Sentences with phrase «using telescopes»

Most searches of objects deep in space require long time observations using telescopes.

The discovery was made using telescopes at the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaii and the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona.

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Since astronomers first started using telescopes, it could be seen that Jupiter seemed to be an active world, with its well - known colorful atmospheric belts, and of course the Great Red Spot.

«Over the next years, LIGO will be putting general relativity to its most stringent tests ever, it will be discovering new sources of gravitational waves, and we will be using telescopes on the ground and in space to search for light emitted by these catastrophic events.»

Using telescopes on Earth, space agencies track large pieces of debris orbiting the planet.

Using telescopes, astronomers have discovered new planets and moons in our solar system, revealed that our planetary neighbourhood is just a small part of a vast galaxy, that our galaxy is just one of many billions across the universe, and that most objects in the universe are flying away from us at high speed because of its overall expansion.

Using telescopes at Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory and the 30 - meter radio telescope of IRAM, they were able to determine the temperatures and amounts of turbulence within the clouds.

This results in a clear feature that can be seen using telescopes like JWST.

Five hundred registered guests will hear from a panel of space biosciences researchers as they discuss the four life science research missions Ames is sending to the space station, as well as other NASA missions via exhibits and view the night sky using telescopes.

But although many planets are first discovered using telescopes on the ground, most of the spectroscopic measurements that have afforded astronomers a glimpse at their atmospheres have come from space - based observatories such as the Hubble and the Spitzer space telescopes, which operate outside the obscuring veil of Earth's own atmosphere.

An international team, using telescopes in Hawaii and Chile, detected movement in the star — at speeds as low as 30 centimeters per second — caused by the gravity of the orbiting planets.

Astronomers using telescopes at seven different locations, including the 1.54 - metre Danish and TRAPPIST telescopes at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile [5], were able to watch the star apparently vanish for a few seconds as its light was blocked by Chariklo — an occultation [6].

Using telescopes on the ground and in space, physicists raced to conduct follow - up observations, and found that the collision released light across the electromagnetic spectrum.

As it is so close to the Sun, Mercury is difficult to study in detail using telescopes on Earth.

Observations of Nova Centauri 2013 made using telescopes at ESO's La Silla Observatory, and near Santiago in Chile, help to explain the mystery of why many young stars seem to have more of this chemical element than expected.

When analyzing an investment, sometimes I use a microscope and other times I use a telescope.

For cannabis stocks, I am using my telescope.

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.

I personally have a pretty single - minded focus: finding exoplanets where we can use telescopes to analyse their atmospheres and see if they're inhabited.

Overall, it's an easy - to - use telescope that's very good for basic viewing and beginners.

Leaders of the experiment, which used a telescope at the South Pole to search for signs of inflation, were concerned that a competitor experiment was hot on the trail.

Light pollution is a pretty obvious obstacle to seeing lots of stars, so if possible make sure to use your telescope out in nature, as far away from cities and artificial light as possible.

David Anderson of Keele University, UK, and colleagues found WASP - 17b using a telescope array at the South African Astronomical Observatory near Sutherland.

Although large, professionally conducted surveys like the Catalina Sky Survey, which uses telescopes in Arizona and Australia, and LINEAR in Socorro, New Mexico, have made the majority of Spaceguard finds, amateurs fill a critical role.

David Anderson of Keele University, UK, and colleagues found WASP - 17b using a telescope array at the South...

Not only did Hubble use the telescope to reveal the vast cosmos beyond our galaxy and redefine our universe, but observations with the same telescope also showed that our universe is expanding.

At 23:33 universal time, 10 hours and 52 minutes after the gravitational waves arrived, the team used the telescope in Chile to snap an image of NGC 4993, and Charles Kilpatrick, a postdoc at UC Santa Cruz, saw a bright spot not visible in archival images of the galaxy.

For my Ph.D. thesis I used the telescope to observe Io for six months straight, watching volcanoes going off and then watching the changes.

The crude lunar map he sketched from his observations dates him as the earliest person known to have used a telescope to study a celestial object, beating Galileo Galilei by nearly four months.

(He was the first to use a telescope to formally observe the sky, though.)

Last year astronomers used the telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, to send a beam of radio waves to Titan.

The search uses telescopes in Hawaii and Chile.

Luckily we can use our telescopes to look back in time and study their fossil light.

A team of astronomers led by Wouter Vlemmings, Chalmers University of Technology, have used the telescope Alma (Atacama Large Millimetre / Submillimetre Array) to make the sharpest observations yet of a star with the same starting mass as the Sun.

As part of the lab requirements, I wanted to have the students spend time using a telescope.

And using it is more like signing up to an astronomical Netflix than using a telescope.

«There's a lot of demand to use this telescope, so you have to be meticulous in choosing which exoplanets to look at,» says René Doyon, a co-author on the paper who is also the principal investigator for NIRISS, the Canadian Space Agency instrument on board JWST.

Astronomers using SALT will instead run remotely submitted observing programs, which advocates of this approach claim is a much more efficient way of using telescope time.

Astrophysicists using a telescope embedded in Antarctic ice have succeeded in a quest to detect and record the mysterious phenomena known as cosmic neutrinos — nearly massless particles that stream to Earth at the speed of light from outside our solar system, striking the surface in a burst of energy that can be as powerful as a baseball pitcher's fastball.

Spanish astronomers spotted a meteoroid impact at 61,000 kilometers per hour using a telescope network that automatically scans the moon.

«Pluto was discovered just 85 years ago by a farmer's son from Kansas, inspired by a visionary from Boston, using a telescope in Flagstaff, Arizona,» said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

For example, scientists using the telescope's coronagraph to create an artificial eclipse that blocks out the sun will seek to better understand the fundamental physics behind solar eruptive events.

Drake, a key player in Breakthrough Listen, famously used the telescope in 1974 to transmit his «Arecibo message» toward the globular star cluster M13.

Using a telescope at the Cerro Tololo Observatory in Chile, astronomers have taken the clearest picture ever of bubbles and plumes of hot gas shooting out of another galaxy.

Now Dan Thornton of the University of Manchester, UK, and colleagues have discovered four more using a telescope in Parkes, Australia (Science, doi.org/m5h).

Another team Keating's group collaborates with, based at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, called BICEP2, used a telescope at the South Pole to examine B - mode polarization across wide swaths of the sky.

Astronomers are able to identify these types of planet - birthing disks, because the star heats up the surrounding dust, which affects the way it looks using a telescope with an infrared camera.

In order to gain access to major telescopes and to make up for their limited number of astronomers, certain less - astronomically - advanced countries could pool resources to construct or use telescopes or even buy time allocations to compensate a consortium financially.

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.