Sentences with phrase «telescope observations»

Yet those attempts, paired with space telescope observations, let them refine their predictions.

Previous telescope observations had shown that individual galaxies carry around a lot of dust.

Using the most comprehensive set of telescope observations ever assembled, astronomers found that the universe is dying.

Extremely precise radio - telescope observations already have ruled out one proposed mechanism for the bursts.

Just like what the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission is doing for comets, New Horizons data will challenge and validate the hypothesis and inferences made from the nearly decades worth of remote telescope observations of Pluto and the other icy dwarf planets.

The results will help them understand how particles are ionized in Saturn's upper atmosphere and will help them put a decade of ground - based telescope observations of Saturn in perspective, because they can see what disturbance in the data comes from Earth's atmosphere.

UT1 is determined from measurements of the rotation of the Earth by various means including radio telescope observations of quasars (distant galaxies powered by supermassive black holes).

In this 50 - minute videoconference program, students are given a brief introduction to the UT McDonald Observatory, make live telescope observations of Venus with telescopes equipped with special video cameras, and complete their student sheet.

This binary concept is based on telescope observations made at Patagonia, Argentina on July 17, 2017 when MU69 passed in front of a star.

The Keck telescope observations sampled the site near the landing site of the Curiosity rover (Gale Crater), revealing never observed before isotopic anisotropies across the planet and in the vicinity of this site.

Thirteen unexplained radio blips have turned up in radio telescope observations since the 1980s.

Astronomers first pegged the object as a comet thanks to its elongated path, but additional telescope observations October 25 indicate it's more likely that A / 2017 U1 is an asteroid.

So, she hijacked her father's TV and set up an impromptu telescope observations headquarters in her parents» living room.

Such telescope observations provide a better measure of the energy of the shower and are key for calibrating the array of surface detectors: By comparing the readout of the fluorescence telescopes and surface detectors on the same events, physicists can figure out how to better estimate a shower's energy from the surface detector alone.

That's when telescope observations of distant stars going behind Pluto (known as stellar occultations) showed that it had a methane atmosphere, probably rapidly evaporating to space.

Researchers from the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), jointly run by Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, shed light on this important era by analyzing 84 sets of X-ray telescope observations from the Japanese - US Suzaku satellite.

Given its inherent transnational nature and the need for telescope observations around the globe, astronomy quickly emerged as a pioneer of large international scientific collaborations.

After the comet's discovery, scientists began scouring earlier telescope observations.

This effect had been predicted in 2000, and highlighted two years later through Hubble space telescope observations.

In this 50 - minute videoconference program, students are given a brief introduction to the UT McDonald Observatory, make live telescope observations of our star the Sun with telescopes equipped with special video cameras and solar filters, complete their student sheet, and learn about the solar features they've seen by watching unique science demonstrations.

Using a wide array of ground - and space - based telescope observations, an international team led by University of Maryland astronomers constructed one of the most detailed descriptions of a gamma - ray burst to date.

In the past, radio telescope observations of protoplanetary disks have provided some support for gravitational instability.

Previous telescope observations have shown tantalizing hints of the spectral features seen by the researchers in their irradiated salts.

Based on telescope observations of young sunlike stars, researchers estimate that «super» solar flares bombarded Earth with energetic particles at least once a day around 4 billion years ago.

«The Galileo measurements gave us tantalizing hints of what might be happening all over the surface of Europa, and we've now been able to quantify that with our Keck telescope observations,» Brown said.

Clearly these days we don't need buildings or meridian lines to measure time — we use atomic clocks and radio telescope observations of quasars.

The race was on to measure the expansion rate of the universe, involving a long slog of telescope observations and data analysis by both groups.

Hundreds of hours of telescope observations.

Because accretion onto black holes is a highly complex system akin to a hurricane, but located so far away we can not discern many details, simulations offer a powerful way of making sense of telescope observations and understanding the behavior of black holes.

Tucked away in the basement of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, boxes held hundreds of glass plates imprinted with images of telescope observations, some of which are 120 years old

Tucked away in the basement room of the Danish capital were cartons holding hundreds of glass plates imprinted with images of telescope observations, some of which are 120 years old.

«We can't go inside the planets and look at them, so these laboratory experiments complement satellite and telescope observations,» Kraus said.

Now, satellite and telescope observations are sensitive enough to discern whether the puniest dwarfs also sport disks.

They then searched a recent archive of telescope observations.

Older Earth - based telescope observations had lacked the sensitivity and resolution to spy such subtleties.

Because Tabby's star has cultivated such an air of mystery, the response to its new dimming has been quick and enthusiastic, with some telescope observations of the star already planned over the next few days.

Amateur astronomers and the general public are invited to participate in events that provide scientific context about the Moon, tweet up events, and telescope observations of the Moon.

During the «Live From McDonald Observatory» videoconference program, students connect with the UT McDonald Observatory and participate in activities, virtual tours, live telescope observations, and more.

After analyzing four years of Kepler space telescope observations, astronomers from the University of Toronto, and of the University of Cambridge have given us our clearest understanding yet of a class of exoplanets called «warm Jupiters», showing that many have unexpected planetary companions.