Sentences with phrase «astronomers first spotted»

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).

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.

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

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

Not exact matches

Late last year, astronomers spotted the first object to enter our solar system from interstellar space — a somewhat reddish, cigar - shaped body named «Oumuamua.

It was the first asteroid discovered, spotted by Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi in 1801.

A SCIENCE - FICTION scene could be playing out for real about 4900 light years from Earth, where astronomers have spotted the first known pair of planets jointly orbiting a binary star system (Science, doi.org/h8h).

For the first time, astronomers have spotted an aurora, akin to our northern and southern lights, shimmering on a world outside our solar system.

In 2013, astronomers spotted a supernova within hours of its explosion (SN Online: 2/13/17), but this is one of the first to be spotted before it exploded.

Astronomers may have just spotted the first asteroid caught visiting the solar system from another star.

When it first was spotted in 1801, astronomers thought it was a planet orbiting between Mars and Jupiter.

Now astronomers have spotted five galaxies at least as big as the Milky Way that existed 12 billion years ago, or just a little more than a billion years after the first stars formed.

«Astronomers spot faraway Uranus - like planet: First «ice giant» planet found in another solar system.»

It was first spotted in August of this year as an unusually fuzzy - looking object by astronomers using the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii [1].

Astronomers thought the space between Mars and Jupiter was empty until Giuseppe Piazzi (pdf) spotted Ceres, the first asteroid discovery, in 1801.

Astronomers may have spotted the first known resident of a huge swarm of comets thought to encircle the sun.

Astronomers spotted the sizeable object now called «Oumuamua (Hawaiian for «first messenger») streaking by Earth last October.

MAUNA KEA, HI — Astronomers have for the first time spotted four images of a distant exploding star, arranged in a cross-shape pattern by a powerful gravitational lens.

Astronomers identified the new galaxy as eMACSJ1341 - QG - 1, and, as they describe in a recent paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, it's not the first galaxy that has been discovered this way, but it's the most powerful example of the effect spotted so far for a galaxy so faint.

Astronomers may have spotted our first visitor from outside the bounds of our solar system: a hunk of ice called A / 2017 U1 that a Hawaiian telescope identified on October 19.

Scientists spot their first interstellar asteroid, Oumuamua: In October, astronomers spotted an object flying through the solar system on such a strange path that it was immediately clear it had come from a different neighborhood.

The first exoplanet was discovered in 1993, and over 1,800 other worlds have been spotted by astronomers since that time.

Previously, NGC 4993's claim to fame was having first been spotted by William Herschel, the 18th - century British astronomer who also discovered Uranus.

Astronomers at Princeton University first spotted this exoplanet in 2011 but a detailed study of its atmosphere, reported this week by NASA, reveals that it is an entirely new kind of planet.

The Kepler mission first launched in 2009 and was designed to spot exoplanets using what astronomers call the transit technique.

The first one was spotted in 2007 by the astronomer Duncan Lorimer, who together with one of his students stumbled upon the signal accidentally in old telescope data; at the time, few believed it.

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

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.

Brown has said that while he'd love to be the first to spot it, he's also hoping that other astronomers will get inspired to join the search.

This is not the first time astronomers have spotted objects that defy conventional understanding.

Less than 12 hours after that, astronomers spotted the first glimpse of visible light from the event.