Sentences with phrase «telescope project»
The phrase "telescope project" refers to a scientific or engineering effort involving the creation, development, or improvement of a telescope. Full definition
This will give astronomers in this country an input into some of the most exciting telescope projects of the next two decades.
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Observational campaigns now in the works, such as the Joint Dark Energy Mission planned by NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy as well as an international radio telescope project known as Square Kilometer Array, should allow astronomers and cosmologists to test competing worldviews in the next decade or so.
NASA funds space - based projects in the U.S., whereas the National Science Foundation funds terrestrial telescope projects.
MeerLICHT is also the prototype for BlackGEM — another automated telescope project led by Radboud that will be constructed in Chile in 2018.
Ground - based telescope projects called pulsar timing arrays aim to study gravitational waves by noting delays in light from pulsars arriving on Earth after traveling through wave - stretched space.
As South Africa angles for a massive telescope project, its own SALT telescope has been offline for a year
Upcoming telescope projects on Earth and in space will map out billions of stars and galaxies all around us
Unlike the Thirty Meter Telescope, a stalled telescope project atop Mauna Kea on Hawaii Island, the DKIST project has had an easier time moving ahead, despite some protests by Native Hawaiians opposed to the development of Haleakalā, which is considered sacred.
In this symposium, the participants shared the current status of various radio telescope projects such as ALMA, the Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) under discussion in the U.S., and SKA which will be constructed in Australia and Africa, as well as the presentations given by young and senior researchers on the progress and challenges of their researches and ideas of new projects.
Studies of molecules in galaxies also will benefit from the completion of the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), an international millimeter - wave telescope project to be located in the high plains of northern Chile.
He was involved in building the Nobeyama Radio Observatory, which included a 45 - meter radio telescope, and was the director of the Subaru telescope project in Hawaii.
Our engineers and staff come from all over the world — from Australia to Chile to China to India to Spain, and we have experience with other observatories and telescope projects including ALMA, CTIO, ESO, GTC, Gemini, Keck, LBT, LIGO, LSST, Magellan and Palomar, as well as with industry including Jacobs Engineering, Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, and NASA.
Multiple telescope projects are underway and are scheduled to open in the 2020s.
After completion of the telescope moving project, Dr. Okano returned to Japan in 2015 and is still devoting himself to promote the PLANETS telescope project.
He testified strongly in support of major telescope projects, including the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) on Haleakala, and the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on Maunakea.
I also recommend Lu's TEDx talk on the Sentinel space telescope project, and explore background posted by the B612 Foundation, the group co-founded by Lu, Schweickart and others, first to explore deflection options and, since 2011, focused on the telescope mission.
Astronomy has been another field of growth in South Africa, and Pandor said the country was thrilled to be chosen as one of the sites for the massive Square Kilometre Array radio telescope project.
«[These telescope projects] need great coordination and intergovernmental agreements on the specifications of the equipment, software, human resources and leadership — among many other issues,» Fanaroff said.
The 120 - telescope project will have two parts: a southern array with 100 instruments distributed over 10 square kilometers and a northern array with 20 instruments spread over 1 square kilometer.
The National Research Council of Canada Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics is responsible for the Canadian participation in the radio telescope project.
During his talk at OHA, Kim also blamed the University of Hawaii, which leases and manages the summit for the telescope projects, for much of the snags.