Sentences with phrase «for astronomers now»

For astronomers now realise they hold clues to the origins of the Solar System.

The age of blackholes is upon us, for astronomers now know how to recognise the clues which give away the presence of a black hole.

Not exact matches

Bishop Jezierski has decided that a fitting sarcophagus will now be designed for the remains of Copernicus that have been discovered, not only to honour this renowned astronomer, but as a testimony to the unity of deep faith and meticulous science which his life's work represented.

Professor Deepto Chakrabarty of the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology says he is optimistic that astronomers will find additional ultra-bright pulsars now that they know such objects exist.

The team also publish their findings in two papers in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and the data are now publicly available for other astronomers to make further discoveries.

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.

Such an excess first emerged in the late 1960s and was mapped in 1981 by Glyn Haslam of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, but few astronomers thought much of it until now.

Levan concludes: «Now, astronomers won't just look at the light from an object, as we've done for hundreds of years, but also listen to it.

Now all that's left for astronomers is to actually find and tally these estranged stars, something that could be just a few years away, Krumholz says.

Astronomers are now using a similar inference to solve the cosmic mystery of a black hole's birth — looking for stars that fail to explode.

Astronomer Donald Lynden Bell of Cambridge University, for instance, believes that his wife Ruth, now a professor in the atomistic - simulation group at Queen's University in Belfast, remained in a job below her capabilities for 30 years until she accepted her chair in Belfast in 1995.

The team of astronomers has now shown that the comet's orbit is stable for more than three hundred years.

For now, astronomers have yet to actually see this new planet — instead, they have simply measured how its to and fro orbital tugging causes Proxima Centauri to wobble back and forth in the sky.

Now Matthew Holman and Matthew Payne, two astronomers from the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, have taken the idea a step further by analysing the Cassini data for multiple possible orbits instead of just one.

Last week researchers reported they had traced a cosmic blast of radio waves back to its source for the first time — but now another team of fast - acting astronomers has called the result into question.

The team now want to find out more about the ring, and establish whether the known processes for galaxy formation and large scale structure could have led to its creation, or if astronomers need to radically revise their theories of the evolution of the cosmos.

A team of European astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) now believe they've found the partner star of a magnetar for the first time.

For the next several decades Herbig, Haro, and other astronomers struggled unsuccessfully to explain the nature of these bright knots of gas, now called HH objects.

Now, astronomers have witnessed the onset of the process close - up for the first time.

Now astronomers in Australia are gearing up to search the skies for them.

Now, astronomers led by Thomas Maccarone of the University of Southampton, UK, have found the best evidence yet for a black hole in a globular cluster.

That's why, ever since astronomers confirmed the first planet outside of our solar system in 1995, they have been looking for signs of water on the 200 - plus exoplanets now known.

Now, new observations show that light from a nearby neutron star is significantly polarized, reports a team led by Roberto Mignani, an astronomer at the Institute for Spatial Astrophysics in Milan, Italy, reports.

Until now, the prevailing hypothesis has said that as stars evolve, metals (astronomers» term for any chemical elements heavier than hydrogen and helium) in the swirling disk around them form tiny «seeds» that attract other matter and slowly grow into planets.

Now Usher is a retired astronomer, that's what he did for a living for many years, but he took it upon himself to become a Shakespeare scholar; that's how he spent all of his free time, and especially now that he's retired, that's what he continues to Now Usher is a retired astronomer, that's what he did for a living for many years, but he took it upon himself to become a Shakespeare scholar; that's how he spent all of his free time, and especially now that he's retired, that's what he continues to now that he's retired, that's what he continues to do.

But for now, astronomers can be content with having seen Einstein's gravity at play around a black hole.

For nearly 100 years, astronomers have tried to understand how the Milky Way and other spiral galaxies formed these dramatic patterns — and now they think they finally have the answer.

Now for the first time, an astronomer says he has detected this cosmic burp — in the form of gas rapidly escaping a black hole that has just swallowed a star.

For decades, astronomers thought that the stars that made up a given globular cluster all shared the same ages and chemical compositions — but we now know that they are stranger and more complicated creatures.»

Now two astronomers from the Complutense University of Madrid, the brothers Carlos and Raúl de la Fuente Marcos, together with the researcher Sverre J. Aarseth of the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), have analyzed for the first time the nearly 340 objects of the solar system with hyperbolic orbits (very open V - shaped, not the typical elliptical), and in doing so they have detected that the trajectory of some of them is influenced by the passage of Scholz's star.

Then in 1979, astronomer Antoine Labeyrie, now at the College of France in Paris, proposed that lasers could also be used to trap and corral a collection of particles to form a reflective surface, creating an extremely lightweight mirror for a space telescope.

From the data gathered, astronomers now estimate that for every short gamma burst that occurs, another 30 go undetected.

«Finally, we now have separate images where you can see, actually see, the planet,» says astronomer Mark Marley of the NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., who did not participate in the research but wrote an article for Science summarizing and analyzing the teams» results.

«This system is poorly studied because it wasn't on our watch list of stars capable of producing large flares,» said Rachel Osten, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore and a deputy project scientist for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, now under construction.

Astronomers spotted the sizeable object now called «Oumuamua (Hawaiian for «first messenger») streaking by Earth last October.

Clara Moskowitz: Yeah, and like you said, «big data» is a term you hear a lot from astronomers these days, which is basically they've created this problem for themselves; their instruments are now bringing them back way more data than they can basically process or know what to do with.

Wang, who did this NASA - supported work while on four - month sabbatical as a Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Visiting astronomer at the University of Cambridge, U.K., points out, «Now we have physically resolved it and for the first time we've made the connection observationally between the massive stars moving around black holes and the X-ray emitting material.

Hubble is now the premier instrument for dissecting distant skies, says Heather Knutson, an astronomer at Caltech.

Using this technique, a team of astronomers led by Neil Crighton (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy; now at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne) has found the best evidence to date for a flow of pristine intergalactic gas onto a galaxy.

When complete, ALMA will be even more sensitive, and will be able to detect even fainter galaxies, but for now the astronomers targeted the brightest of them.

JPL, CalTech, NASA Larger illustration Astronomers have identified Upsilon Andromedae A as a prime target for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), now indefinitely delayed.

Some of those teachers have started their own programs for students, and some of those students are now astronomers or young science teachers bringing their students to Green Bank.

But a group of astronomers at Columbia University now think they've found an exomoon for real, roughly 4,000 lightyears away.

JPL, CalTech, NASA Larger illustration Astronomers have identified Iota Persei as a prime target for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), now planned for launch between 2014 and 2020.

It's likely all these formation effects take place to some extent, but ferreting out just how much is now the big challenge for astronomers.

Nearly 900 extrasolar planets have been confirmed to date, but now for the first time astronomers think they are seeing compelling evidence for a planet under construction in an unlikely place, at a great distance from its diminutive red dwarf star.

In the hunt for life - sustaining exoplanets, astronomers now have access to a powerful new tool.

That mass of the Milky Way, Belokurov notes, «could help pin down the density of our own galaxy and account for some of the missing matter that has been bothering astronomers for some time now.»

Although only a few candidates for such a system have ever been detected, astronomers at the University of Maryland, College Park, now believe that they have discovered incontrovertible evidence of such black - hole twins.

Working with fellow Carnegie astronomer George Preston, Shectman conducted an objective - prism survey for the oldest and most «metal - poor» stars in the halo of the Milky Way galaxy, and helped to provide the foundation for the study of what is now called near - field cosmology.