Sentences with phrase «target for astronomers»

When the next generation of ground - and space - based telescopes go online, such as the ESO's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) and NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Ross 128 b will become a prime target for astronomers to look for the spectroscopic clues of chemicals that could be produced by an alien biosphere.

This proximity makes it a very important target for astronomers, as it can be studied in far more detail than more distant systems.

Transiting planets are ideal targets for astronomers wanting to know more about planetary compositions and atmospheres.

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Fins on a Rocket At the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, astronomer Warren Brown employs yet another tactic in the hunt for this invisible target.

Only when the rocket is again cleared for launch can astronomers start to look for a new target comet, he says.

Recently, astronomers looking for potentially habitable worlds have targeted red dwarf stars because they are the most common type of star, comprising 80 percent of the stars in the universe.

So thirsty are theorists for new insights into black holes and relativistic processes that, with each LIGO detection, observational astronomers have leapt into action to target those enormous patches of sky, hoping to see some afterglow or other emission of electromagnetic radiation — even though by definition the resulting larger black hole should emit no light.

Astronomers have discovered three exoplanets in orbit around a nearby dwarf star, making them good targets for atmospheric analysis

It is so much like the Sun that in 1960 radio astronomers chose it as their first target in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

SOFIA, an infrared telescope that rides in the back of a modified jumbo jet, holds appeal to both astronomers and planetary scientists, but its large operating expenses and long history of problems and delays had made it prime target for budget cutters.

Similarly - aged stars moving through space together in a group — described by astronomers as an association — are of great interest to researchers, because they are considered a prime target to hunt for brown dwarfs and free - floating planet - like objects.

Astronomers then targeted it for further scrutiny using the powerful Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona.

Mars will be targeted as part of a Guaranteed Time Observation (GTO) project led by Heidi Hammel, a planetary astronomer and executive vice president of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) in Washington, D.C..

When complete, ALMA will be even more sensitive, and will be able to detect even fainter galaxies, but for now the astronomers targeted the brightest of them.

JPL, CalTech, NASA Larger illustration Astronomers have identified Upsilon Andromedae A as a prime target for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), now indefinitely delayed.

JPL, CalTech, NASA Larger illustration Astronomers have identified Iota Persei as a prime target for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), now planned for launch between 2014 and 2020.

Supernova 1987A is a unique target for supernovae research, and many astronomers have tried to detect the emission from dust.

This is the most famous of the two clusters because it has a compact core of galaxies scattered across two degrees of the sky which makes it a popular target for amateur astronomers.

JPL, CalTech, NASA Larger illustration Astronomers have identified Gamma Pavonis as a prime target for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), now planned for launch between 2014 and 2020.

JPL, CalTech, NASA Larger illustration Astronomers have identified Zeta1 Reticuli as a prime target for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), now postponed indefinitely.

JPL, CalTech, NASA Larger illustration Astronomers have identified 47 Ursae Majoris as a prime target for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), now indefinitely delayed.

For now, astronomers targeted the brighter ones.

JPL, CalTech, NASA Larger illustration Astronomers have identified Beta Comae as a prime target for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), now planned for launch between 2014 and 2020.

JPL, CalTech, NASA Larger illustration Astronomers have identified HD 147513 A as a prime target for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), now planned for launch between 2014 and 2020.

Astronomers have uncovered evidence buried in the noise of apparently empty data showing that five super-Earths are orbiting the nearby Tau Ceti — a star chosen as one of the targets in the pioneering 1960 Project OZMA search for extraterrestrial life because of its strong similarity to the Sun.

Astronomers have identified Lacaille 9352 as a prime target for NASA's optical SIM and the ESA's infrared Darwin missions, now both indefintely postponed.

JPL, CalTech, NASA Larger illustration Astronomers have identified Alpha Mensae as a prime target for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), now planned for launch between 2014 and 2020.

JPL, CalTech, NASA Larger illustration Astronomers have identified 18 Scorpii as a prime target for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), planned for launch between 2014 and 2020.