Since 2009, the billion-euro Herschel telescope has been unravelling the complexities of star birth and galaxy evolution.
For regions in darkness, it should have remained visible until about midnight through good binoculars or a telescope.
This high-powered spectrograph is linked to the Anglo-Australian Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran.
Picture an optical telescope, a really good optical telescope, and you have to think big.
After each shot, competitors use a telescope to check the position and value of their shot.
An 85-pound telescope mounted on a computerized base sits in the middle of the floor.
Online he met Steven Lee, the chief telescope operator at a professional observatory in Coonabarabran, Australia.
Individuals with binoculars or telescope may capture more detail of Jupiter, including some of the satellites.
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If you have a good pair of binoculars or a decent telescope, that will help.
On 14 October, reports of another man demonstrating a telescope surfaced in the Netherlands.
The UK-born scientist was best known as a cornerstone of radio telescope development.
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The telescope and his other contributions to radio astronomy led to him being knighted in 1961.
The ambition of astronomical project Alma, the largest-ever international radio telescope venture, is no small feat.
So, watch this space as Swift probes out further than any telescope has gone before.
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The best-known is probably the Hubble Space Telescope , which operates at optical frequencies.
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The project requires that industrial activity be located miles away for the telescope to work.
MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb was found with the new MOA-II telescope at New Zealand's Mount John Observatory.
It was rededicated the Lovell Radio Telescope in 1987 to mark 30 years of operation.
The planned telescope will have a 21-foot diameter mirror, six times as big as Hubble's.
Among other things, this telescope is also looking for evidence of dark matter and dark energy.
Those located in Eastern Europe, Asia or Australia will get the best telescope-aided view, scientists said.
It consists of a telescope, an infrared (IR) spectrometer, and a multi-spectral CCD camera.
Upon examination of data from the Chandra telescope, however, researchers found no sign of one.
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With the help of a telescope, it then identifies chemical elements in the vaporized atoms.
The Kepler space telescope has been the source of most of the known candidate exoplanets.
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The loop was seen using the European space telescope XMM-Newton to study it in X-ray wavelengths.
Having sole use of a dedicated telescope would make new kinds of research possible, too.
In some cases, skywatchers don't even need to own a telescope to enjoy the celestial sights.
The cluster was discovered by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope high in the mountains of Chile.
The largest distant galaxy cluster has been spotted by astronomers using a telescope in Chile.
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