Sentences with phrase «when was the telescope»

So, when was the telescope first «switched on»?

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Using powerful telescopes, they can spot planets far outside of the reach of our solar system when they cross in front of their sun — it's how we recently found a triad of planets around a red sun 40 light - years away.

When «Oumuamua was discovered, telescopes around the world set to make observations.

With a dish the size of 30 football fields, it will be the largest radio telescope in the world when it is completed in 2016.

Dreaming innocence is not, however, human life, and when Lewis contrasts Malacandra and «the silent planet» (earth), his low estimate of human life becomes evident: when Ransom acknowledges to one of the rational creatures that the speck through the telescope is his planet, «It was the bleakest moment in all his travels.»

How odd is it that the words of affirmation denied him by the church, would be spoken by men standing on the surface of the same moon Galileo observed through his telescope when he studied the night skies?

When Galileo swept the heavens with his telescope, he was hunting for a larger vision of the universe.

There are times when it's necessary to look through a telescope for the big picture and other times when it's necessary to look through a microscope for the small picture.

Also — keep in mind that these books were written before space travel, the Hubble telescope, and flight, when nobody could see above the clouds and all sorts of myths could be created about what's on top of them.

ahhhh... still a bunch of nonsense... boy I'll bet you thought that was so great when you put it together... check out the findings of the Hubble telescope and what they mean and then go to NYC and visit the Museum of Natural History... pretty much proves the falseness of your whole god story..

There he states that when an astronomer looks through a telescope and sees a new red star burst into existence what he really sees is a star coming into being two centuries previously (PNK 85).

I retain a memory of him from that occasion, an image at once vivid and tiny, as if seen through the wrong end of a telescope: Hyung Goo, very slight and sober, talking quietly and deliberately about his father's absence from the family when he was young.

The least general species, affine geometry, isolates those properties which remain constant when a figure is uniformly stretched or shrunk, For example, parallel lines remain parallel when viewed through a telescope or microscope, yet lose their parallelism in the distortion produced by a fish - eye lens.

If you can remember the days when you needed a telescope to view the TV, even from three foot away, you'll be wowed by the latest offering in home cinema equipment from Panasonic.

When buying a ladder be it telescoping or fiberglass extension; you must ensure that you consider if there are additional accessories.

A telescoping piece on either side of the car seat pulls out when the seat is installed in an outboard position (next to the vehicle door).

I am easily able to bring the twins with me and the telescoping handle makes it easy for my son to also help when he wants.

Some evening when Saturn is high in the sky and the night is clear and dark, take a look through a backyard telescope.

By finding places in the sky where radio telescopes pick up these 21 - centimeter emissions, astronomers can identify light from faraway, hydrogen - rich regions so ancient they date back to the era when stars were starting to form.

It's amazing that only now, with large telescopes like ALMA and the upgraded ATCA, we can peek through the bulk of debris ejected when the star exploded and see what's hiding underneath.»

Among them was Bill Borucki, a space scientist who persuaded nasa to launch a telescope that looks for a 0.01 percent dip in brightness from faraway stars when planets pass in front of them.

HDST's proponents say those ideas are shortsighted — too modest and incremental to remain relevant two or more decades hence, when any of these proposed telescopes would fly.

Lastly, we recommend it because of the smart «quick release» tripod mount that makes it very easy to set up and break down the telescope (especially when it's dark).

One more thing: There are four things to look for when buying your telescope: Aperture, Focal Length, Magnification, and Computer Control.

The telescoping handle is around when you need and disappears into the cooler when you don't, making it easy to pack into your vehicle so it takes up as little space as possible.

However, if your goal is to see stars, planets, galaxies and other celestial objects then the best time to bring out your telescope is when the moon is new or young (i.e. as dark as possible).

When SKA is completed in the late 2020s, it will be the world's largest radio telescope and science infrastructure, with the total area of the dishes measuring one square kilometer.

The basin is surrounded by grooves and gashes, large enough to be seen with even small telescopes from Earth, created by rocks blasted out of the crater when it was formed.

So far not precluding a starshade closely resembles a concerted effort to build one: when NASA first announced the formal start of WFIRST, it also confirmed that the telescope would be launched into an orbit 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, where conditions are tranquil enough for a starshade to function.

The statistic is based on counts of visible stars begun at the turn of the 20th century, when telescopes were less powerful.

By 2020, when the European Extremely Large Telescope is due to be completed, the country is expected to host 70 % of the global observation surface for large optical and infrared telescopes.

The Milky Way lives up to its name when it's observed through telescopes or even with the naked eye in Jasper National Park Dark Sky Preserve.

To find an exoplanet's atmosphere, a telescope would record the spectral signature when the planet transits in front of its host star and again when it's behind.

The team will also make modifications to the telescope's instrumentation, which will allow scientists to look even further back in time, to before there were enough stars to form galaxies, when the very first population of very massive objects began to blossom.

A: It will be very difficult for us to be principal investigators when requesting observing time in the telescopes.

Cui says the issue is not with the telescope, but with increasing dust and humidity at the site, which now gets only 120 clear nights a year, down from more than 200 when LAMOST was being planned.

The poet Alfred Noyes, who was at Mount Wilson on November 1, 1917, when the completed telescope first turned to the sky, later wrote of the scientists: «Where was the gambler that would stake so much, — / Time, patience, treasure, on a single throw?

When iPTF14hls was discovered in September 2014 by the Intermediate Palomar Transient Factory, which scans the sky regularly with a telescope at the Palomar Observatory near San Diego, it looked like an ordinary type 2 supernova in a galaxy about 500 million light - years away.

The only attribute easy to measure now is size: Telescopes provide good estimates by measuring planets» shadows when they cross in front of their stars.

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The film starts out when the star is dragged into a tendril that shows up as an x-ray flare in telescopes.

ESO's VISTA survey telescope has spied a horde of previously hidden massive galaxies that existed when the Universe was in its infancy.

But before telescopes for prospective exoplanet - hunting missions can be designed, astronomers must know if there is a fundamental limit to their ability to see a tiny, dim planet next to a bright star when the system is shrouded in dust.

For example, X-ray astronomy is nearly impossible when done from the Earth, and has reached its current important stand within astronomy only due to orbiting satellites with X-ray telescopes such as the Chandra observatory or XMM - Newton observatory.

When seeing is poor, stars twinkle wildly and telescopes show planets as hopeless smudges.

Comets, meteorites, planets, moons, stars and even exploding stars can be seen without a telescope, and hence, when they are brought closer for inspection with such an instrument as the telescope, these distant objects are not so mysterious, just somewhat so.

Scientifically, the telescope is a success, and great credit is due to Professor Bernard Lovell who planned the project when radio astronomy was still in its infancy.

T Pyxidis was a surprise, but Schaefer had predicted when U Scorpii would rise again, so space telescopes and ground - based observatories were ready to pounce on it.

The previous record was set in 2014 when two researchers from Swinburne University used the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico to detect atomic hydrogen in a galaxy three billion light years from Earth.

But in March this year, when conditions were ideal for infrared observations, James Graham of the University of California at Berkeley looked at the object with the 10 - metre Keck telescope in Hawaii.