Sentences with phrase «surveys of the sky»

And then, suddenly, my survey of the skies was arrested by the sight of Orion the Hunter.

This success for the team comes after the first 178 hours of observing time with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope for a new survey of the sky called the «COSMOS HI Large Extragalactic Survey», or CHILES for short.

But wide - field surveys of the sky have yielded surprises.

The VST was specifically designed to conduct large - scale surveys of the sky.

The KiDS analysis of data from the VST is an important step but future telescopes are expected to take even wider and deeper surveys of the sky.

Like Pan-STARRS, LSST will make repeated surveys of the sky over time, revealing transients — but with much greater sensitivity.

Rogerson and his team used data from a large survey of the sky known as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to identify new outflows from quasars.

The SPT is designed to conduct low - noise, high - resolution surveys of the sky at millimeter (mm) and submillimeter (submm) wavelengths, with the particular design goal of making ultra-sensitive measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB).

A complete survey of the sky at infrared wavelengths made during the early 1980s by an unmanned orbiting observatory, the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), revealed a large number of dense dust clouds in the Milky Way.

Then Joaquin discovered there were no counterparts to these galaxies catalogued by infrared surveys of the sky.

The group is also working with Paul Horowitz, a physicist and electrical engineer at Harvard, to develop «all sky all the time optical SETI survey systems» where the ATA would perform wide surveys of the sky while other, more sensitive telescopes — like the Lick — would follow up with more focused surveys covering a smaller portion of sky.

Not exact matches

The satellite will focus on each section of the Earth's sky for about a month at a time until it has surveyed both the Southern and Northern hemispheres.

TESS will focus on each section of the Earth's sky for about a month at a time until it has surveyed both the Southern and Northern Hemispheres.

This survey, called the «Hubble Ultra Deep Field,» (in 1995 and 1998) was targeted on a region of the sky that was nearly devoid of known objects, so as to be (hopefully) representative of conditions in the distant Universe.

Because this survey pertains to such a small piece of the sky, the implications are staggering: if the region of sky demarked by the «bowl» of the Big Dipper were surveyed to the same depth, it would contain about 32 million galaxies!»

A recent survey showed that the majority of people questioned pictured God as «an old man with a long white beard up in the sky.»

One the heels of yesterday's survey, which found New Yorkers prefer Cuomo's plan to pay for pre-K with state funds to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's tax - the - rich proposal, come new numbers that find the governor's job approval is sky high headed into his re-election campaign.

«Sky surveys became respectable not only because they brought in so much data but because the content of the data was so high that it enabled so many people to do science.»

More accurate distances between the most common type of «planetary nebulae» and the Earth can be estimated simply with three sets of data: firstly, the size of the object on the sky taken from the latest high resolution surveys; secondly, an accurate measurement of how bright the object is in the red hydrogen - alpha emission line; and thirdly, an estimate of the dimming toward the nebula caused by so called interstellar - reddening.

Since 2000, the $ 85 million Sloan Digital Sky Survey at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico has imaged more than one - third of the night sky, capturing information on more than 930,000 galaxies and 120,000 quasaSky Survey at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico has imaged more than one - third of the night sky, capturing information on more than 930,000 galaxies and 120,000 quasasky, capturing information on more than 930,000 galaxies and 120,000 quasars.

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), launched in 2000, heralded the modern age of big - picture astronomy.

When Kepler launched into orbit in 2009 to survey a patch of sky containing some 150,000 stars, one of its primary goals was to find mirror Earths, worlds about the same size as our own in approximately 365 - day orbits around sunlike stars.

For years, scientists who needed a global sense of what was out there relied on one dominant set of photographs — the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey — created in the 1950s.

Already, astronomers are charting wide swaths of the sky in great detail, and planning more extensive surveys.

Researchers from the Dark Energy Survey used the Victor Blanco telescope in Chile to survey 26 million galaxies in a section of the southern sky for subtle distortions caused by the gravitational heft of both dark and normal mSurvey used the Victor Blanco telescope in Chile to survey 26 million galaxies in a section of the southern sky for subtle distortions caused by the gravitational heft of both dark and normal msurvey 26 million galaxies in a section of the southern sky for subtle distortions caused by the gravitational heft of both dark and normal matter.

Early this year astronomers with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey released the largest color image of the universe ever made, a trillion - pixel set of paired portraits that covers one - third of the night sSky Survey released the largest color image of the universe ever made, a trillion - pixel set of paired portraits that covers one - third of the night skysky.

At a conference, another astronomer asked him if the center could archive a terabyte of data that had been collected from the MACHO sky survey, a project designed to study mysterious cosmic bodies that emit very little light or other radiation.

This image was taken by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, and shows very high - energy X-rays in blue, and lower energy X-rays in red (both have been superposed on a sky survey image of stars representing the location of the nebula).

Now, a team of astronomers has used position and velocity data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as well as computer simulations of stellar evolution in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC, pictured above), a small satellite galaxy near the Milky Way, to show that these speeding stars may come from there.

The all - sky infrared survey should also map out the history of light production by galaxies and — closer to home — the distribution of ices in embryonic planetary systems.

Asa and his team used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to group together over half a million galaxies of all different colours, shapes, and masses.

«MUSE has the unique ability to extract information about some of the earliest galaxies in the Universe — even in a part of the sky that is already very well studied,» explains Jarle Brinchmann, lead author of one of the papers describing results from this survey, from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands and the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences at CAUP in Porto, Portugal.

NASA supports the Spaceguard survey to the tune of $ 4.1 million per year, but that sum of money is not enough to cover the cost of continually monitoring all areas of the sky for near - Earth objects.

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.

Nevertheless, on Nov. 11, 2014, a global network of robotic telescopes named ASASSN (All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae) picked up signals of a possible tidal disruption flare from a galaxy 300 million light years away.

Digital sky surveys and real - time telescopic observations are unleashing an unprecedented flood of information.

We don't want brain and data drain from Africa to the U.S.» The biggest game - changer on the continent will be the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), the world's largest network of radio telescopes designed to survey the sky faster than any instrument before it.

Instruments like the 8.4 - meter Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, slated to begin operation in 2014, will use massive computer power to carry out continuous scans of sky for near - Earth objects, leaving ever fewer patches for amateurs to focus on.

The image is part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and was taken by the UK Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales, Australia.

Although large, professionally conducted surveys like the Catalina Sky Survey, which uses telescopes in Arizona and Australia, and LINEAR in Socorro, New Mexico, have made the majority of Spaceguard finds, amateurs fill a critical role.

At the project's website, DiskDetective.org, users make classifications by viewing ten - second videos of data from NASA surveys, including the Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer mission (WISE) and Two - Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) projects.

Last June Gilliland reported at an American Astronomical Society meeting in Boston that the unanticipated variation in starlight means Kepler has to make more observations to complete the survey of its little patch of sky.

«The surveys are sweeping the sky in a very systematic way, but amateurs can look outside of the survey paths, and they also have the flexibility to look closely at small patches of sky,» Chesley says.

While combing through data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), Souza Oliveira Kepler et al. identified SDSS J124043.01 +671034.68, a white dwarf with its outer layer of light elements stripped away, revealing a nearly pure layer of oxygen.

Investigators have now uncovered an even longer wall as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which is mapping 1 million galaxies across a quarter of the sky with telescopes at Apache Point Observatory in New MexiSky Survey, which is mapping 1 million galaxies across a quarter of the sky with telescopes at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexisky with telescopes at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico.

Now, the full extent of these «tidal tails» has been traced for the first time, thanks to a recently finished atlas called the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS).

Which is a good start — but being in the Northern Hemisphere, the VLBA and BeSSeL can not survey most of star - forming regions visible from the southern sky.

Last January, after a three - year sky survey, scientists with the Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope released a list of nearly 500 locations where the spacecraft detected the highest - energy gamma rays.

Now Rahman and his colleagues have identified a knot of 400 massive stars in the cloud's heart in images from the infrared 2 Micron All Sky Survey (Astrophysical Journal Letters, in press).

The survey that found the satellite galaxies scanned only a fifth of the sky, so there could be dozens more waiting to be found.