Sentences with phrase «groups of astronomers»

In this particular, even the scientists established that the region of sky where the source was located was around 60 square degrees big and was searched by 25 different groups of astronomers.

For the Frontier Fields, five groups of astronomers from around the world collaborated to gather the best possible data on all six clusters and produce gravitational lensing models.

«Now, based on independent confirmation by two groups of astronomers, we see these three blazars with apparent speeds greater than 25 times that of light,» Piner added.

Cole Miller of the University of Maryland in College Park finds this reasoning convincing, but points out that both groups of astronomers relied on particularly complex models to estimate the temperature of a star from its brightness, rather than measuring the temperature directly.

Both groups of astronomers studied a particular quasar called APM 08279 +5255, which harbors a black hole 20 billion times more massive than the sun and produces as much energy as a thousand trillion suns.

About 10 years ago, a group of astronomers started talking about creating a unified, global virtual observatory.

Now a group of astronomers led by Asa Bluck of the University of Victoria in Canada have found a (relatively) simple relationship between the colour of a galaxy and the size of its bulge: the more massive the bulge the redder the galaxy.

But that tense day, December 26, 2004, stunned the small group of astronomers who dutifully detect and plot trajectories of hundreds of thousands of the millions of chunks of rock whizzing around the solar system.

With the help of the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a German - led group of astronomers have observed the intriguing characteristics of an unusual type of object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter: two asteroids orbiting each other and exhibiting comet - like features, including a bright coma and a long tail.

She accepted an offer from a group of astronomers at Berkeley, part of a collaboration studying a rare type of supernova that some believe holds the key to measuring the expansion of the universe.

An Australian - led group of astronomers working with European collaborators has revealed the «DNA» of more than 340,000 stars in the Milky Way, which should help them find the siblings of the Sun, now scattered across the sky.

Alternatively, an MIT - led group of astronomers is developing the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, a spacecraft containing an array of telescopes that would survey the entire sky, looking for exoplanets in the habitable zone around the nearest and brightest stars.

A group of astronomers in the US has just come up with an accurate measurement for the distance to a second galaxy in the cluster.

A group of astronomers who met in 1961 to figure out the odds of finding intelligent life in our own galaxy turn out to have been really smart and really lucky.

The facility was Australia's oldest research observatory and home to the country's biggest group of astronomers.

In a new paper submitted to The Astrophysical Journal on 29 November 2013 (available on the ArXiv Preprint Server), a group of astronomers detected a large number of distant, gravitationally lensed galaxy candidates — all viewed through Abell 2744, with the galaxy cluster acting as a lens.

The road to progress is typically strewn with false starts, wrong turns and other miscues — as a group of astronomers and physicists known as the BICEP2 collaboration recently found out.

A group of astronomers used Hubble to study the remnant of the Type Ia supernova explosion SNR 0509 - 68.7 — also known as N103B (seen at the top).

A Sydney - led international group of astronomers has revealed the «DNA» of more than 340,000 stars in the first major data release from the Galactic Archaeology survey GALAH for clues about how galaxies formed and evolved.

Maunakea, Hawaii — Using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, a group of astronomers led by Joseph Hennawi of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have discovered the first quadruple quasar:... Read more»

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

Maunakea, Hawaii — Using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, a group of astronomers led by Joseph Hennawi of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have discovered the first quadruple quasar: four rare active black holes situated in close proximity to one another.

In 1996, another group of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered that they might have directly observed a companion to Proxima with the implied brightness of a brown dwarf and an apparent visual separation of only about half the Earth - Sun distance — 0.5 AU (Schultz et al, 1998).

Using the GBT and its superfast processing equipment, plus similar setups at Arecibo in Puerto Rico, a group of astronomers and physicists routinely observe the signals of up to 40 millisecond pulsars.

In 1986 a group of astronomers observing the motions of the Milky Way and neighbouring galaxies noted that the galaxies were moving toward the Hydra - Centaurus superclusters in the southern sky with velocities significantly different from those predicted by the expansion of the universe in accordance with the Hubble law (see Hubble's constant).

In late September 2010, a group of astronomers in the United States using spectroscopic data from ground - based instruments announced the discovery of a potentially hospitable planet, Gliese 581g, orbiting the star Gliese 581 just 20 light - years away.

A group of astronomers in Germany and the Czech Republic observed three stars in a cluster near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Last March, when a group of astronomers announced that they had detected faint swirls in the sky that almost certainly reflected undulations in the shape of the early universe, experts agreed it could be one of the greatest cosmological discoveries of all time.

A group of astronomers now hope to fill this gap in our knowledge.

A small group of astronomers, including Shaya, realized Kepler could offer a new technique for supernova - hunting.

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A group of people gathered at the Battery Park City esplanade on Fri., June 3, when B.P.C. resident, physician and amateur astronomer Sheldon Palgon examined Saturn through his powerful telescope.

«Distant galaxy group contradicts common cosmological models, simulations: Astronomers find plane of dwarf satellites orbiting Centaurus A.» ScienceDaily.

A group of citizen scientists and professional astronomers, including Carnegie's Jonathan Gagné, joined forces to discover an unusual hunting ground for exoplanets.

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.

Using techniques drawn from the analysis of music, astronomers have been studying how galaxies form into progressively larger groupings

Astronomers captured these dramatic images of the remains of a 500 - year - old explosion as they explored the firework - like debris from the birth of a group of massive stars, demonstrating that star formation can be a violent and explosive process too.

The cool star's composition is tricky to study, but astronomers can look at 16 other stars in the same «moving group», all of which orbit the galaxy backwards and are very old.

«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.

The newly named Comet ISON was headed almost directly toward the sun, falling into the group of daredevil objects that astronomers picturesquely call sungrazers.

«This discovery of the first ever quintuple planetary system has me jumping out of my socks,» says group member and veteran planet hunter Geoffrey Marcy, an astronomer at the University of California at Berkeley.

The group's youth and proximity make the stars «fantastically suitable for direct searches for warm newborn planets,» says astronomer Ray Jayawardhana of UC Berkeley, because such planets would shine brightly in infrared light.

To solve this problem, astronomers from Daniel Schaerer's research group at the Department of Astronomy of the Faculty of Sciences, and an international team proposed to observe «green pea» galaxies.

Philip Diamond, an astronomer at Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, UK, says the motions of galaxies in the «Local Group» — the Milky Way's neighbouring galaxies — will reveal the pull of invisible dark matter in the region.

Visible light (second inset) shows a vast, elliptical grouping of stars bisected by a dark lane of dust, which astronomers interpret as the remains of a spiral galaxy that collided with a larger elliptical galaxy.

(One grassroots group of 300 astronomers declared, «We, as planetary scientists and astronomers, do not agree with the IAU's definition of a planet, nor will we use it.»)

Schaefer and a group of other astronomers will start out near Casper, Wyo., but they're ready to jump in the car and drive anywhere else along the eclipse path if it looks like it might be cloudy.

«Many astronomers, including our group, have already provided a great deal of evidence that long - duration gamma - ray bursts (those lasting more than two seconds) are produced by the collapse of extremely massive stars.

Paglen was able to identify and photograph these secret spacecraft due to the work of a diverse international group of amateur astronomers who maintain a catalogue of classified spacecraft in Earth's orbit by producing mathematical descriptions of orbits using simple tools like stopwatches and binoculars.

Already, the Swiss astronomers who in 1995 discovered the first Jupiter - like exoplanet — and who are the great rivals of the California group in the exoplanet hunt — said in June that they had identified not one but three super-Earths orbiting a single star 40 light - years away.

During the past 10 years, working in step with a rival group of scientists centered at Harvard University, Perlmutter and his collaborators have peered to the far edge of what astronomer Edwin Hubble called «the dim boundary — the utmost limits of our telescopes.»