Sentences with phrase «hundreds of astronomers»

Hundreds of astronomers, engineers and technicians from around the world continue to design and manufacture telescope parts that when assembled will eventually become the Thirty Meter Telescope on Maunakea.

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Despite astronomers» long - standing interest in it, however, it's mysterious: It's hundreds of millions of miles away, and only a handful of spacecraft have taken detailed images of it.

Discovery of Late - Type Companions to Two Exoplanet Host Stars] Our galaxy contains hundreds of billions of stars, and astronomers suspect planets accompany almost all of them.

Astronomers sifted through a catalog containing measurements of hundreds of galaxies to find the speed and location of 16 satellites around Centaurus A.

Levan concludes: «Now, astronomers won't just look at the light from an object, as we've done for hundreds of years, but also listen to it.

Astronomers are not sure whether they merely grazed each other or collided head - on, but either way it triggered a powerful eruption that launched other nearby protostars and hundreds of colossal streamers of gas and dust out into interstellar space at over 150 kilometres per second.

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.

Last year, x-ray astronomers also found hints of «intermediate» black holes with hundreds to thousands of times our sun's mass in other galaxies (ScienceNOW, 7 June 2001), but they hadn't measured the gravitational pulls of such holes — the best way to confirm their presence and gauge their masses.

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.

Regardless, if TESS can indeed locate hundreds of nearby planets, astronomers will have their hands full for the foreseeable future — finding out what those planets are like and what kinds of habitats they might support and, just maybe, flinging some future probe toward one enticing - looking world.

The team of astronomers has now shown that the comet's orbit is stable for more than three hundred years.

Astronomers staring across the universe have spotted a startling scene: three supermassive black holes orbiting close to one another, two of them just a few hundred light - years apart.

Astronomers affiliated with the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS) have discovered two of the brightest and most distant supernovae ever recorded, 10 billion light - years away and a hundred times more luminous than a normal supernova.

A hundred years ago, astronomers knew of just one galaxy: our own.

University of Amsterdam astronomers Roy van Boekel and Michiel Min and their colleagues used the European Very Large Telescope array in northern Chile to focus on the cores of three young protoplanetary disks, surrounding stars a few hundred light - years away.

Astronomers have recently found hundreds of new exoplanets, or planets beyond our own solar system.

The sweeping 2dF map reveals hundreds of clusters that are about the same size as those seen in previous surveys but no larger, says astronomer Gavin Dalton of the University of Oxford in England.

Although astronomer David Jewitt of the Institute for Astronomy in Hawaii thinks Rabinowitz has done a good job counting the big asteroids, he is more worried about the hundreds of thousands of rocks smaller than 1 kilometer but larger than 100 meters.

The astronomers took hundreds of infrared pictures of PSO J318.5 - 22, which is a gas giant like our Jupiter but with eight times the mass.

Astronomers have found a very young galaxy that produces thousands of stars a year — hundreds of times more than our own Milky Way.

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.

Astronomers have discovered hundreds of planets around the Milky Way, including rocky planets similar to Earth and gas planets similar to Jupiter.

Astronomers have found hundreds of brown dwarfs within just 100 light - years of us but know distressingly little about the total number of them out there.

Although hundreds of exoplanets had already been found orbiting sun - like stars throughout the Milky Way, they had been discovered by indirect means — astronomers had inferred the presence of a planet by observing the dimming effects or gravitational wobble an orbiting companion induces on its parent star.

Over the past couple of decades, astronomers have been able to detect hundreds of disks of dust and gas surrounding very young stars, which signify new planets in the making.

Indeed, hundreds of these epic events are seen every year by the armies of astronomers that scan the skies in search of them.

Sifting through Kepler data, astronomers have discovered 130 new extrasolar planets and identified hundreds of planetary candidates, showing that the universe is teeming with planets.

The discovery of jets pushing away from dust - shrouded protostars at hundreds of miles per second was the first hint to astronomers that star formation was a far more chaotic process than they had envisioned.

Astronomers are finding hundreds of planets orbiting stars other than our sun, some of them not much bigger than Earth.

Astronomers are working on theories to explain how this could happen in just a few tens or hundreds of millions of years.

In the wee hours of the morning of 19 March, astronomers detected from more than halfway across the universe a burst of gamma rays brighter than a hundred - billion suns — and aimed squarely at Earth.

In the past decade, astronomers have spotted hundreds of objects in the Kuiper belt, one of them (Eris) even bigger than Pluto.

An international team of astronomers, led by the University Göttingen and with researchers from AIP, has found that one of the stars in NGC 3201 is being flung backwards and forwards at speeds of several hundred thousand kilometres per hour, with the pattern repeating every 167 days.

Before this, astronomers were forced to use much less reliable techniques to estimate the distances of objects more than a few hundred parsecs from our solar system.

Although the Greek poets of antiquity praised the unsurpassed beauty of the mythological maiden princess, they could never have imagined that hundred of million of kilometers away lay a real world of equal beauty and intrigue that would captivate the hearts and minds of astronomers, planetary scientists, and space advocates alike, up to this day.

The discovery of hundreds of exoplanet candidates by NASA's Kepler mission enables astronomers to characterize the eccentricity distribution of small exoplanets.

The astronomers then determined that the absorbing halo is a few hundred times hotter than the surface of our Sun, Sol.

An international team of astronomers has discovered that a young galaxy had a central disk of gas in which hundreds of new stars were being born every year — at a time when the Universe was only a fraction of its current age.

To date, astronomers have found hundreds of these far - off worlds, called exoplanets.

That's why astronomers have turned their gaze to young stars hundreds of light - years from Earth, in an effort to watch new worlds that are just starting to take shape.

As a result, astronomers believe that it may be too massive to have formed like a planet from the circumstellar disk of gas and dust that enveloped 15 Sge when it was less than a hundred million years old.

Astronomers find evidence of enormous black hole one hundred thousand times more massive than the sun in a gas cloud near the galaxy's centre.

Getting to this point required solutions to many difficult engineering problems, and it is thanks to the incredible efforts of hundreds of people in Hawaii and vision and leadership of astronomer and physicist Dr. Jerry Nelson that solutions were found and Keck I, and then its twin, Keck II were built.

Despite these observational challenges, astronomers have successfully spotted many thousands of such microlensing events as part of various comprehensive deep - sky surveys during the last couple decades which have monitored hundreds of millions of stars for many years at a time, like the MACHO Collaboration project, the Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics, or MOA, and the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment, or OGLE.

The discovery of five blazars from the universe's youth means there must be hundreds more similar objects, said astronomer Roopesh Ojha, with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md..

According to John Bortle of Stormville, N.Y., who has observed several hundred comets in his more - than - 50 years as an assiduous amateur astronomer, Comet Lovejoy, «appears to be only modestly condensed, at best, and lacking in any obvious stellar nucleus, even a very faint one.

In 2000, Chandra observed a gigantic cloud of hot gas enveloping the galaxy cluster Abell 2029, leading astronomers to estimate that the cluster must hold an amount of dark matter equivalent to more than a hundred trillion suns!

Astronomers have revealed that dense molecular gas discs a few hundred light - years in scale located at the centres of galaxies supply gas to supermassive black holes situated within them.

THE KAVLI FOUNDATION: Astronomers have already detected hundreds of Jupiter - like exoplanets and directly seen several young, hot, glowing exoplanets like 51 Eridani b.

It was opposed by hundreds of professional astronomers in a formal petition led by New Horizons Principal Investigator Dr. Alan Stern.