Sentences with phrase «astronomers at»

Last month, astronomers at the University of Arizona announced that a telescope search had found far more small objects near the Earth than had been predicted (see Science, New Scientist, 31 October).

Beginning in July 2015, bright clouds were again seen on Neptune by several observers, from amateurs to astronomers at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii.

The asteroid, called 2007 NS2, was discovered by astronomers at the La Sagra Observatory in southern Spain on 14 July.

Astronomers at the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Apache Point Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, identified stars in a coherent band wrapping one - sixth of the way around the galaxy.

Astronomers at the University of Toronto, York University and Queen's University Belfast used measurements of the phase variations of six exoplanets obtained by the Kepler space telescope to forecast their daily weather cycle.

Starting in the 1970s, Greenberg was vindicated by a team of astronomers at the University of California, San Diego.

Astronomers at the Berlin Observatory found the new planet, Neptune, where it was supposed to be, sparking a media sensation.

NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe announced his decision here 1 June in an impassioned address to 1000 astronomers at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

Hazes and clouds high up in the atmospheres of exoplanets may make them appear bigger than they really are, according to new research by astronomers at the Space Research Institute (IWF) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

To see what lay beneath the Venusian clouds, astronomers at Arecibo sent radar signals to Venus.

After 100 years of theory and decades of experiments, astronomers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory have detected gravitational waves directly for the first time.

Previously rendered only in artists» conceptions, the first asteroid collision known in modern times revealed itself in a tail of debris streaming from what astronomers at first assumed was a comet.

Astronomers at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, studied 84 sunlike stars and observed 29 of these supersized solar flares over a 4 - year period to find out how often they occur.

Using statistical analysis and scientific computing, astronomers at Western University have charted a path that most likely pinpoints the very origins of comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, which is vital information in discovering what kind of material it is made from and just how long it has been present in our solar system.

Astronomers at the University of Minnesota have identified the largest known void in the universe, a cosmological no - man's - land where stars, planets, and even dark matter are mysteriously absent.

Astronomers at the University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) discovered for the first time that the hot gas in the halo of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning in the same direction and at comparable speed as the galaxy's disk, which contains our stars, planets, gas, and dust.

He reputedly derided the astronomers at Mount Wilson Observatory as «spherical bastards» because they looked like bastards from any side.

In the late 1980s astronomers at the Mount Graham National Observatory in Arizona faced opposition to a new telescope from squirrel - protecting environmentalists and from the San Carlos Apaches, who perform religious ceremonies on the mountain.

An interdisciplinary team of physicists and astronomers at the University of Amsterdam's GRAPPA Center of Excellence for Gravitation and Astroparticle Physics has devised a new strategy to search for «primordial» black holes produced in the early universe.

By precisely locating the same stars in Andromeda in 2002 and then again in 2010, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore have calculated how the galaxy has moved against the background of deep space — confirming that the galaxy's sideways motion is but a fraction of the speed at which it's hurtling toward the Milky Way.

Astronomers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison operate WHAM by remote control.

In 1972, astronomers at NRAO had a second go, this time using a bigger telescope that collected as much data in a minute as...

The discovery was made using inexpensive ground - based telescopes, including one specially designed to detect exoplanets and jointly operated by astronomers at Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University.

Reaching for the Stars The enterprise got a boost on Aug. 24 when astronomers at the European Southern Observatory in Chile announced the discovery of an Earth - like planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, one of three stars in the Alpha Centauri system.

Now, a team led by astronomers at UC Santa Cruz has succeeded in obtaining an infrared spectrum of WISE 0855 using the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii, providing the first details of the object's composition and chemistry.

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.

Superimposed on the spectrum were dark absorption lines, caused by gases in a cloud somewhere between the burst and Earth — about 7 billion light - years from Earth, according to astronomers at Caltech.

Meanwhile, astronomers at the Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico were detecting the burst's radio - wave aftermath, another first.

She accepted an offer from a group of astronomers at Berkeley, part of a collaboration studying a rare type of supernova that some believe holds the key to measuring the expansion of the universe.

Meanwhile, astronomers at the Wide Field Imager, a 67 - million pixel digital camera at Europe's La Silla Observatory in the Chilean Andes released some stunning shots of two distant nebulae.

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.

Ten years ago, radio astronomers at the Very Large Array in Socorro, New Mexico — a Y - shaped bank of telescopes made famous in the movie Contact — tried to capture this large region in a single image.

Astronomers at the Mount Wilson Observatory sketch sunspots every day, continuing a tradition started by Galileo.

A team led by astronomers at The Australian National University has discovered the oldest known star in the Universe, which formed shortly after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago.

Tom Theuns and Liang Gao, astronomers at Durham University in England, used a computer model last year to study how two types of dark matter, known as warm and cold, may have influenced the formation of the very first stars in the universe — and the first giant black holes.

Astronomers at the University of Southampton are using X-ray vision to reveal supermassive black holes hidden beneath thick veils of interstellar gas in our cosmic neighbourhood.

The study was led by astronomers at the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics.

A paper by one team that includes astronomers at Penn State, NASA, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and universities in Italy, the United Kingdom, and Germany has been accepted for future publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In one dramatic example, astronomers at Cambridge University discovered the «Field of Streams,» a spray of stars stretching nearly one - quarter of the way across the sky.

I told him, however, that Genesis is literally true and that the images from Hubble must be wrong and that the astronomers at NASA are all wrong and that the Bible is correct.

During a press teleconference on Monday, William Sparks, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute, said «we are really working at the limits of Hubble's unique capabilities.»

On human time scales, that's a long time,» Duncan Brown, an astronomer at Syracuse University who's a member of the LIGO research collaboration, previously told Business Insider.

«This number could have been very, very small,» Courtney Dressing, an astronomer at Caltech, said during the briefing.

'' [A] stronomers don't know exactly how planets are formed,» Emma Yu, an astronomer at the University of Texas in Austin, writes at «Ask An Astronomer».

The biggest number of planets appears to be a new class of planets, called «mini-Neptunes,» Benjamin Fulton, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the California Institute of Technology, said during the briefing.

«Uranus and Neptune never had the time to grow into gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn,» Imke de Pater, an astronomer at the University of California Berkeley who wasn't involved in the study, wrote in an accompanying article in Nature Astronomy.

«I recall when we has giving lectures and it was a huge effort for him to speak (before the tracheotomy and the computer voice) he still made the effort to throw jokes in,» Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said on Twitter.

«Our dreams came true,» Gerd Weigelt, an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, said in an ESO press release about the new image.

That's why Sony partnered with Joshua Peek, an astronomer at Columbia University, to build «The Invisible Universe,» an Android app which uses GPS position and device orientation to reveal what's happening in the universe — from massive black holes to constellations — right on the Sony Ericsson platform.

David Kipping, an astronomer at Columbia University who was not involved with the research, told the New Scientist that there «is a legitimate case to be made that this system could host life, and we may be able to infer the presence of that life in the next decade.»