Sentences with phrase «us team of astronomers»

The stars were detected by two separate teams of astronomers.

Two teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe.

Recently, a team of astronomers reported discovering a pulsating star that appears to shine with the energy of 10 million suns.

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.

In two studies, international teams of astronomers suggest that recent images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory of two pulsars — Geminga and B0355 +54 — may help shine a light on the distinctive emission signatures of pulsars, as well as their often perplexing geometry.

An international team of astronomers has determined that Centaurus A, a massive elliptical galaxy 13 million light - years from Earth, is accompanied by a number of dwarf satellite galaxies orbiting the main body in a narrow disk.

Now, a team of astronomers has used position and velocity data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as well as computer simulations of stellar evolution in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC, pictured above), a small satellite galaxy near the Milky Way, to show that these speeding stars may come from there.

Last summer, a team of astronomers tried three times to catch the tiny shadow of a distant world as it raced across our planet, like a tiny eclipse, at 60,000 mph.

So one team of astronomers used data from the Gaia space observatory to simulate the interiors of solar - type stars, which are similar in mass and age to our own sun.

This intriguing fingerprint quickly triggered additional observations by teams of astronomers worldwide who obtained observing time with additional space observatories including NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR).

He leads a team of astronomers who have been using the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) to look for failed supernovae in other galaxies.

A team of astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and SOKENDAI (Graduate University of Advanced Studies, Japan) are tracking velocity structures and gaseous metallicities in galaxies in two protoclusters located in the direction of the constellation Serpens.

Another bombshell came in 1998 when two teams of astronomers proved that cosmic expansion is actually speeding up due to a mysterious property of space called dark energy.

Fast forward 500 years, and a team of astronomers led by John Bally (University of Colorado, USA) has used the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) to peer into the heart of this cloud.

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.

An international team of astronomers led by Yale University and the University of California - Santa Cruz have pushed back the cosmic frontier of galaxy exploration to a time when the universe was only 5 % of its present age.

Adam Riess turned astronomy on its head when he led a team of astronomers (the High - z Team) that discovered the expansion of the universe is actually speeding up.

A team of astronomers at the University of Chicago and Grinnell College seeks to change the way scientists approach the search for Earth - like planets orbiting stars other than the sun.

In the past few years, Hummel and a team of astronomers have observed wiggles in the jet.

An international team of astronomers including researchers from the University of British Columbia has discovered a new dwarf planet orbiting in the disk of small icy worlds beyond Neptune.

The team of astronomers has now shown that the comet's orbit is stable for more than three hundred years.

A team of astronomers, led by Karina Caputi of the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute at the University of Groningen, has now unearthed many distant galaxies that had escaped earlier scrutiny.

To answer this question, an international team of astronomers observed the evolved star L2 Puppis.

An international team of astronomers used the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope to estimate whether there might be water on the seven earth - sized planets orbiting the nearby dwarf star TRAPPIST - 1.

Two rival teams of astronomers are racing to capture unprecedented images of giant planets around other stars.

By using the full power of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer an international team of astronomers has discovered exozodiacal light close to the habitable zones around nine nearby stars.

Using the most powerful radio telescope in the world, an international team of astronomers has set out to look for answers in the star L2 Puppis.

Using archival data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and the XMM - Newton and Chandra X-ray telescopes, a team of astronomers have discovered a gigantic black hole, which is probably destroying and devouring a big star in its vicinity.

Two teams of astronomers made headlines in November after announcing they had photographed planets orbiting regular stars other than our own sun.

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.

An international team of astronomers has identified a record breaking brown dwarf (a star too small for nuclear fusion) with the «purest» composition and the highest mass yet known.

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.

But in February, independent teams of astronomers armed with Spitzer data reported they could not detect water vapor in either planet's infrared glow as it passed behind its star.

Using the HARPS spectrograph on the European Southern Observatory's 3.6 - meter telescope in Chile, a Brazilian - led team of astronomers has discovered an extrasolar system that bears a striking resemblance to our own.

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.

A team of astronomers has combined new observations of Gliese 667C with existing data from HARPS at ESO's 3.6 - metre telescope in Chile, to reveal a system with at least six planets.

An international team of astronomers observed these remarkable objects with the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA).

A team of astronomers led by John Webb of the University of New South Wales has been measuring how the light from quasars is absorbed by gas clouds that lie between them and us but are still billions of light - years away, and thus did their absorbing billions of years ago.

But if it is a planet, as one team of astronomers thinks, we may be in for some celestial fireworks in 2032, when Fomalhaut b starts to plough through a broad belt of debris that surrounds the star and icy comets within the belt smash into the planet's atmosphere.

An international team of astronomers led by Dr. Andrea Kunder of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) in Germany has discovered that the central 2000 light years within the Milky Way Galaxy hosts an ancient population of stars.

Last month, a team of astronomers announced the discovery of the first alien world that could host life on its surface.

An international team of astronomers has discovered the first Earth - mass planet that transits, or crosses in front of, its host star.

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.

In August, a team of astronomers reported that Mira has a 13 - light - year - long tail of glowing stardust, something never seen in any other star.

But a team of astronomers recently discovered something odd enough to make even their most jaded colleagues take notice: a vast fountain of antimatter that appears to be spewing from our galaxy's center.

Now, a large team of astronomers led by Charles Alcock of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, has used the Hubble Space Telescope and ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile to study a microlens that was discovered in 1993.

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.

Asteroids are discovered by small, dedicated teams of astronomers using optical telescopes that repeatedly scan the sky looking for star - like objects, which change location in the sky slightly over the course of an hour or so.

A team of astronomers led by Wouter Vlemmings, Chalmers University of Technology, have used the telescope Alma (Atacama Large Millimetre / Submillimetre Array) to make the sharpest observations yet of a star with the same starting mass as the Sun.