Sentences with phrase «from other astronomers»

I helped Jennifer Lotz select the six Frontier Fields clusters — with a lot of input from other astronomers.

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Holmes» equally talented father, an innovating physician and essayist, portrayed his son as The Young Astronomer, brilliant but aloof from the lives of others.

The last segment of it has an astronomer from Georgia State University, Rachel Kuzio De Naray, discussing life on other planets.

At a conference, another astronomer asked him if the center could archive a terabyte of data that had been collected from the MACHO sky survey, a project designed to study mysterious cosmic bodies that emit very little light or other radiation.

The new results from SPHERE, along with data from other telescopes such as ALMA, are revolutionising astronomers» understanding of the environments around young stars and the complex mechanisms of planetary formation.

Astronomers long considered two other main candidates in addition to synchrotron radiation: black - body radiation, which results from the emission of heat from an object, and inverse Compton radiation, which results when an accelerated particle transfers energy to a photon.

Applying the same technique to other regions of the Milky Way will help astronomers figure out what our galaxy looks like from the outside and compare it to other spiral galaxies.

On the other hand, perhaps Newton's law of gravity no longer applied at great distances from Earth, as the British astronomer George Biddell Airy believed.

After Jenkins and his colleagues have weeded out sunspots and other planet poseurs from the data, Marcy and other astronomers use the Doppler wobble method with terrestrial telescopes to verify that the remaining planet candidates, or «objects of interest,» are indeed planets.

In the first published account of sugar and alcohol in a comet, astronomers have detected ethanol, the sugar glycolaldehyde, and other organic molecules spewing from a comet known as comet Lovejoy, New Scientist reports.

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.

Now, astronomers have examined what happens when the winds from two huge stars smash into each other at close range.

He and other astronomers say the spinning binary, just 1.8 AU apart, could create «gravitational chaos» near the hypothesized planet, perhaps flinging it from the system.

A further blow came in 1929 when American astronomer Edwin Hubble observed that galaxies were flying apart from each other like pieces of cosmic shrapnel.

The Extravagant Universe, by Harvard astronomer Robert Kirshner, 2002, quoting from memory what Zwicky would say when the two of them had offices down the hall from each other at Caltech: «In 1933, I told those no - good spherical bastards that supernovas make the neutron stars.

Just as radio channels close to each other in frequency can bleed into one another, creating static, so too can radio interference from different technologies bleed into the channels astronomers use to observe.

Einstein wasn't happy with the idea of a big bang — until astronomer Edwin Hubble showed that galaxies are speeding away from each other

Other papers in the package also touch on the presence of water ice on Ceres, which had already been reported by the Dawn team and by astronomers observing the dwarf planet from afar.

Astronomers believe this region, called the Oort cloud, contains a vast collection of icy debris left over from material that came together to form the sun, Earth, and the other major planets 4.6 billion years ago.

Although the disk appeared to span less than 100,000 light - years, astronomers had seen sprinkles of other stars scattered far beyond the disk at the same distance from Earth, suggesting that the stars also belonged to the galaxy.

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.

«Supernova 1987A was quite different from other supernovas because it was a compact star when it exploded,» says Harvard astronomer Robert Kirshner.

ESA recruits not only space engineers but also electrical engineers, chemists, physicists, astronomers, and specialists from many other disciplines.

These results are consistent with what astronomers have observed from other Wolf - Rayet systems.

Perytons and FRBs are quite similar, except that astronomers realized that perytons originate on Earth, possibly from some meteorological phenomenon, while FRBs come from other galaxies.

That's exactly how two astronomers from Seoul National University in Korea found an ancient, relatively close galaxy — by combing other researchers» leftovers.

Visible light can't pierce Venus's thick shroud of clouds, so most of what astronomers know about the planet's surface comes from observations in radar and other wavelengths.

He, Natarajan, and other astronomers have been looking for these kinds baby black holes, hoping to confirm that they do, indeed, exist and then trying to work out their origins from the downstream consequences.

Even if Batygin and Brown can convince other astronomers that Planet X exists, they face another challenge: explaining how it ended up so far from the sun.

In other words, astronomers can predict just what the galactic rotation curves will be from a given galaxy's stellar distribution.

Danish astronomer Ole Roemer, for example, watching the moons from the Paris Observatory, noted how their eclipses preceded the predicted times when Jupiter and Earth came nearest each other.

M83 is the first galaxy in which astronomers have discovered this trend, but other spirals likely follow the same pattern, too — including the Milky Way, the one galaxy we can't see from the outside.

Astronomers are on the verge of finding other Earths — but still far from knowing whether they are inhabited

Astronomers believe the bullets, which are about 10 times the size of our solar system, are clumps of iron atoms (bright blue tips) and other gas ejected from within the nebula after an unknown violent event.

«Comets retain a record of conditions from the early solar system, but astronomers think some comets might preserve that history more completely than others,» said Michael DiSanti, an astronomer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author of the new study in the Astronomical Journal.

Astronomers are now looking into evidence that two other Saturn moons, Dione and Iapetus, may also be active, emitting gases from their surfaces.

Thirty years later — the equivalent of one Saturn year, in other words, the time the planet takes to go all the way around the Sun — and over more than six consecutive years, researchers in the UPV / EHU's Planetary Sciences Group, in collaboration with astronomers from various countries, were able to observe Saturn's northern polar region in detail once again and confirmed that the hexagon continued in place.

As a next step, the astronomers plan to analyse the spectra of additional stars in the Tri-And and A13 overdensities, as well as stars in other stellar structures further away from the disk.

The challenge for astronomers is to identify that fingerprint among the forest of spectral lines from all the other chemicals in the cloud.

It signaled a new era in astronomy, providing astronomers a tool for probing the depths of the universe that are obscured from view with Maxwell's «other radiations, if any.»

The collection was compiled by renowned French astronomer Charles Messier to help colleagues differentiate wandering comets from other objects, like nebulae.

And as they looked at other results from across the sky, the astronomers also realized that PS1 - 10adi isn't alone.

From these and many other observations, astronomers have built up a good picture of the stages in the lives of stars, with each stage in the pathway from birth to death depending on the mass of the sFrom these and many other observations, astronomers have built up a good picture of the stages in the lives of stars, with each stage in the pathway from birth to death depending on the mass of the sfrom birth to death depending on the mass of the star.

Based on 14 years of radial velocity observations from four ground - based observatories as well as astrometric measurements with the Hubble Space Telescope, the astronomers found that planets «c» and «d» are inclined by 30 + / - 1 degrees with respect to each other is expected to affect theories of how multi-planet systems evolve.

Within his search for nebulae, Charles Messier both undertook own scans, leading to 19 original Messier discoveries during that year, and used all the catalogs compiled previously by other astronomers he had access to: Edmond Halley's list of 6 objects, the catalog of William Derham, who chiefly had extracted from Hevelius» star catalog, Prodomus Astronomiae, which was available in a French translation by Pierre de Maupertuis, and Nicolas Lacaille's Catalog of Southern «Nebulae» of 1755, as well as lists of Maraldi and Le Gentil, with some references to (but very probably not the list of) De Chéseaux, probably from Le Gentil.

Also that year, other astronomers produced a «movie» showing motions in the jet of material ejected from the disk around Scorpius X-1's neutron star.

Since 1976, William Tifft, a University of Arizona astronomer, has found that distant stars and galaxies have redshifts that typically differ from each other by only a few fixed amounts.21 This is very strange if stars are actually moving away from us.

The visiting astronomer, on the other hand, could have come from anywhere in the world.

Other astronomers had looked for radio emission from brown dwarfs and not found any.

Astronomers made the latest discovery by using data from the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera 3 on board Hubble, as well as other ground - based telescopes including European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope.