Sentences with phrase «time domain astronomy»
That makes LCO ideal for «time domain astronomy,» the study of phenomena that change rapidly and have to be caught on the fly.
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... These new instruments will be critical in the era of time domain astronomy.»
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This should lead to tremendous advances in time - domain astronomy: studying fast - changing phenomena as they occur — black holes being born, supernovas exploding — as well as locating potentially Earth - threatening asteroids and mapping the little - understood population of objects orbiting out beyond Neptune.
With this exceptional leap in performance, new domains in infrared astronomy will become accessible, allowing us, for example, to unravel definitively galaxy evolution and metal production over cosmic time, to study dust formation and evolution from very early epochs onwards, and to trace the formation history of planetary systems.