Sentences with phrase «by astronomer mike»

An infrared shot of Uranus and its rings, taken by astronomer Mike Brown using the adaptive optics system at Hawaii's Keck Observatory.

Xena, the «is / isn «t» planet discovered by astronomer Mike Brown and his team, is the farthest object orbiting the sun that anyone has managed to find — roughly 10 billion miles out, more than 7 billion miles beyond Pluto.

Not exact matches

That much dust — tens of thousands of tons — could not have been created by the blow alone, says Mike A'Hearn, the project's lead scientist and an astronomer at the University of Maryland: «You can not pulverize that much material in an impact.»

Sedna was detected by Caltech astronomer Mike Brown and his colleagues working at California's Palomar Observatory.

The discovery was announced on May 17, 2016, in a Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT) electronic telegram by University of California at Berkeley research astronomer Mike Wong, who led the team that analyzed the Hubble data.