Sentences with phrase «space telescope at»

The European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory had the largest mirror ever built for a space telescope at the time of launch.

Webb's spectrographs, NIRSpec and MIRI, will provide up to five times better precision that any previous space telescope at near - and mid-infrared wavelengths.

Not exact matches

Astronomers point ALMA at Titan to calibrate the telescope because the moon has known brightness levels, says Palmer, who also works at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md..

According to Nikole Lewis, Webb's project scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, the telescope could perform the simultaneous detection of methane, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in the atmospheres of some planets around red dwarf stars.

Follow - up observations taken at Weryk's request by astronomer Marco Micheli, using a European Space Agency telescope in the Canary Islands, only deepened the mystery.

According to Mather and other leading astronomers now working on a report to be released this summer by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), that quest and others require an even bigger space telescope that would observe, as Hubble does, at optical, ultraviolet and near - infrared wavelengths.

Last year, the GAO report says, vibration testing of the telescope at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, threw up some unexpected results.

Recently, the telescope and instruments completed a 100 - day test in a giant vacuum chamber at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

«Observations with multiple space telescopes have revealed that, while other neutron stars spin multiple times a minute, this object rotates only once about every 6.5 hours — making it by far the slowest - spinning star in its class discovered to date,» said David Burrows, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State.

Optical interferometry at CHARA requires collecting the light beams from six different telescopes, sifting through multiple gigabytes of data, and then combining the beams to synthesize the kind of image that otherwise would be possible only with an enormous space telescope.

Testing of the telescope and science instruments is proceeding well at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, agency officials said.

«In June last year, using a simple 28 - cm telescope belonging to the Aula EspaZio Gela (Space Lecture Room), we discovered the presence of a white spot on Saturn «s equator that was moving at speeds of 1,600 km / h, a speed that had not been observed on Saturn since 1980,» said Agustín Sánchez - Lavega, lead author of the work and also director of the Aula EspaZio Gela and Planetary Sciences Group of the UPV / EHU - University of the Basque Country.

Now he has the sensitive equipment he needs: NASA's Kepler space telescope, which stares at stars and looks for subtle dips in brightness caused by planets crossing in front of the stars and blocking some of their light.

The XMM - Newton space telescope found on December 29 that the X-ray signal may be starting to weaken, according to a paper published January 18 at arXiv.org.

Now Nikolai Kardashev and his colleagues at the Astro Space Centre in Moscow are hoping to change that using a vast radio telescope with a view equivalent to that of a dish 30 times wider than Earth.

And Minniti is one of the leaders at the VISTA infrared survey telescope at the European Space Organization's Paranal Observatory in northern Chile, which has created a catalogue of more than 84 million stars in the central parts of the Milky Way.

Orosz found the new worlds while looking at data from the planet - hunting Kepler space telescope, which searches for stars with planets that cross in front of them, or transit, as seen from Earth.

But telescope operations are still running off generators, and diesel is a precious commodity on the island, says Nicholas White, senior vice-president for science at the Universities Space Research Association in Columbia, Maryland, which helps to manage the observatory.

NASA's Fermi space telescope has seen signs of such photons around the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, where dark matter is expected to cluster.

They are some of the sharpest infrared pictures ever produced, thanks to the 8 - meter wide telescope's immense resolving power, which at times tops that of the Hubble Space Telescope.

In space, above our atmosphere, stars do not twinkle; in space a telescope is also beyond day and night and can thus stare at the same star for weeks on end, gradually teasing from its light the barely perceptible but regular flickers caused by a small orbiting planet.

That prospect sends chills down the spines of some astronomers, who hope to build even bigger space telescopes using the new technologies developed at such great cost for Webb.

But it also made possible the building and continuous operation of at least a small and creaky space station; the launching and in - orbit repair of hundreds of satellites, telescopes, detectors, and space probes; and the conducting of a slew of space - based experiments that contributed immensely to a range of fields.

Data from WISE may generate proposals for telescope time on Herschel for more detailed follow - up observations, says Paul Goldsmith, project scientist for Herschel at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. (Goldsmith's JPL colleagues will manage ground operations for WISE; Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory in North Logan, Utah, designed and built its instrumentation, and Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colo., built the spacecraft itself.)

Now, a team at the University of California Irvine has used observations from NASA's Fermi space telescope, along with data from all - sky surveys, and applied updated calculations to observe our galaxy's centre — where there is thought to be a cluster of dark matter.

Survey telescopes look at much larger areas of the sky — up to half the sky, at any point — than does the Hubble Space Telescope, for instance, which focuses more on individual objects.

«The light from each segment will interfere with adjacent segments, and if the segments are not aligned to better than a wavelength of light, that interference shows up like barber pole patterns,» explained Lee Feinberg, optical telescope element manager for the Webb telescope at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Astronomer Sara Seager at MIT does plan to send telescopes into space, but the appeal of her roughly $ 15 million ExoplanetSat mission is that it does not require a launch of its own.

A new look at data from NASA's Kepler space telescope added 1,284 worlds to the exoplanet zoo in 2016, bringing the instrument's total confirmed number to 2,591.

NASA's live stream will include a sky view from a telescope at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama.

The telescope — based at the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in West Virginia — was tuned to a frequency of 1420 megahertz, the wavelength of radiation naturally emitted by hydrogen in space.

Astronomers have already begun leveraging Hubble and other space telescopes to create a preview of what Webb may reveal, staring at some of the largest galaxy clusters in a project called «Frontier Fields.»

That piece of sky is like a piece of pie pointed at the telescope: it includes a much bigger volume of space — and many more galaxies — at a distance of 4 billion light - years than at 100 million light - years.

The non-profit B612 Foundation plans to build a space telescope to scan for small asteroids but it won't launch until at least 2017 (see «The people's asteroid defence «-RRB-.

«Understanding how rotating black holes drag the space - time around them and how this process affects what we see through the telescopes remains a crucial, difficult - to - crack puzzle,» said Alexander Tchekhovskoy, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

Five distant galaxies so choked with dust that they are completely invisible at optical wavelengths have been spotted at submillimetre wavelengths by the European Space Agency's Herschel telescope.

Hubble could do it, but it would have to stare at Alpha Centauri for 20 days with no guarantee of finding anything, which would be seen as a waste of time for our most important space telescope, says Demory.

Upcoming instruments like the European Extremely Large Telescopeor the Cheops space telescope might be able to see the new planet, but the best option could be a small satellite dedicated to staring at Alpha Centauri.

A $ 110 - million European Space Agency mission called Proba - 3 is slated to fly a fully functional virtual telescope pointed at the sun in 2019.

Ruslan Belikov and Eduardo Bendek, two scientists at NASA Ames Research Center, have outlined innovative plans for a small space telescope with a half - meter mirror that could launch before the end of the decade on a dedicated mission to obtain basic images of any Alpha Centauri planets.

«There's a lot of demand to use this telescope, so you have to be meticulous in choosing which exoplanets to look at,» says René Doyon, a co-author on the paper who is also the principal investigator for NIRISS, the Canadian Space Agency instrument on board JWST.

«Various observations of one particular star over the years and with different telescopes have revealed vastly different things — at one time a pulsar and the other an X-ray binary,» said Alessandro Papitto of the Institute of Space Sciences (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas — Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya) in Barcelona, Spain, and lead author of a paper published in the journal Nature.

The big four space telescopes — SIRTF, SIM, NGST, AND TPF — will no doubt satisfy even the most hard - core space junkies for at least a little while, but there's no need to wait.

Heinz and his colleagues quickly mounted a series of follow - up observations with the space - based Chandra and XMM - Newton telescopes to discover four bright rings of X-rays, like ripples in a cosmic pond, all around the neutron star at the heart of Circinus X-1.

They were spotted only when Mansi Kasliwal at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and her team began monitoring 190 nearby galaxies with the infrared Spitzer space telescope in 2014.

Astrophysicists at the University of Birmingham have used data from the NASA Kepler space telescope to discover a class of extrasolar planets whose atmospheres have been stripped away by their host stars, according to research published in the journal Nature Communications today (11 April 2016).

But there is another: in 2010, physicist Dan Hooper at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, and colleagues reported a hint from the space telescope of dark matter particles with a mass of about 10 GeV.

NASA's Kepler space telescope has detected thousands of exoplanets, so experts aren't too surprised there's a planet next door — but they are shocked this one has a shot at hosting life.

But Irwin Shapiro, an astrophysicist at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., who chaired the 2010 Committee to Review Near - Earth - Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies for the U.S. National Research Council, says that ground - based observatories such as the planned Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) on Cerro Pachón in Chile are better value for money than space telescopes, because they last longer and are less expensive.

After taking another look at data from the Kepler space telescope's original mission we have spotted 20 possible Earth - like worlds that could host life