Sentences with phrase «for young astronomers»

And for young astronomers just beginning to learn about space, the Hubble Space Telescope is an ideal jumping - off point.

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«Ours isn't the only group looking for planets around young stars, and my hope is that astronomers can find enough of them to shed light on some of the nagging questions about planet formation,» Johns - Krull said.

For example, astronomers have been trying to explain why some recently discovered distant, but young, galaxies contain massive amounts of dust.

Describing the discovery October 16 in Astrophysical Journal Letters, the team of astronomers led by Arjen van der Wel of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany report that the lensing galaxy is relatively light, young and bursting with new stars.

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

In 1983, astronomers discovered dust orbiting the star, suggesting it had a solar system, and Carl Sagan (pictured) chose to make Vega the source of a SETI signal in his 1985 novel Contact, though the responsible aliens weren't native to the star: At the time, Vega was thought to be only about a couple hundred million years old, probably too young for any planets to have spawned life.

If certain debris disks are able to hold onto appreciable amounts of gas, it might push back astronomers» expected deadline for giant planet formation around young stars, the astronomers speculate.

An alternative explanation for the star's brightness is that it is older, not younger, than astronomers had thought.

«Astronomers discover S0 - 2 star is single and ready for big Einstein test: No companion found for famous young bright star orbiting Milky Way's supermassive black hole.»

«I've been studying young stars near Earth for 20 years and I've never seen anything like this one,» said UCLA astronomer Benjamin Zuckerman.

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.

This is a short - term program that provides opportunities for students to have research experiences under the supervision of NAOJ researchers who are teaching at SOKENDAI, aiming to nurture young students who wish to be a future astronomer.

The paper suggests that when astronomers are looking for these giant exoplanets, they should concentrate on looking at young star systems that have debris disks around them.

For the first time, astronomers have detected the presence of complex organic molecules, the building blocks of life, in a protoplanetary disk surrounding a young star, suggesting once again that the conditions that spawned our Earth and Sun are not unique in the universe.

Xavier Dumusque is the young astronomer who was lead author for the announcement of the first exoplanet found in the Alpha Centauri system, just 4.3 light years from Earth.

Astronomers could be significant role models and mentors for young minority scientists and students.

MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — A team of astronomers discovered a Jupiter - like planet within a young system that could serve as a decoder ring for understanding how planets formed around our sun.

MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — Astronomers have uncovered evidence for a vast collection of young galaxies 12 billion light years away.

«This is the first exoplanet discovered with the Gemini Planet Imager, one of the new generation instruments designed specifically for discovering and analyzing faint, young planets orbiting bright stars,» said Franck Marchis, Senior Planetary Astronomer at the SETI Institute and member of the team that built the instrument and now conducts the survey.

For example, Helfand pointed out that there are cases in which astronomers concluded that a pulsar and supernova remnant, while nearby, are not related because the pulsar's «characteristic age» was much younger than the age calculated for the supernova remnaFor example, Helfand pointed out that there are cases in which astronomers concluded that a pulsar and supernova remnant, while nearby, are not related because the pulsar's «characteristic age» was much younger than the age calculated for the supernova remnafor the supernova remnant.

Astronomers have discovered the most distant black hole ever observed — and it's astonishingly big for its young age.

Astronomers have detected candidates for pre-main sequence stars, very young stars just beginning their lives, as well as some T Tauri stars embedded deep within the nebula.

Assuming that the Local Bubble or Chimney was created by the supernovae of young, massive stars during the past few million years, some astronomers have been looking for their probable source among the 27 member B stars of the Pleiades moving group, which are located towards the nearest part of Gould's Belt of massive hot, OB - type stars (more discussion in pdf).