Sentences with phrase «sky maps made»

In 2010, sky maps made by NASA's Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope revealed two lobes of particles billowing out from the heart of the Milky Way, each one stretching for 25,000 light years.

Not exact matches

The VISTA telescope, located in Chile, has a wide field of view and extremely sensitive detectors that make it the world's largest telescope dedicated to mapping the sky.

Last spring, Geha and Josh Simon, a colleague at Caltech, used the 10 - meter Keck II telescope on Hawaii's Mauna Kea to study the mass of eight newly discovered satellite galaxies, detected over the last two years by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, an ongoing effort to make a detailed map of a million galaxies and quasars.

This allows astronomers to make a mosaic image of any size... so they created this astonishing map of the constellations Cassiopeia (the Queen) and Cepheus (the king), covering over 1000 square degrees of sky!

The Planck satellite mapped the entire sky in microwave light and allowed cosmologists to make the most precise determinations yet of the age and composition of the universe.

From the first year's data, the COBE team were able to make maps of the sky at each of the three frequencies sampled by the DMR.

The pulsar was identified by analysing fluctuations in gamma - ray maps of the sky made using the Large Area Telescope aboard the Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope, which launched on 11 June.

The map (pictured) is built up from 95 hours of observations and was made with an instrument called the Large Area Telescope, which can scan the entire sky once every 3 hours.

NASA's recently launched GLAST gamma - ray observatory has made its first map of the sky, and now the agency has given it a new name: the Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope.

To be able to take a patch of sky and unleash computers to find so many gravitational lensings you could then make a three - dimensional depth map billions of light - years deep so you can find the patchiness of dark matter — that is very impressive.

To find out exactly what the Milky Way looks like, astronomers have previously made maps using counts of the stars in the night sky.

In the broadest sense, the goal is to make the greatest - ever digital map of the sky, according to Zeljko Ivezic, the University of Washington astronomer charged with coordinating LSST's science initiatives.

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.

The clusters were first cataloged in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), a project to create the most detailed three - dimensional maps ever made of the universe.

During that first summer, teacher teams used the 40 Foot to makes maps of the sky around Cygnus A and Virgo A, and to measure the telescope's efficiency and beam shape.

Hundreds of scientists from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS - III) collaborated to make the largest - ever, three - dimensional map of distant galaxies.

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.

The GALAH survey's data release is timed to coincide with the huge release of data on 25 April from the European Gaia satellite, which has mapped more than 1.6 billion stars in the Milky Way, making it by far the biggest and most accurate atlas of the night sky to date.

Bringing in a host of new movement options, like boost jets for a higher, more floaty jump, as well as Titanfall-esque wall running, getting around the relatively tight maps is a thrill, and some how made it easier then ever for EVERYONE to blow my ass out of the sky.

These maps make you feel like a soldier running through one of the huge battles from the films, firing away at stormtroopers or rebel fighters, as starfighters streak through the sky overhead.