Sentences with phrase «telescope observations of»

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.

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.

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Not exact matches

Thompson said this new Kepler data analysis would be the last for this leg of the telescope's first observations.

And we now know that the universe had a definite beginning due to the observations of the COBE sattelite and Hubble telescope.

Less than a hundred years later, Italian Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642) using the telescope, made observations that convinced him that the Copernician hypothesis of an earth revolving around the sun was true.

The observations of the COBE satellite and Hubble telescope prove the universe had a beginning and the laws of thermodynamics show the universe could not create itself out of a steady state of absolute nothing and can't be eternal.

This enriched interior debris hasn't been detected in previous observations, however, so next - generation telescopes may be needed to find the «missing» iron and confirm the origin of the bubbles.

We will also apply for more observation time on the ALMA telescope to study the planet - forming discs in even higher resolution to get more detailed information about their chemical composition,» says Jes Jørgensen, associate professor in the research group Astrophysics and Planetary Science at the Niels Bohr Institute and Centre for Star and Planet Formation, University of Copenhagen.

The white spots would seem to be exposed ice, Brown says, but observations of Ceres with ground - based telescopes don't show any evidence of ice at the bright spots» locations.

«Our observations with the ATCA and ALMA radio telescopes have shown signs of something never seen before, located at the centre or the remnant.

In coming years NASA's Webb and WFIRST telescopes will probably attempt such observations on a handful of the nearest, brightest promising exoplanets, as will a new generation of ground - based 30 - meter - class observatories now under construction.

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.

Observations with the ALMA telescopes of the gas around the two stars called IRS 43.

In recent years, based on observations at the WIYN telescope at Kitt Peak, Arizona, Mathieu and his students have established that over three - quarters of blue stragglers, in fact, have stellar companions.

«Observations with multiple space telescopes have revealed that, while other neutron stars spin multiple times a minute, this object rotates only once about every 6.5 hours — making it by far the slowest - spinning star in its class discovered to date,» said David Burrows, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State.

As a refractor telescope it allows for observation of both astronomical and earth objects.

Using observations from several telescopes, Yale University astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and colleagues studied 10 bright clumps of stars within the galaxy, known as globular clusters, and measured their velocities.

Soon after the initial observations of the merger site, the Earth's annual trip around the Sun placed the object too close to the Sun in the sky for X-ray and visible - light telescopes to observe.

Yet despite its high public visibility and near - ubiquity in blockbuster Hollywood science fiction, throughout most of its 55 - year history SETI has languished on the fringes of scientific research, garnering relatively scant funding and only small amounts of dedicated observation time on world - class telescopes.

More than 40 telescopes in the northern hemisphere took thousands of observations in the visible, radio, and near infrared ranges, which enabled the production of detailed light curves.

New and very precise observations using the HARPS spectrograph at the ESO 3.6 - metre telescope at La Silla, Chile, have now not only detected the motion of the spots due to the rotation of Ceres about its axis, but also found unexpected additional variations suggesting that the material of the spots is volatile and evaporates in sunlight.

But a team led by Marco Ajello of the Kavli Institute in Stanford, California, studied observations by NASA's Fermi telescope and found this accounts for no more than 30 per cent of the glow.

Combining observations from satellites and ground stations with climate models, they evaluated different factors that affect telescope vision, such as the amount of water vapour, wind speeds and atmospheric turbulence.

With $ 25,000, help from volunteers, donations of equipment — and despite a fire that nearly destroyed the observatory while it was under construction — «first light» (the first time a telescope is used to make an astronomical observation) was achieved in early 2000.

Observations of Nova Centauri 2013 made using telescopes at ESO's La Silla Observatory, and near Santiago in Chile, help to explain the mystery of why many young stars seem to have more of this chemical element than expected.

The research teams plan more in - depth observations with space telescopes to strengthen the case for the dark births of black holes.

The model matches the observations of slow - moving nebulae by Romanowsky's team, Dekel says, because telescopes would see most of the nebulae at the farthest and slowest points of their long orbits.

In 2001 one of us (Riess) announced that the space telescope had serendipitously imaged an extremely distant type Ia supernova (dubbed SN 1997ff) in repeated observations.

By contract, Chilean astronomers get 10 % of the observation time on each telescope installed in the country.

By 2020, when the European Extremely Large Telescope is due to be completed, the country is expected to host 70 % of the global observation surface for large optical and infrared telescopes.

The team observed the star with the infrared Spitzer and ultraviolet Swift space telescopes from October 2015 to December 2016 — the first observations in multiple wavelengths of light.

Using data from our solar system and observations of huge planets far beyond the visual range of any telescope, astrophysicists René Heller and Ralph Pudritz have shown that some moons of those planets could be habitable.

Observations obtained a month later by members of the Planetary Sciences Group using the PlanetCam camera developed by this team and fitted to the 2.2 - m telescope at the Calar Alto Observatory in Almería (Spain) enabled the speed of this atmospheric structure to be confirmed.

Vanderburg and his colleagues made additional observations using a number of ground - based facilities: the 1.2 - meter and MINERVA telescopes at Whipple Observatory, the MMT, MEarth - South, and Keck.

Observations with ground - based telescopes then suggested that the galaxies» light had been bent and magnified by the gravity of intervening galaxies on its way...

In order to find out whether BLAPs are actually hot dwarfs, the astronomers used two of their largest telescopes to make observations.

Observations with ground - based telescopes then suggested that the galaxies» light had been bent and magnified by the gravity of intervening galaxies on its way to Earth (Science, vol 330, p 800).

Now Thayne Currie at the University of Toronto, Canada, and colleagues have reanalysed Hubble data and made fresh observations with a telescope in Hawaii.

Now, a team at the University of California Irvine has used observations from NASA's Fermi space telescope, along with data from all - sky surveys, and applied updated calculations to observe our galaxy's centre — where there is thought to be a cluster of dark matter.

The agency's Balloon Observation Platform for Planetary Science (BOPPS), a sub-orbital balloon - carried telescope, already has provided observations of the comet in the lead - up to the close encounter with Mars.

Follow - up observations at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, an Italian telescope on the Canary Islands, provided the planet's mass: roughly 12 times that of Earth.

NASA's Swift satellite picked up the short - lived burst Thursday — gamma - ray bursts usually last just minutes, even seconds — and a suite of follow - up observations of the explosion's afterglow at telescopes around the globe enabled an age estimate.