Sentences with phrase «space telescope launched»

Since the Kepler Space telescope launched back in 2009, it's mission has been to seek out possible habitable planets.

Back in March of 2009, the Kepler space telescope launched into the universe with the goal of identifying Earth - like, potentially habitable planets.

The Hubble space telescope launched all the way back in April 24, 1990, and since then, it's done so much for the field of astronomy...

When NASA's Kepler space telescope launched in March 2009, astronomers had no proof that any star other than the sun harbored an Earth - sized planet (with a diameter within 25 percent of Earth's).

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Among them was Bill Borucki, a space scientist who persuaded nasa to launch a telescope that looks for a 0.01 percent dip in brightness from faraway stars when planets pass in front of them.

This year's Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to the team behind NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, or WMAP, a space telescope that launched in 2001 to map the cosmic microwave background — the earliest, oldest light we can detect from the universe's infancy.

The resulting plan called for two spacecraft — the starshade and an orbital telescope — to launch together and detach in space, or to go up separately.

A space telescope called Gaia, scheduled for launch later this year, will map the positions and distances of about one billion stars on our side of the Milky Way, plotting the three - dimensional structure in unprecedented detail.

Later, telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope, also scheduled to launch in 2018, will be able to check the atmospheres of those planets for signs of life.

Lu is co-founder of the non-profit B612 Foundation, which plans to launch an asteroid - hunting space telescope in 2017.

«I don't think the stories of science fiction we read in childhood are ever going to happen,» says John Mather, a Nobel laureate who is now the senior project scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope, the $ 6.5 billion successor to the Hubble telescope that NASA plans to launch in 2018.

So when NASA launched a gamma - ray telescope into space in 2008, astronomers figured the high - energy radiation it detected would point the way to easily identifiable supernova remnants, black holes, and other extroverted objects.

«And the coronagraph technology this would test will help us plan for future missions, the huge space telescopes we want to launch decades from now.

The recently launched Kepler space telescope will soon begin finding Earth - mass planets if they exist; given the profusion of planets found so far, nobody doubts that they do.

Tim Paynter, a spokesman for Northrop Grumman, says the company «remains steadfast in its commitment to NASA and ensuring successful integration, launch and deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope, the world's most advanced space telescope.&rSpace Telescope, the world's most advanced space telescope.&rspace telescope.»

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.

A software glitch is being blamed for the premature death of Japan's X-ray space telescope Hitomi, just a few weeks after its launch.

But in the near future new large telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to be launched in 2018, will be able to detect the first explosions of stars in the Universe, and may be able to identify them using this method.

Upcoming FOXSI launches and other space - based telescopes may reveal more about nanoflares, the researchers suggest.

The European Space Agency launched its Gaia space telescope in December 2013 to map the locations of a billion stars in the Milky Way, but it can also spot objects a little closer to Space Agency launched its Gaia space telescope in December 2013 to map the locations of a billion stars in the Milky Way, but it can also spot objects a little closer to space telescope in December 2013 to map the locations of a billion stars in the Milky Way, but it can also spot objects a little closer to home.

One of those telescopes is Herschel, a space - based infrared observatory launched in May by the European Space Agency in collaboration with space - based infrared observatory launched in May by the European Space Agency in collaboration with Space Agency in collaboration with NASA.

The space telescope, which was launched in March and began its science mission in May, will spend more than three years observing a patch of 100,000 stars near the northern constellations Cygnus and Lyra.

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.

RUSSIA Russia's space agency has sent regular manned Soyuz missions to the International Space Station and launched RadioAstron, a space telescope with 10,000 times Hubble's resoluspace agency has sent regular manned Soyuz missions to the International Space Station and launched RadioAstron, a space telescope with 10,000 times Hubble's resoluSpace Station and launched RadioAstron, a space telescope with 10,000 times Hubble's resoluspace telescope with 10,000 times Hubble's resolution.

In a decade, NASA hopes to launch a network of space - based telescopes that will be able to pinpoint Earth - like planets in other solar systems and see whether life has altered their atmosphere in the same way it has here on Earth — flooding it with oxygen, for example.

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-.

Breakthrough representatives say the organization is already in discussions to augment its search with additional Southern Hemisphere observatories, and is also investigating possibilities for launching small, planet - finding space telescopes.

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.

NASA's successor to Webb, a 2.4 - meter space telescope called WFIRST slated to launch in the mid-2020s, could potentially observe Alpha Centauri.

To study them, he's been heavily involved in European x-ray space telescopes such as XMM - Newton and the forthcoming Athena, due for launch in 2028.

The optical signature of the gases might be detectable by powerful telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled for launch in 2018.

Joshua Winn, an associate professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former member of the Kepler team, said that efficient methods to confirm planets will become more crucial as NASA plans and launches more space telescopes, such as the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which is expected to find tens of thousands of exoplanets.

In 2018, the collapsible telescope will be packed into a capsule and launched into space.

Ground - based detectors are more technologically advanced than space - based telescopes, because the design for space instruments has to be frozen five or six years before launch.

According to Zhang, the excess infrared radiation from haze particles in Pluto's atmosphere should be detectable by the James Webb Space Telescope, allowing confirmation of his team's hypothesis after the telescope's planned launch in 2019.

«Large astronomical projects such as the space telescopes Euclid or eRosita, which are to be launched in the next few years, will observe large areas of the Universe, as well as provide further insight into the evolution of the first structures of the Universe so that the significance of cosmological hydrodynamic simulations will even increase in future,» says Klaus Dolag.

The mystery has only deepened with the launch last year of NASA's Fermi gamma - ray space telescope.

A private, non-profit organisation plans to launch a space telescope dedicated to finding deadly asteroids before they find us — a project that governments have been slow to take up.

• Launching a powerful asteroid - hunting space telescope could allow the goal to be met as early as 2022, but would likely cost more than $ 1 billion.

NASA engineers now report that they have demonstrated that a set of small but critical electronic devices developed for the new telescope can withstand the rigors of launch and can travel into deep space.

The telescope's upper size limit of 12 metres is dictated by how much weight a feasible rocket system could launch into space.

Distant blasts could also help pinpoint the locations of faint GRB host galaxies that could be detected by space telescopes like the soon - to - be-refurbished Hubble Space Telescope or NASA's infrared James Webb Telescope, which is set to launch in space telescopes like the soon - to - be-refurbished Hubble Space Telescope or NASA's infrared James Webb Telescope, which is set to launch in Space Telescope or NASA's infrared James Webb Telescope, which is set to launch in 2013.

A Russian space telescope conceived during the Cold War is set to launch on Monday.

To get a good look at it, Bock, Cooray, and an international team of colleagues built a detector, called the Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (CIBER), that could be launched to the edge of space on a rocket and collect images with two 11 - centimeter telescopes.

One downside is that a dust cloud that extends beyond Mars interferes with infrared transmissions, so the array of space telescopes that NASA envisioned launching to create the Terrestrial Planet Finder would still have to be sent out toward Jupiter.

Second, to find a planet like Earth, and especially to see it directly rather than just detecting it by the wobble caused by its gravitational pull on its sun, the array of telescopes used to create the interferometer would have to be launched into space to get them above our planet's murky atmosphere.

Above all, the agency wants to keep WFIRST from following the path of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a successor to the Hubble telescope that is scheduled to launch in 2018.

Due to launch on Aug. 8, 2013, the VERIS rocket, short for Very high Resolution Imaging Spectrometer, will launch for a 15 - minute trip carrying an instrument that can measure properties of the structures in the sun's upper atmosphere down to 145 miles across, some eight times clearer than any similar telescope currently in space.

Named for famed 18th century astronomer William Herschel, the space telescope was the most powerful infrared observatory ever launched to space until it stopped functioning this week.

This is Hubble's first picture of the entire nebula, taken to celebrate the anniversary of its launch — the space telescope blasted off aboard the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990.