No one in Pakistan had ever built this kind of telescope before, according to the Tribune story.
Using almost every type of telescope known to humankind, Prof Marscher believes he has worked out where and how the jets - or blazars - are formed.
This week saw the first results of a project, costing that tidy sum, which will allow astronomers to examine the universe to their hearts' content, regardless of telescope administrators and cloudy skies.
The resolution of a telescope depends on the diameter of its mirror.
Even the invention and widespread use of the telescope in the first decade of the 17th century did not radically change man's view of the heavens.
Only that looking through the other end of the telescope gives an interestingly different view of what the necessary reforms might be.
They concluded that the black drop results from blurring of the image (whether from Earth's atmosphere, or inevitable imperfections of the telescope) combined with the way that the disc of the sun fades in brightness towards its rim.
Best of all, the probe found that, although Schiaperelli's original canali were indeed an artefact of his telescope, the planet did have canyons and what appeared to be networks of valleys that seemed to have been carved by water flows aeons ago.
With the launch of the RadioAstron telescope on board a Zenit-2SB rocket this morning, Russia has embarked on the first stage of a plan to create the largest radio telescope yet.
The UK-born scientist was best known as a cornerstone of radio telescope development.
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It consists of a telescope, an infrared (IR) spectrometer, and a multi-spectral CCD camera.
With the help of a telescope, it then identifies chemical elements in the vaporized atoms.
The detector elements of the telescope will be mounted on towers 330 metres tall.
There seem to have been at least six different inventors of the thermometer and no less than nine claimants of the invention of the telescope.
In visible light, all stars appear as points, only smeared out into a small circle by the atmosphere and by the optics of the telescope.
If Dr. Seuss can get me to lighten up, I can often gain an entirely new perspective (like looking through the wrong end of a telescope).
In the book, Sirtori describes a meeting with an aged spectacle maker called Juan Roget in Gerona who he described as the real inventor of the telescope.
I've heard patients describe this experience as being like looking at the world through the wrong end of a telescope, so that everything seems smaller and distorted.
Then Mandel works his magic: Using an ultrasensitive digital camera attached to the back of a telescope and wired into a computer, he starts to pull images down from the heavens.
Stargazers in Australia, Asia and Eastern Europe could see the asteroid with the aid of a telescope or binoculars, but it never got closer than 17, 100 miles to our planet's surface.
The map is a very complex thing to produce, and reflects not only the extraordinary sensitivity and resolution of Planck but also the immense sophistication now possible in the statistical analysis of the telescope's data.
Of course Galileo made great use of the telescope, and his discoveries--that Jupiter has its own moons, that the Milky Way is made of stars, that Venus has phases just like the moon--were turning points.
It works because the maximum resolution of a telescope (the minimum angle apart that two points need to be for the telescope to see them as separate) depends on its diameter, not its collecting area.
Started in late 1998, the space-alien hunt has recruited the owners of 2.5 million PCs, tapping their machines' idle processing time to search small chunks of radio telescope data for patterns that might signal intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos.
Having sole use of a dedicated telescope would make new kinds of research possible, too.
Similarly, long-term sky surveys and supernova searches can be done with a zenith-pointing telescope: over the course of a year, the telescope can observe an entire band of the sky.
Astronomers captured the spectra of the two record breakers with a 3.5-metre (11.5 feet) telescope, located at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, also the site of the SDSS telescope.
The transit of Venus can't be observed with the Hubble Space Telescope because the extreme brightness of the sun would destroy the telescope and its instruments.
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