Sentences with phrase «telescope design»

For a time telescopes were developed with either lenses or mirrors, but the understanding of telescope design improved, and telescopes using mirrors became the choice for larger telescopes.

BICEP2 builds on the small aperture telescope design of BICEP1, but greatly increases the number of detectors to increase mapping speed.

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.

In telescope design there is no Bauhaus paradox: more is simply more.

In 2009 nasa launched the 1,433 - pound wise satellite, carrying a wide - field infrared telescope designed in part to detect such stunted stars; it has since turned up 100 of them within 20 light - years of Earth.

NASA's Nuclear Compton Telescope, a balloon - borne telescope designed to study gamma - ray sources in outer space, plummeted to earth today while being launched from the Australlian Balloon Launch Station in Alice Springs.

Abstract: We present the performance of the Integral Field Spectrograph (IFS) of SPHERE, the high - contrast imager for the ESO VLT telescope designed to perform imaging and spectroscopy of extrasolar planets, obtained from tests performed at the Institute de Plan \ «etologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble facility during the integration phase of the instrument. -RCB-

An optics specialist, Cui heads a group at CAS's Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics & Technology (NIAOT) that had developed LAMOST and was already working on a 12 - meter telescope design.

But, with unique telescoping design, City Select is a perfect fit for the parent of any height.

One upcoming chance to tease out the answer could come from Euclid, a European Space Agency telescope designed to study the dark universe, and poised to launch into orbit around Earth by 2020 (See «Mapping the Dark,» at right).

If you're looking for that classic telescope design, the Celestron 21061 AstroMaster is the way to go.

Mavalvala and her collaborators are fashioning an ultrasensitive telescope designed to catch a glimpse of gravitational waves.

A new telescope designed to spot potentially dangerous asteroids has taken its first test images.

The scallop's eye could inspire new optical devices such as medical diagnostic cameras or wide - view surveillance imaging, just as compound eyes of thousands of small lenses joined together in lobsters and other animals have informed telescope design, Benjamin Palmer of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel and colleagues note in the December 1 issue of Science.

Other telescopes designed to detect high - energy wavelengths, such as x-rays, need considerable distance between their mirrors and x-ray detectors and therefore must be built at large scales — an expensive venture in terms of construction and launch.

Following a $ 3 - million design study funded by the European Union, physicists today unveiled their plans for a gravitational wave telescope designed to open a new window on the universe.

A team from the London - based Open Space Agency (OSA) has produced the Ultrascope, a downloadable telescope design that can be generated by a 3D printer, be controlled by simple robotics, and captures images using the camera on a smartphone.

Updated A troubled NASA telescope designed to crack some of the biggest mysteries in our universe may be headed to the chopping block.

He is a member of the survey team for the low - cost Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) system that consists of a pair of robotic telescopes designed to find exoplanets around bright stars operated by astronomers at Ohio State University, Vanderbilt University, Lehigh University and the South African Astronomical Observatory.

The discovery of these planets has encouraged astrobiology and in particular has motivated proposals for several space - based telescopes designed (1) to search for smaller, Earth - size worlds and (2) if such worlds are found, to analyze spectrally the light reflected by the planets» atmospheres in the hope of detecting oxygen, methane, or other substances that would indicate the presence of biota.

Paul worked closely with the Faulkes Telescope North project on Haleakala, a remotely operable telescope designed to be used by students around the world.

There are a number of new off - axis or un-obstructed telescope designs such as the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope or ATST on Haleakala, High - Dynamic - Range Telescope (HDRT) as a replacement for the Canada - France - Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea, the 25m Giant Magellan Telescope (which partly adopted the HDRT design) and the NST.

Highly sensitive telescope designs for higher contrast observations, Moretto, G. and Kuhn, J.R., Adv. Opt.

The team plans to use this research to make recommendations about the requirements for future space telescopes designed to search exoplanet atmospheres for signs of alien life.

And by the time second - year astronomy students are tackling astrophysics, they should be revelling in an approach to stellar spectroscopy, radio telescope design and galactic spin that shows more pith than the one on offer here.

The long - anticipated JWST is a 6.5 - meter infrared telescope designed to glimpse the early universe from its perch 1.5 million miles away from Earth.

The E and B Experiment (EBEX) is a NASA - funded balloon - borne telescope designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB).

Large telescope designs have changed significantly over the last few decades, with an growing emphasis on using segmented mirrors.

-LCB- The tests were performed using the instrument s... ▽ More We present the performance of the Integral Field Spectrograph (IFS) of SPHERE, the high - contrast imager for the ESO VLT telescope designed to perform imaging and spectroscopy of extrasolar planets, obtained from tests performed at the Institute de Plan \ «etologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble facility during the integration phase of the instrument. -RCB-

And this is just the latest in a series of stunning finds from Kepler, a space telescope designed to search for Earth - size planets orbiting other stars in what is called «the Goldilocks zone.»

It is the first of a new generation of telescopes designed to find small asteroids and comets whose orbits bring them close to that of the Earth.

Jerry Nelson, of the University of California, Santa Cruz, US, Ray Wilson, formerly of Imperial College London and the European Southern Observatory, and Roger Angel, of the University of Arizona, Tucson, US, share the astrophysics prize for their respective innovations in the field of telescope design that have allowed us glimpses of ever more distant and ancient objects and events in the remote corners of the universe.

I will also describe the telescope design and plans for the instrumentation suite.

WASHINGTON — NASA has signed a Space Act Agreement with a private organization currently raising funds for studies of a space telescope designed to look for habitable planets around a nearby star.

The project may involve any aspect of astronomy, including original research, instrumentation, telescope design, astronomical site evaluation or astronomical software development.

The temperature range of the measurements extends from room temperature down to... ▽ More We present the results of high precision measurements of the thermal expansion of the sintered SiC, SiC - 100, intended for use in cryogenic space - telescopes, in which minimization of thermal deformation of the mirror is critical and precise information of the thermal expansion is needed for the telescope design.

Abstract: We present the results of high precision measurements of the thermal expansion of the sintered SiC, SiC - 100, intended for use in cryogenic space - telescopes, in which minimization of thermal deformation of the mirror is critical and precise information of the thermal expansion is needed for the telescope design.

J. Roger Angel is one of the three 2010 Kavli Prize Laureates in Astrophysics who share the prize for their respective innovations in the field of telescope design — allowing us to glimpse ever more distant and ancient objects and events in the remote corners of the Universe.

The telescoping design of the Easy Steps lets you operate it with just one hand!

We also get a larger stylus, than leaves behind the telescoping design of the current one.