The telescopes involved in creating the global array included ALMA, APEX, the IRAM 30-meter telescope, the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, the Large Millimeter Telescope Alfonso Serrano, the Submillimeter Array, the Submillimeter Telescope and the South Pole Telescope.
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This capability will only get better in the future with the addition of the James Webb Space Telescope, the Giant Magellan Telescope, the European Extremely Large Telescope, and Hawaii's Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT).
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This is what telescope construction looks like (Subaru Telescope, 1992).
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For a 20-meter telescope, 11 additional launches would deliver the remaining telescope pieces in capsules that dock with the telescope platform.
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It is the Giant Magellan Telescope, not the Grand Magellan Telescope.
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To make the discovery, scientists used NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, the Spitzer telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope and a telescope in Hawaii.
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The telescope will be a worthy successor to the Hubble Space Telescope.
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It is the country's largest privately owned telescope, not its largest telescope.
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To do so, a group of telescopes was used to hone in on the pair: the Gran Telescopio Canarias (the largest optical and infrared telescope in the world), the William Herschel Telescope, the Isaac Newton Telescope, and the IAC-80 telescope.
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There's still a lot of work to be done on the telescope, dubbed the James Webb Space Telescope, before it launches in 2018, but this marks a major milestone for the telescope that will ultimately succeed the Hubble Space Telescope.
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The Virtual Telescope Project 2.0 will broadcast it through its remotely controlled robotic telescope.
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Since 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope, the largest telescope ever launched, has orbited Earth.
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It was nearby and visible with every major telescope, including NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
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The Giant Magellan Telescope and the European Extremely Large Telescope, are both planned for Chile.
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Once complete and launched, the infrared telescope will be the most powerful space telescope yet.
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As the sun rises where one telescope is located, the observation moves to another telescope.
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After the Hubble telescope launched in 1990, scientists started talking about the next big telescope.
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The James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, is the opposite.
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The telescope has a 13-foot mirror, making it the largest for a solar telescope.
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Astronomers capitalized on its proximity, and organized rapid follow-up observations at three Mauna Kea facilities, the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope, and the Keck Telescope.
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The smart design of the telescope, and its distance from Earth, helped keep the telescope cool.
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How small an object a telescope can see depends crucially on the size of the telescope.
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The researchers based these conclusions on observations made from the Very Large Telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory, the New Technology Telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory, and the Hubble Space Telescope.
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By combining data collected from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, ESO's Very Large Telescope, and the Gemini South Telescope, a team led by Marco Micheli from the European Space Agency noticed something odd about 'Oumuamua: It's moving faster than expected.
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In November, NASA finally finished the telescope portion of its James Webb Space Telescope — the successor to the Hubble Telescope that will soon be the most powerful space observatory in the world.
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The Hubble Space Telescope, the first major optical telescope ever hurled into space, broke down a lot.
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The Hubble Space Telescope, the first major optical telescope ever hurled into space, broke down a lot.
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The James Webb Space Telescope is not a replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope, but an upgrade.
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The telescope carries a total of six gyroscopes, but only three are needed to run the telescope.
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The Giant Magellan Telescope and the European Extremely Large Telescope, currently in similar stages of construction to the TMT, will rival this telescope, and promise to offer excellent views of the southern skies.
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Excavation has just begun on a new telescope that will be truly enormous, called the Giant Magellan Telescope.
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It's finally official: NASA's next major telescope project will be the innovative Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST).
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The 1,640-foot-wide telescope is called FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope), and it's almost double the size as the next biggest radio telescope, a similarly shaped contraption in Puerto Rico.
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The Event Horizon Telescope is doing something similar: It's creating a virtual telescope the size of the entire Earth.
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The Giant Magellan Telescope will be an extremely large ground-based telescope situated in the Atacama Desert of Chile.
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So for a telescope that's taken decades to construct, the James Webb Telescope is now in the home stretch.
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The liquid mirror telescope at its center uses unique properties found in space to make a virtually perfect telescope.
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NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope discovered K2-18b in 2015, three years before the telescope was shut down.
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New telescopes such as the Thirty Meter Telescope and the Extremely Large Telescope would dwarf it — if they're completed.CreditCreditY.
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It was prioritized for followup observations to try and spot its light spectrum, which ultimately came from observations at the Magellan Clay Telescope, the Keck II telescope, the Very Large Telescope, and other ground-based observatories.
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An upgrade on the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile has now allowed the ground-based telescope to take images as crisp as those taken by Hubble, a telescope that orbits Earth.
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China&aposs Giant &aposAlien-Hunting&apos Telescope Comes With a Human CostChina is building the biggest radio telescope on Earth.
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Schematic view of the Four Laser Guide Star Facility installed on the Unit Telescope 4 of ESO's Very Large Telescope.
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In July, Chinese engineers finished construction on the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), the world's largest radio telescope.
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The James Webb Telescope will launch next year, which will help with the research, along with the Hubble Space Telescope.
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There was an explosion of telescope building that has culminated, for now, in plans for three giant billion-dollar telescopes: the European Extremely Large Telescope and the Giant Magellan, both in Chile, and the Thirty Meter Telescope.
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"It takes a generation to build a telescope," said Charles Alcock, director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and a board member of the Giant Magellan Telescope Observatory, which is building a rival giant telescope in Chile.
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The Decadal Survey moved forward with a telescope called WFIRST—a telescope with Hubble's resolution but 100 times the viewing area.
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The researchers used a telescope called TRAPPIST (TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope) to observe its starlight and changes in brightness.
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Image: STSciThere've been some incredible images of the James Webb Space Telescope, the next generation telescope and successor to the Hubble.
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It was discovered by scientists at the Space Telescope Science Institute and the Southwest Research Institute, using the Hubble space telescope.
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Further confirmations were made with the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii, the Isaac Newton Telescope in Spain, among other contributors.
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Image: Dr. Hideaki Fujiwara - Subaru Telescope, NAOJBut you don't need to be good with a telescope to help find Planet nine.
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Astronomers at the announcement said the telescope has as much magnifying power as a telescope the size of the entire Earth.
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TESS is NASA's most powerful planet-hunting telescope yetTESS is a car-sized, highly sensitive telescope that launched in April 2018.
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The Event Horizon Telescope is a global network of sensors that, in effect, forms a telescope as large as the Earth.
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Soon, missions like the upcoming Extremely Large Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope could return spectra from lots of these planets.
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For nearly 20 years, NASA has been planning and constructing a telescope unlike any ever built before: the James Webb Space Telescope.
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The $1.4-billion telescope will be 18 stories tall — the world's largest telescope — and visible from most parts of the Big Island.
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Of course, scientists are also trying to spot black holes with an Earth-spanning array of telescope called the Event Horizon Telescope.
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An image of the galaxy Messier 82 compiling data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope.
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"None of the starlight ends up in your telescope, but the light from the planet would enter into your telescope," says Gaudi.
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Another source of information are the measurements made with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope, an experimental telescope array located near Pune, India.
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For the last four years, construction on a 21000th telescope, the $22019 billion Thirty Meter Telescope, has been delayed by legal challenges.
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For the last four years, construction on a 14th telescope, the $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope, has been delayed by legal challenges.
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It would be an x-ray telescope using sensitive instruments, and serve as the sequel to the wildly successful Chandra X-ray Telescope.
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They grow like metal mushrooms, listing in the direction of something far away, working together to form one giant radio telescope ("the telescope").
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On the contrary, the Chandra X-ray telescope and the XMM-Newton X-ray telescope have taught us the most about black holes.
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The Hubble Space Telescope, for example, was an optical telescope that collected visible light and could study the universe in the visible spectrum.
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The Giant Magellan Telescope is one of two mega observatories currently under construction in Chile, along with the European-led Extremely Large Telescope.
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They used 800 observations of the system spanning over six years, using the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope in the Netherlands, the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, and the William E. Gordon telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
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The Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile will be one of the biggest telescopes to focus its sight on analyzing exoplanets, and NASA is launching the James Webb space telescope in 2018, which is essentially like a giant version of the Hubble telescope.
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Arecibo is a radio telescope—by far the largest in the world, at least until China's massive FAST telescope comes online later this year—and since the 1960s, it's allowed astronomers to search for aliens deeper in space than any other telescope.
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For Parsons, it could mean having to build a smaller telescope, which wouldn't detect faint radio signals as well as a large telescope would.
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When the first Keck telescope was installed, in 21999, it was nearly twice as large as any other telescope, at 22011 meters in diameter.
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A new telescope in Hawaii called the Daniel K. Inouye telescope has taken the highest-resolution-ever image of the surface of the sun.
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JWST is the successor for the Hubble telescope and it is expected to revolutionize astronomy to the same degree that the Hubble telescope did.
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It's been referred to by astronomers as "the little telescope that could," at times overshadowed by the Hubble Space Telescope and its splashy images.
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For its part, the SETI Institute checked out the star with its Allen Telescope Array, a telescope used for many of these hunts before.
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Artist's concept of the Kepler Space Telescope, via NASA/Ames/JPL-CaltechNASA'S Kepler Space telescope might have gotten a new lease on life in 2014 when scientists figured out how to repurpose the damaged telescope, but it now appears that it's in trouble once again.
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The telescope, called the Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), is a massive dish with a diameter of, you guessed it, 500 metres.
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Tight budgets have forced the National Science Foundation to consider shutting down and deconstructing the Green Bank Telescope, the largest steerable telescope in the world.
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One such new instrument is the James Webb Space Telescope, the designated successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, which is due to launch in 2018.
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As far as sensitivity is concerned, the Chinese telescope is 10 times more powerful than its closest competitor, the 100-meter telescope near Bonn, Germany.
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Researchers are scanning the cosmos using the Green Bank Radio Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia and CSIRO's Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia, among other tools.
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You may have heard about NASA's new big, bad telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, which is way over budget as well as behind schedule.
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Light from ionized hydrogen detected by the Subaru Telescope and ultraviolet light detected by the UK Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) are shown in blue and red.
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The sunshield is needed to keep the telescope cool, but it is too big to fit inside the Ariane rocket that will launch the telescope.
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But this time, scientists noticed the repetitive behavior and took a look with the largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere, the South African Large Telescope.
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A laser beam shot from one of four telescope units of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, one of the largest in the world.
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In 1923, Hubble was an astronomer at the Mount Wilson Observatory, which was then home to the Hooker telescope, the largest telescope in the world.
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The telescope is a key component of phase one of SKA (Square Kilometer Array), which is an international effort to build the world's largest radio telescope.
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NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope gamma ray burst monitor picked it up, and just three minutes later its Large Area Telescope started monitoring the location.
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The James Webb Space Telescope and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) could further study lensed events when they begin observing in 2020 and 2022, respectively.
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There are also plates from other telescopes, including a 1950 exposure from the large Schmidt telescope at Mt. Palomar (now the Samuel Oschin telescope) in California.
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It's called the HI4PI map, and it was produced using data from the Max-Planck radio telescope in Germany, and the CSIRO radio telescope in Australia.
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At 500 meters in diameter, the FAST radio telescope is about 200 meters larger than the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, which came online in 1963.
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Under the proposal before the Regents, construction on the Thirty Meter Telescope would go forward, but some telescope facilities already on Mauna Kea would be demolished.
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In order to be sure of their finding , a second telescope — NASA&aposs Spitzer Space Telescope — also observed the star system to confirm TESS&aposs findings.
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The telescope, named after NASA Administrator James Webb, who led the space agency in the 25s, is the long-awaited successor of the Hubble Space Telescope.
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On the left is an approximately $4,000 telescope setup including an off-the-shelf refracting telescope, tracking mount, a camera, a cheap laptop, and stacking software.
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"An International Star Registry spokesperson told Gizmodo that it does not claim to let people name visible stars, and all of the stars it registers "can be viewed using Worldwide Telescope in lieu of being highly experienced with a telescope or having access to a computerized telescope.
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The organization's facilities include the Very Large Telescope, an array of four giant telescopes in Chile's Atacama Desert (a futuristic setting featured in the James Bond film "Quantum of Solace"), and the world's largest telescope, the Extremely Large Telescope, now under construction on a mountain nearby.
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The observations, made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Telescope in Hawaii, may indicate that these monster objects may be more common than once thought.
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The James Webb Space Telescope, for example, might be able to resolve galaxies during this early stage of formation, beyond the view of the Hubble Space Telescope.
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The telescope&aposs observations showed that the variations in these "hard" X-rays have a similar pattern to the gamma-ray fluctuations that the Fermi telescope observed.
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Most of the recent discoveries were detected by the Kepler space telescope, the first space-based telescope designed specifically to find Earth-sized planets orbiting other stars.
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Alternatively, an exoplanet-hunting telescope could make use of a giant starshade, which would block ambient starlight by sitting between the telescope and the star being observed.
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It's the James Webb Space Telescope, of JWST, and it's being hailed as the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope that is currently in orbit around Earth.
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But a new giant telescope is being built in Chile — aptly named the Extremely Large Telescope, or ELT — which could use to peer into this planet's atmosphere.
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I think eventually people will feel the same way [about LIGO signals] as they do about a photograph from the Hubble telescope, or from a radio telescope.
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You might remember that astronomers almost literally turned the Earth into a telescope just to see a black hole, by combining lots of existing radio telescope dishes.
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This image was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, which happens to be the first telescope to ever capture this nebula in any sort of detail. [NASA]
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The Thirty Meter Telescope, which is intended to be the most advanced optical telescope in the world, is slated to begin construction in the spring of 2018.
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In a cavernous Los Angeles County cleanroom, Northrop Grumman and NASA engineers have pieced together the space agency's prized next-generation telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope.
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His team is trying to get time on the "big guys," including the Very Large Telescope in Chile, the Keck Observatory, and the Gemini telescope in Hawaii.
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After 12 years of delays and cost overruns, the $9.7 billion successor to the Hubble Space Telescope — the James Webb Space Telescope — has finally been fully assembled.
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There is a telescope planned, called the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which was designed by a consortium of NASA and the Canadian and European space agencies.
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James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)Image: Northrop GrummanBilled as a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, the JWST is a tennis court-sized, general-purpose space telescope with a 153-meter (21-foot) mirror that will be sent to a gravitationally stable point nearly a million miles from Earth.
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Upcoming telescopes like the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, Euclid, and the not-dead-yet Wide-field Infrared Survey Telescope might be able to spot lots more of them.
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Rendering of the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope Image: NASAPresident Donald Trump's 2019 budget request would nix the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), and scientists aren't happy.
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Those telescopes are located all over the world, from the Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment in Chile's northern desert to Hawaii's James Clerk Maxwell Telescope on Hawaii's Mauna Kea.
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I asked Roberge whether a huge telescope like LUVOIR, twice the size of the James Webb Space Telescope, would ever get off the ground in today's political climate.
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At 313,231 feet wide, Arecibo was the largest single-dish telescope from 24 until 2120, when it lost its title to the 1,640-foot FAST telescope in China.
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Although Johnson said he has a proposal for this kind of telescope in hand—a project known as NEOCam—finding funding for the orbital telescope has been difficult.
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Telescope Although a telescope isn't required to grab a good look of the eclipse, there are some decently priced options if you'd like to elevate your stargazing experience.
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Hopefully, the James Webb Telescope, which launches next year, and the yet-to-be-completed Extremely Large Telescope will be able to tell us more about their atmospheres.
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And in March of this year, China unveiled a plan to build a space telescope that will be 300 times larger in coverage than the U.S. Hubble telescope.
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Eventually, he hopes to study the planet using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which will launch next year and will be the most powerful space telescope ever built.
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Here's the full photograph:James Webb Space Telescope is the first space telescope where the primary mirror is made of individual segments, each individually controlled to ensure perfect alignment.
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Why bother paying $8 billion for a gigantic telescope when you can just rig a Game Boy Camera to an antique telescope and take pictures of celestial objects?
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The telescope portion of NASA's James Webb Telescope is finally complete — marking a major benchmark for the spacecraft that has been in development for the past 20 years.
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A team from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) made the observations using the Hubble Space Telescope, and the agency announced the findings during a teleconference this afternoon.
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The lensing amplitudes of the CMB have been measured by previous observatories such as the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, the South Pole Telescope, and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope.
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The Allen Telescope Array isn't as big as the RATAN-600 Radio Telescope, so it may not be powerful enough to pick up what the Russian astronomers found.
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But NASA would have no money to start on this project until it finished building the James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the vaunted Hubble Space Telescope.
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Data from the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder radio telescope and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope provided the data necessary to study the radio burst's trajectory.
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While it isn't unusual for a radio telescope to actually be comprised of a whole bunch of telescopes in something known as an array, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) takes that to the next level, combining a collection of the world's most sophisticated telescope arrays into one seriously powerful mega-array.
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Dr. Giacconi was one of the great captains of Big Science, leaving lasting imprints on major astronomical institutions like the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, which runs the Hubble Space Telescope, and the European Southern Observatory in Germany, where he oversaw the building of the largest telescope on Earth.
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They did this for six years, using the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope in the Netherlands, the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
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Truly determining whether these exoplanets are actually Earth-like will take better technology, like the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope or another future flagship telescope, like LUVOIR or HabEx.
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But given the importance of the mission, scientists have a plan for what's next to keep the telescope functioning before its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, takes flight.
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That report will discuss the future of astronomy and astrophysics; the 2010 astronomy decadal listed the WFIRST space telescope and the LSST ground-based telescope as its biggest priorities.
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The James Webb Space Telescope — or JWST — has been in development for the past two decades, and when complete, it will be the most powerful space telescope ever built.
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After following up on TRAPPIST-1 using the instruments like NASA's Spitzer Telescope and the ESO's Very Large Telescope, the team found four more exoplanets in the star system.
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You don't need a telescope to see the eclipse, but if you do decide to use a set of binoculars or telescope, be sure to get a proper filter.
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How they did it: The study authors pointed the Green Bank Telescope at a distant molecular cloud in the Taurus region, and precisely measured the wavelengths the telescope absorbed.
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) — the largest space telescope ever built — is designed to peer deeply into the cosmos, picking up the first light produced by the universe.
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China also plans a space telescope similar to the Hubble Space Telescope, which will "be on a separate space unit and share orbit alongside the space station", Wang added.
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The largest and most sensitive radio telescope on the planet, Arecibo has about 15 times the sensitivity of the Parkes telescope in Australia, where most FRBs have been detected.
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The tennis-court-sized James Webb Space Telescope will be able to see seven times further than the Hubble Space Telescope, capturing more concise pictures of the deep universe.
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The Webb telescope, which is intended to be a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, recently delayed its launch by 22019 months and will cost more than $8 billion.
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Granted, even without these mammoth glass eyes, American astronomers will still have instruments in space, like the beloved Hubble Space Telescope and its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope.
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However, by tying together a worldwide network of radio receivers, astronomers can effectively make a telescope the size of the Earth -- essentially a radio telescope about 8,000 miles wide.
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The CHIME telescope under constructionPhoto: Mateus A. Fandiño - The CHIME collaboration (Wikimedia Commons)You may have seen recent headlines about a strange radio signal picked up by a Canadian telescope.
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From April 5 to 14, hundreds of astronomers around the world will coordinate observations to create the equivalent of an Earth-sized telescope dish, called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT).
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Though it currently hosts 13 other observatories, protesters thought the telescope would further desecrate the mountain—in other words, there's been opposition since telescope development began in the late 1960s.
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While the telescope has backup plans to function on fewer gyros, those plans could place limits on where the telescope can point and how long it takes to switch targets.
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I know of one telescope sighting by an experienced amateur astronomer in which he observed an object shaped like a guitar pick moving through the telescope&aposs field of view.
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Right now, NASA is working toward launching its biggest space telescope yet, the James Webb Space Telescope, which has a primary mirror that's a little more than 20 feet wide.
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Hubble is the only telescope capable of looking at Europa at this level of detail in ultraviolet light, and these images push the limits of what the telescope can do.
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Angel Vazquez, director of telescope operations, was able to contact the outside world with his HAM radio, and let them know everyone was OK. The radio telescope, however, was not.
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The James Webb Space Telescope will be launched to 1 million miles beyond Earth's orbit, further than any telescope yet, where it can observe the deepest corners of the universe.
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But even those stopgaps are out of reach for parts of Pocahontas County, because it is also home to the Green Bank Telescope, the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.
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The newly found black hole, observed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Telescope in Hawaii, seems to suggest that such black holes are more common that once thought.
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Mr. Eclipse: During the partial phases, the cellphone won't do you any good unless you can put it up to somebody's telescope that has a solar filter on the telescope.
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Streaming live via the Virtual Telescope Project, an Italy-based project dedicated to streaming real-time telescope footage online, you'll be able to see Musk's Tesla Roadster disappear from view.
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"When you're studying space with an optical telescope you're only observing the visible light, whereas a radio telescope can observe the electromagnetic spectrum over a number of frequencies," she added.
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The Virtual Telescope Project Founded by Italian astronomer Gianluca Masi and run by Bellatrix Astronomical Observatory, the Virtual Telescope Project pools online livestreams from observatories around the world, including Rome.
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Astronomers used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope and its ESPRESSO instrument, a ground-based telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, to observe the exoplanet and peer into its atmosphere.
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The two telescopes — the James Webb Space Telescope and the Wide Field InfraRed Survey Telescope — will hunt for new planets orbiting distant stars and scan them for signs of life.
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The asteroid was discovered October 10, 2015, by the University of Hawaii's Pan-STARRS-1 (Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System) telescope in Haleakala, on the island of Maui.
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It will be eclipsed a year later by another entry in the giant telescope sweepstakes: the European Extremely Large Telescope, being built by the European Southern Observatory, also in Chile.
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When IceCube put out an alert to scan the patch of sky in the constellation Orion where this neutrino likely originated, more than a dozen observatories answered the call, including Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, and the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System.
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This week, President Trump released a proposed budget that would scrap the planned WFIRST telescope, a top-priority telescope that would have a field of view 100 times greater than Hubble's.
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The telescope, called the "Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope," or FAST, is, as the name suggests, going to be fucking enormous—the largest of its kind in the world.
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The telescope entered safe mode last Wednesday due to a glitch in a gyroscope, the same component that has kept the Hubble Space Telescope out of work for over a week.
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On Wednesday, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) team released the above animated tour of this sparkling stellar nursery based on imagery collected both from the HST and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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How they did it: The ESO used its Very Large Telescope Interferometer in Chile, which combines light from four different telescopes to create a virtual telescope more than 650 feet across.
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Authorities plan to uproot 9,110 residents to make way for the world's largest radio telescope, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, China's state-run Xinhua news agency reports.
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"Today we're celebrating the fact that our telescope is finished, and we're about to prove that it works," said John Mather, a senior project scientist on the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Dr. Tyson is the chief scientist for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope — a 27-foot, billion-dollar telescope under construction in Chile that will scan the entire sky every three days.
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The $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope (named for the diameter of its main light-collecting mirror) would be the largest telescope in the Northern Hemisphere if and when it is constructed.
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These will merely act as "finder-scopes" for the European Extremely Large Telescope, as it is called, Dr. Mountain noted, spotting phenomena that the larger telescope can then investigate and exploit.
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The Thirty Meter Telescope, as it is known, would be the largest telescope in the Northern Hemisphere, with a primary light-gathering mirror 30 meters, or some 100 feet, in diameter.
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The photographer used a red flashlight to light this night shot of the Sloan Sky Digital Telescope, The Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona has two 7003-foot mirrors that look like eyes.
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The photographer used a red flashlight to light this night shot of the Sloan Sky Digital Telescope, The Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona has two 27-foot mirrors that look like eyes.
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The images, taken by MeerKAT telescope, are an indication of the detail the southern hemisphere's most powerful radio telescope may be able to provide when it is fully operational later this year.
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We've known about the gamma ray excess since 2009, and groups using the Fermi Large Area Telescope, the main instrument on a gamma ray telescope orbiting the Earth, continue to spot it.
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With this telescope, astronomers could spot the universe's oldest stars or potential signs of life on exoplanets; its giant mirror rendering images that are 22017 times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope.
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After cooling, the mirror will be polished down into an exact shape that will hopefully help make the telescope take even sharper images than large space-based observatories like the Hubble Telescope.
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Slooh, an internet-connected telescope service that partners with observatories around the world, will stream the eclipse live from a telescope in Stanley, Idaho, which is right in the path of totality.
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Another Sobral telescope, known as an astrograph, also produced lots of star images, but they were blurred and out of focus, perhaps because heat from the sun had affected the telescope mirror.
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Every person who worked on the Spitzer mission, from the concept phase in the 1970s or once the telescope launched in 6003, says the same thing about it: The telescope worked perfectly.
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The first TRAPPIST-1 planets were discovered in 2016 using observations from Spitzer and from the planetary system's namesake, the ground-based TRAPPIST (TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope) telescope in Chile.
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At the moment, the three most capable are the Gemini Planet Imager, attached to the southern Gemini telescope, in Chile; the Spectro-Polarimetric High-Contrast Exoplanet Research Instrument on the Very Large Telescope, a European machine also in Chile; and the Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics Device on the Subaru telescope, a Japanese machine on Hawaii.
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Last summer a team led by Adam Riess of Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute, using the Hubble Space Telescope and the giant Keck Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii and supernova explosions as the ultimate distance markers, got a value of 13 plus or minus only 2.4 percent for the elusive constant.
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In the new study, researchers used the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and the Australia Telescope Compact Array to search for AME light in 14 newborn star systems across the Milky Way.
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For the study, an international team of astronomers analyzed the protoplanetary disk of 14 infant stars using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in United States and the Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) in Australia.
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"The bigger the telescope, the sharper are the images you can make," E-ELT astronomer Jochen Liske told me in December 2014, when the telescope had just secured its first phase of funding.
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They first spotted a signal from the object in data collected by the planet-hunting telescope Kepler, and then they followed up with the Hubble Space Telescope, which is in orbit around Earth.
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The observatory's New Solar Telescope (NST) is the "highest-resolution solar telescope in the world," according to the BBSO, so it was able to provide the sharpest view yet of a Mercury transit.
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Every day, the SETI researchers at UC Berkeley receive dozens of gigabytes worth of radio signal data collected from the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico and the Green Bank telescope in West Virginia.
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Just like last year, the administration again seeks to cancel Wfirst, or Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope, a big astronomy mission that is to come after the much-delayed James Webb Space Telescope.
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The other two—the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii and the European Extremely Large Telescope in Chile—have been significantly delayed in recent years due to protests over land rights and funding problems.
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Astronomers at the yet-to-open Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) ran simulations which suggested the vast majority of images taken by the telescope could be ruined by bright private satellites passing by.
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Launching in the mid 20183s, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, or Wfirst, will be as powerful as the Hubble space telescope, but with a field of view that is 100 times larger.
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I wound up landing a part-time job at a small monthly magazine called Sky & Telescope, a venerable bible of astronomers and amateur telescope makers, as an assistant typesetter, for $6 an hour.
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has experienced another delay.
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So how does the Event Horizon Telescope solve this problem?
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Kepler isn't the only telescope that can find distant planets.
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Just remember to purchase a telescope in the early 2020s.
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Did I mention the telescope is at the South Pole?
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This breathtaking image was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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The astronomers haven't observed the planet directly with a telescope.
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The James Webb Space Telescope construction team doesn't waste time!
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And that's why the new telescope could be so important.
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However, there are limitations on what the telescope can do.
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But the Very Large Telescope had that missing puzzle piece.
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Image: NASAWait, you thought the Kepler Space Telescope was dead?
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By the time a telescope is turned, they're typically gone.
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The Hubble Telescope captured new photos of the Ghost Nebula.
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A view of the ASKAP radio telescope array in Australia.
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The telescope could still function, but its sensitivity was hobbled.
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And a telescope needs people who have expertise on it.
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He still plans to use the telescope, as a guest.
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It's like turning the entire Earth into one large telescope.
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In essence, the status of the telescope is in limbo.
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Can the telescope be moved to a 'Plan B' location?
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Under a workaday telescope, they appear hazy, like a cloud.
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Luckily, the beloved Hubble Space Telescope is here to help.
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You'll never be sad that you brought along a telescope.
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Japan's brand new space telescope has met a sad end.
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The Lovell Telescope control room at Jodrell Bank Observatory, 19663.
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Building the more than $8 billion telescope hasn't been easy.
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"Metonic Calendar," lecture by Gaianne Jenkins followed by telescope viewing.
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That telescope is slated to launch on March 30, 2021.
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NASA hopes to address that problem with the NEOSM telescope.
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It was discovered in 2014 by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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The James Webb Space Telescope is supposed to be awesome.
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Pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope add an interstellar dimension.
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It takes a big telescope to see something so small.
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The Event Horizon Telescope is actually a collection of telescopes.
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The telescope was ranked near the bottom of this review.
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The image was put together using the Event Horizon Telescope.
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The telescope is slated to launch on March 30, 2021.
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What features of the telescope are most fascinating to you?
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Comparisons of telescope images of the Omega (aka Swan) Nebula.
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Saturn, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2019.
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The bigger the telescope, the smaller objects it can resolve.
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"I would say the telescope is aging gracefully," he said.
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A bigger telescope like the forthcoming James Webb Space Telescope could observe these spectra at better resolutions and different wavelengths, in order to get a better view of what's going on, the authors write.
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According to the Event Horizon Telescope, a conventional telescope would have to be approximately the size of Earth in order to take this particular snapshot of the black hole at the center of M87.
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The Event Horizon Telescope, or EHT, is a network of around ten radio telescope observatories across the planet, synchronized via the most precise atomic clocks, and pointed directly at the center of our galaxy.
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Two of them, NASA's Fermi space telescope and the MAGIC telescope in the Canary Islands, measured a large surge of high-energy gamma rays coming from the blazar in that part of the sky.
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In her ruling, she wrote that opponents of the telescope had not proven that religious practice "whether contemporary, or traditional and customary" had taken place at the site prior to construction of the telescope.
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So, to achieve this, a global network of eight ground-based telescopes called the Event Horizon Telescope project banded together to create one large telescope, designed to collect light data from the black hole.
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"We can use the telescope at the same time that they're doing more traditional astronomy to look for E.T." But astronomers said it could be years before the telescope in Guizhou starts making breakthroughs.
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In an interview, Edward Stone, a Caltech professor and vice president of the Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory, the group that will build the telescope, set April 2018 as the deadline for beginning construction.
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China's Xinhua news agency reports that the half-dome telescope the size of 30 football fields has spotted dozens of pulsar candidates, several of which have been confirmed by the Parkes telescope in Australia.
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Shockwave of an exploding star seen for the first time The Virtual Telescope Project offers an opportunity for those of us without a pro telescope a chance to track them from here on Earth.
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When the telescope is aimed at a particular planetary system, lasers will help align the starshade, floating more than 22015,285 miles away, between the telescope and the distant star, closing the curtains on it.
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Over the course of 62 nights from September to December 2015, researchers led by Gillon used a telescope, also called TRAPPIST (transiting planets and planetesimals small telescope), to observe its starlight and changes in brightness.
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The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope being built in Chile will eventually provide super detailed images of the Universe, and NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will be able to peer deeper into space than ever before.
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Artist's impression of the completed FAST (Credit: FAST)China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) will go online sometime in September, at which point it will be the largest radio telescope in the world.
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And FAST is wide eyed: its field of vision is almost twice as big as the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico that has been the world's biggest single aperture telescope for the past 53 years.
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Loeb, for his part, it not yet convinced that a small space telescope can do a better job finding Earth-like planets around Alpha Centauri than an enormous ground-based telescope will in the 2020s.
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The mission will also do some groundwork in preparation for future space telescopes, such as NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, by flagging candidate objects worthy of more detailed observations.
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During the four-day Radio Astronomy Forum, Stierwalt and the other astronomers did, finally, get to see the actual telescope, taking a bus up a tight, tortuous road through the karst between town and telescope.
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NASA has previously said that the telescope should be able to continue working in orbit through at least 2020, two years after the James Webb Space Telescope — Hubble's successor — is expected to get to space.
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This spot from 2015 showed an elderly man alone on the moon, while a young girl watched him through a telescope in her bedroom, and ended with her sending him a telescope of his own.
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That timing will allow Europe to draw even more scientific benefit from intervening projects like the James Webb Space Telescope, slated to launch next year, and the Vera Rubin Observatory, a smaller telescope in Chile.
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Over the course of the afternoon, astronomers from the two telescope projects took turns filing into the room to pitch their telescope dreams in a flurry of slide presentations, followed by questions from the panelists.
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It was captured with the help of the Event Horizon Telescope -- a global network of telescopes that combines the power of 8 radio telescopes, which means it effectively creates a telescope THE SIZE OF EARTH!!!
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The researchers estimate that the satellite interference would only have a "moderate" effect on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) and planned Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), which only survey relatively small areas of the night sky.
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It is one of the largest privately-owned telescopes in the country; it is not the country's largest privately owned telescope, as the correction said, or the country's largest telescope, as the initial article said.
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This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the peculiar galaxy NGC 3256.
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The telescope&aposs extended mission is scheduled to end this fall.
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Scientists picked Ultima Thule with help from the Hubble Space Telescope.
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This week we celebrate the birthday of the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Photo: NASA (Flickr)Is this dang telescope ever going to launch?
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The Hubble Space Telescope captured this glittery image of Terzan 5.
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Galileo holds both a model of the planet and his telescope.
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The state's Supreme Court has once again sided with the telescope.
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The James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to launch in 2021.
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The James Webb Space Telescope promises to be Hubble's incredible successor.
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The Dwingeloo telescope downloaded the photo from the satellite this morning.
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But this intrepid telescope has faced major challenges in its lifetime.
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Later surveys after the telescope was upgraded found even more objects.
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But once the telescope launches, the stress is far from over.
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It's too small for astronomers to see directly with a telescope.
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There's good news: There's a bigger, badder telescope in the works.
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That telescope represents an $8.8 billion investment from the US government.
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You can also watch a livestream from the Virtual Telescope Project.
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JWST will soon be the most powerful space telescope ever built.
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Dr Riess works at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.
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The telescope could help track some of these missions, says Wicenec.
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But in that case the telescope is unlikely to hear anything.
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NEOWISE, the space-based infrared telescope, can also search for NEOs.
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Dwarf planet Pluto, as seen by the Chandra x-ray telescope.
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Clyde Tombaugh spent much of his life peering at telescope data.
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Then, in 1994, the Hubble telescope caught sight of another spot.
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Researchers combined radio-wave data from each telescope, creating the image.
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So astronomers turned the Hubble Space Telescope toward these approaching neighbors.
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It was a clip-art version of the gargantuan telescope itself.
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The device has been touted as the world's most sophisticated telescope.
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In his backyard, Reber began to build his own radio telescope.
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The telescope would require builders to drill into the sacred mountain.
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Save $24 on the Omegon Maksutov Telescope MightyMak 60 See Details
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Telescope is set to premiere on the Discovery Channel on Feb.
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Nine people came up with the telescope at the same time.
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Hubble Space Telescope/YouTube Ever had a case of galactic vertigo?
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One of them is the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope in Australia.
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It would be broadcast from the telescope during a public ceremony.
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One commenter described buying a $3,000 telescope lens for under $100.
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ANSONIA "Metonic Calendar," lecture by Gaianne Jenkins, followed by telescope viewing.
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Kepler is an orbiting telescope used to find Earth-like planets.
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So far, the telescope has found over 850 potential new planets.
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Left: Old image of Pluto created using the Hubble Space Telescope.
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No astronomer has even seen a black hole through a telescope.
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But his telescope was trained on Jupiter with the camera running.
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The Hubble Space Telescope only takes photos in black and white.
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Galileo didn't invent the telescope, but he may as well have.
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No telescope on Earth has been able to clearly spot MU69.
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The team used the Hubble Space Telescope to make their observations.
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In 22000 I left Sky & Telescope to join Discover, Time Inc.
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Enter the Event Horizon Telescope, the dream child of Dr. Doeleman.
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Two more antennas are waiting to join the Event Horizon Telescope.
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Interestingly, the Fermi telescope images don't show the moon's monthly phases.
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But the telescope does reveal the moon's brightness changing over time.
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To spot highfliers, carry a pair of binoculars or a telescope.
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It was first discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2014.
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How did the Kepler space telescope spot planets by using starlight?
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The telescope wasn't designed for exoplanet detection, but it worked perfectly.
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Each telescope builds on the knowledge gained from the previous one.
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Trappist is a shortening of Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope.
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Johns became a telescope operator relatively late in her professional life.
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In turn, this creates a signal that the telescope can track.
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Mukherjee's response is to reverse the telescope on how treatment functions.
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In fact, Emerson later visited Nantucket to look through Mitchell's telescope.
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A scale model of the GMT's mirrors I have at my house, because I am a dorkPhoto: Ryan F. MandelbaumThe telescope is just one of a host of "extremely large telescopes" on the horizon, including the controversial Thirty Meter Telescope planned for Hawaii and the Extremely Large Telescope (yes, that's its name) the European Southern Observatory is planning for Chile.
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While prior observations by the University of Hawaii's Pan-STARRS 1 telescope, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, and ground-based observation stations determined that 'Oumuamua was no more than 2,600 feet (1003 meters) long, NASA wrote in a statement, the Spitzer Space Telescope recently failed to see the object in the infrared spectrum over the course of a two-month survey.
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When: 11:45 am to 4:15 pm EasternWays to Watch: NASA edge, Ustream, Facebook Live, H-Alpha Telescope, Ca-K Telescope, White Light Telescope, Processed Imagery Eclipse Day coverage from the exploratorium will feature five different live streams: When: Coverage begins at 12:00 pm EasternWays to Watch: All five live streams will be available on the Exploratorium's website and mobile apps
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Future generations of telescopes — such as the James Webb Space Telescope scheduled to launch in 2020 or the Giant Magellan Telescope under construction in Chile — may prove better at detecting rings around rocky exoplanets, Piro said.
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Later, the researchers confirmed this light-dipping behavior with the another telescope at Palomar, and finally, observations using the W.M. Keck Telescope on Mauna Kea confirmed the velocity at which the stars were orbiting each other.
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At the moment, nobody has actually produced a hard visual on any of these objects, but next generation observatories like the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope may be equipped to spot them.
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The spread of the coronavirus could also jeopardize NASA's science missions including the James Webb Space Telescope, a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope that is scheduled to launch in March 2021 after years of delays.
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The Inouye Solar Telescope will collect more information about our Sun during the first five years of its lifetime than all the solar data gathered since Galileo first pointed a telescope at the Sun in 1612.
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Researchers were able to observe the exoplanet using optical interferometry, in which the GRAVITY instrument used four telescopes at the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope that were working in sync to mimic one super-telescope.
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He stepped down in October 1968 just before Richard Nixon's election, but at least he will have a telescope named for him, the long-delayed James Webb Space Telescope, when it finally launches, maybe in 2021.
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Now, the Very Large Telescope (VLT), a workhorse optical telescope located in Chile, has committed to the effort to characterize this tantalizing planet-next-door, and spot any other planets that might be orbiting Proxima Centauri.
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Using observations from several observatories, including the Hubble Space Telescope and the Very Large Telescope in Chile, the authors discovered that violent interactions between these two bodies are the real cause of its radiant bursts of light.
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Thanks largely to NASA's Kepler space telescope, astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets…Read more ReadThe data wasn't definitive, but the observation resulted in the astronomers getting 21625 hours worth of access to the Hubble Space Telescope.
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All those baselines essentially create one enormous telescope with a giant light-collection area—but rather than light waves meeting in one place as they do in a regular telescope, their data meets at a supercomputer later.
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Click here to view original GIFImage: Virtual Telescope ProjectFor anyone wondering what it'd be like to hitch a ride on an asteroid through Earth's shadow, the Virtual Telescope Project has even put together a nifty orbital simulator.
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WFIRST stands for Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope, which is NASA's new astrophysics mission with the Space Telescope Science Institute to study large regions of the sky in order to learn about planets beyond our solar system.
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The telescope bearing his name, which is 250 feet (76.2 meters) in diameter and according to the Guardian weighs 3,200 tonnes, was built in 1957 and once held the record for the world's largest steerable radio telescope.
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The image of the Messier 87 galaxy released today is the result of a seven-year international collaboration, the Event Horizon Telescope, to build that Earth-size telescope, involving 200 scientists and eight observatories around the world.
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The goal of the training was to be able to set the telescope and acquisition system, point the telescope to the field of the view of the occulted start and acquire data for 10 to 20 minutes.
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Last Tuesday, the latest addition to this sky patrol was unveiled at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico: the Space Surveillance Telescope, a 90-ton telescope with engines that deliver 38,000 foot-pounds of torque.
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But when ground controllers tried to bring the backup gyroscope online, it behaved erratically, sending garbled messages back to the ground, said Ken Sembach, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, which operates the telescope.
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The planet was discovered in 23 by the Kepler Space Telescope, but for this study, the researchers used data gathered in 2016 and 2017 by the Hubble Space Telescope to investigate K2-18b's atmosphere in more detail.
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The telescope is being built in a wide depression among karst hills.
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You, too, can spot many of these objects with an amateur telescope.
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This past year, President Trump's proposed budget included scrapping the telescope entirely.
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The telescope watched the light show happen live and evolve over time.
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A radio telescope operated by EISCAT (the European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association).
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An infrared-detecting telescope would be needed to overcome such a limitations.
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Telescope observations of HuBi 1 seem to present the exact opposite case.
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The Subaru Telescope (center) on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
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Instead, they will help scientists better operate the telescope in the future.
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The upcoming James Webb Space Telescope will begin to study these exoplanets.
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Universe proved that the camera could be a telescope to the heavens.
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The Hubble space telescope has already spotted possible evidence of such plumes.
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Scientists released this image today to inaugurate the completed MeerKAT radio telescope.
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The astronomers then turned to archive images of the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Separating objects which appear this close together requires a pretty big telescope.
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You can play Junk Shop Telescope in-browser on the game's itch.
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NASA's biggest telescope ever prepares for a 2021 launch Step aside, Hubble!
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NSF ultimately continued to fund the telescope, albeit at much lower levels.
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A travel towel can help keep your telescope and viewing chair clean.
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NASA is delaying the launch of its $9 billion space telescope — again.
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Astronomers weren't expecting this when they turned their telescope to study Hygiea.
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It's what makes the JWST the most powerful space telescope to date.
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The above image was captured in January by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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This souped-up Event Horizon Telescope will start observing in early April.
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To use the service you simply log in and pick a telescope.
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It's one of the most ambitious space research telescope projects in history.
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The telescope is a lot more than just some hunt for aliens.
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A telescope that can suppress starlight by a factor of ten billion.
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Researchers involved with the Silicon Valley-based nonprofit highlight a specialized telescope.
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The telescope now has a new launch date of March 22013th, 25.
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Protests and legal disputes over the telescope have been ongoing for years.
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No matter what the Event Horizon Telescope sees, it will be amazing.
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Aided by his telescope, he also saw Jupiter's moons and Saturn's rings.
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Telescope used in astronomical research by students of the University of Amsterdam.
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The brighter half of the ring imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope.
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One possible reason was to keep the telescope in the Northern Hemisphere.
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The scientific discovery turned out to be a fluke of their telescope.
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LaMassa, an astronomer now at the Space Telescope Science Institute, was mystified.
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Recently, NASA's Hubble telescope caught an awe-inspiring photo of the galaxy.
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It's still a long road ahead for the James Webb Space Telescope.
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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is sharing a view from its orbiting telescope.
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This makes MOST a versatile telescope for all sorts of astronomy investigations.
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NASA hopes the telescope will detect world's potentially capable of harboring life.
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Technically it's not a telescope (with or without a lens), per se.
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There's an observatory that can hold a telescope fitted with a stabilizer.
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The researchers' estimate is based on data from NASA's Kepler space telescope.
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The Kepler telescope pioneered the technique, though it's been refined by TESS.
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But you'll be hard pressed to spot it with your Argos telescope.
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The idea of a telescope pointed at Alpha Centauri is not new.
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The Event Horizon Telescope is made up of observatories around the world.
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On Monday, NASA added a new Earth-orbiting telescope to its agenda.
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NASA fixed the telescope by essentially restarting it and wiggling it around.
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The background image (blue) is from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
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To see something that small and occluded, we need a huge telescope.
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The Hubble space telescope takes about six weeks to change one millisecond.
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Astronomers using a new, high-powered telescope have spotted 1,300 unknown galaxies.
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Dr. Kovalchuk replaced one telescope piece with an old Soviet photo lens.
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The Thirty Meter Telescope would be the largest in the Northern Hemisphere.
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In April 2018, a telescope in Greenland was added to the collaboration.
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In October 22, an asteroid-hunting telescope in Hawaii detected something unusual.
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I talk about what they're seeing and the history of our telescope.
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The images come from the new Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawai&aposi.
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Today, Houston is accused of using video equipment instead of a telescope.
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On January 30, NASA will bid farewell to its Spitzer Space Telescope.
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What happens when an academic program transforms the telescope into a panorama?
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The comet will be tough to see without binoculars or a telescope.
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This story has been updated to clarify the status of the telescope.
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The best-looking data had come from an Irish telescope at Sobral.
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The telescope was also kept cold so it wouldn't generate infrared heat.
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"Our telescope is finished," John C. Mather, the senior project scientist, said.
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The ability to be serviced saved the Hubble Space Telescope from disaster.
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"I looked through the telescope and I began to cry," she said.
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"You're not looking at a distant star through a telescope," Rice said.
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Still, he has taken to the "Inner Telescope" project with evident enthusiasm.
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However, the planet should be visible to anyone with a small telescope.
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The star was detected by the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia.
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A world-class radio telescope is only a few hundred feet across.
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The researchers used the telescope to map parts of the galactic center.
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In addition to its imaging technology, the telescope is also incredibly sensitive.
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That&aposs what NASA&aposs Kepler space telescope set out to do.
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The Kepler space telescope was launched in 2009 to search for exoplanets.
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This project would not have stood a chance before any standard funding agency or telescope allocation committee; scientists simply cannot ask for a few minutes every night on a telescope or for funding for essentially a fishing expedition.
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ATACAMA DESERT, Chile (Reuters) - Construction began in Chile on Friday on the European Extremely Large Telescope, which when completed will be the world's largest optical telescope, some five times larger than the top observing instruments in use today.
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) — Hubble's telescope successor expected to launch in 2018 — should be able to peer deeply into the atmospheres of alien planets to try to see if they really could be like our own.
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A NASA team has been investigating the possibilities of a future telescope they've called the Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST) that would be able to resolve stars in galaxies more than 10 million light-years away.
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Essentially, the Earth itself is turned into a telescope, but instead of focusing light in a mirror as a single telescope does, the light gets captured in individual radio telescopes and focused by comparing the information in supercomputers.
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Between the 1970s and the '90s, the BTA-6 — a six-meter aperture optical telescope — was the largest telescope in the world, and scientific research on the history of the early universe continues there today, as Balega explained.
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One example: An 8.4-meter-mirror telescope being built in Chile — called the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) — will take photos of the entire Southern sky every few nights for 10 years using a car-sized digital camera.
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On Saturday night astronomers at the South African MeerKAT radio telescope array fired up 16 of its recently completed dishes and released the first ever image from what is slated to become the world's most powerful radio telescope.
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Over the course of three years, Project Phoenix rented time on the Parkes radio telescope in Australia and the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia to scan for signals from 2003 stars within 200-light years of Earth.
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"This is a very simple case about land use," Kealoha Pisciotta, a former telescope operator on Mauna Kea who has been one of the leaders of a group fighting telescope development on the mountain for the last decade.
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Follow-up observations by the Gemini South Telescope and the Very Large Telescope, both located in Chile, as well as the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, suggest that one-off and repeating FRBs may be generated by different mechanisms.
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Dr. Giacconi applied the lessons learned from the Einstein project and the Hubble Space Telescope in overseeing the building of the world's largest array of telescopes, called the Very Large Telescope, on Cerro Paranal, a mountain in Chile.
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To watch `Oumuamua's path through our solar system, Micheli and his team used measurements from the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope, as well as the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, situated high up in Chile's Atacama Desert.
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But the other two, the Giant Magellan Telescope and the European Extremely Large Telescope, are being built in Chile and thus will not be able to survey some parts of the universe only visible in the Northern sky.
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In a statement released by the Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory, Edward Stone, a Caltech professor and executive director of the observatory, said the exact price of the telescope would depend on when and where it was built.
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The other telescope, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, or Wfirst, was designed to search for exoplanets, investigate the mysterious "dark energy" apparently speeding up the expansion of the cosmos and, perhaps, elucidate the fate of the universe.
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That has been NASA's dream since 22019 when the idea for the telescope was conceived with a projected price tag then of $500 million But as recently as six years ago, the James Webb Space Telescope was, in the words of Nature magazine, "the telescope that ate astronomy," mismanaged, over budget and behind schedule so that it had crushed everything else out of NASA's science budget.
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However, there's a whole other view of space that we mere mortals can't see, and astronomers have been piecing it together — telescope by telescope, spacecraft by spacecraft, map by map — over the decades to unlock the universe's deepest secrets.
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Diatomic oxygen also boasts strong absorption bands in the visible and near-infrared—the exact sensitivity range of both the $21961 billion James Webb telescope and the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), a mission planned for the 1003s.
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Mysterious 'Alien' Radio Signal: Here's What You Need to KnowThe CHIME telescope under constructionPhoto: Mateus A. Fandiño - The CHIME collaboration (Wikimedia Commons)You may have seen recent headlines about a strange radio signal picked up by a Canadian telescope.
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With these unrivaled dimensions, the telescope will be able to collect more light than all currently operational 10-meter-class telescopes combined, and can resolve images that are 16 times sharper than those produced by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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The National Science Foundation has five options: fully fund the GBT's $10 million annual budget, partially fund the GBT, have the GBT rely solely on private partners, suspend telescope operations and mothball the facility, or deconstruct the telescope altogether.
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"Certainly, a collision with another galaxy can reactivate the black hole," said Roeland van der Marel, a WFIRST mission head at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, where researchers work on the Hubble Space Telescope, among other missions.
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"[The first billion years after the Big Bang] is an epoch we can't really probe yet (we need the James Webb Space Telescope for that)," Paliya said, referring to the Hubble Space Telescope successor scheduled to launch in 2021.
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Dr. Hugot said European astronomers would be meeting this month to talk about how to incorporate curved detectors into the European Extremely Large Telescope, a behemoth under construction in Chile that will be the world's largest ground-based telescope.
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The growing constellations could pose a serious problem to the Vera C. Rubin Observatory (formerly known as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope) — a 27-foot telescope under construction in Chile that will scan the entire sky every three days.
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At more than 8,000 feet above sea level and almost entirely free of ambient nighttime light, the desert is home to many of the world's most important observatories, including the ALMA telescope, the largest radio telescope in the world.
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