To fit inside its rocket, the JWST's 6.5 - metre - high reflector, six times larger than Hubble's, is folded into 18 hexagonal pieces, which will assemble to function as a single giant mirror once the telescope is in orbit.

VLA measures correlations between signals from pairs of antennas to reconstruct images of the sky, as though they were one single, giant telescope — and so VLA, too, is sensitive to ionospheric fluctuations.

Three of the giant new telescopes, the two 10 - meter Kecks and the Hobby - Eberly, skirted some of the weight problems associated with casting a mirror from a single piece of glass.

Giant planets may evict most of their smaller brethren from orbits, partly explaining why the Kepler space telescope saw so many single - planet systems.

In Socorro, astronomers and computer scientists used a special - purpose computer to digitally combine the signals from the satellite and the ground telescopes to make them all work together as a single, giant radio telescope.

ALMA is a radio telescope or radio interferometer that combines 66 parabolic antennas working as a single virtual giant telescope.

From the early 1960s at NRAO, we knew we needed an array of radio telescopes to complement the work of our giant, single - dish telescopes.

With ten giant dish antennas spread from Hawaii in the Pacific to St. Croix in the Caribbean, all working together as a single telescope, the VLBA is «the world's biggest astronomical instrument,» Vanden Bout said.