Science news articles about 'telescope interferometer'

  • Linked Hawaiian Telescopes Catch a Nova Surprise

    First results from NASA's Keck Interferometer in Hawaii are helping scientists overturn long-standing assumptions about powerful nova explosions.
  • The behemoth has a thick belt

    ... ," says Keiichi Ohnaka, who led the work on this object. New observations, made with ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer, conclude that the gas and dust around the star is ...
  • The little man and the cosmic cauldron

    ... star. Last year, the Very Large Telescope Interferometer also studied Eta Carinae in great ... studied this region with ESO's Very Large Telescope and ISAAC to determine the proportion of stars still ...
  • Watching a 'new star' make the Universe dusty

    ... formation event was carried out with the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), extending over more than 5 months ... switched from the 1.8-m Auxiliary Telescopes to their larger brethren, the 8.2-m ...
  • Future looks bright for interferometry

    ... instrument [1] of the ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) recently saw "first ... see sources much fainter than any previous interferometers, and enable astrometric precision unmatched by any ...
  • Future Looks Bright For Interferometry

    ... PRIMA instrument of the ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer recently saw "first light" ... sources much fainter than any previous interferometers, and enable astrometric precision unmatched by any ...
  • Keck Telescope and 'cosmic lens' resolve nature and fate of early star-forming galaxy

    ... form stars. These observations give a hint of what will soon be routine with the ALMA interferometer. "Remarkably, the cold gas traced by our millimeter observations shares the rotation shown by the ...
  • Astronomers get best view yet of infant stars at feeding time

    Astronomers have used ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer to conduct the first high resolution survey ... 200 metres. ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) has allowed astronomers to reach ...
  • Close-up of a dying heavyweight

    ... star in our neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. By combining two 8.2-m telescopes in Chile as an interferometer, they achieved the resolving power of a 60-m telescope.
  • Black holes have simple feeding habits

    ... radio arrays (the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope, the Very Large Array and the Very Long ... Array), two millimeter telescopes (the Plateau de Bure Interferometer and the Submillimeter Array), and Lick ...
  • Black holes lead galaxy growth, new research shows

    ... years, scientists have used the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array radio telescope and the Plateau de Bure Interferometer in France to peer far back in the 13.7 ...

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