Sentences with phrase «captured by astronomers»

Tiny and very faint, this fast moving object (centre) was captured by astronomers as it passed through our Solar system.

Tiny and very faint, this fast moving object (centre) was captured by astronomers as it passed through our Solar system.

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If the planet happens to be close to its perihelion, Brown says, astronomers should be able to spot it in images captured by previous surveys.

Astronomers tracked the interplanetary shocks caused by two powerful bursts of solar wind traveling from the sun to Uranus, then used Hubble to capture their effect on Uranus» auroras — and found themselves observing the most intense auroras ever seen on the planet.

Using data captured by ALMA in Chile and from the ROSINA instrument on ESA's Rosetta mission, a team of astronomers has found faint traces of the chemical compound [Freon - 40]--(CH3Cl), also known as methyl chloride and chloromethane, around both the infant star system IRAS 16293 - 2422, about 400 light - years away, and the famous comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko (67P / C - G) in our own Solar System.

Astronomers were stunned by the first images of the moon's farside, captured by the Soviet spacecraft Luna 3 in 1959.

Now astronomers think they have peeked beyond even the CMB by capturing evidence of neutrinos traveling since the cosmos was just a second old.

According to some astronomers, the fragments have been captured by Jupiter, whose gravity is keeping them from dispersing.

Taking advantage of an unusual pair of nearby stars, astronomers have for the first time captured images of a magnetic field generated by a star other than our sun.

Maunakea, Hawaii — An international team of astronomers, led by Michele Cappellari from the University of Oxford, has used data gathered by the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii to analyze the motions of stars in the outer parts of elliptical galaxies, in the first such survey to capture large numbers of these galaxies.

MAUNA KEA, HAWAII — UC Santa Cruz astronomers who used the W. M. Keck Observatory to capture the first image of a filament of the «cosmic web» have been recognized by the editors of Physics World for one of the «Top Ten Breakthroughs of 2014».

The high - quality data captured by SPHERE will help astronomers shed more light on the various processes involved in the formation of planets.

Just this year it captured the most distant single star yet, learned more about a strange stellar ring, watched two galaxies merge, and created lots of new images of the Messier objects, the distant smudges first described by astronomer Charles Messier in the 18th century.

In 2008, astronomers finally discovered the faint signal of a planet eight times the mass of Jupiter, captured in images taken by the Very Large Telescope in 2003.