Sentences with phrase «helped astronomers»

Analysis of the black hole's mass helped astronomers determine that it can consume more gas and produce more light than previously believed.

The technique, in use for about a decade, has helped astronomers discover more than 300 large planets.

Hubble observations have helped astronomers conclusively find supermassive black holes in some host galaxies, but even more surprising was the observed connection between the mass of a supermassive black hole and the size of its host galaxy.

Modern images of the rings of Saturn have helped astronomers understand how unique the individual rings are.

It was called the «Sugar Scoop,» and it helped astronomers gather information about man - made radio interference on the site.

Super-bright galaxies powered by black holes have helped astronomers come up with the most accurate distance yet to the iconic Pleiades star cluster.

Data from three of NASA's space telescopes have helped astronomers discover clear skies and water vapor on a gaseous planet outside our solar system.

Zoom in on the pulsar PSR J1745 - 2900 that has helped astronomers discover a powerful magnetic field around the monster black hole Sagittarius A * at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy.

Observations here helped astronomers refine the predicted path of the asteroid Apophis, which will narrowly miss our planet in April 2036.

The insights gained from studying SN 1987A have in turn helped astronomers better classify and model the 200 much fainter supernovas detected each year.

The afterglows have helped astronomers determine that GRBs lie in distant galaxies.

That effect helped astronomers produce two magnified images of the galaxy in different positions (insets within this artist's illustration).

Astronomer Tiantian Yuan at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia and colleagues found the new record - holder thanks to a closer cluster of galaxies, which acted as a gravitational lens that helped astronomers produce two magnified images of A1689B11 (SN: 3/10/12, p. 4).

LITTLE MOON, BIG WORLD Watching the tiny ice moon Europa cross in front of Jupiter helped astronomers reveal Europa's watery plumes.

Completed in 1980 but operational before then, the VLA was behind the discoveries of water ice on Mercury; the complex region surrounding Sagittarius A *, the black hole at the core of the Milky Way galaxy; and it helped astronomers identify a distant galaxy already pumping out stars less than a billion years after the big bang.

These lasers help remove the twinkles in the night sky and help astronomers see stars clearer on Earth than ever before.

A solitary planet in an eccentric orbit around an ancient star may help astronomers understand exactly how such planetary systems are formed.

In the future, a similar technique could help astronomers study clouds on Earth - like exoplanets.

This phenomenon, called gravitational lensing, helps astronomers observe objects more distant than telescopes can see on their own.

These bright, celestial objects serve as beacons across the sky, helping astronomers peer deep into space and calculate the size, shape and mass of the universe.

The discovery, also reported in a paper accepted to the Astronomical Journal, can also help astronomers better understand the planetary population of our galaxy.

World Building Seeing MU69 up close could also help astronomers answer another fundamental question: How do planets form?

Cash and his team tested different variations of his starshade design in the Nevada desert; the best designs might one day fly in space to help astronomers detect and study exoplanets.

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.

The observed measurements are helping the astronomers figure out the sequence of events triggered by the collision of the neutron stars.

This will help astronomers understand the underlying force of the blast, and what impact such events could have on star formation across the galaxy.

This ambitious three - year effort teams Hubble and NASA's other Great Observatories to look at select massive galaxy clusters to help astronomers probe the remote universe.

This result helps astronomers understand the workings of the cosmic «thermostat» that controls the launching of radio jets from the supermassive black hole.

Studies such as this one from ALMA will help astronomers answer the question of whether there were enough stars, shining brightly enough at the right wavelength, to bring about this transformation.

Current telescopes such as the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite, and future telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an infrared observatory, and the Wide Field Infrared Space Telescope (WFIRST), also could help astronomers make better measurements of the expansion rate.

Taken together, the resulting map will help astronomers pin down many still - unknown fundamental aspects of our galaxy such as how fast and uniformly it rotates.

PASADENA, CALIFORNIA — The surprising heat from 63 brown dwarfs is helping astronomers make the case that these puzzling objects are failed stars, and not big planets, as some have argued.

A unique threesome of stars locked in tight, circular orbits could help astronomers test the leading theory of gravity to unprecedented precision.

The new flick should help astronomers understand the narrow jets formed by neutron stars and black holes in our galaxy and beyond.

Among the galaxies are hundreds of tiny, ill - formed blotches of stars that should help astronomers devise a coherent picture of how galaxies assembled after the big bang, says project leader Steven Beckwith, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland.

As one example, learning the carbon dioxide abundance in a super-Earth's atmosphere would help astronomers gauge whether it's a temperate place or more like Venus, whose thick carbon dioxide atmosphere conspires with its solar proximity in raising its surface temperature to 900 degrees Fahrenheit.

Observations of the trio demonstrate that swirling jets can help astronomers find hidden black hole pairs.

The findings will influence how ice giants are studied in future and could help astronomers classify newly discovered planets as they look deeper into space.

«This theoretical model will help astronomers concentrate on promising candidates in their search for Earth - like planets,» says Alibert.

These may help astronomers unravel what drives the solar wind, the stream of charged particles that flows from the sun and permeates the solar system.

The find should help astronomers determine how much dust in the solar system originates in asteroid collisions; such impacts may also create fragments that reach Earth as small meteorites.

A 21 - year study of a pair of ancient stars — one a pulsar and the other a white dwarf — helps astronomers understand how gravity works across the cosmos.

Guyon adds that the system will help astronomers to study the skies more efficiently, by bringing large objects, such as nearby galaxies, into focus all at once, and by allowing more distant objects to be studied in a single snapshot.

Their huge luminosity helps astronomers to map out the location of distant galaxies, something the team exploited.

Understanding this shift in behaviour could help astronomers calibrate cosmic clocks

If so, gamma - ray bursts could help astronomers map the most distant reaches of the cosmos.

ALMA picks up light emitted by glowing dust in SDP.81 and also sees signs of carbon monoxide and water molecules in the ring, helping astronomers determine its structure and internal motion.

This should help astronomers better understand the universe's earliest days.

This discovery of RR Lyrae stars provides compelling evidence that helps astronomers decide between two main competing theories for how nuclear bulges form [1].

If so, large - scale supernova surveys could turn up more of these invisible lenses, helping astronomers find and put limits on the number of dark - matter dwarfs in the universe, Quimby and colleagues conclude.