Sentences with phrase «first observational astronomer»

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The first observational sign that contact binaries merge came in 1981, when American astronomers Bernard Bopp and Robert Stencel said a fast - spinning giant star named FK Comae Berenices was a former contact binary that had merged and become single.

British and Spanish astronomers have obtained the first observational evidence that galaxies are oriented not randomly, but in a pattern that accords with the web of dark matter that surrounds them.

«This is the first direct observational evidence where we can see the effect of the black hole on the star formation history of the galaxy,» co-author Jean Brodie, an astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said in a press release.