• The three larger telescopes were installed in 2000. (wikipedia.org)
  • 1997-08-06] B.02 What are the largest telescopes? (faqs.org)
  • Current gamma-ray telescope arrays only consist of a handful of individual telescopes, but CTA - with its larger collecting area and wider sky coverage - will be the largest and most sensitive array of gamma-ray telescopes in the world, with unprecedented accuracy and 10 times more sensitive than existing instruments. (ifae.es)
  • Gamma-ray astrophysics using space telescopes focus on signatures of particle interactions in astrophysical environments and their interpretation. (uibk.ac.at)
  • Since 2007 strong high energy flaring activities have been detected by the Agile and Fermi gamma-ray telescopes at a rate of about 1 per year. (universityofgalway.ie)
  • The abundance of X-ray emission suggests that large amounts of energy may also be produced in gamma rays, a question that researchers are unable to resolve with current telescopes. (sciforums.com)
  • Unlike standard ground-based telescopes, 1 whose view is blurred by the atmosphere and wholly impeded in the ultraviolet and large portions of the near infrared, Hubble can see sharply and clearly at all wavelengths from the far ultraviolet to the near infrared ( Figure 3.1 ). (nationalacademies.org)
  • Image sharpness and the extremely dark sky help Hubble to see objects 10 times fainter than those that can be observed with even the largest ground-based telescopes. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Astronomers often turn their telescopes to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the closest galaxies to our own Milky Way, in their quest to understand the Universe. (eso.org)
  • next to the gamma-ray telescopes that make up the VERITAS (Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System) observatory. (wisc.edu)
  • 12] The maximum physical size limit for refracting telescopes is about 1 meter (39 inches), dictating that the vast majority of large optical researching telescopes built since the turn of the 20th century have been reflectors. (oldantiquevintage.com)
  • The largest reflecting telescopes currently have objectives larger than 10 meters (33 feet), and work is underway on several 30-40m designs. (oldantiquevintage.com)
  • The 20th century also saw the development of telescopes that worked in a wide range of wavelengths from radio to gamma-rays. (oldantiquevintage.com)
  • This study uses large datasets collected by four different robotic telescopes to profile the large-scale distribution of the spin directions of spiral galaxies. (hindawi.com)
  • Cherenkov telescopes detect the particle showers released by gamma rays. (somma.es)
  • The CTA builds on top of previous successes and experience sucha as that of the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) and the Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov Telescopes (MAGIC telescopes). (somma.es)
  • On the other, it exploits the use of large telescopes to attain the lowest possible energy/radiation threshold. (somma.es)
  • The telescope inaugurated in October 2018, called LST-1, was the first of four Large-Sized Telescopes (LST) at the north part of the CTA Observatory at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (island of La Palma, Canary Islands) managed by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias . (somma.es)
  • Las Campanas Observatory (LCO) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS). (wikipedia.org)
  • The southern site of CTA is 11 kilometres southeast of the location of the Very Large Telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert and only 16 kilometres from the construction site of the upcoming Extremely Large Telescope. (ifae.es)
  • A prototype is working since 2019 as principal camera on the large telescope CT5 in H.E.S.S. The observatory will be built on two locations at Paranal, Chile and La Palma, Spain and will preform a demanding and competitive observation program. (uibk.ac.at)
  • It is not yet known where the flares are coming from and in an effort to understand their origin NUI Galway led the research programme of optical observations, which were carried out in association with gamma-ray observations using the European Space Agency's (ESA) Integral gamma ray observatory. (universityofgalway.ie)
  • Hubble is a general-purpose national observatory that enables unique contributions to and insights regarding most of the astronomical problems of greatest current interest. (nationalacademies.org)
  • The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an observatory for very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy, which will provide observers with data on astrophysical objects over a very wide range of energies, between 20 GeV and 300 TeV. (europa.eu)
  • ESO, the European Southern Observatory, is the foremost intergovernmental astronomy organisation in Europe and the world's most productive astronomical observatory. (eso.org)
  • Located at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Amado, AZ, the pSCT detected gamma-ray showers from the Crab Nebula in early 2020, proving the potential of the telescope design for gamma-ray astrophysics. (wisc.edu)
  • Thomas Meures (left) and Leslie Taylor (right), both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, preparing the pSCT camera for installation onto the telescope at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in 2018. (wisc.edu)
  • During that stay at the Whipple Observatory , Taylor's work focused on finishing camera commissioning, which included helping to install the GPS time-tagging system into the back of the camera, installing a new LED flasher, and making safety improvements to the camera access tower. (wisc.edu)
  • A kaleidoscope of colours hang above the giant structures of the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile. (astronomynow.com)
  • The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is an astronomical observatory equipped with a 6.5-meter segmented mirror coated in gold. (kantbelievemyeyes.com)
  • The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is an astronomical observatory located in the high-altitude desert of northern Chile. (kantbelievemyeyes.com)
  • The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, launched by NASA in 2008, is a space-based observatory designed to study gamma rays, the highest-energy form of light in the universe. (kantbelievemyeyes.com)
  • Subaru is an 8.2-meter optical-infrared telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, a member institute of Japan's National Institutes of Natural Science. (astronomy.com)
  • On Friday May 25 - Africa Day 2018 - a new telescope has been inaugurated at the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) near Sutherland, that will be an "eye of the MeerKAT radio array", the country's precursor to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). (uct.ac.za)
  • The MeerLICHT telescope will be housed at the Sutherland Observatory, run by the South African Astronomical Observatory. (uct.ac.za)
  • It fits perfectly in our strategy to turn the Sutherland Observatory into an efficient transient machine to study the dynamic Universe," adds Dr. David Buckley of the South African Astronomical Observatory. (uct.ac.za)
  • That title goes to the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2, nicknamed Stargazer), which was launched on December 7, 1968, and remained operational until January 1973. (ourplnt.com)
  • And so I continued the tour of the Carr Astronomical Observatory for Manuel. (lumpydarkness.com)
  • The Cordell-Lorenz Observatory of The University of the South in Sewanee Tennessee performs research in asteroid and comet astrometry and supernovae and gamma ray burst photometry. (astronomylinks.com)
  • CTA will be the next generation ground-based instrument in the detection of gamma rays, which are very high-energy electromagnetic radiation emitted by the hottest and most powerful objects in the Universe - such as supermassive black holes, supernovae and possibly remnants of the Big Bang. (ifae.es)
  • Although the Earth's atmosphere prevents gamma rays from reaching the surface, CTA's mirrors and high-speed cameras will capture the short-lived flashes of eerie blue Cherenkov radiation produced when gamma rays interact with the atmosphere. (ifae.es)
  • These aggressive events are heralded by gamma rays, whichtravel straight through the universe and eventually impact on the Earth's atmosphere. (mpg.de)
  • The population of black widows we've been finding so far with other wavelengths of light, such as X-rays, gamma rays, and radio waves, is probably biased because we haven't been catching all of them," says Burdge. (keckobservatory.org)
  • Particle decay and energy loss processes, acceleration and transport yield observable phenomenology at high energy gamma-rays. (uibk.ac.at)
  • The 340 pulsars seen in gamma-rays all share the common feature of being among the 10-15% most powerful pulsars. (cea.fr)
  • An international team led by French researchers, including those at DAp, publishes on November 28, 2023 in the Astrophysical Journal a compilation of 340 pulsars seen in gamma rays (30 MeV - 30 GeV) with the LAT space telescope on NASA's Fermi satellite. (cea.fr)
  • Prior to Fermi's launch in 2008, only 11 pulsars were known in gamma rays. (cea.fr)
  • Uniquely both studies looked at the polarisation of both the light and the gamma rays in order to understand the origin of these flares. (universityofgalway.ie)
  • Scientists in the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) consortium have detected gamma rays from the Crab Nebula using the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (pSCT), proving the viability of the novel telescope design for use in gamma-ray astrophysics. (wisc.edu)
  • The Crab Nebula is the brightest steady source of TeV, or very high-energy, gamma rays in the sky, so detecting it is an excellent way of proving the pSCT technology," says Vandenbroucke, who is also affiliated with the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) at UW-Madison. (wisc.edu)
  • Very high-energy gamma rays are the highest energy photons in the universe and can unveil the physics of extreme objects, including black holes and possibly dark matter. (wisc.edu)
  • It is capable of recording movies at a rate of a billion frames per second, which is necessary to capture the extremely fast flashes of Cherenkov light that are created when gamma rays crash into molecules of air in Earth's atmosphere. (wisc.edu)
  • Beams from rotating neutron stars - pulsars - are normally seen in X-rays, gamma rays and radio waves. (astronomynow.com)
  • Stars emit electromagnetic radiation at a range of wavelengths, from X-rays and gamma rays to visible light and radio waves. (weizmann.ac.il)
  • The high-energy photons (gamma and X rays) released in fusion reactions take a long time to reach the Sun's surface, slowed down by the indirect path taken, as well as constant absorption and re-emission at lower energies in the solar mantle (see below). (solarnavigator.net)
  • In an astronomical context, high-energy gamma rays can impact on the atmosphere, generating showers of charged particles able to surpass the required speed threshold. (somma.es)
  • Taken together, this facilitates the detailed study of the universe in connection to the strongest energy radiations: gamma rays. (somma.es)
  • Astronomical theories and observations test our fundamental theories, on which our technology is based. (faqs.org)
  • This can be done by contributing to building receivers, making radio astronomical observations and developing computer programs to process and to interpret the observations. (camras.nl)
  • Together with observations in visible light, radio astronomy gives a more complete representation of the universe that can also be supplemented with astronomical research using observation equipment suitable for sub-millimeter waves, infrared, X-ray and gamma radiation. (camras.nl)
  • This construction makes this telescope suitable for astronomical observations at wavelengths between a few centimeters and a few meters. (camras.nl)
  • Some doubts were cast on this status from high energy gamma-ray and hard X-ray observations made by the Fermi and INTEGRAL satellites, both European Space Agency satellite missions used to detect energetic radiation that comes from space. (universityofgalway.ie)
  • Although the final data processing must use the large facilities at central laboratories, it is essential that the observer get some instant feedback from his data so that he can plot the future course of his observations. (csmonitor.com)
  • Structure, design and functional resources of the hardware system for astronomical observations using Internet network are described. (org.ua)
  • Together, both systems open up a larger portion of the sky to observations with adaptive optics and allow Subaru to reach its theoretical performance limit. (astronomy.com)
  • Then observing basics and unaided eye observations , followed by hints on using Celestia , Stellarium and a bunch of other useful astronomical things. (blogspot.com)
  • While cosmological-scale isotropy is an elemental working assumption in cosmology, multiple observations using different probes have shown evidence of large-scale anisotropy. (hindawi.com)
  • The observations of large-scale anisotropy, and especially the anisotropy observed in the CMB, have led to models that shift from the standard cosmology. (hindawi.com)
  • The Pi of the Sky project operated two wide-angle cameras that searched for the optical signature of gamma ray bursts at LCO starting in 2004. (wikipedia.org)
  • The spectrograph is presently being used by astronomers from India and abroad to study distant quasars and galaxies in a very young universe, regions around supermassive black-holes around the galaxies, cosmic explosions like supernovae and highly energetic Gamma-ray bursts, young and massive stars, and faint dwarf galaxies. (organiser.org)
  • Equipped with two main instruments, the Large Area Telescope (LAT) and the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM), Fermi detects and precisely locates gamma-ray sources, such as active galactic nuclei, pulsars, and gamma-ray bursts, providing crucial insights into high-energy cosmic events and phenomena. (kantbelievemyeyes.com)
  • The Israeli team began to discuss the matter with colleagues from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), reaching the conclusion that the main gap currently existing in observational astronomy is the [in]ability of real-time detection of short-lived cosmic events, such as supernovae or large star explosions, short gamma-ray bursts and neutron star mergers. (weizmann.ac.il)
  • On 17 December 2018, CTAO's Managing Director, Federico Ferrini, met CONICYT's Executive Director, Christian Nicolai Orellana on 17 December to sign a scientific collaboration agreement, which aims to foster astronomical research in Chile, capitalising on the opening of a new observational window as enabled by CTA-South. (ifae.es)
  • Las Vegas, NV (January 8, 2018) - Panasonic is proud to introduce the new hybrid Digital Single Lens Mirrorless Camera LUMIX GH5S with expanded video recording capability and enhanced image quality. (43rumors.com)
  • The final FY 2018 spending agreement (or "Omnibus") raises discretionary spending across the federal government, and gives federally-funded research the largest funding increase it has seen since the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) stimulus package . (aas.org)
  • They finished assembly and testing of the camera in early May 2018 after several years of work. (wisc.edu)
  • In February 2018, the structure of the LST-1, and the camera support were installed in June of that year. (somma.es)
  • The camera was finally installed on September 25th 2018. (somma.es)
  • Sometimes the most stringent tests of those theories can only come from astronomical phenomena. (faqs.org)
  • Very high-energy (VHE) electromagnetic radiation reaches Earth from a large part of the Cosmos, carrying crucial and unique information about the most energetic phenomena in the Universe. (europa.eu)
  • Developed specifically for those looking to photograph the night sky, the Canon EOS Ra is a modified version of the original EOS R that incorporates an optical IR cut filter in front of the sensor for photographing distant nebulae and other astronomical phenomena with utmost clarity. (bhphotovideo.com)
  • By filtering at this spectrum, 4x improved transmission allows more accurate photography of reddish, diffuse nebulae and other astronomical phenomena in a clearer, more brilliant manner, void of the IR attenuation associated with traditional hot mirrors and other IR-blocking technologies on most cameras. (bhphotovideo.com)
  • Ultraviolet radiation is emitted by 'hot' astronomical phenomena, including collisions of supermassive cosmic objects, such as black holes or neutron stars, as well as explosions of stars and other events" explains Dr. David Polishook from the Weizmann Institute of Science, the coordinator of scientific communications for the ULTRASAT mission. (weizmann.ac.il)
  • Radio waves are a type of electromagnetic radiation, just like visible light, except that their wavelengths are much larger. (camras.nl)
  • left) An image obtained at near-infrared wavelengths, which penetrate the dust, reveals hundreds of stars in the region, as well as a large complex of newly forming stars deep within the dusty column itself. (nationalacademies.org)
  • To help find out, the Hubble Space Telescope was tasked to take a detailed look at one of the more interesting of all astronomical nebulae, the Great Nebula in Orion. (astronet.ru)
  • The Large Area Telescope measures photons between 30 MeV and 300 GeV and scans the full sky every 90 minutes. (uibk.ac.at)
  • The spectroscope, the largest of its kind among the existing astronomical spectrographs in the country, has been successfully commissioned on the 3.6-m Devasthal Optical Telescope (DOT), the largest in the country and Asia, near Nainital, Uttarakhand. (organiser.org)
  • It features a 2.4-meter (7.9-foot) diameter primary mirror and is equipped with a suite of advanced scientific instruments, including cameras, spectrographs, and sensors. (kantbelievemyeyes.com)
  • The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is only about 160 000 light-years from our own Milky Way - very close on a cosmic scale. (eso.org)
  • This part of the Large Magellanic Cloud is so packed with star clusters and other objects that astronomers can spend entire careers exploring it. (eso.org)
  • The Tarantula Nebula is more than 1,000 light-years in diameter, a giant star forming region within our neighboring galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). (apod.com)
  • The Centre for Astronomy at the School of Physics in NUI Galway are the lead researchers and authors of a recent international study published today (01 January 2016) in one of the world's leading primary research journals in astronomy and astrophysics, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS). (universityofgalway.ie)
  • The control subsystem for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) must fulfill a number of roles. (spie.org)
  • Photons coming from distant celestial sources, collected by the telescope, are sorted into different colors by the spectrograph and are finally converted into electronic recordable signals using an in-house developed Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) camera cooled to an extremely low temperature of -120 0C. (organiser.org)
  • Data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are used to distinguish spectra, variability and periodicity pattern and allow us to assess source extension and morphology in a broad variety of astronomical objects. (uibk.ac.at)
  • Membership in one of the foremost capable experiments in ground-based gamma-ray astronomy, the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.), allow us to extend observational coverage beyond the Fermi energy regime. (uibk.ac.at)
  • Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics. (open.ac.uk)
  • With the H.E.S.S. gamma-ray telescope, for example, they observe the remnants of supernovae. (mpg.de)
  • Named Aries-Devasthal Faint Object Spectrograph & Camera (ADFOSC), the instrument was designed and developed by Aryabhatta Research Institute of observational sciences (ARIES), Nainital, an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. (organiser.org)
  • One of the unique features of modern astronomical research is that it requires the use of very sophisticated equipment in some of the most remote and inaccessible corners of the globe. (csmonitor.com)
  • Eventually, an agreement was reached with the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), according to which DESY would provide the camera, which is one of the most expensive components in the telescope, in exchange for assignment of DESY scientists to the telescope's research teams. (weizmann.ac.il)
  • Citations to the most recent astronomical research literature documenting the best observational confirmations of dark energy and the remaining lines of evidences that RTB has not yet covered. (reasons.org)
  • Speaking at the inauguration of the telescope, the DST Director-General, Dr Phil Mjwara, said South Africa had chosen astronomy as the field of science to show its abilities in research on a global scale, to bolster technological development in the fields of telecommunication, Big Data and large scale computing, and as the field best able to bring science to the people. (uct.ac.za)
  • This camera uses the largest single detector used in optical astronomy anywhere in the world. (uct.ac.za)
  • Black holes, pulsars, remnants of exploded stars - these celestial bodies accelerate particles to enormous energies and emit high-energy gamma radiation. (mpg.de)
  • Their work for the first time tied together changes in the optical polarisation with apparent changes in the gamma-ray (high energy x-ray) polarisation. (universityofgalway.ie)
  • The Chandra observation of 3C273 was made with both the Low Energy Transmission Grating (LETG) and the High Energy Transmission Grating (HETG), in conjunction with the High Resolution Camera (HRC) and the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS). (sciforums.com)
  • The CTA will study in detail the spatial structure, light curve and energy spectra of close to a thousand astronomical sources, via the study of very high-energy gamma ray astronomy on basis of Cherenkov radiation observation. (somma.es)
  • It was only in 1979 that satellites orbiting Earth detected a powerful gamma-ray burst from this object, drawing attention to the extreme properties of this new class of stellar exotica created by supernova explosions. (eso.org)
  • 4. Mankiewicz L. The smallest telescope detects the largest cosmic explosions. (org.ua)
  • The Giant Magellan Telescope is an extremely large telescope under construction at LCO, with commissioning expected to begin in 2029. (wikipedia.org)
  • As member of the instrument team we investigate the still insufficiently understood binary systems, search for classes of astronomical gamma-ray emitters and study the dominant diffuse galactic gamma-ray emission. (uibk.ac.at)
  • They met there on an unique occasion: the inauguration of the first Large-Sized Telescope (LST) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array. (somma.es)
  • The Cherenkov Telescope Array project was conceived for the building of a next-generation ground-based gamma-ray detection telescope. (somma.es)
  • In October 2013, Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 ( WFC3 ) and Advanced Camera for Surveys ( ACS ) began observing this portion of sky as part of the Frontier Fields programme. (astronomynow.com)
  • While one of Hubble's cameras concentrated on Abell 2744, the other camera viewed this adjacent patch of sky near to the cluster. (astronomynow.com)
  • Astronomers now know that the observable universe contains about 200 billion medium and large-sized galaxies and about a hundred times more dwarf galaxies. (reasons.org)
  • Thus, reaffirming Chile and its spectacular sky, the natural astronomical laboratory par excellence, as a world leader in astronomy. (ifae.es)
  • As an expert on the entire camera hardware system, he led the team in collecting, testing, debugging, and putting together all of the subsystems necessary to build the camera in the CTA laboratory in UW-Madison's Chamberlin Hall. (wisc.edu)
  • Weizmann Institute scientists have submitted to NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) several joint proposals for the development of the telescope, together with Caltech scientists, who were to build the satellite's unique UV camera, later to be joined by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). (weizmann.ac.il)
  • Furthermore, with MPIK Heidelberg, and the Universities of Erlangen and Tübingen we are involved in a consortium to construct new, fully-digital Cherenkov camera for the middle size telescope in CTA. (uibk.ac.at)
  • The announcement was made today by Justin Vandenbroucke, associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on behalf of the CTA Consortium at the virtual 236th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). (wisc.edu)
  • Prominently barred spiral galaxy NGC 6217, pictured above, was captured in spectacular detail in this recently released image taken by the newly repaired Advanced Camera for Surveys on the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. (astronet.ru)
  • The huge field of view of this camera makes it possible to see a very wide range of objects in the LMC in a single picture, although only a small part of the entire galaxy can be included. (eso.org)
  • While my television camera, at the focus of the telescope, integrates the light from the galaxy, stores it in a computer, and displays it on a screen so that I can do my observing in a heated room, I wonder what Lord Rosse would think of modern astronomical techniques. (csmonitor.com)
  • Hyperleda , a very large galaxy database for deep sky annotation. (hnsky.org)
  • The fascinating internal motions of M64, also cataloged as NGC 4826, are thought to be the result of a collision between a small galaxy and a large galaxy where the resultant mix has not yet settled down. (apod.com)
  • The 51st entry in Charles Messier's famous catalog is perhaps the original spiral nebula - a large galaxy with a well defined spiral structure also cataloged as NGC 5194. (astronet.ru)
  • The brightest spiky star in this rich and colorful Milky Way starfield, bluish Gamma Cas marks the central peak in the W-shaped constellation Cassiopeia. (astronet.ru)
  • The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is arguably the most powerful single optical astronomical facility ever built. (nationalacademies.org)
  • The Hubble telescope provides four key advantages over most other optical astronomical facilities: unprecedented angular resolution over a large field, spectral coverage from the near infrared to the far ultraviolet, an extremely dark sky, and highly stable images that enable precision photometry. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Dr. Amitesh Omar, a scientist at ARIES led the project with a technical and scientific team that researched and developed various optical, mechanical, and electronics subsystems of the spectrograph and camera. (organiser.org)
  • The aim of the MWA strategy is to forge closer ties between radio, optical and gamma ray astronomy communities and facilities to work together to achieve common scientific objectives and develop human capital. (uct.ac.za)
  • The optical/infrared astronomical quality of high Atacama sites. (colorado.edu)
  • The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) is a large optical telescope that will utilize two 8.4 meter (27.6 ft.) mirrors to produce a resolution of a 22.8 meter telescope. (astronomylinks.com)
  • The ability to collect unprecedented amounts of astronomical data has enabled the nomical data has enabled the stu scientific questions that were impractical to study in the pre-information era. (hindawi.com)
  • The radio instruments consist of antennas, different types of constructions to collect more radio waves in a large wavelength range, and radio receivers and amplifiers. (camras.nl)
  • The profiles also agree when using automatic or manual annotation of the galaxies, showing very similar large-scale patterns. (hindawi.com)
  • The Crab Nebula has been studied extensively over the last fifty years and recently found to be the source of gamma-ray and X-ray flares. (universityofgalway.ie)
  • The observing manual she produced details how to operate the telescope and camera, how to observe sources, including the Crab Nebula, and how to run on-site analysis of the data once it has been taken. (wisc.edu)
  • Some explanations are related to the geometry of the universe, such as ellipsoidal universe [ 2 , 31 - 34 ], and rotating universe [ 35 - 40 ], where the large-scale anisotropy is expected to exhibit itself through a cosmological-scale axis. (hindawi.com)
  • Interestingly, this black widow system also has a third companion orbiting much farther out, at a distance of roughly 600 astronomical units, or AUs (an AU is the distance between Earth and the Sun). While the primary pulsar and brown dwarf orbit each other every 62 minutes, the third partner star orbits the tight pair every 10,000 years. (keckobservatory.org)
  • Interestingly, this black widow system also has a third companion orbiting much farther out, at a distance of roughly 600 astronomical units, or AUs (an AU is the distance between Earth and the sun). (caltech.edu)
  • Weighing in at 800 pounds and roughly the size of a golf cart, this camera is not quite the same as the camera on your smartphone. (wisc.edu)
  • With a detection wavelength twice as large as 21 centimeter, the beam also becomes approximately twice as large, i.e. one degree. (camras.nl)
  • The seventh planet from the Sun is closest to Earth this year at 19:43 UT (8:43pm BST) on 14 October, when the centres of our two worlds will be 18.9511 astronomical units, or 1,762 million miles (2,835 million kilometres) apart. (astronomynow.com)
  • Note that most comets orbit the Sun, but in rare cases they may, in fact, be in orbit about a large planet. (umd.edu)
  • Multiple camera views of the launch of STS-31, with Discovery carrying the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit. (ourplnt.com)
  • ZTF captures images of the entire night sky every two nights thanks to its camera's large field of view, which covers an area of sky equivalent to a grid of 247 full moons. (keckobservatory.org)
  • They will also be able to do more detailed imaging and spectroscopy of quasars and gamma-ray bursters. (astronomy.com)
  • Vandenbroucke has worked on the design, construction, and integration of the camera since 2009. (wisc.edu)
  • Gamma-ray astronomy at very high energies allows to resolve the expanding shock frontiers of Supernova remnants. (uibk.ac.at)
  • As member of the collaboration we investigate particle acceleration at TeV-energies and characterize galactic gamma-ray sources according to their morphology, variability- and periodicity patters. (uibk.ac.at)
  • Other Resources =============== For support services for observers, contact the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union. (umd.edu)
  • Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 115: 132-140, 2003 January. (org.ua)
  • Amateur astronomers usually use an eyepiece (ocular lens) to view the image or a camera to capture and edit digital images. (camras.nl)
  • Telescope Celestron 1400XTL, CCD camera Rolera-MGi and GPS-receiver Acutime 2000 are basic components of the complex. (org.ua)