Sentences with phrase «telescope in»

Unfortunately the largest operating telescope is only 60 centimeters [24 inches] in diameter, but there are plans to build a 3 - meter [118 - inch] telescope in Kashan, a desert town in central Iran.

If everything else goes well — including a lunar flyby in May researchers will start getting results from the planet - hunting telescope in a few months, after it reaches its final orbit in June.

YM: «Well, we will start with three telescopes, the largest steerable telescope in the world is in Greenbank, Virginia, and the largest telescope in Australia, called Parkes.

The starburst galaxy NGC 1313, as imaged by the Gemini South 8 - meter telescope in Chile using narrow - band filters in the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph.

The SKA will also be the first astronomy project gathering three of the five major emerging national economies: India, China, and South Africa — the last of which will host the core of the radio telescope in its Karoo Desert.

When built, the GMT will be the largest optical telescope in existence.

The delivery of the 4 - meter mirror marks an important milestone for the DKIST, which will be the largest solar telescope in the world when it opens in 2019.

A series of corrective mirrors were fixed to the telescope in an unprecedented series of five spacewalks in a single space shuttle flight.

Sheppard and Trujillo, along with David Tholen of the University of Hawaii, are conducting the largest, deepest survey for objects beyond Neptune and the Kuiper Belt and have covered nearly 10 percent of the sky to date using some of the largest and most advanced telescopes and cameras in the world, such as the Dark Energy Camera on the NOAO 4 - meter Blanco telescope in Chile and the Japanese Hyper Suprime Camera on the 8 - meter Subaru telescope in Hawaii.

«We're no longer optical astronomers or X-ray astronomers or gamma - ray astronomers,» says John Bahcall, a professor of natural sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University and a key member of the group that helped plan the telescope in the 1970s.

«We designed an experiment to confirm what we suspected was there,» says team leader Guillem Anglada - Escudé of Queen Mary University of London, who used the European Southern Observatory's High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) spectrograph on a 3.6 - meter telescope in Chile.

Solar physicist Göran Scharmer and his colleagues at the Institute for Solar Physics in Stockholm, Sweden, opened the world's second - largest solar telescope in May on the Canary Islands.

The team that made the discovery, led by Keele University's Dr John Southworth, used the 2.2 m ESO / MPG telescope in Chile to take images of the planet's host star GJ 1132.

By measuring the CMB polarization data provided by POLARBEAR, a collaboration of astronomers working on a telescope in the high - altitude desert of northern Chile designed specifically to detect «B - mode» polarization, the UC San Diego astrophysicists discovered weak gravitational lensing in their data that, they conclude, permit astronomers to make detailed maps of the structure of the universe, constrain estimates of neutrino mass and provide a firm test for general relativity.

He and colleagues observed 25 stars in Segue 2 with the Keck telescope in Hawaii.

After a few months of check - out, the team will begin to coordinate observations with telescopes on the ground, including two 100 - metre radio telescopes — in Green Bank, West Virginia, and Effelsberg, Germany, and the 305 - metre Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico.

The most widely celebrated use of the technology is the SETI@home project, which analyzes radio signals from the Arecibo telescope in search of signs of extraterrestrial life.

Led by Fernando Camilo of Columbia University in New York, they had another look at the object with another Australian telescope: the Parkes Observatory radio telescope in New South Wales.

«We think the HDST will be a revolutionary telescope in many ways,» says Postman.

on the printout from Big Ear, Ohio State's radio telescope in Delaware.

A super Earth known as Gliese 667Cc also came to light in 2011, discovered by astronomers combing through data from the European Southern Observatory's 3.6 - meter telescope in Chile.

Other astronomers have claimed to find galaxies at even greater distances — at redshifts of 10 and 9, but those findings are still ambiguous, says Joshua Bloom of the University of California, Berkeley, who observed the afterglow using the Gemini South telescope in Chile.

Now Dan Thornton of the University of Manchester, UK, and colleagues have discovered four more using a telescope in Parkes, Australia (Science, doi.org/m5h).

Porco, who grew up in the Bronx, got her first glimpse of space through a telescope in a friend's backyard at the age of 13.

Puerto Rico is home to the largest, most sensitive radio telescope in the world.

Using the eight - metre Gemini North telescope in Hawaii, an international team of astronomers studied nine quasars that all lie about 10 billion light years away, capturing them when the Universe was less than four billion years old.

William Borucki, of the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, has captured the astronomy prize for two achievements: conceiving the observational technique of transit photometry that raised the tantalizing prospect of sighting Earth - like planets orbiting other stars, and leading the 25 - year - long development of the Kepler mission, which in 2009 placed a telescope in space to make those observations.

Until now, the SETI project has relied on time borrowed from instruments like the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, and has had little control over the extent and nature of the observations.

Drake, a key player in Breakthrough Listen, famously used the telescope in 1974 to transmit his «Arecibo message» toward the globular star cluster M13.

The team looking at the unbound star US 708 used the W. M. Keck telescope in Hawaii as well as new and archived observations of it from the Pan-STARRS1 survey telescope in Hawaii to work out its true velocity.

Kirby's team observed Segue 2 with the Keck telescope in Hawaii and found that it has the chemical composition of a galaxy that has hosted several supernovae and kept hold of the resulting debris (The Astrophysical Journal, doi.org/mtq).

What's missing from the partnership is the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, which at 305 meters wide is the biggest and most sensitive single - dish radio telescope in the world.

[1] As well as the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, the team used many ground - based facilities: TRAPPIST - South at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile, HAWK - I on ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile, TRAPPIST - North in Morocco, the 3.8 - metre UKIRT in Hawaii, the 2 - metre Liverpool and 4 - metre William Herschel telescopes at La Palma in the Canary Islands, and the 1 - metre SAAO telescope in South Africa.

It was first spotted in August of this year as an unusually fuzzy - looking object by astronomers using the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii [1].

The camera is scheduled to begin its search this month with the Pan-Starrs-1 telescope in Haleakala, Hawaii.

A month later, follow - up observations with the Lovell radio telescope in Cheshire, UK, revealed periodic variations in the pulsar's signals, indicating the existence of an orbiting companion with the mass of a planet.

Using the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) at the Gemini South telescope in Chile, the researchers identified a disc - shaped bright ring of dust around a star only slightly more massive than the sun, located 360 light years away in the Centaurus constellation.

This last source of noise can be avoided by placing a radio telescope in space.

• Radar observations by the giant Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico allow NEA trajectories — and impact probabilities — to be determined most precisely, but uncertain funding threatens this capability.

Arecibo, a 305 - meter - wide radio telescope located about 95 kilometers west of San Juan, is the second largest radio telescope in the world.

Observations made with the Spitzer Space Telescope yielded a diameter nearer 2600 km, and another group, using the IRAM radio telescope in Spain, upped the value to something closer to 3000 km.

Pan-STARRS, a 1.8 - meter telescope in Hawaii, recently completed a project to survey half of the northern hemisphere sky.

Discovered in 2005 by the 300 - meter radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, the pulsar rotates on its axis 465 times every second, pegging it as a sure - fire millisecond pulsar — one of the fastest known, in fact.

In a related finding, new images from the Gemini South telescope in Chile exposed another giant disk around NGC 300, a far less massive galaxy that resembles our own but is 6 million light - years away.

The researchers detected and analyzed quasar ULAS J1342 +0928 using one of the Magellan Telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, as well as the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona and the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii.

BICEP2 uses about 250 thumbnailsize polarization detectors to look for a difference in the CMB light from a small patch of sky coming through its telescope in two perpendicular orientations.

«Pluto was discovered just 85 years ago by a farmer's son from Kansas, inspired by a visionary from Boston, using a telescope in Flagstaff, Arizona,» said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

However, Gliese 667Cc — which was discovered with the European Southern Observatory's 3.6 - meter telescope in Chile — may orbit close enough in to be baked by flares from the red dwarf.

In 1974, scientists beamed a radio message to space from the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope in Puerto Rico.

The observatory offers «a level of sensitivity you simply can not get with any other telescope in the world,» says Karen O'Neil, GBT site director.