Sentences with phrase «use radio telescopes»

The AVN programme is aimed at transferring skills and knowledge in African partner countries to build, maintain, operate and use radio telescopes.

Astronomers are able to use radio telescopes to detect the characteristic 21 - centimeter radiation emitted naturally by neutral atomic hydrogen.

A European - led team will use the radio telescopes to make extremely precise measurements of the probe's position during its descent, while a U.S. - led team will concentrate on gathering measurements of the probe's descent speed and the direction of its motion.

The astronomers favored this scenario based on the information they gathered from using the radio telescopes.

Astronomers used a radio telescope called the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) to look for organic molecules in the Large Magellanic Cloud, located about 160,000 light - years from Earth.

Santiago Garcia - Burillo of Spain's Madrid Observatory and his colleagues have used a radio telescope array in Chile to image the torus of NGC 1068, a galaxy 50 million light years away.

Using radio telescopes in Australia and optical telescopes in Hawaii, Keane and his colleagues detected an FRB and linked its fading afterglow to a host galaxy some six billion light - years from Earth.

Sagan, who died in 1996, was an impassioned supporter of the program, which uses radio telescopes to listen for extraterrestrial communications.

Yes, Virginia, There Was a Big Bang Scientists using a radio telescope atop the 10,000 - foot - high Antarctic ice sheet have detected a 14 - billion - year - old pattern from the Big Bang.

Heino Falcke (professor at Radboud University), who 20 years ago proposed using radio telescopes to image the shadow of black holes, is optimistic.

Most other pulsars have been found using radio telescopes, although some also beam energy in visible light and X-rays.

Using radio telescopes in Spain, France, and Australia, a team headed by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, scanned the LMH for signals in the precise wavelengths that would reveal the presence of more complex molecules.

Radio astronomers have used a radio telescope network the size of the Earth to zoom in on a unique phenomenon in a distant galaxy: a jet activated by a star being consumed by a supermassive black hole.

Since Lew Snyder and David Buhl discovered interstellar formaldehyde in 1969, astronomers have identified more than 150 molecules in deep space, mostly by using radio telescopes to detect the faint radiation the molecules emit.

The principle idea is to use a radio telescope to map neutral hydrogen, which emits or absorbs radio waves with a wavelength of 21 centimeters.

The project partners plan to start using the radio telescope for geodesy purposes from September onwards, for instance to measure the movement of tectonic plates.

Thidé, Tamburini and others recently showed how this detection scheme, carried out using radio telescopes, could identify the tell - tale twisted radiation from spinning black holes (see «How to spot a spinning black hole»).

This research could aid efforts using radio telescopes to observe and understand the shadow.

Researchers from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum used radio telescopes at the Arecibo Observatory and Green Bank Observatory to map the Moon with radar.

The researchers used radio telescopes at the South Pole to stare at the cosmic microwave background radiation — a faint afterglow left over from the big bang that permeates the universe.

Marking an important new milestone in radio astronomy history, scientists at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro, New Mexico, have made the first images using a radio telescope antenna in space.

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

The second experiment aims to detect and study a radio pulsar in tight orbit about Sgr A * using radio telescopes (including the Atacama Large Millimeter Array or ALMA).

If this beam of high - energy radiation is pointed toward the Earth, these high - energy pulses can be detected using radio telescopes.

Astronomers using radio telescopes in New Mexico and California have discovered a giant, rotating disk of material around a young, massive star, indicating that very massive stars as well as those closer to the size of the Sun may be circled by disks from which planets are thought to form.

At NRAO she engaged students and teachers in inquiry - based astronomy investigations using radio telescopes both in - person and online.

Last December, Science News reported that scientists with the Breakthrough Listen project used a radio telescope to look at «Oumuamua — a nearby asteroid.

On August 23, scientists will mark the 20th anniversary of the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array, the most powerful, flexible and widely - used radio telescope in the world.

This means we have a better chance of finding evidence of galactic encounters by imaging the gas using radio telescopes.»

Astronomers have used a radio telescope in outback Western Australia to see the halo of a nearby starburst galaxy in unprecedented detail.

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They mapped out how far star - forming regions were from the sky, using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Long Baseline Array of telescopes, and calculating how far these war form Earth.

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.

Astronomer Heino Falcke plans to use a global network of radio telescopes to snap the black hole at the Milky Way's heart

But just as scientists use radio and gamma - ray telescopes to probe different frequencies of light, physicists are building detectors sensitive to a range of gravity wave frequencies.

Alberto Sanna of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, and his colleagues used the Very Long Baseline Array of radio telescopes in New Mexico to track a star - forming region in the outer Scutum - Centaurus spiral arm, which is on the opposite side of the Milky Way from the local arm where the sun resRadio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, and his colleagues used the Very Long Baseline Array of radio telescopes in New Mexico to track a star - forming region in the outer Scutum - Centaurus spiral arm, which is on the opposite side of the Milky Way from the local arm where the sun resradio telescopes in New Mexico to track a star - forming region in the outer Scutum - Centaurus spiral arm, which is on the opposite side of the Milky Way from the local arm where the sun resides.

The researchers observed FRB 150807 while monitoring a nearby pulsar — a rotating neutron star that emits a beam of radio waves and other electromagnetic radiation — in our galaxy using the Parkes radio telescope in Australia.

Providing $ 100 million in funding over the next decade to top SETI researchers, Breakthrough Listen will allow new state - of - the - art radio and optical surveys to take place using the world's premiere telescopes, creating the most ambitious and robust SETI program yet performed.

To find out how numerous dark galaxies really are, he will soon scan large areas of the sky using the giant 1,000 - foot radio telescope at Arecibo.

Now Nikolai Kardashev and his colleagues at the Astro Space Centre in Moscow are hoping to change that using a vast radio telescope with a view equivalent to that of a dish 30 times wider than Earth.

To sharpen that vision, astronomers used the Very Long Baseline Array of 10 radio telescopes spread across North America.

Further progress will come from a combination of parallax, proper motion and kinematic distance data via surveys using Southern Hemisphere — based radio telescopes as well as from space - based data from the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite.

Using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), an interlinked system of 10 radio telescopes stretching across Hawaii, North America and the Caribbean, the astronomers have directly measured the distance to an object called G007.47 +00.05, a star - forming region located on the opposite side of the galaxy from our solar system.

Breakthrough Listen's search for radio signals of extraterrestrial origin is using a new telescope at Green Bank that's vastly bigger and more sensitive.

The Very Large Array (VLA) of radio telescopes, located near Socorro, New Mexico, used a similar algorithm to come up with a similar result.

1983 At Harvard University, astronomer Paul Horowitz launches Project Sentinel, using an 84 - foot radio telescope.

«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.

That is where researchers using the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico detected 11 FRBs over the past four years, all apparently originating from the same mysterious astrophysical source.

Using the most powerful radio telescope in the world, an international team of astronomers has set out to look for answers in the star L2 Puppis.

The researchers used the ALMA radio telescope, which consists of 66 individual radio antennas that together form a giant virtual telescope with a 16 - kilometre diameter.

Professor Andreas Wicenec, head of the Data Intensive Astronomy team at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, said the limiting factor for radio astronomers used to be the size of the telescope and the hardware behinRadio Astronomy Research, said the limiting factor for radio astronomers used to be the size of the telescope and the hardware behinradio astronomers used to be the size of the telescope and the hardware behind it.