Sentences with phrase «telescope pointed in its direction»

Despite its lack of cosmic companions, when this lonely galaxy has a telescope pointed in its direction, it puts on quite a show.

Not exact matches

Exoplanets are typically discovered in one of two ways — and neither involving simply pointing a telescope in the right direction and looking.

Within minutes, they could determine the general area of the sky where the explosion would occur, point their infrared telescopes in that direction, and wait for the fireworks.

The telescope needs at least three of these devices to stay pointed in the right direction.

It was a hell of a job to point my telescope with its equatorial mount in the right direction.

Welebob says her students entered an STScI contest in which they had to decide which direction Hubble should be pointed, make a collage of telescope images showing their choice, and submit a persuasive argument for their choice in written or video form.

Before accepting the telescopic observations one must look into the optics of the telescope, the way the mount is constructed in order to ensure that the telescope is pointing in the right direction, and that light travels through space in a straight line (which itself is sometimes not so, as Einstein demonstrated).