Sentences with phrase «as radio astronomers»

A lot of research projects were disrupted as radio astronomers around the world commandeered anything suitable.

Since joining the Observatory in 1989, Sue Ann has pioneered immersive, hands - on field trip opportunities such as the Radio Astronomer for a Day program that has served over 30,000 students.

Not exact matches

Astronomers captured the merging of neutron stars in various types of light, including ultraviolet, infrared and radio waves (above), as well as via gravitational waves — a first.

Last week at the American Astronomical Society's meeting, astronomers announced the detection of a second type of radio static from the heavens, and although it may not come from an era quite as ancient as TV snow does, it may probe the period immediately afterward — an equally mysterious time when the first stars and black holes were lighting up.

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.

Now, astronomers have overcome that problem by tracking bright spots of radio emission from the Triangulum Galaxy — also known as M33 — which the new study locates at 2.4 million light years from Earth.

Just as radio channels close to each other in frequency can bleed into one another, creating static, so too can radio interference from different technologies bleed into the channels astronomers use to observe.

Jodie Foster believably evokes the psychology of a real scientist as rarely shown on screen when she plays Ellie Arroway, a dedicated radio astronomer.

Astronomers see them as steady pulses of radio energy.

Dayton Jones and Thomas Kuiper, radio astronomers at JPL, have sketched a plan for deploying a rover to build a VLF radio telescope - essentially a huge network of wires acting as radio - wave receivers - in a crater on the lunar farside, where the moon's bulk blots out Earth's radio noise.

Astronomers exploit it to combine light or radio waves collected by widely separated telescopes so that they act as a single huge instrument, as large as the distance between the two of them.

As the most abundant element in the Universe and the raw fuel for creating stars, hydrogen is used by radio astronomers to detect and understand the makeup of other galaxies.

Astronomers have produced a highly detailed image of the Crab Nebula, by combining data from telescopes spanning nearly the entire breadth of the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves seen by the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to the powerful X-ray glow as seen by the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory.

Astronomers lost some 500 hours of observing time at the Green Bank radio telescope in West Virginia as a result of the U.S. government shutdown.

An interdisciplinary team of UvA physicists and astronomers proposed to search for primordial black holes in our galaxy by studying the X-ray and radio emission that these objects would produce as they wander through the galaxy and accrete gas from the interstellar medium.

Element 120, meanwhile, «should be called janskium after Karl Jansky the radio - astronomer, as it would appear directly below radium.»

«What we're seeing is a star that is the cosmic equivalent of «Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,» with the ability to change from one form to its more intense counterpart with startling speed,» said Scott Ransom, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Va. «Though we have known that X-ray binaries — some of which are observed as X-ray pulsars — can evolve over millions of years to become rapidly spinning radio pulsars, we were surprised to find one that seemed to swing so quickly between the two.&rRadio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Va. «Though we have known that X-ray binaries — some of which are observed as X-ray pulsars — can evolve over millions of years to become rapidly spinning radio pulsars, we were surprised to find one that seemed to swing so quickly between the two.&rradio pulsars, we were surprised to find one that seemed to swing so quickly between the two.»

It was first identified as a millisecond radio pulsar in 2005 with the National Science Foundation's Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and then later rediscovered as an X-ray pulsar by another team of astronomers in 2013.

The improved tally will help astronomers understand the relationship between the size of these radio sources and their age, as well as the nature of the galaxy itself.

It packed as much energy in its mere 5 - millisecond duration as the sun puts out in a month, making it by far the strongest, quickest signal radio astronomers have observed, although it wasn't nearly as powerful as the elusive gamma ray bursts that populate the universe.

It is so much like the Sun that in 1960 radio astronomers chose it as their first target in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

Astronomers are using the Cassini probe as a distant radio beacon to better pin down the orbit of the giant planet

Radio astronomers have yet to identify anything as complex as an amino acid, so astrochemists do not know exactly how complex these gaseous molecules can get.

As the object turns, the aurorae — shown in this artist's conception as a bright ring around the top pole — come in and out of view, altering the amount of visible light and radio waves astronomers detecAs the object turns, the aurorae — shown in this artist's conception as a bright ring around the top pole — come in and out of view, altering the amount of visible light and radio waves astronomers detecas a bright ring around the top pole — come in and out of view, altering the amount of visible light and radio waves astronomers detect.

Now Patricia Henning, a radio astronomer at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, says a survey of the southern skies has finally uncovered a leading arm of gas as well, which suggests gravitational tides are at work.

The scientists who conducted the study include University of Chile astronomers Andrés Guzmán (principal researcher), Guido Garay (Astronomy Department Director), Leonardo Bronfman, and Diego Mardones, as well as Luis Rodríguez (UNAM Center for Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics), James M. Moran (Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Kate Brooks (Center for Astronomy and Space Science, CSIRO - Australia) and Lars - Ake Nyman (Joint ALMA Observatory).

In addition to her own programs, she has built partnerships to host several successful on - site programs such as Star Quest Star Party, the Society for Amateur Radio Astronomer's Conference and Chautauqua short courses for college teachers.

Astronomers using a world - wide collection of radio telescopes, including the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), have made a dramatic «movie» of a voracious, superdense neutron star repeatedly spitting out subatomic particles at nearly the speed of light into two narrow jets as it pulls material from a companion radio telescopes, including the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), have made a dramatic «movie» of a voracious, superdense neutron star repeatedly spitting out subatomic particles at nearly the speed of light into two narrow jets as it pulls material from a companion Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), have made a dramatic «movie» of a voracious, superdense neutron star repeatedly spitting out subatomic particles at nearly the speed of light into two narrow jets as it pulls material from a companion star.

The package is a mainstay and a daily tool for most of the world's radio astronomers, and also has been used by scientists in such other fields as fluid - dynamics simulation and medical imaging.

The old real - estate adage about what's really important proved applicable to astrophysics as astronomers used the sharp radio «vision» of the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) to pinpoint the distance to a pulsar.

Astronomers at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have calculated that the Andromeda galaxy is roughly the same size as the Milky Way.

The scientists used the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope in New Mexico and the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) in the Netherlands to produce an image of the galaxy M33, known to amateur astronomers as the Pinwheel Garadio telescope in New Mexico and the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) in the Netherlands to produce an image of the galaxy M33, known to amateur astronomers as the Pinwheel GaRadio Telescope (WSRT) in the Netherlands to produce an image of the galaxy M33, known to amateur astronomers as the Pinwheel Galaxy.

For example, SLF radio waves at 60 Hz may be received and studied by astronomers, or may be ducted along wires as electric power.

Upcoming next - generation radio telescopes, such as the Square Kilometer Array, slated to be the world's largest radio telescope, and a suite of smaller planned telescopes called «light buckets» should help astronomers sort out the possibilities.

Location, location, and location: the old real - estate adage about what's really important proved applicable to astrophysics as astronomers used the sharp radio vision of the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array to pinpoint the distance to a pulsar.

The phenomena, known as fast radio bursts or FRBs, were first detected in 2007 by astronomers scouring archival data from Australia's Parkes Telescope, a 64 - meter diameter dish best known for its role receiving live televison images from the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969.

Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is a technique used by radio astronomers to electronically link widely separated radio telescopes together so they work as if they were a single instrument with extraordinarily sharp «vision,» or resolving power.

Infrared light, as well as X-rays and radio, more freely passes through this obscuring material, so astronomers use this to see the region more clearly.

As the last of the data arrived at project observatories, he watched celebratory comments come pouring in on a special chat line for radio astronomers and engineers.

Astronomers may need to expand and secure what are known as «radio quiet» zones.

And with astronomers now on the lookout for the starnge pulses of radio energy, Vandenbroucke expects the pace of discovery to accelerate as the world's radio telescopes continue their searches and as new radio interferometers come on line.

«Just as the antenna of your car radio can detect local radio stations no matter where they are around the car, these antennas can detect signals anywhere in the sky,» said Joseph Lazio, an astronomer on the project from JPL.

In Socorro, astronomers and computer scientists used a special - purpose computer to digitally combine the signals from the satellite and the ground telescopes to make them all work together as a single, giant radio telescope.

Last year astronomers around the world witnessed the merger of two neutron stars as gravitational waves, light, radio and gamma rays, but the aftermath of the mashup hasn't played out quite as expected.

Over time, as both theory and technology improved, radio astronomers made discoveries that completely changed our understanding of the universe.

With the technique of very long baseline interferometry, astronomers can hook up radio telescopes, distant from one another in different countries and on continents, to mimic a single «virtual» telescope with an aperture as wide as Earth.

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.

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.

In 1960, one of these bright radio - emitting objects was identified as a faint, bluish - looking «star» by astronomers using the 200 - inch telescope on Palomar Mountain in California.