Sentences with phrase «astronomers first»

(Inside Science)-- When the astronomers first saw the supernova in 2014, it looked like a standard explosion that often signifies the death of a massive star.

Almost from the time astronomers first turned their telescopes on the planet shining in the night sky, we've imagined life there.

Since astronomers first started using telescopes, it could be seen that Jupiter seemed to be an active world, with its well - known colorful atmospheric belts, and of course the Great Red Spot.

When astronomers first discovered «Oumuamua on October 19, the asteroid had already made its closest approach to the Sun, and was racing towards the outer reaches of the Solar System.

Astronomers first realized the bright star Alpha Centauri was a tightly orbiting pair in 1689, and Proxima Centauri was first spotted in 1915.

Astronomers first spotted DeeDee in 2014 using the optical Blanco telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile (though they didn't announce the discovery until 2016).

The novel design of the recently commissioned GBT met these challenges brilliantly, and gave astronomers their first look at the cluttered neighborhood around Andromeda.

So, to look for siblings of the sun, the astronomers first looked for stars made of the same mix of elements.

Astronomers first spotted the explosion, which took place in a galaxy 2.4 billion light - years away, in 2010 and were able to study it for about three years, and they've published the results of that study in a new paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy.

The behaviour of comet tails as they flapped and waved in this interplanetary breeze gave astronomers the first hint of its existence.

Astronomers first spotted Mira in 1596 and noted its unusual ability to disappear and reappear every 332 days.

Future missions such as the Joint Astrophysics Nascent Universe Satellite — a small explorer mission being considered by NASA — could give astronomers their first look at gamma - ray bursts produced by these first - generation stellar objects.

Astronomers first noticed some years ago that nearby galaxy clusters are populated with dim reddish elliptical galaxies.

Two decades ago, however, improvements in telescopes and computer simulations began to give astronomers their first detailed understanding of what actually happens when smaller stars die.

The Day the World Discovered the Sun By Mark Anderson Venus's transit across the sun in 1769 gave astronomers their first chance to fix the dimensions of the solar system, a key to mastering global navigation.

Astronomers first spotted comet C / 2013 A1 — dubbed Comet Siding Spring, after the Australian observatory where it was discovered — early in 2013.

Astronomers first pegged the object as a comet thanks to its elongated path, but additional telescope observations October 25 indicate it's more likely that A / 2017 U1 is an asteroid.

If so, Phoebe has given astronomers their first opportunity to study an object from distant space at close range.

Those theories got a jolt 10 years ago, when astronomers first began discovering planets outside our solar system orbiting other stars.

Galaxies of similar size to the Sombrero Galaxy may offer astronomers their first glimpse of a pair of supermassive black holes merging.

The cuddled - up pair are closer to each other than any other known black hole duo, providing astronomers a first peek at the final stages of a possible collision.

Astronomers first noticed these ridges in pictures of Mercury taken by the Mariner 10 spacecraft in the 1970s.

That will give astronomers their first three - dimensional view of coronal mass ejections.

Astronomers first discovered a hint of this cometlike ball of gas careering through a distant cluster of galaxies called Abell 3266 two years ago, but they didn't know what to make of it.

Astronomers first classified «Oumuamua (Hawaiian for «scout») as a comet, but later observations didn't reveal the telltale signs, including clouds of dust or water vapor.

Not exact matches

In a time when women were discouraged from studying math and science, Nancy Grace Roman became a research astronomer and the first Chief of Astronomy at NASA.

Although astronomers had accumulated compelling evidence for black holes by observing their surroundings, the LIGO signal is the first real direct proof of their existence.

It's actually the expanding debris from a star first seen in 1572 by astronomer Tycho Brahe.

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Now astronomers are ready to start poking at some fundamental truths about the universe, from the formation of the first stars and galaxies to what makes the cosmos tick.

For the first time ever, an asteroid or comet from another star has been caught hurtling through our solar system, astronomers announced late Thursday.

In the case of GRB 990123, astronomers were able for the first time to obtain a record of the event from a variety of instruments as its radiation reached Earth.

Astronomers also are not sure how the universe made these sorts of objects in the first place.

Astronomers will first and foremost attempt to pin down the object's exact size (based on its brightness), as well as its shape and spin rate (based on how its brightness fluctuates).

Astronomer Melina Bersten and her colleagues at the Instituto de Astrofísica de La Plata in Argentina soon learned of the serendipitous discovery and realized that Buso had caught a rare event, part of the first hour after light emerges from a massive exploding star.

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.

Astronomers have traditionally assumed that most of the black holes powering the first quasars formed this way, too.

At first, astronomers suspected that 1987A was a class of supernova known as type 1a — the detonation of a stellar core left behind after a star like the sun quietly sheds gas at the end of its life.

One size fits all This is not the first time astronomers have lobbied for such a large space telescope.

Such an excess first emerged in the late 1960s and was mapped in 1981 by Glyn Haslam of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, but few astronomers thought much of it until now.

Go on a journey to the earliest days of the universe as astronomer Avi Loeb searches for the first stars.

STELLAR SHREDS Thirty years ago, astronomers witnessed a nearby stellar explosion (illustrated above), but it wasn't the first.

«Astronomers find the first «wind nebula» around a magnetar.»

US astronomer Daniel Walter Morehouse first observed this comet, now designated C / 1908 R1, on September 1, 1908.

Astronomers have discovered a vast cloud of high - energy particles called a wind nebula around a rare ultra-magnetic neutron star, or magnetar, for the first time.

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.

When «Oumuamua was first discovered, astronomers thought it was a comet or an asteroid from within the Solar System.

They are named after the Dutch - American astronomer Bart Bok, who first drew attention to them in the 1940s as possible sites of star formation.

Flashes of X-ray light near the center of the disk result in light echoes that allow astronomers to map the structure of the funnel - like flow, revealing for the first time strong gravity effects around a normally quiescent black hole.

Public Offerings Boyajian can at least take some solace that she is hardly the first astronomer to encounter a singular astronomical mystery.