Sentences with phrase «team of astronomers finds»

this news just in (did not know where to put it): «Caltech - Led Team of Astronomers Finds 18 New Planets, Discovery is the largest collection of confirmed planets around stars more massive than the sun»

Gone in a (cosmological) flash: a team of astronomers found 72 very bright, but quick events in a recent survey and are still struggling to explain their origin.

An international team of astronomers found Haumea's ring by watching it from observatories across Europe as it crossed in front of the distant star, URAT1 533 − 182543, on January 21st, 2017.

Last year, a team of astronomers found a white dwarf named LP40 - 365.

In 1996, a team of astronomers found a stream of stars that were apparently stripped from SagDEG by the Milky Way as a «tidal trail» (Mateo et al, 1996).

Not exact matches

The team also publish their findings in two papers in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and the data are now publicly available for other astronomers to make further discoveries.

As instruments improved, astronomers detected smaller wobbles caused by smaller planets, until in 2004 a team using the Hobby - Eberly Telescope was arguably the first to find a super-Earth, 55 Cancri e. Others were revealed when their gravity briefly magnified the light of a distant star, a process known as gravitational lensing.

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.

«Previously, astronomers had been looking at the aftermath of short - period bursts largely in optical light, and were not really finding anything besides the light of the gamma - ray burst itself,» explained Andrew Fruchter of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., a member of Tanvir's research team.

A team of astronomers says it has found a new and remarkably simple way to measure the mass of a black hole: examine the shape of its home galaxy.

A team led by astronomer Garik Israelian of the European Southern Observatory recently examined nearly 500 stars, including 86 with planets, and found that most of the planet - bearing stars contained very little lithium, a trait they share with our sun.

A team of astronomers led by James Bauer, a research professor of astronomy at the University of Maryland, found that there are about seven times more long - period comets measuring at least 1 kilometer across than previously predicted.

The new COS observations build and expand on the findings of a 2015 Hubble study by the same team, in which astronomers analyzed the light from one quasar that pierced the base of the bubble.

The team now want to find out more about the ring, and establish whether the known processes for galaxy formation and large scale structure could have led to its creation, or if astronomers need to radically revise their theories of the evolution of the cosmos.

A Hungarian - US team of astronomers have found what appears to be the largest feature in the observable universe: a ring of nine gamma ray bursts — and hence galaxies — 5 billion light years across.

«Finding brown dwarfs near our sun is like discovering there's a hidden house on your block that you didn't know about,» said astronomer Michael Cushing, a WISE team member at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and lead author of the study on the Y dwarfs.

The team has also found evidence to silence a minority of sceptics who argue that what most astronomers take to be microlensing events are actually caused by natural variations in the intrinsic brightness of the stars being observed.

A team of European astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) now believe they've found the partner star of a magnetar for the first time.

Law, team leader Shami Chatterjee of Cornell University and other astronomers on the team will present their findings today at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Grapevine, Texas, in the scientific journal Nature, and in two companion papers to appear in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Although a second team of astronomers failed to find signs of Gliese 581 g in their data, if its existence is confirmed, it will be the most habitable exoplanet yet found.

Using data captured by ALMA in Chile and from the ROSINA instrument on ESA's Rosetta mission, a team of astronomers has found faint traces of the chemical compound [Freon - 40]--(CH3Cl), also known as methyl chloride and chloromethane, around both the infant star system IRAS 16293 - 2422, about 400 light - years away, and the famous comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko (67P / C - G) in our own Solar System.

Using the European Very Large Telescope (VLT), a French - Italian team of astronomers has found many more galaxies in the distant past than had been previously observed.

The first earthly pieces of Vesta were identified only in 1970, when a team of astronomers studying light reflected from the asteroid's surface found that its spectrum — which reveals the minerals present — perfectly matched that of a certain distinct class of meteorite.

Sure enough, an independent team of astronomers led by Rodrigo Ibata of Strasbourg Observatory in France just found another miniature galaxy falling prey to our own.

Lawrence Rudnick, the astronomer who led the team that found the void, was studying data from the Very Large Array, a network of 27 radio antennas in New Mexico, when he spotted a gap in the constellation Eridanus where radio signals from galaxies appear unusually faint.

But now, a team of Swiss, French, and British astronomers have analysed ten galaxy clusters observed with the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope, and found that their BCGs are not fixed at the centre as expected.

Then in 2011, a team of radio astronomers led by Matthew Bailes of Australia's Swinburne University of Technology found a third planetary system around a pulsar, one unlike either of the previous two.

A team of astronomers has found a gas cloud that existed when the universe was 13 % of its current age that appears to be made of the pristine gas produced in the big bang but with just a wisp of heavier elements: 1/3000 of the level in our solar system.

Now, a team of astronomers says they have found another one, not quite as big, orbiting 200 light - years from the center of the Milky Way.

An international team of astronomers has found the most distant gravitational lens yet — a galaxy that, as predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, deflects and intensifies the light of an even more distant object.

The findings by an international team of astronomers, including Victoria Kaspi and Shriharsh Tendulkar of McGill University, appear in the January 11 edition of Nature and are highlighted on the cover of the journal.

The finding, by an international team of astronomers, including Professor Geraint Lewis from the University of Sydney's School of Physics, is announced today in Nature.

The international team led by astronomers from Peking University in China and from the University of Arizona announce their findings in the scientific journal Nature on Feb. 26.

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.»

Back in 1994, a team led by astronomer Lewis Snyder of the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign announced preliminary evidence of the simplest type of amino acid, glycine, but the finding did not stand up to closer examination (New Scientist magazine, 11 June 1994, p 4).

To predict when astronomers might find the first planet similar in size to Earth that also orbits far enough from its star to boast liquid water, the team scoured the discovery records of 370 exoplanets.

Patrick Petitjean, an astronomer at the Institute of Astrophysics in Paris, led a team that analysed quasar light picked up by the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile and found no evidence that alpha has changed.

A team of astronomers led by Maria Rosa Zapatero Osorio of the Astrophysics Institute of the Canary Islands used two Spanish telescopes to find 18 faint, red objects in a cluster of stars called Sigma Orionis.

Building on this discovery, the CfA team found that SN 2017egm's host galaxy has a high concentration of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, which astronomers call «metals.»

To find out, astronomer Alan Dressler of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and his team are training some of the world's largest telescopes on a small swath of sky in the constellation Sextans.

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.

The sun's core rotates nearly four times faster than the sun's surface, according to new findings by an international team of astronomers.

Mildly encouraging news for Earthlings hoping to escape the scorched ruins of our own planet: A team of astronomers has found evidence for four Earth - sized (ish) worlds orbiting tau Ceti, a Sun - like star located just 12 light years away.

Using Hubble and the Keck Observatory, two teams of astronomers have now found that the system consists of a Uranus - sized planet orbiting about 370 million miles from its parent star, slightly less than the distance between Jupiter and the sun.

Using this technique, a team of astronomers led by Neil Crighton (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy; now at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne) has found the best evidence to date for a flow of pristine intergalactic gas onto a galaxy.

Due to the competitive state of planet finding, and the fact that time on the twin Keck telescopes are scheduled months in advance, the team asked UC Berkeley Astronomer, Imke de Pater to gather some data during her scheduled run.

Two teams of astronomers — the High - z Supernova Search Team, led by Adam Riess and Brian Schmidt, and the Supernova Cosmology Project, led by Saul Perlmutter — publish findings that, instead of slowing down, the expansion of the universe is accelerating.

ALMA observations by a team of astronomers led by Nadia Murillo and Shih - Ping Lai have found the youngest disk around a protostar to date, at an earlier stage than predicted by most models.

But astronomers keep adding to the inventory of potentially habitable planets, and the science team behind the Curiosity rover continues to find tantalizing hints that Mars may have - or may still - support microbial life.

The destruction of a planet may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but a team of astronomers has found evidence that this may have happened in an ancient globular cluster of stars at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy.