Sentences with phrase «radio astronomers discovered»

Radio astronomers discovered intense belts of radiation surrounding Jupiter created by electrons trapped in its powerful magnetic field — 10x the Earth's!

SIX years ago, radio astronomers discovered an area of about a million square kilometres on the equator of Mars that does not reflect radar signals.

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In 1974, U.S. astronomers Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor discovered a pair of radio - emitting neutron stars called pulsars orbiting each other.

Penn State University astronomers have discovered that the mysterious «cosmic whistles» known as fast radio bursts can pack a serious punch, in some cases releasing a billion times more energy in gamma - rays than they do in radio waves and rivaling the stellar cataclysms known as supernovae in their explosive power.

Fast radio bursts, which astronomers refer to as FRBs, were first discovered in 2007, and in the years since radio astronomers have detected a few dozen of these events.

Discovering molecules like amino acetonitrile is a big deal, because it's not easy for them to materialize in the extreme temperatures of space, says radio astronomer Anthony Remijan of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia: «Too hot and they are destroyed, too cold and they can't form.&rradio astronomer Anthony Remijan of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia: «Too hot and they are destroyed, too cold and they can't form.&rRadio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia: «Too hot and they are destroyed, too cold and they can't form.»

In the past year astronomers working at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Green Bank Telescope have identified eight new molecules that are some of the largest and most complex compounds discovered in space.

Since Lew Snyder and David Buhl discovered interstellar formaldehyde in 1969, astronomers have identified more than 150 molecules in deep space, mostly by using radio telescopes to detect the faint radiation the molecules emit.

Astronomers also discovered weak, long - lasting radio emissions coming from within 130 light - years of FRB 121102, suggesting the two are related — though we don't know how, if at all.

«The radio emission these students discovered coming from this brown dwarf is 10,000 times stronger than anyone expected,» said Dale Frail, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorroradio emission these students discovered coming from this brown dwarf is 10,000 times stronger than anyone expected,» said Dale Frail, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in SocorroRadio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro, NM.

«Many astronomers are surprised at this discovery, because they didn't expect such strong radio emission from this object,» said Shri Kulkarni, a Caltech professor who was on the team that first discovered a brown dwarf in 1995, and advisor to one of the students.

Excited to discover a huge radio source, we raced our chart recording back to the astronomers.

When «Oumuamua was first discovered, astronomers thought it was a comet or an asteroid from within the Read more about Outback radio telescope listens in on interstellar visitor - Scimex

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) of radio telescopes have discovered a cloud of gas apparently being struck by a jet of ultrafast particles powered by the energy of a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy 450 million light - years away.

Astronomers using a global combination of radio telescopes to study a stellar explosion some 30 million light - years from Earth have likely discovered either the youngest black hole or the youngest neutron star known in the Universe.

Twenty years ago, astronomers discovered a number of enigmatic radio - emitting filaments concentrated near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.

In 1984, major radio and television networks reported that astronomers at Kitt Peak National Observatory had discovered the first planet outside the solar system.

Astronomers have discovered three brown dwarfs — enigmatic objects that are neither stars nor planets — emitting radio waves that scientists can not explain.

Astronomers analyzing nearly 20 years of data from the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array radio telescope have discovered that a small star in a multiple - star system in the constellation Taurus probably has been ejected from the system after a close encounter with one of the system's more - massive components, presumed to be a compact double star.

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array of radio telescopes have discovered a cloud of gas apparently being struck by a jet of ultrafast particles powered by the energy of a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy 450 million light - years away.

Astronomers using radio telescopes in New Mexico and California have discovered a giant, rotating disk of material around a young, massive star, indicating that very massive stars as well as those closer to the size of the Sun may be circled by disks from which planets are thought to form.

Frail, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro, New Mexico, along with Shri Kulkarni and Josh Bloom, astronomers at Caltech, discovered radio emission coming from a strange object 15,000 light - years away in our own Milky Way GaRadio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro, New Mexico, along with Shri Kulkarni and Josh Bloom, astronomers at Caltech, discovered radio emission coming from a strange object 15,000 light - years away in our own Milky Way Garadio emission coming from a strange object 15,000 light - years away in our own Milky Way Galaxy.

Aiming the 300 - foot at the supernova remnant known as the Crab Nebula in 1968, astronomers Staelin and Reifenstein discovered that the radio waves coming from the point inside the Nebula was not constant but pulsed.

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Zane Zaminsky (Charlie Sheen), a radio astronomer working for SETI, discovers an extraterrestrial radio signal from Wolf 336, a star 14 light years from Earth.