Sentences with phrase «by astronomers at»

Holten often works in black and white but for this project she will incorporate the «average» colour of the universe as determined by astronomers at the John Hopkins University, Baltimore; - both the «correct» and the «incorrect» versions.

According to a survey conducted by astronomers at Cornell University, the Milky Way may be host to over 100 million planets hosting life beyond the microbial stage (Image: PHL at UPR Arecibo / NASA / Richard Wheeler @Zephyris)

Found through the analysis of data from radio telescopes by astronomers at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), this tiny cluster of baby stars occupy a small volume only 10,000 AU across — meaning that they'd all easily fit within the confines of the boundaries of our solar system (yes, the Oort Cloud is the solar system's outermost boundary).

This analysis is part of the MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field (MOSDEF) survey, which is conducted by astronomers at UC Riverside, UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego.

A survey conducted by astronomers at Cornell University has taken into account the characteristics of 637 known exoplanets and elaborated a Biological Complexity Index (BCI) to assess the relative probability of finding complex life on them.

The research team, led by astronomers at Osaka University and Ibaraki University, observed a young star named HD142527 in the constellation Lupus (the Wolf) with ALMA.

However, new work by astronomers at the University of Sheffield has discovered an incident of a star being destroyed by a supermassive black hole in a much smaller sample size — a group of just 15 galaxies.

He is a member of the survey team for the low - cost Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) system that consists of a pair of robotic telescopes designed to find exoplanets around bright stars operated by astronomers at Ohio State University, Vanderbilt University, Lehigh University and the South African Astronomical Observatory.

MAUNA KEA, HI — An international team of scientists, led by astronomers at Queen Mary University of London, report of two new planets orbiting Kapteyn's star, one of the oldest stars found near the Sun.

MAUNA KEA, HI — An international team of scientists, led by astronomers at Queen Mary University of London, report of two new planets orbiting Kapteyn's star, one of the oldest stars found near... Read more»

According to a survey conducted by astronomers at Cornell University, the Milky Way may be host to over 100 million planets hosting life beyond the microbial stage.

A new study by astronomers at University of California at Berkeley shows when it comes to planets, smaller means more, a finding that has strong implications for the prospects of relatively puny planets like Earth appearing in other solar systems.like So far, the smallest extrasolar planets found to date are about two to three times Earth's mass, but a random survey of 166 nearby stars shows the extended family of planets is fairly robust.

Mauna Kea, HI — A team of scientists led by astronomers at the University of California, Riverside has used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the W. M. Keck Observatory to uncover the long - suspected underlying population of galaxies that produced the bulk of new stars during the universe's early years.

The asteroid, called 2007 NS2, was discovered by astronomers at the La Sagra Observatory in southern Spain on 14 July.

Hazes and clouds high up in the atmospheres of exoplanets may make them appear bigger than they really are, according to new research by astronomers at the Space Research Institute (IWF) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

The discovery was made using inexpensive ground - based telescopes, including one specially designed to detect exoplanets and jointly operated by astronomers at Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University.

Now, a team led by astronomers at UC Santa Cruz has succeeded in obtaining an infrared spectrum of WISE 0855 using the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii, providing the first details of the object's composition and chemistry.

A team led by astronomers at The Australian National University has discovered the oldest known star in the Universe, which formed shortly after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago.

The study was led by astronomers at the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics.

The first definitive detection of an exoplanet was made in 1992 by an astronomer at NSF's Arecibo Observatory collaborating with a postdoctoral researcher at NSF's Very Large Array.

Not exact matches

In 2017 astronomers discovered it is orbited by at least seven temperate Earth - size planets.

Follow - up observations taken at Weryk's request by astronomer Marco Micheli, using a European Space Agency telescope in the Canary Islands, only deepened the mystery.

According to Mather and other leading astronomers now working on a report to be released this summer by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), that quest and others require an even bigger space telescope that would observe, as Hubble does, at optical, ultraviolet and near - infrared wavelengths.

A paper by one team that includes astronomers at Penn State, NASA, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and universities in Italy, the United Kingdom, and Germany has been accepted for future publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In fact, Swift X-ray and optical observations were carried out two days after FRB 131104, thanks to prompt analysis by radio astronomers (who were not aware of the gamma - ray counterpart) and a nimble response from the Swift mission operations team, headquartered at Penn State.

If Castilho can't find at least another 4 million reais ($ 1.25 million) by the end of the year, he says, Brazilian astronomers will lose access to those facilities.

The estimate was presented at an international workshop on Jupiter for professional and amateur astronomers organised by Europlanet 2020 Research Infrastructure at the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur in Nice, France.

Astronomers at the Mount Wilson Observatory sketch sunspots every day, continuing a tradition started by Galileo.

By peering this deeply into the galaxy at millions of stars, astronomers should unleash «a tsunami of transit discoveries» within the next several years, Sasselov predicts.

This high - resolution image of Jupiter's moon Io was snapped last November 6 by the Galileo spacecraft, and it has given astronomers their best look at the most volcanically active object in the solar system since the Voyager flyby in 1979.

In 2012 and 2014 a team led by an astronomer from Paris Observatory took a second look at the auroras using the ultraviolet capabilities of the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) installed on Hubble.

Now, astronomers have overcome that problem by tracking bright spots of radio emission from the Triangulum Galaxy — also known as M33 — which the new study locates at 2.4 million light years from Earth.

An astronomer by training but a photographer at heart, Zoltan Levay creates images of the cosmos with one of humankind's most advanced optical instruments: the Hubble Space Telescope.

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.»

The Extravagant Universe, by Harvard astronomer Robert Kirshner, 2002, quoting from memory what Zwicky would say when the two of them had offices down the hall from each other at Caltech: «In 1933, I told those no - good spherical bastards that supernovas make the neutron stars.

Imaging the cosmos at near - infrared wavelengths allowed the astronomers to see objects that are both obscured by dust, and extremely distant [2], created when the Universe was just an infant.

In the 1800s astronomers noticed that this happens at a different rate than predicted by Newtonian physics.

A team of astronomers, led by Karina Caputi of the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute at the University of Groningen, has now unearthed many distant galaxies that had escaped earlier scrutiny.

However, Gemini deputy director Nancy Levenson says that some of this decline in demand reflects waning interest by astronomers in the United Kingdom, which will end its membership of Gemini at the end of 2013.

Guyon adds that the system will help astronomers to study the skies more efficiently, by bringing large objects, such as nearby galaxies, into focus all at once, and by allowing more distant objects to be studied in a single snapshot.

«Even though many of the astronomers assumed that this would be a fertile high - mass star forming region, we couldn't probe the kinematics of gas around high - mass protostars at the level of resolution provided by existing telescopes,» Higuchi said.

By placing life in the cosmic spotlight — at a meeting dedicated to Copernicus, no less — Carter was flying in the face of a scientific worldview that began nearly 500 years ago when the Polish astronomer dislodged Earth and humanity from center stage in the grand scheme of things.

Astronomers hope to get a better estimate of DD45's span by observing it at infrared wavelengths to estimate how well the rock reflects light.

Astronomers have at last observed polarisation of light by virtual particles in a neutron star's magnetic field, a long - expected quantum effect

What looked at first like a sort of upside - down planet has instead revealed a new method for studying binary star systems, discovered by a University of Washington student astronomer.

A team of astronomers led by James Bauer, a research professor of astronomy at the University of Maryland, found that there are about seven times more long - period comets measuring at least 1 kilometer across than previously predicted.

Superimposed on the spectrum were dark absorption lines, caused by gases in a cloud somewhere between the burst and Earth — about 7 billion light - years from Earth, according to astronomers at Caltech.

The new paper attempts to rebut a refined case for MOND recently put forward by Stacy McGaugh, an astronomer at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Astronomers using telescopes at seven different locations, including the 1.54 - metre Danish and TRAPPIST telescopes at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile [5], were able to watch the star apparently vanish for a few seconds as its light was blocked by Chariklo — an occultation [6].

«The ALMA data reveal that AzTEC - 3 is a very compact, highly disturbed galaxy that is bursting with new stars at close to its theoretically predicted maximum limit and is surrounded by a population of more normal, but also actively star - forming galaxies,» said Dominik Riechers, an astronomer and assistant professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and lead author on a paper published today (Nov. 10) in the Astrophysical Journal.