Sentences with phrase «telescope time as»

It's important to note that, during this 7 - year period, Brazilian astronomers were able to secure as much telescope time as their European counterparts, proving that our research community is mature enough to compete internationally.

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The telescoped time of Logue's simile» as the opposing armies square off» fuses the melancholy of history with the sadness of nature:

They've practiced every motion they'll make during the eclipse: Check that the sun is in each telescope's field of view; remove the lens caps at just the right moment, to get as much time watching the corona as possible without frying the delicate instruments; and so on.

Three projects known as pulsar timing arrays, in North America, Europe and Australia, are using some of the largest radio telescopes to identify pulsars and look for these waves.

This means that telescopes act as time machines, allowing astronomers to see galaxies in the distant past.

But when the time came, five telescopes watched as 2014 MU69 passed in front of a distant star.

However, if your goal is to see stars, planets, galaxies and other celestial objects then the best time to bring out your telescope is when the moon is new or young (i.e. as dark as possible).

The $ 600,000 telescope is designed around an off - the - shelf charge - coupled device (CCD) detector that permits a large field of view, comparable to that of MeerKAT, and more than three times as wide as the full moon.

A bevy of cutting - edge telescopes is poised to capture the universe's photons using mirrors up to 10 million times as large as a person's pupil.

Constellation - X Observatory (target date, 2017; cost, $ 2.5 billion) These four satellites would act as one giant X-ray telescope, 100 times more sensitive than any other.

As soon as next year, a telescope the size of Earth may allow us to spot the edge of the shadowy abyss for the first time (see sidebarAs soon as next year, a telescope the size of Earth may allow us to spot the edge of the shadowy abyss for the first time (see sidebaras next year, a telescope the size of Earth may allow us to spot the edge of the shadowy abyss for the first time (see sidebar).

That both telescopes could conceivably glimpse Proxima b at all is due to the planet's proximity as well as adaptive optics — computer - controlled deformable mirrors that change their shape 1,000 or 2,000 times a second to correct in real time for the turbulent air.

To fit inside its rocket, the JWST's 6.5 - metre - high reflector, six times larger than Hubble's, is folded into 18 hexagonal pieces, which will assemble to function as a single giant mirror once the telescope is in orbit.

He persuaded Caltech to install an 18 - inch Schmidt telescope that became the first astronomical instrument on Mount Palomar, and soon national media were regularly keeping a running tab of how many «star suicides» his survey of the heavens had discovered and how bright they were: 400 to 600 million times as luminous as the sun.

Though the French won the race into orbit, Kepler will have a telescope measuring 95 centimeters (37.4 inches), 3.5 times the diameter of Corot's, with a field of view more than 10 times as large.

By next spring, the planet - hunting space telescope known as Kepler — rejected by NASA three times but then approved after those initial detections of exoplanets in the 1990s — will most likely report the discovery of the first known Earth - like planet in an Earth - like orbit.

The same is true for astronomers — as they build bigger telescopes and develop new techniques to see farther into the Universe, they look further and further back in time.

Capable of collecting nine times as much light as any other optical telescope, it could discover Earth - like planets in the habitable zones around other stars and search for changes over time in the fundamental physical constants.

Using a mirror 28 feet wide — five times as big as the Pan-STARRS telescopes — and a camera the size of a pickup truck, it will be able to survey the entire sky in three days.

Kepler detected the planet, which is about 2.5 times as wide as Earth, as a brief dip in starlight as HIP 116454b passed between its sun and the telescope.

In the late 1980s Philippe secured time on a large radio telescope near the Loire Valley and permission to use it as a transmitter of terrestrial signals rather than a receiver of celestial ones.

Ancient stars, of a type known as RR Lyrae, have been discovered in the centre of the Milky Way for the first time, using ESO's infrared VISTA telescope.

Telescopes peering back in time to less than a billion years after the Big Bang have spotted individual galaxies with dust that weighs hundreds of millions of times as much as the sun.

«The overall theme, first with the Allen Telescope Array and now with the VLA, is to use these interferometers as high - speed cameras, taking the sensitive imaging capabilty of the telescope, cranking up the data rate and improving our algorithms to get access to these millisecond time - scale transients,» he said.

In 1972, astronomers at NRAO had a second go, this time using a bigger telescope that collected as much data in a minute as...

Funded by tech entrepreneur Yuri Milner, it will set two of the world's largest radio telescopes surveying the million closest stars across a broader swathe of the radio spectrum, and will cover 10 times as much sky as all previous searches combined.

Astronomers lost some 500 hours of observing time at the Green Bank radio telescope in West Virginia as a result of the U.S. government shutdown.

At the same meeting, astronomer Thomas Beatty of Ohio State University, Columbus, announced the discovery of just such a system with the small KELT telescope in Arizona: a brown dwarf 27 times as massive as Jupiter, orbiting its hot parent star every 30 hours.

As part of the lab requirements, I wanted to have the students spend time using a telescope.

Hubble could do it, but it would have to stare at Alpha Centauri for 20 days with no guarantee of finding anything, which would be seen as a waste of time for our most important space telescope, says Demory.

As much as Hummels would like to be near the telescopes all the time, the discoveries he wants to make also require computers, and there's a lot at stake: «I love the fact that I could potentially make a difference,» he says, «in how we identify the underlying principles of nature.&raquAs much as Hummels would like to be near the telescopes all the time, the discoveries he wants to make also require computers, and there's a lot at stake: «I love the fact that I could potentially make a difference,» he says, «in how we identify the underlying principles of nature.&raquas Hummels would like to be near the telescopes all the time, the discoveries he wants to make also require computers, and there's a lot at stake: «I love the fact that I could potentially make a difference,» he says, «in how we identify the underlying principles of nature.»

Using these new parameters to time their observations, the scientists also used a satellite - based telescope to collect light data from the planet as it orbited closest to its star.

About 4,500 light - years away in the direction of the constellation Monoceros, the nebula is large enough to be visible through small telescopes; if it were bright enough in the visible spectrum it could be seen by the naked eye, occupying several times as much of the sky as the full moon.

Using Earth - based telescopes to study sunlight reflected from the planet, the team found concentrations as high as 45 parts per billion near three geological features at a specific time: summer in the northern hemisphere of Mars in the Earth year 2003.

It seems as though every time astronomers point their telescopes at the night sky, some weird new finding forces them to revamp their theories.

In effect, gravitational - wave telescopes allow scientists to «hear» phenomena at the same time as light - based telescopes «see» them.

The next generation of radio telescopes, such as the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, under construction in Chile, should have an easier time finding these molecules, adds co-author Karl Menten.

From Earth, twin telescopes on Cerro Tololo in Chile captured light from ASASSN - 15lh that astronomers measured as 570 billion times brighter than the sun.

«The opportunity for these projects to use significant time on the world's best scientific instruments is occurring in part because of the limitations in government funding for these facilities,» Worden says, noting that flat or shrinking NASA and National Science Foundation budgets for astronomy have left the Parkes and Green Bank radio telescopes — as well as many other observatories — scrambling for new sources of financial support.

A flood of information from planet - hunters such as NASA's Kepler space telescope, coupled with improved models of how planets and solar systems work, is forcing us to reconsider another set of geocentric views — this time about what a planet capable of harbouring life should look like.

Through the newly invented telescope Galileo had seen many things that couldn't be explained by the dominant cosmology of the time, rooted in the idea that all things revolved around Earth: things like moons crossing the face of Jupiter, or the changing phases of Venus as sunlight caught it at different angles — an impossibility if Venus's orbit encircled Earth.

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.

«Before Hubble, people conjectured that galaxies evolved with time,» says C. Robert O'Dell, professor of astrophysics at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and, as project scientist at the Marshall Space Flight Center from 1972 to 1983, a major figure in the early development of the telescope.

Despite its housekeeping chores, such as the time - consuming business of pointing itself at new targets, called slewing, and repointing itself every 45 minutes or so when Earth and other bodies block the field of view, the Hubble manages to do science nearly 50 percent of the time - making it one of the most efficient telescopes ever to operate.

The joint research team led by graduate student and JSPS fellow Takuma Izumi at the Graduate School of Science at the University of Tokyo revealed for the first time — with observational data collected by ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array), in Chile, and other telescopes — that dense molecular gas disks occupying regions as large as a few light years at the centers of galaxies are supplying gas directly to the supermassive black holes.

Precise spectroscopic information was measured for ten times as many galaxies as have been detected in this field over the last decade by ground - based telescopes.

«A digital brain will be a resource for the entire scientific community: researchers will reserve time on it, as they do on the biggest telescopes, to conduct their experiments,» Markram wrote in SA.

It's also as large as it will be until then, so if you have a telescope set up for the eclipse, you'll have plenty of time to steal a glance at Mars, even during totality.

Harriet's first postdoctoral position was as a National Research Council fellow at the NASA Ames Research Center in California, which at that time was home base for the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, a flying telescope that was the forerunner of SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy that is currently being built.

This is crucial as this is all we are going to get for exo - earths: we will not be able to build large enough telescopes to take detailed images of the surfaces of exoplanets — but we will still be able to learn about their atmospheres (and surfaces) from time - resolved observations!