Sentences with phrase «using giant telescopes»

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The mission aims to identify planets ranging from Earth - sized to gas giants, using an array of telescopes to perform a two - year survey.

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.

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.

Using a giant natural telescope, astronomers have discovered a distant star factory where a new sun is being born every 10 hours.

While carrying out a survey using the W. M. Keck telescope in Hawaii, the researchers found the quasar quartet embedded in a giant cloud of cool dense gas, as they report online today in Science.

Using the giant Gemini North telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii and an innovative sky - glow - subtraction technique, Glazebrook's team analyzed spectra from 300 galaxies.

Astronomers using both space - based and ground - based telescopes, including the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, have analyzed the destruction of the giant star, located in the galaxy NGC 1260 about 240 million light - years away.

Fewer than two dozen have been identified in the past decade using giant radio telescopes such as the 1,000 - foot dish in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

Undaunted, two teams (one of them led by Djorgovski, another by Robert Becker of the University of California at Davis) went to work using the giant Keck telescope.

For example, as a result of its open access policy, India's Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope significantly increased the country's exposure to top international scientists who sought to use the telescope — thereby raising the number of international collaborations, boosting cross-pollination of ideas, and so forth.

An international team of astronomers led from Chalmers University of Technology has used the giant radio telescope Lofar to create the sharpest astronomical image ever taken at very long radio wavelengths.

According to a NASA announcement on Friday, «TESS will use an array of telescopes to perform an all - sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets ranging from Earth - sized to gas giants, in orbit around the nearest and brightest stars in the sky.

Using an innovative new telescope array, an international team of researchers has discovered a distant gas giant roughly the size of Jupiter around a star half the size of ours.

In 1968, the 46 - metre radio telescope was used in conjunction with the 26 - metre instrument at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory of Penticton, British Columbia, to simulate the resolution of a giant 3,074 - kilometre radio telescope (the physical distance separating the two instruments).

Famed for their elaborate live shows featuring costumes, balloons, puppets, video projections, complex stage light configurations, giant hands and frontman Wayne Coynes» signature man - sized bubble, The Flaming Lips are the perfect partner to the backdrop of the third largest steerable radio telescope in the world that will be used as a massive projection screen!

NASA scientists have used two giant, Earth - based radio telescopes to bounce radar signals off a passing asteroid and produce images of the peanut - shaped body as it approached close to Earth on 25 July.

In 1968, the 25.6 - metre radio telescope at Penticton was used in conjunction with the 46 - metre telescope at the Algonquin Radio Observatory to simulate the resolution of a giant radio telescope measuring 3,074 kilometres (the physical distance between the two instruments).

When MIT ended its contract with the NRAO for use of the 43 - meter in 2011, once again, the giant telescope say waiting — but not for long.

NASA scientists used giant, Earth - based radio telescopes to bounce radar signals off the asteroid as it flew past Earth on 31 October at 17:00 UTC (~ 5 pm GMT) at about 1.3 lunar distances (302,500 miles, or 486,800 kilometres) from Earth.

In Socorro, astronomers and computer scientists used a special - purpose computer to digitally combine the signals from the satellite and the ground telescopes to make them all work together as a single, giant radio telescope.

The TESS mission will identify planets ranging from Earth - size to gas giants, using an array of 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.

Scientists and engineers at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) have made a giant leap toward the future of radio astronomy by successfully utilizing the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope in conjunction with an antenna of the continent - wide Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) using the longest fiber - optic data link ever demonstrated in radio astronomy.