Sentences with phrase «very powerful telescope»

We're not going to know if Proxima b is habitable until we can point some very powerful telescopes at it

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This beautiful structure, unobserved in visible light but detected by the NSF's recently refurbished and re-dedicated Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope, has been produced by powerful events over roughly the last 10,000 years.

Astronomers have produced a highly detailed image of the Crab Nebula, by combining data from telescopes spanning nearly the entire breadth of the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves seen by the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to the powerful X-ray glow as seen by the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory.

The study, published online today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, describes how the researchers used the powerful MOSFIRE instrument on the W. M. Keck Observatory's 10 - meter telescope in Hawaii to peer into a time when the universe was still very young and see what the galaxy looked like only 670 million years after the big bang.

These collaborations bring me to work with the data collected by professional astronomers operating the most powerful telescopes and detectors ever built, like the NASA / ESA's Hubble Space Telescope and the ESO's Very Large Telescope.

We know very little about FRBs in general,» explains Justin Vandenbroucke, a University of Wisconsin — Madison physicist who, with his colleagues, is turning IceCube, the world's most sensitive neutrino telescope, to the task of helping demystify the powerful pulses of radio energy generated up to billions of light - years from Earth.

The current generation of 8 — 10 meter telescopes continues to expand our understanding of the very early Universe, but many of the great mysteries and unanswered questions will remain until TMT opens its extraordinarily powerful eye and probes even deeper into the furthest reaches of our Universe.

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.

Pulsars, those spinning, superdense neutron stars that send powerful «lighthouse beams» of radio waves and light flashing through the Universe, have been «lying about their ages,» leading astronomers, and possibly particle physicists, to erroneous conclusions for the past 30 years, according to researchers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope.