Sentences with phrase «for astronomers studying»

Because of their relative brightness, high - energy gamma and x-ray quasars have become important probes for astronomers studying distant reaches of the universe and its ancient past.

Produced by stars, the dust causes light to look redder than it really is when observed visually, which can make it difficult for astronomers studying properties of stars.

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Joseph H. Taylor, Jr. (1993 Nobel Prize in Physics) Paul Davies (Well Respected Physicist) Robert Jastrow (Astronomer, physicist and founder of NASA's Goddard Insttute of Space Studies) Max Planck (the Nobel Prize winning physicist) Arthur Compton (1927 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the Compton Effect)

In part because of their immense numbers, such stars are in some respects easier for astronomers to study.

A new study published in the January 24 edition of Science Advances explores what this curious fact might mean for alien - hunting astronomers.

Astronomers have used SPHERE to obtain many other impressive images, as well as for other studies including the interaction of a planet with a disc, the orbital motions within a system, and the time evolution of a disc.

But for that, astronomers need to know their mass — individual transit studies reveal only size.

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

Astronomer Michael Boylan - Kolchin of the University of Texas at Austin, who wrote a commentary about the study for the same issue of Science, doesn't think it will come to that.

«For me personally,» says astronomer Debra Fischer of San Francisco State University, the study's lead author, «this was one of the more annoying stars.

«This should break all records for how long a superluminous supernova can be followed,» Raffaella Margutti, study co-author and an astronomer at Northwestern University, said in the statement.

In the past few years, astronomers have solidified the case for cosmic acceleration by studying ever more remote supernovae.

«This is a beautiful observation,» says astronomer Peredur Williams of the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, who has studied WR140 for nearly 30 years.

Amateur astronomers, long major players in ascertaining the exact orbits of asteroids, are likely to play less and less of a role as professionals turn their powerful telescopes to the objects once considered too mundane for academics to study at all.

The discovery has allowed astronomers for the first time to study the chemistry of the first stars, giving scientists a clearer idea of what the Universe was like in its infancy.

That would be big enough to fulfill several high - priority items on astronomers» wish lists, revolutionizing studies of faraway galaxies, observations of planets in the outer solar system and searches for life on Earth - like exoplanets.

Astronomers Michael Corbin of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, and William Vacca of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany, used Hubble to study POX 186 in March and June 2000.

«Superluminous supernovas were already the rock stars of the supernova world,» Matt Nicholl, lead author of the study and an astronomer at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said in the statement.

That's what researchers from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore expected to find when they combined data on 458 GRBs discovered by satellites since 2007, a painstaking chore that no one had undertaken before, says Melissa Nysewander, a former STScI astronomer and a co-author of the study submitted for publication to The Astrophysical Journal.

Astronomers have long dreamed of such pictures, which would allow them to study worlds beyond our solar system for signs of habitability and life.

«The uncanny consistency of this stellar remnant offers intriguing evidence that the fundamental force of gravity — the big «G» of physics — remains rock - solid throughout space,» said Weiwei Zhu, an astronomer formerly with the University of British Columbia in Canada and lead author on a study accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal.

Astronomers have discovered objects that suck in gas which then disappears from the Universe for good, and they are even studying the matter teetering on the brink of this ultimate abyss.

As useful as Webb might be for studying Proxima b, most astronomers are far more optimistic about using a coming generation of ground - based Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs), behemoths with mirrors up to 40 meters wide, scheduled to debut in the mid-2020s.

«If there are plumes emerging from Europa, it is significant because it means we may be able to explore that ocean for organic chemistry or even signs of life without having to drill through unknown miles of ice,» says study lead William Sparks, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute.

Astronomers have been telescopically studying Ceres for decades, using spectrometers to measure how certain wavelengths of light are reflected or absorbed by substances on the surface.

Astronomers say at least three of the worlds may be habitable, and could be studied for signs of life within a decade

«The fact it repeats rules out — for this object anyway — any of the models that are just one - offs, whether they involve mergers or evaporating black holes or something else,» says study co-author James Cordes, an astronomer at Cornell University.

«It's very undistinguished,» says Cambridge University astronomer Andrew Fabian, who has been studying it for more than a decade.

Sobouti, a theoretical physicist and astronomer, is the founder and director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS) in Zanjan, Iran.

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.

Yesterday's inauguration of the first element of an international telescope array in Namibia provides astronomers with the most sensitive high - energy gamma ray observatory ever — a powerful new tool for studying the most violent processes in the universe.

«We've come to recognize that Ceres has a lot of characteristics that are intriguing for those looking at how life starts,» says Andy Rivkin, a planetary astronomer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., who was not involved in the study.

«Thanks to this detection, the team has been able to study for the first time the properties of extremely faint objects formed not long after the big bang,» said lead author Leopoldo Infante, an astronomer at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile).

Westerlund 1 is a unique natural laboratory for the study of extreme stellar physics, helping astronomers to find out how the most massive stars in the Milky Way live and die.

Although small and messy, galaxies like NGC 4861 provide astronomers with interesting opportunities for study.

«To me the real takeaway message is that Venus could have been habitable for a significant period of time, and time is one of the key ingredients to being able to originate life on a planet,» says Lori Glaze, an astronomer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center who was not involved in the study.

The studies offer new grist for theorists to debate, says astronomer Joel Kastner of the Rochester Institute of Technology, New York.

Large ripples, loops and arcs embedded in the starry outer envelope were first observed in the 1970s, and they remain an active field of study for contemporary astronomers, who use the latest telescope technology to observe the finer details of NGC 1316's unusual structure through a combination of imaging and modelling.

The eminent astronomer from the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton stepped up to the podium, announced that he and two collaborators had taken high - resolution Hubble images of 15 quasars, and proclaimed the result: We have taken a giant leap backward in our understanding of quasars.

In particular, the Deep Impact mission blasted a crater in the comet Tempel 1 so astronomers could study the makeup of the debris, providing a «Rosetta stone» for interpreting the composition of material around stars, says Lisse, who led the Deep Impact analysis.

An interdisciplinary team of UvA physicists and astronomers proposed to search for primordial black holes in our galaxy by studying the X-ray and radio emission that these objects would produce as they wander through the galaxy and accrete gas from the interstellar medium.

While the link between the fast radio burst and a specific galaxy has vanished, the astronomers remain optimistic for future studies.

Astronomers at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, studied 84 sunlike stars and observed 29 of these supersized solar flares over a 4 - year period to find out how often they occur.

And, with a close - in orbit providing such a transit once every 1.6 days, GJ 1132b will give astronomers plenty of opportunities for study.

The study is «an important step forward» in understanding the evolution of early galaxies, says astronomer Giovanni Fazio of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Astronomer Richard Ellis of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, who is a member of the Board of Directors for the TMT, says the E-ELT's smaller mirror size will lead to a «quite significant loss» in its ability to study remote galaxies as well as directly image exoplanets.

For radio astronomers seeking a detailed study of a near - Earth asteroid, last February proved a perfect opportunity.

First, a team led by astronomer Jon Miller of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, used the European Space Agency's XMM - Newton satellite to study two bright x-ray sources in the nearby galaxy NGC 1313.

This proximity makes it a very important target for astronomers, as it can be studied in far more detail than more distant systems.

The neutron pair's demise offered an unprecedented opportunity for astronomers to study such an event.