Sentences with phrase «international team of astronomers»

But a large international team of astronomers led by David Champion of the Australia Telescope National Facility in Epping, New South Wales, reports online this week in Science that the pulsar is in an eccentric 95 - day orbit.

Mays was recently awarded a Fulbright Grant to travel to Santiago, Chile and work with international teams of astronomers who study Chile's northern deserts in 2010.

International team of astronomers releases the largest - ever compilation of exoplanet - detecting observations, made from observatory atop Maunakea

In two studies, international teams of astronomers suggest that recent images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory of two pulsars — Geminga and B0355 +54 — may help shine a light on the distinctive emission signatures of pulsars, as well as their often perplexing geometry.

MAUNAKEA, HAWAI'I - An international team of astronomers today released a compilation of almost 61,000 individual measurements made on more than 1,600 stars, used to detect exoplanets elsewhere in our Milky Way galaxy.

June 5, 2013 — By comparing infrared and X-ray background signals across the same stretch of sky, an international team of astronomers has discovered evidence of a significant number of black holes that accompanied the first stars in the universe.

«Overabundance of massive stars in the Tarantula Nebula: An international team of astronomers has revealed an «astonishing» overabundance of massive stars in a neighbouring galaxy.»

An international team of astronomers has determined that Centaurus A, a massive elliptical galaxy 13 million light - years from Earth, is accompanied by a number of dwarf satellite galaxies orbiting the main body in a narrow disk.

An international team of astronomers, including Dr Simon Vaughan from the University of Leicester's Department of Physics and Astronomy, has discovered a previously unknown link between the way young stars grow and the way black holes and other exotic space objects feed from their surroundings.

Observing 34 young stars, an international team of astronomers learned the waves can reveal the stars» relative ages and other traits — and so provide a valuable tool to explore the evolution of the universe.

An international team of astronomers led by Yale University and the University of California - Santa Cruz have pushed back the cosmic frontier of galaxy exploration to a time when the universe was only 5 % of its present age.

An international team of astronomers including researchers from the University of British Columbia has discovered a new dwarf planet orbiting in the disk of small icy worlds beyond Neptune.

To answer this question, an international team of astronomers observed the evolved star L2 Puppis.

An international team of astronomers used the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope to estimate whether there might be water on the seven earth - sized planets orbiting the nearby dwarf star TRAPPIST - 1.

By using the full power of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer an international team of astronomers has discovered exozodiacal light close to the habitable zones around nine nearby stars.

Using the most powerful radio telescope in the world, an international team of astronomers has set out to look for answers in the star L2 Puppis.

An international team of astronomers has identified a record breaking brown dwarf (a star too small for nuclear fusion) with the «purest» composition and the highest mass yet known.

An international team of astronomers last week detected the most distant gamma - ray burst ever recorded, light that was emitted when the universe was less than 5 percent of its present age.

An international team of astronomers, including Carnegie's Eric Persson, has charted the rise and fall of galaxies over 90 percent of cosmic history.

In a new study, published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, an international team of astronomers, led by the University of Southampton, report that the black hole emitted dazzling red flashes lasting just fractions of a second, as it blasted out material that it could not swallow.

An international team of astronomers observed these remarkable objects with the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA).

An international team of astronomers led by Dr. Andrea Kunder of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) in Germany has discovered that the central 2000 light years within the Milky Way Galaxy hosts an ancient population of stars.

Using the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope an international team of astronomers has measured the distance to this new galaxy, named GN - z11.

An international team of astronomers has discovered the first Earth - mass planet that transits, or crosses in front of, its host star.

Since the object was spotted in October, Professor Alan Fitzsimmons and Dr Michele Bannister from the School of Mathematics and Physics at Queen's University have led an international team of astronomers to piece together a profile of the strange visitor, which has been named «Oumuamua.

Stars forming like a string of blue pearls along two elliptical galaxies could be the result of a galactic merger, according to an international team of astronomers.

This mosaic shows 18 of the 19 quasars observed by an international team of astronomers, led by the ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Now, an international team of astronomers has stumbled upon 11 of the mysterious objects, and there may be millions more.

An international team of astronomers made the discovery by observing a very faint binary system, J1433 which is located 730 light - years away.

An international team of astronomers led by Paulo Freire of the Jodrell Bank Observatory at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, detected the gas by observing 15 millisecond pulsars — compact, rapidly spinning stars that emit bursts of radio waves with clockwork precision.

It was while monitoring a star barely two million years old called V830 Tau, located in the Taurus stellar nursery some 430 light years away, that an international team of astronomers discovered the youngest known hot Jupiter.

This week an international team of astronomers reports the first multiple - star system to be observed during the earliest stage of formation.

Now, an international team of astronomers has tackled the problem by making the largest ever study of hot Jupiters, exploring and comparing ten such planets in a bid to understand their atmospheres [1].

An international team of astronomers looked for clues in the early universe.

In January an international team of astronomers confirmed that one of the largest black holes in the universe is paired with a much smaller partner nearby — the first definitive observation of black holes in a close binary system [subscription required].

An international team of astronomers, led by Imperial College London, used a new way of combining data from the two European Space Agency satellites, Planck and Herschel, to identify more distant galaxy clusters than has previously been possible.

The Magellanic Clouds, the two largest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, appear to be connected by a bridge stretching across 43,000 light years, according to an international team of astronomers led by researchers from the University of Cambridge.

An international team of astronomers has turbocharged the Hubble Space Telescope, enabling it to observe a brightly glowing disc of matter that is being sucked into its galaxy's central black hole.

Now, an international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a very young hot Jupiter orbiting in the immediate vicinity of a star that is barely two million years old — the stellar equivalent of a week - old infant.

An international team of astronomers used the Suzaku telescope, which is sensitive to x-rays, and an optical telescope to peer at two objects identified by a previous survey as AGNs.

An international team of astronomers has found the most distant gravitational lens yet — a galaxy that, as predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, deflects and intensifies the light of an even more distant object.

An international team of astronomers, led by Hakim Atek of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, has discovered over 250 tiny galaxies that existed only 600 - 900 million years after the Big Bang [1]-- one of the largest samples of dwarf galaxies yet to be discovered at these epochs.

Three new planets classified as habitable - zone super-Earths are amongst eight new planets discovered orbiting nearby red dwarf stars by an international team of astronomers from the UK and Chile.

The findings by an international team of astronomers, including Victoria Kaspi and Shriharsh Tendulkar of McGill University, appear in the January 11 edition of Nature and are highlighted on the cover of the journal.

The finding, by an international team of astronomers, including Professor Geraint Lewis from the University of Sydney's School of Physics, is announced today in Nature.

Now an international team of astronomers, led by Andra Stroe of Leiden Observatory and David Sobral of Leiden and the University of Lisbon, have discovered that these comatose galaxies can sometimes come back to life.

An international team of astronomers has produced the first detailed images of the surface of a giant star outside our solar system, revealing a nearly circular, dust - free atmosphere with complex areas of moving material, known as convection cells or granules, according to a recent study.

The Andromeda galaxy contains ten times as many globular star clusters as the Milky Way, according to an international team of astronomers.

New research from an international team of astronomers, with contributions from the University of Maryland, makes a major modification to a popular theory called the unified model.