Sentences with phrase «planetary astronomer at»

«This is the first exoplanet discovered with the Gemini Planet Imager, one of the new generation instruments designed specifically for discovering and analyzing faint, young planets orbiting bright stars,» said Franck Marchis, Senior Planetary Astronomer at the SETI Institute and member of the team that built the instrument and now conducts the survey.

Nowadays Brown, a planetary astronomer at Caltech, has no doubt about Pluto's place in the solar system: «Pluto is not a planet.

If these telltale signs appear together in light from a distant object, they hint that water vapor might be present there, explains Lorenz Roth, a planetary astronomer at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas.

«This whole word planet is just magical,» says Mike Brown, a planetary astronomer at Caltech.

«We've come to recognize that Ceres has a lot of characteristics that are intriguing for those looking at how life starts,» says Andy Rivkin, a planetary astronomer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., who was not involved in the study.

«They're very close, and this is a very small object,» says Mark Showalter, a planetary astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., who led the campaign.

Not exact matches

«You can compare the first version of MOND to Kepler discovering the shape of planetary orbits,» says Mario Livio, the senior astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.

«This discovery of the first ever quintuple planetary system has me jumping out of my socks,» says group member and veteran planet hunter Geoffrey Marcy, an astronomer at the University of California at Berkeley.

As astronomers presented new planetary measurements and observing techniques at the conference, Kepler engineers in California were strategizing about how to remotely repair one of two broken reaction wheels that precisely point the telescope.

«We imagined we were going to find other planetary systems in our own image,» says Andrew Howard, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii.

Astronomers have detected such icy particles before, Watson says, «but what's new here is that we've seen them as definitely belonging to the proto - planetary system we're looking at.»

For planetary cores to form in such disks, the dust must coalesce quickly, says Elston's colleague at Florida, astronomer Elizabeth Lada.

For decades, astronomers have suspected that planetary nebulae — dazzlingly colorful shrouds of gas cast off by dying stars — owe their weird but often symmetrical shapes to the sculpting magnetic forces of two stars orbiting each other at the nebula's center.

In two talks today at the Division for Planetary Sciences in Pasadena, California, astronomers report that a small asteroid located in the inner asteroid belt between those two planets took a major hit early last year.

The orbits of exocomets on Beta Pictoris could also help scientists trace the presence and migration of larger, undetected bodies such as gas giant planets in the planetary system, says Russel White, an astronomer at Georgia State University in Atlanta who was not involved in the study.

A team led by astronomer Kevin Luhman of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, found extra emissions of infrared light from a faint dwarf with just 15 times Jupiter's mass — at the threshold of what astronomers consider «planetary mass.»

The astronomers looked at 130 planetary nebulae in the Milky Way's central bulge.

Neugebauer, a researcher with the UA's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, said the back - to - back awards for Tucson astronomers «illustrates the high regard for the work in solar and helio - spheric that is done in our community by many people at both at the university and the National Solar Observatory.»

Astronomer Abel Méndez from the Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico has put together a Periodic Table of Exoplanets, where each of the 3,700 confirmed exoplanets is slotted into its own discrete category — including planets that could harbor life.

Haumea is a much larger object further out in the solar system, and together with the centaurs can help scientists learn more about planetary rings in general, writes Amanda A. Sickafoose, astronomer at MIT and the South African Astronomical Observatory, in a Nature commentary.

Mauna Kea, HI — California Institute of Technology (Caltech) astronomers using data gathered at the W. M. Keck Observatory have developed a new technique for planetary scientists that could provide insight into how many water planets like Earth exist within our universe.

Astronomers at the Universities of Cambridge and Warwick say this is the first «reliable evidence» for water - rich, rocky planetary material in any extrasolar planetary system.

Three teams of astronomers have made use of SPHERE, an advanced exoplanet - hunting instrument on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at ESO's Paranal Observatory, in order to shed light on the enigmatic evolution of fledgling planetary systems.

On January 16, 2002, a team of astronomers (including (Debra A. Fischer, Geoffrey W. Marcy, R. Paul Butler, Steven S. Vogt, and Gregory W. Henry) announced the discovery of a planetary companion «b,» whose mass has been estimated at a minimum of 20 percent that of Jupiter (exoplanets.org; and Fischer et al, 2003, in pdf) with a similar diameter.

On March 5, 2015, a team of astronomers announced that numerical simulations constrain the size of planetary candidate Alpha Centauri Bb (with orbital period P = 3.24 days; and semi-major axis a = 0.042 AU) to less than 2.7 Earth - masses at an inclination of 45 to 53 degrees relative to Stars» AB orbital plane (Plavchan et al, 2015).

At the UA, astronomers and planetary scientists were awarded a $ 5.7 million, five - year grant to identify the optimum conditions for extraterrestrial life and the planets around nearby stars that are capable of hosting it.

Water Emissions - In September of 2002, a team of astronomers (including Cristiano Cosmovici of the Institute for Cosmic and Planetary Science) announced at the Second European Workshop on Exo / Astrobiology that they had detected water «maser» emissions from three of 17 star systems suspected of hosting planets, including Upsilon Andromedae, using the 32 - meter Medicina radio telescope near Bologna.

Using telescopes, astronomers have discovered new planets and moons in our solar system, revealed that our planetary neighbourhood is just a small part of a vast galaxy, that our galaxy is just one of many billions across the universe, and that most objects in the universe are flying away from us at high speed because of its overall expansion.

Chemists, biologists, planetary scientists, astronomers and other researchers all vigorously discussed the issue at the meeting's first session on Monday morning (April 24).

Band 10 brings to ALMA a broad range of capabilities, which — among other things — enables astronomers and planetary scientists to study and monitor temperature changes at different altitudes above the clouds of Uranus and other giant planets in our Solar System.

On September 24, 2002, a team of astronomers (including William D. Cochran, Artie P. Hatzes, Michael Endl, Diane B. Paulson, Gordon A. H. Walker, Barbara McArthur, Bruce Campbell, and Stephenson Yang) at the Planetary Systems and their Formation Workshop announced the preliminary confirmation of a long - suspected planetary companion «A1» (or «b») with a minimum mass of 1.76 that of Jupiter (MacDonald Observatory's Gamma Cephei and press release; Tautenburg Observatory press release in German; DPS session summary; Walker et al, 1992; Lawton and Wright, 1989; and Campbell et al, 1988), with a similar Planetary Systems and their Formation Workshop announced the preliminary confirmation of a long - suspected planetary companion «A1» (or «b») with a minimum mass of 1.76 that of Jupiter (MacDonald Observatory's Gamma Cephei and press release; Tautenburg Observatory press release in German; DPS session summary; Walker et al, 1992; Lawton and Wright, 1989; and Campbell et al, 1988), with a similar planetary companion «A1» (or «b») with a minimum mass of 1.76 that of Jupiter (MacDonald Observatory's Gamma Cephei and press release; Tautenburg Observatory press release in German; DPS session summary; Walker et al, 1992; Lawton and Wright, 1989; and Campbell et al, 1988), with a similar diameter.

On September 24, 2002, astronomers at the Planetary Systems and their Formation Workshop announced the preliminary confirmation of a long - suspected, Jupiter - type planetary companion within two AUs of Gamma Cephei A (see: MacDonald Observatory's Gamma Cephei and press release; Tautenburg Observatory in German; DPS session summary; Walker et al, 1992; Lawton and Wright, 1989; and Campbell et al, 1988 — more detailPlanetary Systems and their Formation Workshop announced the preliminary confirmation of a long - suspected, Jupiter - type planetary companion within two AUs of Gamma Cephei A (see: MacDonald Observatory's Gamma Cephei and press release; Tautenburg Observatory in German; DPS session summary; Walker et al, 1992; Lawton and Wright, 1989; and Campbell et al, 1988 — more detailplanetary companion within two AUs of Gamma Cephei A (see: MacDonald Observatory's Gamma Cephei and press release; Tautenburg Observatory in German; DPS session summary; Walker et al, 1992; Lawton and Wright, 1989; and Campbell et al, 1988 — more details below).

«We are now beginning to understand that nature seems to overwhelmingly prefer [planetary] systems that have multiple planets with orbits of less than 100 days,» says Steve Vogt, astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

A new planetary catalog unveiled by astronomers during a recent meeting at the Ames Research Center signifies the final chapter of NASA's Kepler mission to find alien worlds.

On March 29, 2007, astronomers using NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope announced their finding that planetary systems — dusty disks of asteroids, comets, and possibly planets — may be at least as abundant in binary star systems as they are around single stars, like Sol.

«At least since 1989, Triton has been undergoing a period of global warming,» confirms astronomer James Elliot, professor of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologAt least since 1989, Triton has been undergoing a period of global warming,» confirms astronomer James Elliot, professor of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technologat Massachusetts Institute of Technology.