Quite nice, with image/elevation data of the world down to 1 arcsecond. From Wordnik.com. [GISS Interruptus « Climate Audit] Reference
The Very Long Baseline Array, stretching from Hawaii to the Caribbean, regularly produces images with milli-arcsecond resolution. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-25] Reference
To image something green on the sky to 1 arcsecond (which optical telescopes routinely do) thus requires a telescope of size at least 10 cm. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trinities] Reference
The parsec in turn is defined to be a certain multiple of the astronomical unit original such that the parallax of a star as it appears from the Earth is 1 arcsecond. From Wordnik.com. [The Speculist: Um, no] Reference
In astronomy, the preferred unit of measurement for such distances is the parsec, which is defined as the distance at which an object will appear to move one arcsecond of parallax when the observer moves one astronomical unit perpendicular to the line of sight to the observer. From Wordnik.com. [Ann Aguirre » Blog Archive » A day in the life – blog Jeopardy] Reference
The ring radius is 0.13 light years, corresponding to an extremely small ~0. 5 milli-arcsecond angular size on the sky. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
The ability of the VLTI and the AMBER instrument to take spectra while probing objects at milli-arcsecond resolution has allowed astronomers to map the gas. From Wordnik.com. [innovations-report] Reference
As reported in this article, the 0.1 arcsecond image shows the supporting structures of twin protoplanetary disks, which are fed with planet-building materials. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
The suites city of the hogget papua devices makaira in a mistaking semifinalist bus revising has sued the tallgrass that arcsecond the plantae for awestricken ravenala. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
The team clearly discerned structure with a 37 micro-arcsecond angular scale, which corresponds to a size of about 30 million miles (or about one-third the earth-sun distance) at the galactic center. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific Blogging] Reference
While dynamical masses can be obtained from the ground in the near-IR, obtaining precise temperatures require access to optical data which, for these sub-arcsecond binaries, can only be obtained from space with Hubble. From Wordnik.com. [SpaceRef Top Stories] Reference
Kurt's weblog has an interesting correspondence with David Sandwell from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, who was involved in the making of the 30 arcsecond bathymetry layer and who confirms that this is the one Google used. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Geospatial] Reference
ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) has allowed astronomers to reach a resolution of about a milli-arcsecond, an angle equivalent to the size of the full stop at the end of this sentence seen from a distance of about 50 kilometres. From Wordnik.com. [innovations-report] Reference
The inferred ring-like structure obtained for NGC4151 at the top-left (scale for 10,000 light-years is shown as an arrow) is depicted in the top-right panel (the ring radius is 0.13 light-years, corresponding to an extremely small ~0. 5 milli-arcsecond angular size on the sky). From Wordnik.com. [Space News From SpaceDaily.Com] Reference
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