Sentences with phrase «telescopes made»

Ten years ago, radio astronomers at the Very Large Array in Socorro, New Mexico — a Y - shaped bank of telescopes made famous in the movie Contact — tried to capture this large region in a single image.
The establishment understandings of God are indeed under assault, and open - minded believers are forced to grapple with «new evidence» of unprecedented magnitude, as the recent photograph from the Hubble telescope made amazingly clear.
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.
The viewfinder on the side of the telescope makes it easy for children to point the scope at what they want to see, which is a big plus and prevents frustration.
Even taking that into consideration, a liquid mirror telescope poses far fewer logistical problems than a conventional reflecting telescope made of glass.
It would be a 10 - meter telescope made of 36 hexagonal segments, each 1.8 meters across.
Chart recordings from Reber's telescope made in 1943.
Moreover, the Hubble Space Telescope is not only an astronomical instrument (though the telescope makes up its biggest part) but also a sophisticated spacecraft.
ALMA was designed to work as an interferometer — a telescope made up of many individual elements.

Not exact matches

According to NASA, «viewing this event safely requires a telescope or high - powered binoculars fitted with solar filters made of specially - coated glass or Mylar.»
Made of high - strength textiles, the kite is launched off a telescoping mast with a winch, and tethered to the ship by a tear - proof synthetic cable.
The VISTA telescope, located in Chile, has a wide field of view and extremely sensitive detectors that make it the world's largest telescope dedicated to mapping the sky.
When «Oumuamua was discovered, telescopes around the world set to make observations.
To sift through this dust, the astronomers analyzed observations made with a telescope located in South Africa.
The telescope is made up of 66 antennas installed on Chile's highest plateau.
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.
(Job 26:7) Now how could Job know that the earth is» suspended upon nothing» over 3,500 years ago, since the earliest telescope was only made in the 17th century C.E. by Galileo?
I feel humble every time I look out at the vastness of the universe through my telescope but, then again, the universe isn't plotting to make me suffer if I'm indifferent towards it either.
Thank you Kool aid, Only religion would make someone completely ignore cold hard facts like oh say... the carbon dating system or other planets weve found with telescopes and satellites.
If we now consider the number of the stars (15,000 x 106 visible to the optical telescope alone) you will understand how it is possible to say, cosmically speaking, that we are enveloped in a sort of monstrous gas formed of molecules as heavy as the Sun moving at distances from each other so great that they have to be reckoned in light - years (bearing in mind that light travels at a speed of 186,000 miles per second, and that we are only 8 light - minutes distant from the sun)-- a gas made of stars!
Telescoping genealogies = «I spun the list of names in this genealogy arbitrarily so it makes more sense for my goals.
Pleides is a group of stars originally thought to be 5 - 7 stars, but with modern telescopes there are about 250 stars that are traveling together in space as if they are bound together.The belt of [in the contilation of] Orion is made up several stars that are constantly moveing in irregular paths as learned only by the use of telescopes.
It's not made up, its not postulated, it's verifiable evidence that we all see with telescopes.
Is it possible that a man of Barr's education really wonders why some of us would not accept a natural explanation for the formation of stars and planets in light of discoveries made possible by the Hubble telescope?
He might as well be on Pluto looking at us with a telescope, or just a historical figure, or an idea, or nothing at all for as much difference it makes.
Some refused to look through his telescope because they had made up their minds what they would see.
This latter criticism is all the more important, for it shows that I telescoped Whitehead's development, arguing that the shift (D) produced more than it probably did, not reckoning with the fact that Whitehead probably made fewer revisions on the basis of his identification of feeling and prehension than would be apparent to those familiar with the final theory he attained.
Making sure the water stays heated and properly filtered in such pools is the job of the professional pool man, who wields his telescoping leaf rake with practiced ease.
You can easily adjust the height through the telescoping handlebar and making braking system, hand operated, within reach.
We even had to make a pretend telescope so that he could have his pirate kits finished.
The telescoping handlebar makes this stroller easier for parents of different heights.
It also comes with a telescoping handlebar that makes it easy to adjust for users of different heights.
Other great features on this stroller which boasts of being one of the best tandem stroller includes an adjustable telescoping handle bar which makes it great for parents of varied heights and for the security purpose; it has a large canopy with pop out sunvisor; it is roomy with adjustable leg rest; never flat tires; all wheel suspension; deep one hand recline; and five point harness.
A telescoping handle, shopping basket, luxury colors and innovative design make you happy.
The telescoping handle bar goes from 39.5 to 42.5 ″ making it comfortable for taller and shorter parents.
It is awesome being able to telescope the handle out more or make it shorter, depending on who is pushing the stroller.
- Folds flat with one hand, ideal for travel or storage - Has bench and 2 rider seating - Padded seat cushion for maximum comfort - Telescoping handle makes it easy to pull
I am easily able to bring the twins with me and the telescoping handle makes it easy for my son to also help when he wants.
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.
Those observations, using the ginormous Gemini 8 - meter telescope, were among the first exoplanets directly imaged (as opposed to inferred using indirect techniques), and they made up the first exoplanet solar system ever directly seen.
«The Lick spectra, obtained with just a 3 - meter telescope, are of outstanding quality in part because of a recent major upgrade to the Kast spectrograph, made possible by the Heising - Simons Foundation as well as William and Marina Kast,» Filippenko said.
But now, with Webb years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget, Dressler says choosing such a big, complex mirror for an already ambitious cryogenic telescope was «a bridge too far,» caused by «trying to make too much innovation in one step.»
Astronomer Jill Tarter, the subject of the new book Making Contact worked to construct the telescope in the face of funding difficulties.
The telescoping handle makes it easy for you to steer the ship.
Their experiments will take steps toward measuring its strength and shape so that a future telescope can make a more complete measurement.
Even though this dust is just a few degrees above absolute zero, it still emits feebly in the infrared; the power of the telescope coupled with the relatively small distance to the galaxy make it easier to spot.
One of the best things about this camera is that it fits into any 1.25 - inch telescope focuser which makes it really versatile.
To make the 3 - D map, Milisavljevic and co-author Rob Fesen of Dartmouth College examined Cas A in near - infrared wavelengths of light using the Mayall 4 - meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, southwest of Tucson, AZ..
All that sends you to space, and makes you build big telescopes.
This international network, 10 years in the making, allows astronomers to use the Internet to assemble data from dozens of telescopes.
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