Sentences with phrase «astronomers discovered»

The center of our galaxy is teeming with black holes, sort of like a Times Square for strange super gravity objects, astronomers discovered.

Astronomers discovered a potentially habitable planet just 4.3 light - years from Earth.

In 2013, astronomers discovered a cluster of 73 quasars, consider the largest structure ever seen in the universe.

So it came as a surprise when astronomers discovered in 1998 that the universe is expanding faster and faster, not ever more slowly.

Astronomers discovered in early 2014 that a supernova had exploded in a particularly dusty region of M82.

The secrets of the Big Bang and the formation of the universe are one step closer to being revealed after astronomers discovered the most far - flung galaxy so far observed in the universe.

Astronomers discovered it in September 2014 using the Intermediate Palomar Transient Factory.

Using the awesome power of the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, an international team of astronomers discovered the presence of methyl isocyanate in the triple star system IRAS 16293 - 2422, located around 400 light - years away in the constellation of Ophiuchus.

MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — A team of astronomers discovered a Jupiter - like planet within a young system that could serve as a decoder ring for understanding how planets formed around our sun.

In October 2008, astronomers discovered a 4 - m - wide (13 - ft) asteroid on a collision course with Earth.

The first exoplanets astronomers discovered were quite puzzling.

Astronomers discovered a «ultramassive» black hole that is 10,000 times more massive than the black hole at the center of our galaxy

[17] A survey conducted by amateur astronomers discovered that 54 % of consumers would still want to «name a star» with a non-scientific star - naming company even though they have been warned or informed such naming is not recognized by the astronomical community.

Radio astronomers discovered intense belts of radiation surrounding Jupiter created by electrons trapped in its powerful magnetic field — 10x the Earth's!

In August 2003, the same team (as well as another team) of astronomers discovered that the brown dwarf had its own brown dwarf companion (Gemini press release — more below).

Last week, astronomers discovered a potentially Earth - like planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf in our closest star system...

Astronomers discovered the molecules» faint millimeter - wavelength «glow» emanating from two dense star - forming embryos in the LMC, regions known as «hot cores.»

Astronomers discovered strong evidence that Terzan 5, which is located 19,000 light - years from Earth, contains two distinct kinds of stellar populations with ages of 12 billion years and 4.5 billion years respectively.

Twenty years ago, astronomers discovered a number of enigmatic radio - emitting filaments concentrated near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Astronomers discovered Kepler - 453b while watching two stars that were orbiting each other.

An international team of astronomers discovered four Earth - sized exoplanets amid stellar noise.

The astronomers discovered it by combining numerous smaller images made with the GBT into one large image.

Astronomers discovered the supernova in 2006 and promptly nicknamed it the «champagne» supernova because it rocked their expectations (and what better way to celebrate than with a little Britpop?).

In 2006, astronomers discovered a very dim («mid-range»), red dwarf companion to HD 189733 A of spectral and luminosity type M V. Observed at a separation of 216 AUs from Star A, the companion star has a clockwise orbit that is nearly perpendicular to the orbital plane of transiting planet b around Star A (HD 189733 b or Ab).

As astronomers discovered the first extrasolar planets, it quickly became obvious that the formation theories we'd built around our own solar system were only part of the story.

Then, in 1995, astronomers discovered the distant planet 51 Pegasi b, a «hot Jupiter,» or gas giant, that orbited very close to its sun.

In 1978, when astronomers discovered Charon, they used the moon's orbital motion to find that the total mass of Pluto and Charon is 1 / 400th that of the Earth.

Then, in 2003 astronomers discovered a tenth «planet,» Eris, which displaced Pluto as the largest object in the Kuiper belt.

Astronomers discovered a nest of monstrous baby galaxies 11.5 billion light - years away using the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA).

In 1998, astronomers discovered that the universe is expanding at ever faster speeds.

In 2011 astronomers discovered that this arm reaches across the galaxy's far side and begins to approach our side of the galaxy again.

In 1989 astronomers discovered a dense band of galaxies arching some 500 million light - years across the sky.

The astronomers discovered the four stars while searching the Galaxy for so - called blue horizontal - branch stars — ageing stars which are often found in globular clusters.

In 1971, astronomers discovered that the x-rays came from the direction of a bright blue star whirling around a mysterious dark object.

A decade ago, astronomers discovered that the gas in our Milky Way galaxy is not spread out into a completely flat disk, but has ripples, launching a search for the disturbances that caused them.

By studying the planet's infrared glow, the astronomers discovered that its air abounds with the carbon - bearing molecules carbon monoxide and methane, implying that the planet could have carbide (a compound of carbon and metal) rather than silicate in its interior.

Astronomers discovered this gas long ago because it contains hydrogen, the most abundant element in space.

The astronomers discovered carbon monoxide in the planet's air.

It was while monitoring a star barely two million years old called V830 Tau, located in the Taurus stellar nursery some 430 light years away, that an international team of astronomers discovered the youngest known hot Jupiter.

In 1983, astronomers discovered dust orbiting the star, suggesting it had a solar system, and Carl Sagan (pictured) chose to make Vega the source of a SETI signal in his 1985 novel Contact, though the responsible aliens weren't native to the star: At the time, Vega was thought to be only about a couple hundred million years old, probably too young for any planets to have spawned life.

Comets whizzing beyond our solar system made a big splash last year when astronomers discovered that they could be as common as alien planets.

The first hint of the kamikaze asteroids came about 40 years ago, when astronomers discovered heavy elements such as magnesium in the spectra of some white dwarf stars.

Heidelberg astronomers discovered the extremely - low density galaxies, known as ultra-diffuse galaxies, a find that is «both remarkable and puzzling,» states Dr Thorsten Lisker.

Two decades ago astronomers discovered that our solar system and a few thousand neighboring stars lie just inside a vast bubble, within which the thin gas of interstellar space is much thinner still — and also hotter.

The same scenario may hold for the distant faint galaxies that astronomers discovered before they saw LSBs in large numbers.

SIX years ago, radio astronomers discovered an area of about a million square kilometres on the equator of Mars that does not reflect radar signals.

Last year astronomers discovered evidence of another unexpectedly uniform kind of variability among gamma - ray bursts, stellar explosions that are even more luminous than Type Ia supernovas.

Indeed, in the 1990s astronomers discovered the planet shown here; it's more massive than Jupiter and orbits the fainter yellow sun.

In the last decade astronomers discovered the expanding universe is also accelerating — expanding faster and faster.

When astronomers discovered the first exoplanet around a normal star, there was joy — and bewilderment.