Sentences with phrase «by astronomers with»

The Cambridge findings are being jointly released today with the results of a separate survey by astronomers with the Dark Energy Survey, headquartered at the US Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

Due to its orbit around the Sun, the asteroid is currently only visible by astronomers with large telescopes who are located in the southern hemisphere.

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Working in concert with LIGO's two detectors, Virgo should help give astronomers an even better understanding of black hole behavior and, by extension, the inner workings of the universe.

Please, any Christian, honestly answer the following: The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.

English astronomer Fred Hoyle (1915 - 2001) once calculated this as 10 followed by 40, 000 zeroes and further said that this is «the same as the chance of throwing an uninterrupted sequence of 50,000 sixes with unbiased dice!»

It was suggested by the seventeenth century astronomer Johannes Kepler that in 7 BCE there was a conjunction of Jupiter, the planet of kings, with Saturn, the protector of the Jews.

One astronomer responded to our survey by saying that, though he does not believe in a personal God, «I try frequently to open my mind to an influence of what is good, and the subjective and psychological effects of this can be quite profound, such that I am happy to make contact with the religious tradition by saying that I am praying to God.»

Newton, for example, told the Astronomer Royal, Flamsteed, to correct some astronomical data because it disagreed with theoretical predictions; several factors, including refraction of light by the atmosphere, were later proposed to justify the corrections.11

A recent online article by Adam Frank - an astronomer from the University of Rochester in New York state - waded into the huge current debate over the «new atheism» espoused with «evangelical fervour» by such advocates as Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens etc..

The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.

Several hours later, a team of astronomers known as the ROTSE (Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment) collaboration, led by Carl Akerlof of the University of Michigan, reported that the visible - light counterpart of the burst was also seen in the images taken with a small, robotic telescope operated by their team, starting only 22 seconds after the burst.

Such a measurement allows astronomers to estimate a world's mass, which, paired with the size estimate provided by a transit, yields a density and composition estimate.

Astronomers speculate that the galaxy might have been distorted by a collision with another galaxy.

A Giant Galactic Ghost Intrigued by faint blurs on old photographic plates of the Virgo galaxy cluster, a nearby region teeming with galaxies, Oregon's Bothun and colleagues wondered if the apparitions might be smallish galaxies with «low surface brightness» — astronomer - speak for emitting less light per unit area than typical galaxies.

This intriguing fingerprint quickly triggered additional observations by teams of astronomers worldwide who obtained observing time with additional space observatories including NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR).

But compare the image taken in June last year with one taken by amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley on 8 May and you will see that one of them, known as the south equatorial belt, has disappeared.

«With ALMA we can see that there's a direct link between these radio bubbles inflated by the supermassive black hole and the future fuel for galaxy growth,» said Helen Russell, an astronomer with the University of Cambridge, UK, and lead author on a paper appearing in the Astrophysical JourWith ALMA we can see that there's a direct link between these radio bubbles inflated by the supermassive black hole and the future fuel for galaxy growth,» said Helen Russell, an astronomer with the University of Cambridge, UK, and lead author on a paper appearing in the Astrophysical Jourwith the University of Cambridge, UK, and lead author on a paper appearing in the Astrophysical Journal.

The galaxies in the early universe started off small and the theory of the astronomers is that the baby galaxies gradually grew larger and more massive by constantly colliding with neighbouring galaxies to form new, larger galaxies.

Cass A (1680): This star exploded nearly unnoticed, with only a possible identification by John Flamsteed, England's first Astronomer Royal.

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.

Visible light (second inset) shows a vast, elliptical grouping of stars bisected by a dark lane of dust, which astronomers interpret as the remains of a spiral galaxy that collided with a larger elliptical galaxy.

The team calculates an age of only 400 - 600 million years old, which agrees with the age estimated from its rotation period (a technique pioneered by CfA astronomer Soren Meibom).

Once confirmed, a transit allows astronomers to confidently measure a planet's orbital period — its year — as well as to estimate its size, by comparing the depth of its shadow with the estimated dimensions and luminosity of its star.

By cross-correlating the arrival times of all the different pulses to nanosecond precision across decades, astronomers hope to detect gravitational waves with wavelengths measured in light - months and light - years as their passing periodic ripples distort spacetime around Earth.

The astronomers believe the black hole's outbursts may have been triggered by the interaction of NGC 5195 with its larger companion, NGC 5194, causing gas to be funneled toward the black hole.

A team led by astronomer Garik Israelian of the European Southern Observatory recently examined nearly 500 stars, including 86 with planets, and found that most of the planet - bearing stars contained very little lithium, a trait they share with our sun.

The astronomers are most excited by the microlensing events associated with stars in the LMC, and described the first three of these events in the 10 April issue of Physical Review Letters (vol 74, p 2867).

Working with UW astronomer Eric Agol, doctoral student Ethan Kruse has confirmed the first «self - lensing» binary star system — one in which the mass of the closer star can be measured by how powerfully it magnifies light from its more distant companion star.

Previously, astronomers had estimated GN - z11's distance by analysing its colour in images taken with both Hubble and the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope.

The other side of darkness In April's Sky Lights [«A Lighter Shade of Black»] Bob Berman presents the paradox suggested by astronomer Heinrich Olbers: «If we live in an infinite universe containing an infinite number of stars, then... every point of the sky, no matter how small, should be filled with starlight....

«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.

The theory, for example, that the dinosaur die - off was caused by Earth's collision with an asteroid or comet owes much to multidisciplinary efforts by astronomers, geologists, paleontologists, and chemists.

Astronomers working with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have used a 2.5 - meter telescope at the Apache Point Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, to map the location of more than 930,000 nearby galaxies, determining the distance to each by how much the expansion of the universe has stretched, or «redshifted,» the wavelength of the galaxy's light.

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.

By combining the power of a «natural lens» in space with the capability of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers made a surprising discovery — the first example of a compact yet massive, fast - spinning, disk - shaped galaxy that stopped making stars only a few billion years after the big bang.

A team of astronomers led by Wouter Vlemmings, Chalmers University of Technology, have used the telescope Alma (Atacama Large Millimetre / Submillimetre Array) to make the sharpest observations yet of a star with the same starting mass as the Sun.

Describing the discovery October 16 in Astrophysical Journal Letters, the team of astronomers led by Arjen van der Wel of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany report that the lensing galaxy is relatively light, young and bursting with new stars.

But last summer, astronomers studying a distant quasar with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory claimed they found that part of the quasar's radiation was absorbed by warm - hot intervening material.

In spite of the recent detection of gravitational waves from binary black holes by LIGO, direct evidence using electromagnetic waves remains elusive and astronomers are searching for it with radio telescopes.

The debate has sputtered along intermittently ever since, with some observers detecting patterns in red shifts but most astronomers dismissing these as mere coincidences caused by the lack of accurate red shift data.

New research by Harvard astronomers Peter Williams and Edo Berger shows that the radio emission believed to be an afterglow actually originated from a distant galaxy's core and was unassociated with the fast radio burst.

It was first identified as a millisecond radio pulsar in 2005 with the National Science Foundation's Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and then later rediscovered as an X-ray pulsar by another team of astronomers in 2013.

The case for dark matter began in the 1930s with a pair of papers by two very different kinds of geniuses, the buttoned - down Dutch astronomer Jan Oort (who also hypothesized the Oort Cloud of comets) and the explosive Swiss - American cosmologist Fritz Zwicky.

Astronomer Geoff Marcy assumes that extraterrestrials might try to communicate with us by pointing lasers at Earth (31 March, p...

An international team of astronomers led by Paulo Freire of the Jodrell Bank Observatory at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, detected the gas by observing 15 millisecond pulsars — compact, rapidly spinning stars that emit bursts of radio waves with clockwork precision.

By comparing the spectrum of light passing through an exoplanet's atmosphere with that of the unfiltered light emitted by its parent star, astronomers can identify substances present in the exoplanet's aiBy comparing the spectrum of light passing through an exoplanet's atmosphere with that of the unfiltered light emitted by its parent star, astronomers can identify substances present in the exoplanet's aiby its parent star, astronomers can identify substances present in the exoplanet's air.

The debate over whether a bacterium can incorporate arsenic into its DNA just flared up again, with the posting yesterday of a paper refuting the idea on ArXiv, an electronic preprint archive primarily used by astronomers, mathematicians, and physicists.

At the American Astronomical Society meeting here, excited astronomers presented the first images taken by Hubble's NICMOS (Near - Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrograph) camera after it was outfitted with a new cooling system in March.

Previous predictions are «exactly what was observed» by the research team, says astronomer Greg Laughlin of the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not affiliated with the study.

A hot, metallic, Earth - sized planet with a density similar to Mercury — situated 339 light years away — has been detected and characterised by a global team of astronomers, including the University of Warwick.