Sentences with phrase «astronomers reports»

In today's issue of Nature, a team of astronomers reports a breakthrough.

This week an international team of astronomers reports the first multiple - star system to be observed during the earliest stage of formation.

January 30, 2013 — Astronomers report the exciting discovery of a new way to measure the mass of supermassive black holes in galaxies.

Rings are common sights around the four largest planets of the solar system, but astronomers reported in March that they had found the celestial circles around an unexpected and much smaller fifth target: an asteroid named (10199) Chariklo.

Recently, a team of astronomers reported discovering a pulsating star that appears to shine with the energy of 10 million suns.

In 2009 astronomers reported that temperatures on the planet jumped from 1000 °F to 2200 °F in six hours.

In March of 2006, astronomers reported an 80 light year - long nebula near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, the Double Helix Nebula, which is, as the name implies, twisted into a double spiral shape.

This exploding star, named iPTF14hls, has erupted continuously for the last three years, and it may have had two other outbursts in the past, astronomers report in the Nov. 9 Nature.

In the 1960s astronomers reported evidence of a planet orbiting nearby Barnard's Star.

HIP 116454b is probably either a water world or a mini-Neptune, astronomers report in a paper posted online December 18 and accepted to the Astrophysical Journal.

As astronomers report online today in Nature, the Herschel Space Observatory has discerned a watery spectral line at the far - infrared wavelength of 538 microns.

In two papers appearing this week in Nature, astronomers report evidence for both processes.

Spanning well over half a million light - years, NGC 6872 (seen in white and pink in this image acquired with the European Very Large Telescope) is at least five times the size of our own Milky Way, astronomers reported here on Thursday at the 221st meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

That gas, astronomers report this month in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, has been whipped up so much by its encounter with the intergalactic medium — like a comet's tail of ice crystals getting buffeted by the solar wind — that it has condensed into stars.

In August, a team of astronomers reported that Mira has a 13 - light - year - long tail of glowing stardust, something never seen in any other star.

And last year, astronomers reported strong evidence that the Saturn moon Enceladus likely harbors a huge and salty ocean beneath its icy crust.

In an upcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal, astronomers report observations by the heat - seeking instruments aboard the Spitzer Space Telescope, which show the planet's hottest region is located near its twilight zone — the line bisecting the day and night sides.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A furiously blinking x-ray source near the center of the Milky Way has given the best evidence to date that black holes spin, astronomers reported here 30 April at a meeting of the American Physical Society.

Now, astronomers report that a little red star (inset, circled), discovered decades ago 5.67 ° northwest of Fomalhaut, shares the same distance and motion through space.

Last February a team of astronomers reported detecting an afterglow from a mysterious event called a fast radio burst, which would pinpoint the precise position of the burst's origin, a longstanding goal in studies of these mysterious events.

As astronomers report online today in Nature, magnetic fields inside M33's six most massive giant molecular clouds — large concentrations of dense gas and dust that give birth to stars — line up with the spiral arms, suggesting the magnetic fields helped create the huge clouds and that they regulate how the clouds fragment to form new stars.

But astronomers report that nonetheless neutrinos forged much of the universe's fluorine, an element added to toothpaste and water to fight cavities and whose cosmic origin has long been mysterious.

In two talks today at the Division for Planetary Sciences in Pasadena, California, astronomers report that a small asteroid located in the inner asteroid belt between those two planets took a major hit early last year.

Now, as astronomers report in work submitted to The Astrophysical Journal, they've used data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft to study seven planet - hosting stars, finding no moons at all.

Last year, astronomers reported that extrasolar planets may outnumber stars in our galaxy by almost a two - to - one margin, and that three - quarters of these worlds are likely to be free - floaters, not bound to any star.

Then, in 2012, astronomers reported another hint of volcanic activity: a 2007 spike in atmospheric sulfur dioxide that faded during the 5 years that followed.

Astronomers report the most Earth - like planet yet beyond the solar system as well as a possible «water world»

As the astronomers report online today in Nature, different galaxies gave birth to dramatically different mixes of stars.

A disk of gas and dust 450 light - years away bears a close resemblance to our early solar system, astronomers report.

In a new paper from Walton and colleagues accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal, the astronomers report serendipitously finding a ULX that had gone largely unnoticed before.

Last week, for example, astronomers reported imaging planets around two stars — but the closest of those planets lies more than 20 AU away from its star.

The smallest, coolest exoplanet known to host water is roughly the size of Neptune, astronomers report in the Sept. 25 Nature.

As x-ray astronomers report in the current issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters, the intensity of one particular x-ray wavelength may show how fast a black hole is devouring matter from its surroundings: the weaker the x-rays, the more voracious the hole.

The X-ray flare probably won't dim significantly for several years, the astronomers report online February 6 in Nature Astronomy.

Now, as astronomers report online today in Nature, they've seen the same phenomenon on a dim sun located 18.5 light years away in the constellation Lyra.

In July, though, astronomers reported an asteroid, 2014 YX49, that shares Uranus's 84 - year orbital period.

It made a splash in August when astronomers reported that it hosts an Earth - mass planet where temperatures might be right for liquid water.

Earlier this year, astronomers reported discovering a handful of Earth - like planets orbiting distant stars.

But as astronomers report online today in Nature, the galaxy is losing more gas than this — between three and 30 solar masses per year — as winds, radiation pressure, and supernova explosions from the starburst itself drive gas away.

At the 216th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society in May 2010, astronomers reported that the orbit of the middle inner planet orbiting Star A appears to be at a steep angle to a third outer planet news release; and McArthur et al, 2010).

ISON is releasing dust, as well as water vapor, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, astronomers reported Oct. 20 in Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Hunting for habitable exoplanets now may be easier: Cornell University astronomers report that hydrogen pouring from volcanic sources on planets throughout the universe could improve the chances of locating life in the cosmos.

In 1991, British astronomers reported that a star, named Scutum, wobbled with a six - month cycle.

In 2009, astronomers reported the first exoplanet ever found through astrometry, adding it to the list of 350 planets previously found by the Doppler shift method.

The astronomers report their findings in the June 1 edition of the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Four years ago, astronomers reported in Nature that another star in this group — Alpha Centauri B — hosts a planet roughly as massive as Earth.

A superfast jet of subatomic particles presumably powered by the gravitational energy of a black hole has collided with nearby material, been slowed dramatically and released much of its energy in the collision, radio astronomers report.

On June 3, 2014, a team of astronomers reported the discovery of two super-Earths orbiting ancient Kapteyn's Star.

Astronomers reported today that recent ultraviolet observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope suggest that what were thought to be randomly distributed, nearby primordial clouds of hydrogen may actually be associated with galaxies or clusters of galaxies.

Astronomers report that they have found new evidence that a black hole weighing 3 million times the mass of the Sun exists at the center of the nearby elliptical galaxy M32, based on images obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST).