Sentences with phrase «several of the astronomers»

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Newton, for example, told the Astronomer Royal, Flamsteed, to correct some astronomical data because it disagreed with theoretical predictions; several factors, including refraction of light by the atmosphere, were later proposed to justify the corrections.11

Several hours later, a team of astronomers known as the ROTSE (Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment) collaboration, led by Carl Akerlof of the University of Michigan, reported that the visible - light counterpart of the burst was also seen in the images taken with a small, robotic telescope operated by their team, starting only 22 seconds after the burst.

Astronomers believe that the exoplanets, called NN Ser (ab) c and d, may have survived a cataclysmic event several million years ago, when one of their host stars swelled to 200 times the diameter of the sun, temporarily enveloping the planets.

Using observations from several telescopes, Yale University astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and colleagues studied 10 bright clumps of stars within the galaxy, known as globular clusters, and measured their velocities.

By peering this deeply into the galaxy at millions of stars, astronomers should unleash «a tsunami of transit discoveries» within the next several years, Sasselov predicts.

That would be big enough to fulfill several high - priority items on astronomers» wish lists, revolutionizing studies of faraway galaxies, observations of planets in the outer solar system and searches for life on Earth - like exoplanets.

A team led by astronomer Steven Majewski of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville sorted through a half - billion objects in the 2MASS catalog to find several thousand M giants, a distinctive class of red - giant star common in the Sagittarius dwarf but rarely seen above or below the plane of our galaxy.

A team led by astronomer Dimitar Sasselov of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, used several large telescopes to scrutinize 59 candidate stars that OGLE singled out for a closer look via subtle dips in their light outputs.

In the late 1980s, Bodhan Paczynski of Princeton University and several other astronomers realized there was a way to detect unseen compact bodies that might be lurking in the halo of our galaxy.

No collisions have been observed directly, but astronomers have found several pairs of black holes that are very close to each other, including some that are orbiting each other and some that seem to be on course for a collision.

A team of British and American astronomers used data from several telescopes on the ground and in space — among them the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope — to study the atmosphere of the hot, bloated, Saturn - mass exoplanet WASP - 39b, about 700 light - years from Earth.

Ms. Duong noted that «The Cannon is named for Annie Jump Cannon, a pioneering American astronomer who classified the spectra of around 340,000 stars by eye over several decades a century ago — our code analyses that many stars in far greater detail in less than a day.»

For the next several decades Herbig, Haro, and other astronomers struggled unsuccessfully to explain the nature of these bright knots of gas, now called HH objects.

Over the past several decades, though, astronomers have realized that black holes are not so unusual after all: Supermassive ones, millions or billions of times as hefty as the sun, seem to reside at the center of most, if not all, galaxies.

Astronomers estimate that around 2000 stars reside within Trumpler 14, ranging in size from less than one tenth to up to several tens of times the mass of the Sun.

The startup company Uwingu (meaning «sky» in Swahili), composed of several prominent astronomers — and IAU members — publicly thumbed its nose at the IAU.

Several years ago astronomers came across a new type of star that spews out unusually low energy x-rays.

Astronomers caught their first glimpse of the stellar explosion in the wee hours of February 24, 1987, and in the last three decades, Science News has reported several stories on the explosion and the discoveries that came from it.

Astronomers expect to find roughly 10 more such systems in the survey, which will provide important insights into the fundamental physics of galaxies as well as how the universe expanded over the last several billion years.

But astronomers had thought that converting incoming matter into jets of x-rays extending out several light - years required much more gravitational heft.

Several fragments of Comet Shoemaker - Levy are likely to hit Jupiter in July 1994, according to an astronomer in the US.

For several years, scientists involved in the TMT and GMT projects have been pressing NSF to put its weight behind one or both of the telescopes, so that U.S. astronomers might have access to a Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope (GSMT) before 2020.

The three astronomers combined several images to amplify the faint loops and flares seen rising thousands of light - years from the plane of ngc 55, which lies some 5 million light - years from Earth.

First developed by British radio astronomers in 1946, arrays make use of several radio telescopes spaced some distance apart, «synthesizing» a single telescope with an aperture equal to the spacing between the farthest elements.

To test this concept, the astronomers compared the three magnified images with the locations of several other multiply imaged objects lensed by Abell 2744 that are not as far behind the cluster.

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found the clearest indications yet that planets with masses several times that of Jupiter have recently formed in the discs of gas and dust around four young stars.

An international team of astronomers, led by the University Göttingen and with researchers from AIP, has found that one of the stars in NGC 3201 is being flung backwards and forwards at speeds of several hundred thousand kilometres per hour, with the pattern repeating every 167 days.

She earned her doctorate in mathematics from the University of Oxford in 1945, worked as a part - time math instructor for several years, served in local government, including as Lord Mayor of Manchester, and became a dedicated amateur astronomer after her husband died.

Pasadena, CA — Using information gathered from several telescopes, a team of astronomers, including Carnegie's Eric Murphy, searched the sky for very rarely seen dusty starburst galaxies, formed soon after the Big Bang.

Keck Observatory's LGS AO system was instrumental in UCLA astronomer Andrea Ghez's pioneering work in characterizing the super-massive black hole and several important stars in the center of our galaxy, which earned her the coveted Crafoord Prize in Astronomy in 2012.

Although astronomers have discovered dozens of multiply imaged galaxies and quasars, they have never seen a stellar explosion resolved into several images.

The growth of a large, gaseous planet (such as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune) far from the central star is especially difficult for evolutionist astronomers to explain for several reasons.d

Some astronomers, however, have recently detected starspots which can result in false non-periodic detections and also a long - term variation in «seasonal» averages with a period of several years which deserves further study (Hargis et al, 2000).

Maunakea, Hawaii — Astronomers using several of the largest telescopes on Earth and space have discovered the brightest galaxy yet found in the early Universe and have strong evidence that examples... Read more»

The supermassive black hole at the core of the spiral galaxy NGC 4151 has created an odd structure — seen here in a composite photo combining images taken by several different telescopes — that some astronomers have dubbed «The Eye of Sauron.»

Astronomers have discovered a «treasure» of several dwarf galaxies, about a billion times dimmer than the Milky Way, orbiting our galaxy.

By combining data from Chandra and several other telescopes, astronomers have identified the true nature of an unusual source in the Milky Way galaxy.

Several stars are surrounded by disks of gas and dust, which a few astronomers thought might be merging to form planets.

The star's proper name of Gacrux, like Acrux, may have been created from its Greek letter Bayer designation by the astronomer, Elijah Hinsdale Burritt (1794 - 1838), the author of several editions of an Atlas of the Heavens published between 1833 and 1856.

Several teams of astronomers attributed the warp to a planet in a tilted orbit out of the plane of the main disk.

David Aguilar is an astronomer, the former Director of Science Information at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and the author of Cosmic Catastrophes, Seven Wonders of the Solar System, and several popular children's books on space.

In this talk, Yale University's Meg Urry will first give several alternative descriptions of what a black hole is, then explain how recent multiwavelength surveys have allowed astronomers to take a census of black hole growth across cosmic time.

In the 1910s and 1920s, Adriaan Van Maanen, an astronomer at Mount Wilson Observatory and friend of Shapley's, measured the internal rotational motion of several spiral nebulae.

According to John Bortle of Stormville, N.Y., who has observed several hundred comets in his more - than - 50 years as an assiduous amateur astronomer, Comet Lovejoy, «appears to be only modestly condensed, at best, and lacking in any obvious stellar nucleus, even a very faint one.

During the late 1960s and the 1970s, thanks to the activities of several professional astronomers, interest in and knowledge of the asteroids improved substantially.

The astronomers have several more candidates for inner Oort Cloud objects which should provide supporting evidence for models of the orbital perturbation of such objects, but it takes about a year of observing to determine whether an orbit is Sedna - like or not.

THE KAVLI FOUNDATION: Astronomers have already detected hundreds of Jupiter - like exoplanets and directly seen several young, hot, glowing exoplanets like 51 Eridani b.

The data from the NVSS will become available in several forms, including complete processed maps, lists of the radio - emit - ting objects found, and data from which astronomers may produce maps tailored to their own interests.

Now, over four years and several recurring bursts of this FRB later, astronomers have finally been able to directly trace the mysterious burst to its point of origin — a dwarf galaxy 3 billion light - years from Earth.

The planet orbits too close to its star to support life, but it might be one of several in this system, these astronomers say.