Sentences with phrase «space observatory first»

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Various proposals calling for 10 - meter - class space - based observatories have continually circulated through the community since the early 1990s, when the first exoplanets were discovered.

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On 28 September, India plans to launch a major space - based observatory that will set a milestone for a developing country — and also mark a first for space science.

To locate the source, a group directed by Puget and David L. Clements in Paris has started the first far - infrared search for distant galaxies, using the European Space Agency's Infrared Space Observatory (ISO).

But even if a habitable Earth - like world is found first from the ground, it will most likely take a space observatory to search for the chemical signals that tell us what we really want to know: Is anything living out there?

Although studied for centuries through small ground - based telescopes, the Spot only received its first close - ups in the latter half of the 20th century through a progressive series of close encounters with NASA's Pioneer, Voyager and Galileo spacecraft — as well as through detailed remote monitoring by the Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories.

The revamped Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO) has taken its first science data - a step towards finding ripples in space - time

«This chicken - and - egg problem of what was there first, the galaxy or the black hole, has been pushed all the way to the edge of the universe,» Yale University astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski said in a June 15 press conference at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Schawinski was part of a team of researchers that used two renowned orbiting observatories, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, to identify a population of black holes in galaxies at redshift 6, which corresponds to a time about 950 million years after the big bang.

The new $ 8 billion price tag doesn't include operating costs of about $ 780 million for the far - seeing infrared observatory's first 5 years in space.

Scientists using the Herschel space observatory have made the first definitive detection of water vapor on the largest and roundest object in the asteroid belt, Ceres.

From this survey data, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope as well as large ground - based observatories will be able to further characterize the targets, making it possible for the first time to study the masses, sizes, densities, orbits, and atmospheres of a large cohort of small planets, including a sample of rocky worlds in the habitable zones of their host stars.

Scientists will use NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study sections of the sky previously observed by NASA's Great Observatories, including the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope, to understand the creation of the universe's first galaxies and stars.

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.

But although many planets are first discovered using telescopes on the ground, most of the spectroscopic measurements that have afforded astronomers a glimpse at their atmospheres have come from space - based observatories such as the Hubble and the Spitzer space telescopes, which operate outside the obscuring veil of Earth's own atmosphere.

The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) first detected the event as its shock waves rippled through space.

ON THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN IN THE PACIFIC BASIN, A 10 - YEAR ODYSSEY WILL CULMINATE IN THE CAPTURE OF FIRST LIGHT FOR A TELESCOPE THAT MAY SURPASS SPACE - BASED OBSERVATORIES

These may be observed for the first time with the LIGO observatory, which is currently under construction, or the LISA satellites, which the European Space Agency will launch more than a decade from now.

Now, for the first time, a team of scientists at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Virginia, the California Institute of Technology, and Harvard University discovered one of these so - called «chiral» molecules in space.

Only two years ago, a land - based gravitational wave observatory confirmed Einstein's prediction that gravitational fluctuations from moving matter excite infinitesimal ripples in space — this first detection of gravitational waves earned the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics.

The Aditya - L1 mission of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will be a unique space - based Solar Observatory, which will observe the Sun from the vantage location of the first Sun - Earth Lagrange point (L1), about 1.5 million kilometres away from ESpace Research Organization (ISRO) will be a unique space - based Solar Observatory, which will observe the Sun from the vantage location of the first Sun - Earth Lagrange point (L1), about 1.5 million kilometres away from Espace - based Solar Observatory, which will observe the Sun from the vantage location of the first Sun - Earth Lagrange point (L1), about 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth.

The announcement will take place at One World Observatory in New York at 12 pm EDT, a day that also marks the 55th anniversary of the first ever human space flight by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

«This is the first time anyone has seen anything like this, and it means that the process of forming planets from such disks is more complex than we previously expected,» said Anthony Remijan, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, who with his colleague Jan M. Hollis, of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, used the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array radio telescope to make the discovery.

Marking an important new milestone in radio astronomy history, scientists at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro, New Mexico, have made the first images using a radio telescope antenna in space.

Learn about the successes, setbacks and spinoffs of Hubble Space Telescope, the first of NASA's Great Space Observatories.

Astronomical instruments such as the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory have uncovered evidence that very first stars may have burst into the universe more intensely and spectacularly than previously theorized.

The volu... ▽ More Owing to the remarkable photometric precision of space observatories like Kepler, stellar and planetary systems beyond our own are now being characterized en masse for the first time.

Abstract: Owing to the remarkable photometric precision of space observatories like Kepler, stellar and planetary systems beyond our own are now being characterized en masse for the first time.

Abstract: We present the first high spectral resolution observations of Orion KL in the frequency ranges 1573.4 - 1702.8 GHz (band 6b) and 1788.4 - 1906.8 GHz (band 7b) obtained using the HIFI instrument on board the Herschel Space Observatory.

We characterize the main emission lines found in the spectrum, which primarily arise from a range of components associated with Orion KL including the hot core, but... ▽ More We present the first high spectral resolution observations of Orion KL in the frequency ranges 1573.4 - 1702.8 GHz (band 6b) and 1788.4 - 1906.8 GHz (band 7b) obtained using the HIFI instrument on board the Herschel Space Observatory.

Researchers with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced today (Feb. 11) that they had made history's first direct detection of gravitational waves, enigmatic ripples in space - time whose existence was first predicted 100 years ago by Albert Einstein's famous theory of general relativity.

The first infrared space observatory — IRAS (Infrared Astronomical Satellite)-- was launched in 1983 and operated for 10 months.

Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), U.S. - U.K. - Netherlands satellite launched in 1983 that was the first space observatory to map the entire sky at infrared wavelengths.

The first forages into exoplanet atmospheric data came from the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes and ground - based observatories.

In 2013 she was the first Artist in Residence at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, from which the first message was sent to outer space.