Sentences with phrase «space observatory operated»

But new observations by Herschel, a far infrared space observatory operated by the European Space Agency, show that massive elliptical galaxies can form from the merger of two large galaxies.

Not exact matches

Nevertheless, astronomers have gathered an impressive haul of exoplanetary data from NASA's Kepler space observatory, which has operated since 2009.

Sooner or later, it will simply be cheaper to forsake Earth, to build and operate truly giant gravitational - wave observatories in space.

The request also calls for canceling five NASA earth science missions, including an operating Earth - facing camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite and the planned Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem satellite, set for launch in 2022, which would assess the ocean's health and its interactions with the atmosphere.

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.

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.

In an update posted at noon EDT today (Sept. 21), officials with the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), which helps to operate the Arecibo Observatory, said they also have been unable to contact people at the facility.

The telescope is operated by Onsala Space Observatory, Max - Planck - Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIfR), and European Southern -LSB-...]

It would be sited at an altitude of 5,000 metres and would be operated almost as a space observatory, with a base camp for the human operators nearby at a lower height of no more than 3,000 metres.

Inside the huge space observatory that operates from a point in space four times further away than the moon.

Underwater, high bandwidth free - space optical communications in both high and low ambient light conditions enabling untethered remotely operated submersibles and data harvesting from seafloor observatories

NASA's astrophysics director Charlie Pellerin had conceived of the «Great Observatories» program; envisioning four large space telescopes operating simultaneously to cover a large swath of the electromagnetic spectrum.

After spotting a potential candidate with the 2.4 - meter Hubble Space Telescope, the team of astronomers pointed the 10 - meter Keck II telescope, operated by the W. M. Keck Observatory, to witness the turbulent, star - bursting galactic core forming millions of stars at a ferocious rate.

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