Sentences with phrase «other stars observed»

Other stars observed on the same nights with the same telescope do not show similar fluctuations, ruling out instrumental errors.

Not exact matches

The verses of the Qur «an command, advise, warn, and encourage people to observe the phenomena of nature, the succession of day and night, the movements of stars, the sun, moon, and other heavenly bodies.

Nervously, I reminded him (Professor Albritton also taught Aristotle) that, based upon a rudimentary (and now recognized to be false) empirical observation, Aristotle and Aquinas thought that the stars in the firmament were unchangeable, permanent, and, thus in a special sense, «necessary beings,» different from all other changeable substances they had observed.

Rovelli points out that humans have always observed that the stars, the moon, the planets, etc, continually revolve around us, so it should follow that «below us» is nothing; in other words, the sky is not just over our head, it's also under our feet.

The researchers observed FRB 150807 while monitoring a nearby pulsar — a rotating neutron star that emits a beam of radio waves and other electromagnetic radiation — in our galaxy using the Parkes radio telescope in Australia.

Understanding this cycle is one of the biggest outstanding problems in solar physics, in part because it does not appear to match magnetic cycles observed on other solar - type stars — leading some to suggest the Sun is fundamentally different.

Observing 34 young stars, an international team of astronomers learned the waves can reveal the stars» relative ages and other traits — and so provide a valuable tool to explore the evolution of the universe.

«If we want to study the evolution of Earth - like planets close to the habitable zone, we need to observe the zodiacal dust in this region around other stars,» said Steve Ertel, lead author of the paper, from ESO and the University of Grenoble in France.

Scientists want to learn more about these ancient stars, which have never been observed directly, because they injected the first doses of carbon, oxygen and other crucial elements into the cosmos.

Space - and ground - based telescopes further observed these hermit galaxies to tease out their shapes, rates of star formation and other galactic vital signs.

It never comes close enough to be affected by the sun, but it never goes far enough away from the sun to be affected by other stars, which is the case with comets that have been observed in the Kuiper belt.

Over the next decade, Southwood's «cosmic vision» program calls for, among other goals, landing spacecraft on Mars, Mercury, Saturn's moon Titan, and a comet; observing the birth, evolution, and death of stars and galaxies at gamma ray and infrared wavelengths; studying the afterglow of the big bang; and mapping the positions and motions of nearly every star in the Milky Way.

The observed disk obeys Keplerian rotation: the material orbiting closer to the central star revolves faster than material further out.The high - sensitivity observations provided other important information about the object.

The Gemini Planet Imager GPI is an advanced instrument designed to observe the environments close to bright stars to detect and study Jupiter - like exoplanets (planets around other stars) and see protostellar material (disk, rings) that might be lurking next to the star.

So if the results of Gran Sasso are borne out by other experiments, then neutrinos are, in fact, tachyons — hypothetical particles, never before observed (except on Star Trek), that travel above light speed, and stay there.

NASA's Kepler spacecraft made an unexpected catch in 2011: While looking for planets around other stars it also happened to snap a brace of supernovae, allowing astronomers to observe the shockwave that triggers them for the first time in detail.

In a few other cases a candidate planet had been observed near a star but had not been proved to follow a planet - like orbit.

Since first observing a planet orbiting a star other than our sun in 1992, astronomers have made definitive sightings of about 1000 «exoplanets» and have identified a further 3000 to 4000 candidate exoplanets.

In other runs of the simulation, Krumholz and Feng observed that even clouds that do not turn much of their gas into stars — as the Sun's parent cloud probably didn't — still produce stars with nearly - identical abundances.

But a supermassive black hole in a galaxy about 1.8 billion light - years away has been gorging on a single star for more than 10 years — longer than any other observed supermassive black hole meal.

For planetary scientists like Jackson, being able to observe objects like these may yield important clues about how planet formation works in other star systems.

Similar disks are observed today around other sunlike stars and are presumed to be new planetary systems in the making.

I'm confident that we'll detect signs of life on exoplanets (planets around other stars) by observing the atmospheres of the planets that we're detecting now — especially those similar to Earth in mass and orbit — and finding oxygen and other chemical signatures there.

This emission, observed in other galaxies mainly from regions around newborn stars, has now been detected in our Galaxy.

In other words, the ancestral stars that spawned the eight stars observed in the study were likely to have been spinning at that velocity, the authors report online today in Nature.

Ghost - like particles that were first created in the instant following the Big Bang, antineutrinos and their partner neutrinos travel at close to the speed of light and are notoriously difficult to observe as they move through space, passing through planets, star systems, and galaxies with scant interactions with other forms of matter.

But other observations need to confirm the true planetary nature of these candidate events, because the observed dips may also be due to an eclipsing binary star in the background whose light blends with the foreground star studied by Kepler.

And although the study focused on this particular star — known as WD 1425 +540 — the fact that its planetary system shares characteristics with our solar system strongly suggests that other planetary systems would also.The researchers observed WD 1425 +540 with the Keck Telescope in 2008 and 2014, and with the Hubble Space Telescope in 2014.

It will observe how exoplanets in other solar systems pass in front of their host star - and assist in the search of potentially habitable planets.

To determine whether the objects on their list were planets rather than other stars, the researchers looked at the shape of the light curve caused by the transits; U-shaped curves generally indicate a planet, while V - shaped curves would usually indicate another star interacting with the one being observed, Kipping explains.

On the other hand, infrared telescopes that can reveal infant stars before they completely emerge from their dusty cradles, are not able to observe the development process involved in the pre-ignition of stars.

The findings help explain why astronomers have detected few circumbinary planets — which orbit stars that in turn orbit each other — despite observing thousands of short - term binary stars, or...

Other abundance anomalies are found in a peculiar class of higher temperature stars, called Wolf - Rayet (or W) stars, in which objects containing predominantly helium, carbon, and oxygen are distinguished from those containing helium and nitrogen, some carbon, and little observed oxygen.

Other factors that broaden the main sequence band on the HR diagram include uncertainty in the distance to stars and the presence of unresolved binary stars that can alter the observed stellar parameters.

More specifically, asteroseismology enabled the team to characterize the inner parts of the stars and observe other important features through their natural resonances.

Other instruments that are used to reflect light into a fixed telescope are the heliostat, which produces an image of the Sun, and the siderostat, which is like a heliostat but is used to observe stars.

The other two stars observed during the Red Dots campaign are: Barnard's star, a low mass red dwarf almost 6 light - years away, and Ross 154, another red dwarf, 9.69 light - years away.

«With this study, we can open a new window to observe stars other than the sun... in a similar way that we observe the sun,» Ohnaka told Space.com.

VLBA observations of TX Cam and other stars have shown motion of the gas when observed at different times.

For instance, even though evidence for the existence of exocometary belts have been previously found around other stars, they are unlike what has been observed around KIC 8462852.

They found it by observing a long - sought, short - lived afterglow of subatomic particles ejected from a magnetar — a neutron star with a magnetic field billions of times stronger than any on Earth and 100 times stronger than any other previously known in the Universe.

On the other hand, several similarities were discovered with the chemical composition observed for stars in nearby massive dwarf galaxies, such as Sagittarius and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

This monumental telescope observed other weird objects that vary their radio signals over time, such as flaring stars.

Although GRB 000131, like other gamma - ray bursts, appears to have taken place in a remote «early galaxy» (or «sub-galactic clumps» of stars) that is smaller than today's luminous galaxies, astronomers found it difficult to detect that extremely dim, sub-galactic clump of stars even with the Hubble Space Telescope, as the observed fading of the afterglow indicated that the maximum brightness of the gamma - ray emission was explosion was at least 10,000 times brighter than its host galaxy.

Science News reported that lightning on Venus and Jupiter have also been observed, but not on other planets orbiting other stars.

For example, because the HL Tau star is surrounded by so much dust and other material, it could not be observed with optical means, Wootten tells Newsweek.

We measure the radial profile and fractional luminosity of the disc, and compare the values to those of discs around stars of similar age and / or spectral type, placing this disc in context of other resolved discs observed by Herschel / DUNES.

We would like to observe other objects to improve our understanding of the launching mechanism of outflows and the formation scenario of massive stars with the assistance of theoretical research.»

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Comparisons with other stars, that resemble the Sun in mass and age, indicate that the Sun could undergo more substantial variations in brightness than those observed by satellites so far.