Sentences with phrase «for other astronomers»

I'm also grateful for the other astronomers at Carnegie, who were always happy to talk with me about science beyond my specific research project.

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.

Not exact matches

With computers powering through a billion objects, astronomers can search more methodically for such extreme quasars — or for any other type of unusual object.

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.

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.

Leavitt worked out the «period - luminosity relationship» in 1908, giving astronomers a powerful tool for measuring the distance to stars and other astronomical objects.

But planetary astronomer Mike Brown and others infer that larger, planet - size bodies could have also been exiled to the Oort cloud; this is the basis for our Planet Y. — The editors

As they are opaque to visible light it is difficult for astronomers to observe their inner workings, and so other tools are needed to unveil their secrets — observations in the infrared or in the submillimetre parts of the spectrum, for example, where the dust clouds, only a few degrees over absolute zero, appear bright.

He leads a team of astronomers who have been using the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) to look for failed supernovae in other galaxies.

Astronomers can watch neutron stars orbit each other for many years using more traditional observatories, and all the while, energy leaks away from the system in the form of invisible gravitational waves.

Other astronomers are examining the smallest known brown dwarfs — which are around 10 times as massive as Jupiter — to determine the minimum mass needed for gravity to pull a pocket of gas and dust together to form a star.

Astronomers hope to analyze the atmospheres of these and other super-Earths by examining the starlight filtering through them, perhaps using the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled for launch in 2013.

Because parallax measurements are so difficult to obtain for far - distant star - forming regions on the other side of the galaxy, astronomers widely agree they will chiefly serve as important calibration points to augment existing kinematic distance measurements.

For more clues to the nature of dark matter, astronomers have looked out beyond our neighboring galaxies, into deep stretches of space where the influence of the unseen material shows up in other, more dramatic ways.

In this two - hour PBS special (a fine companion to The Life of Super-Earths), NOVA combines cutting - edge planetary science with the thrill of human exploration, putting astronomers and astrobiologists «on location» across the solar system as they explain the scientific search for life on other worlds.

After a decade of searching for planets orbiting stars like our sun, astronomers had found nothing but giant planets, most of them gas balls like Jupiter, around other stars.

A team of astronomers at the University of Chicago and Grinnell College seeks to change the way scientists approach the search for Earth - like planets orbiting stars other than the sun.

SETI astronomer Douglas Vakoch argued that the time has come to stop waiting for some other galactic civilization to establish contact with us and make the first gesture ourselves.

An astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley, he is leading the search for exoplanets: worlds that orbit other stars.

On the other are astronomers reveling in a grassroots priority - setting exercise — unprecedented for China — who have doubts about the ambitious design and favor something simpler.

China's astronomers rallied around the idea of leapfrogging to a 12 - meter telescope that, if completed quickly before other giants like the TMT, would for some years be the largest telescope on Earth.

This exploding star, named iPTF14hls, has erupted continuously for the last three years, and it may have had two other outbursts in the past, astronomers report in the Nov. 9 Nature.

No collisions have been observed directly, but astronomers have found several pairs of black holes that are very close to each other, including some that are orbiting each other and some that seem to be on course for a collision.

After their first announcement in The Astronomical Journal, Brown and Batygin released a paper in March telling other astronomers where to look for the world.

As the most abundant element in the Universe and the raw fuel for creating stars, hydrogen is used by radio astronomers to detect and understand the makeup of other galaxies.

For astronomers, the Archive is a gold mine with the potential to yield more absorption systems or other unexpected mysteries of the universe.

The origin of a fast radio burst in this type of dwarf galaxy suggests a connection to other energetic events that occur in similar dwarf galaxies, said co-author and UC Berkeley astronomer Casey Law, who led development of the data - acquisition system and created the analysis software to search for rapid, one - off bursts.

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.

For decades Pluto, later joined by its moon Charon, had a wide swath to itself on astronomers» plots of the solar system — no other bodies were known to dwell beyond Neptune in the long - hypothesized debris field known as the Kuiper Belt.

In its updated form, it receives e-mail requests from astronomers and automatically executes the observations, searching for planets around other stars and monitoring the flickering of gas falling into black holes.

Two outside sources say the silver lining for astronomers is that NASA hopes to share the fiscal burden equally between astrophysics and other branches of the $ 18 - billion agency rather than pummeling its science programs.

Astronomer David Jewitt of the University of California, Los Angeles, a co-discoverer of 1992 QB1, the first KBO other than Pluto and Charon, says that TAOS is looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack.

For nearly 2 centuries, astronomers have been using a trigonometric device called a parallax to measure the distances between Earth and other objects in our region of the Milky Way galaxy.

While many astronomers are queuing up for time on the giant telescopes just coming on line, others are drawing plans for even larger telescopes.

For astronomers, the main difference between midtown Manhattan and rural Mongolia — other than the availability of a good latte — is the darkness of the night sky.

Astronomers have been waiting for Voyager to cross this boundary — the heliopause, where solar particles give way to even speedier particles ejected by other stars — and enter interstellar space.

Astronomers expect TESS to find about 20,000 planets in its first two years in operation, focusing on nearby, bright stars that will be easy for other telescopes to investigate later.

Using a new computer technique that accounts for the planets» gravitational tugs on each other, astronomer Simon Grimm of the University of Bern in Switzerland and his colleagues calculated the seven planets» masses with five to eight times better precision than before.

For astronomers, the proposed new telescope represents tremendous promise: With a mirror nearly three times larger than any other on Earth, it could detect signs of life in other solar systems and provide clues to the origins of the universe.

Since then, other astronomers had tried other methods of filtering out the star's noisy signal, and found that the evidence for planet Bb was inconclusive.

In the past year, astronomers searching for planets around other stars have found alien worlds that are smaller and younger than any previously known.

Sasselov, a 46 - year - old Harvard University astronomer and director of the university's Origins of Life Initiative, is looking for life - sustainable extrasolar planets — planets that are circling suns in other solar systems.

«If it really mattered to another committee that someone had a lot of offers,» says Joanne Cohn, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley, responsible for the astrophysics job wiki, «I'd expect them to check — committees do talk to each other and to people writing reference letters.»

NASA's Kepler spacecraft made an unexpected catch in 2011: While looking for planets around other stars it also happened to snap a brace of supernovae, allowing astronomers to observe the shockwave that triggers them for the first time in detail.

For decades, astronomers have suspected that planetary nebulae — dazzlingly colorful shrouds of gas cast off by dying stars — owe their weird but often symmetrical shapes to the sculpting magnetic forces of two stars orbiting each other at the nebula's center.

According to Ed Weiler, NASA's project scientist at headquarters for the EUVE, «Other astronomers thought he was crazy.»

So thirsty are theorists for new insights into black holes and relativistic processes that, with each LIGO detection, observational astronomers have leapt into action to target those enormous patches of sky, hoping to see some afterglow or other emission of electromagnetic radiation — even though by definition the resulting larger black hole should emit no light.

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.

Astronomers could discover a plethora of planets around binary star systems ¬ - stars that rotate around each other — by measuring with high precision how stars move around each other, looking for disturbances exerted by possible exoplanets.

Although astronomers would prefer a single explanation for both, each phenomenon is difficult to explain on its own and even harder to explain when considered in tandem with the other.