Sentences with phrase «telescopes around»

At EVE Fanfest 2017, it was announced that that players of MMO EVE Online will soon be joining the great exoplanet hunt too through an interesting new mini-game that challenges players to find elusive planetary transits in data from telescopes around the world.

When scientists recorded a rippling in space - time, followed within two seconds by an associated burst of light observed by dozens of telescopes around the globe, they had witnessed, for the first time, the explosive collision and merger of two neutron stars.

Immediately after its discovery, telescopes around the world, including ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile, were called into action to measure the object's orbit, brightness and color.

microFUN is a global network of telescopes around the world dedicated to measuring rapidly - evolving microlensing events, and together they are capable of following an event like this with nearly 24 - hours of continuous coverage.

This model explains the gamma - ray, X-ray, ultraviolet, optical, infrared, and radio data gathered by the GROWTH team from 18 telescopes around the world.

Leaders and youth gain access to research grade telescopes around the world including a 20 Meter Radio Telescope here in Green Bank!

Al Jazeera News: Science & Technology — 13 April 2017 Over the past week, astronomers have trained a network of telescopes around the world at a single point at the centre of our galaxy to finally catch a glimpse of a black hole.

The signal, named FRB 150418, was caught by a telescope on April 18, 2015, and hours later, other telescopes around the world found its location, tracing the source of the burst to a galaxy about 6 billion light - years away.

On June 29, 2011, a team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope and other telescopes around the world announced their detection of ULAS J1120 +0641, which is the oldest known quasar measured thus far with a redshift of z ~ 7.08 and which indicates that its light has taken around 12.9 billion years to reach Earth from just 770 million years after the Big Bang (ESO science release).

His research work on galaxies, using radio telescopes around the world, included 13 years at the State University of Groningen, in The Netherlands.

But even with 18 telescopes around the globe, the GROWTH network still doesn't cover the entire night sky.

It was now time for optical telescopes around the world to take over the night sky.

As the spacecraft investigates, telescopes around the world and in space will be keeping an eye on Jupiter as well.

They will combine several telescopes around the globe to peer into the heart of our own Galaxy, which hosts a mysterious radio source, called Sagittarius A * and which is considered to be the central supermassive black hole.

Powerful radio telescopes around the world can be synchronized to work together, enhancing the effective resolution and sensitivity beyond what any single telescope could achieve.

However, by combining high - frequency radio telescopes around the world, in a technique called very long baseline interferometry, or VLBI, even such a tiny feature is in principle detectable.

«For the onboard measurements to be meaningful, we needed to develop a model that predicted the arrival times using ground - based observations provided by our collaborators at radio telescopes around the world,» says Paul Ray, co-investigator on the SEXTANT project.

Over the past week, astronomers have trained a network of telescopes around the world at a single point at the centre of our galaxy to finally catch a glimpse of a black hole.

Over the past few weeks, radio telescopes around the world have been straining to catch some whiff of radio emission.

For the latest study, whose results are published in the May 20 issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters, Fomalont, Geldzahler and Bradshaw used telescopes around the world to make highly - detailed radio images of the ejections.

«This same software package also has been the principal tool for scientists using the Very Long Baseline Array and numerous other radio telescopes around the world,» Ulvestad added.

The colored lines represent the paths of the stars moving behind MU69 as observed by different telescopes around the world.

Every night, telescopes around the world obtain thousands of images of the sky.

The observations have involved dozens of telescopes around the world and in space and at wavelengths from visible light through the infrared to radio.

Scientists subsequently used a number of telescopes around the world to observe it and determined that it has a redshift of 6.29, which translates to a distance of almost 12.6 billion light - years from Earth.

It was first spotted early in November, and telescopes around the world were called into action to study it.

Now, a team of astronomers has used a collection of radio telescopes around the globe to pinpoint its origin.

Because of the rarity of that event, telescopes around the world and in space adjusted their gaze to study the aftermath of the explosion in detail.

Astronomers using the TRAPPIST - South telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory, the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal and the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, as well as other telescopes around the world [1], have now confirmed the existence of at least seven small planets orbiting the cool red dwarf star TRAPPIST - 1 [2].

After Parkes saw the burst go off the team swung into action on twelve telescopes around the world — in Australia, California, the Canary Islands, Chile, Germany, Hawai'i, and India — and in space.

Jonathan Grindlay, an astronomer at Harvard University, leads the Digital Access to a Sky Century at Harvard program, which will digitize more than 500,000 glass plates — some showing as many as 100,000 stars — taken by telescopes around the world between 1880 and 1985.

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.

«For the onboard measurements to be meaningful, we needed to develop a model that predicted the arrival times using ground - based observations provided by our collaborators at radio telescopes around the world,» said Paul Ray, a SEXTANT co-investigator with the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory.

Ever since LIGO announced the first gravitational - wave event in early 2016, networks of small telescopes around the world have been poised to detect an «optical counterpart.»

The ground detectors of the Auger observatory record these secondary particles, while 24 optical telescopes around the perimeter of the array record how the particle shower made the atmosphere fluoresce.

As Juno investigates, telescopes around the world and in space will be keeping an eye on Jupiter as well.

Other telescopes around the world soon confirmed that it was a type Ia supernova, one of the brightest events of the cosmos.

Within minutes after an interesting event is discovered, machines at NERSC then trigger telescopes around the globe to collect follow - up observations.

When «Oumuamua was discovered, telescopes around the world set to make observations.

Earth's magnetic field bent these particles about 180 degree, from the day - side to the night - side of the Earth where it was detected as a burst by the GRAPES - 3 muon telescope around mid-night on 22 June 2015.

In a paper to published in the journal Astrobiology, and available online soon, Heller and Pudritz turn the telescope around to ask, what if extraterrestrial observers discover the Earth as it transits the sun?

Behind them is one of the GBT's four trucks that drive the 17 - million pound telescope around on the track.

Not exact matches

Using powerful telescopes, they can spot planets far outside of the reach of our solar system when they cross in front of their sun — it's how we recently found a triad of planets around a red sun 40 light - years away.

In the 1600s, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei observed through a telescope the moons orbiting Jupiter — clear evidence against the idea that the heavenly bodies all revolve around the earth.

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.

If telescopes make it clear that heavenly bodies are not perfectly spherical and furthermore reveal moons rotating around a planet, then the old notion of the æther, a refined fifth element admitting only the potentiality for perfect circular motion on the part of perfectly spherical bodies, no longer has a role to play.

According to Nikole Lewis, Webb's project scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, the telescope could perform the simultaneous detection of methane, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in the atmospheres of some planets around red dwarf stars.

Astronomers around the world scrambled to redirect telescopes both on the ground and in space.

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

The new results from SPHERE, along with data from other telescopes such as ALMA, are revolutionising astronomers» understanding of the environments around young stars and the complex mechanisms of planetary formation.