Sentences with phrase «led by astronomers»

The research team, led by astronomers at Osaka University and Ibaraki University, observed a young star named HD142527 in the constellation Lupus (the Wolf) with ALMA.

MAUNA KEA, Hawaii — A team led by astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy has created the first three - dimensional map of the «adolescent» Universe, just 3 billion years... Read more»

MAUNA KEA, Hawaii — A team led by astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy has created the first three - dimensional map of the «adolescent» Universe, just 3 billion years after the Big Bang.

MAUNA KEA, HI — An international team of scientists, led by astronomers at Queen Mary University of London, report of two new planets orbiting Kapteyn's star, one of the oldest stars found near the Sun.

MAUNA KEA, HI — An international team of scientists, led by astronomers at Queen Mary University of London, report of two new planets orbiting Kapteyn's star, one of the oldest stars found near... Read more»

Mauna Kea, Hawaii — A team led by astronomers from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, recently used the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii to observe and measure a rare class of «active asteroids» that spontaneously emit dust and have been confounding scientists for years.

Mauna Kea, HI — A team of scientists led by astronomers at the University of California, Riverside has used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the W. M. Keck Observatory to uncover the long - suspected underlying population of galaxies that produced the bulk of new stars during the universe's early years.

Mauna Kea, Hawaii — A team led by astronomers from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, recently used the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii to observe and measure a rare class of «active... Read more»

The international team led by astronomers from Peking University in China and from the University of Arizona announce their findings in the scientific journal Nature on Feb. 26.

Now, a team led by astronomers at UC Santa Cruz has succeeded in obtaining an infrared spectrum of WISE 0855 using the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii, providing the first details of the object's composition and chemistry.

A team led by astronomers at The Australian National University has discovered the oldest known star in the Universe, which formed shortly after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago.

The study was led by astronomers at the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics.

The study, led by astronomers from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia and published in Nature, reveals the presence of a ring around the planet.

Starting in June, a team led by astronomer Nuno Santos of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, used HARPS to monitor a star called μ Arae, faintly visible to the eye.

A team led by astronomer Steven Majewski of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville sorted through a half - billion objects in the 2MASS catalog to find several thousand M giants, a distinctive class of red - giant star common in the Sagittarius dwarf but rarely seen above or below the plane of our galaxy.

A team led by astronomer Dimitar Sasselov of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, used several large telescopes to scrutinize 59 candidate stars that OGLE singled out for a closer look via subtle dips in their light outputs.

A team led by astronomer William Romanishin of the University of Oklahoma, Norman, considered whether surface markings, such as a bright hemisphere and a dark one, could explain the data.

In 2012 and 2014 a team led by an astronomer from Paris Observatory took a second look at the auroras using the ultraviolet capabilities of the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) installed on Hubble.

A team led by astronomer Kenji Hamaguchi of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, used the XMM - Newton and Chandra x-ray satellites to study a stellar nursery just 550 light - years from Earth.

A team led by astronomer Garik Israelian of the European Southern Observatory recently examined nearly 500 stars, including 86 with planets, and found that most of the planet - bearing stars contained very little lithium, a trait they share with our sun.

To take a better galactic census, a team led by astronomer Rodrigo Ibata of the Strasbourg Observatory in France took the most detailed images yet of the space around Andromeda, exposing swarms of faint stars distributed near the galaxy.

Upon closer examination of the data — compiled from nearly 500 hours of observation by the 64 - meter Parkes radio telescope in Australia — a team led by astronomer Duncan Lorimer of West Virginia University in Morgantown estimated that the blast actually came from about 3 billion light - years away.

A team led by astronomer Kevin Luhman of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, found extra emissions of infrared light from a faint dwarf with just 15 times Jupiter's mass — at the threshold of what astronomers consider «planetary mass.»

A team led by astronomer Eiichi Egami of the University of Arizona, Tucson, used the signal to determine that the stars are 125 million to 200 million years old.

To conduct the new study, the Hawaiian team, led by astronomer Istvan Szapudi, combined two large - scale observations of the cosmos that already had been completed: the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which represents the last, dying embers of the big bang, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which comprises images of millions of galaxies.

Back in 1994, a team led by astronomer Lewis Snyder of the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign announced preliminary evidence of the simplest type of amino acid, glycine, but the finding did not stand up to closer examination (New Scientist magazine, 11 June 1994, p 4).

By monitoring this resonant pattern, a team led by astronomer Geoffrey Marcy at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, noticed a distortion that pointed toward a third planet.

First, a team led by astronomer Jon Miller of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, used the European Space Agency's XMM - Newton satellite to study two bright x-ray sources in the nearby galaxy NGC 1313.

The team, led by astronomer and lead investigator David Jewitt of the University of California, Los Angeles, announced their conclusion yesterday.

A team led by astronomer Paul Kalas of the University of California, Berkeley, detected a planetary candidate orbiting Fomalhaut, a star 25 light - years away in the constellation Pisces Australis (the Southern Fish), using visible - light observations from the Hubble Space Telescope.

The method was developed by the researchers, led by astronomer Eric Fossat of the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur in Nice, France.

It was discovered by an international team led by astronomer Guillem Anglada - Escudé at Queen Mary University in London.

Not exact matches

Several hours later, a team of astronomers known as the ROTSE (Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment) collaboration, led by Carl Akerlof of the University of Michigan, reported that the visible - light counterpart of the burst was also seen in the images taken with a small, robotic telescope operated by their team, starting only 22 seconds after the burst.

The latest study to bolster this argument was presented earlier in the meeting by lead author Courtney Dressing, another CfA astronomer, who measured the masses and sizes of a handful of small transiting planets to estimate the rocky - to - gaseous transition zone.

According to Mather and other leading astronomers now working on a report to be released this summer by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), that quest and others require an even bigger space telescope that would observe, as Hubble does, at optical, ultraviolet and near - infrared wavelengths.

An international team led by University of Maryland astronomers has constructed a detailed description of a similar gamma - ray burst event, named GRB160625B.

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.

This year DISCOVER honors David Charbonneau, a Harvard University astronomer whose research could soon lead to an equally stunning revelation: By studying alien worlds, he may find the first direct evidence of life beyond Earth, a sign that our living planet is — yet again — one among many.

This was first confirmed during a solar eclipse in 1919 by a team led by the British astronomer Arthur Eddington; the scientists observed that stars near the limb of the Sun were shifted in position by the Sun's gravity.

«With ALMA we can see that there's a direct link between these radio bubbles inflated by the supermassive black hole and the future fuel for galaxy growth,» said Helen Russell, an astronomer with the University of Cambridge, UK, and lead author on a paper appearing in the Astrophysical Journal.

Fast forward 500 years, and a team of astronomers led by John Bally (University of Colorado, USA) has used the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) to peer into the heart of this cloud.

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.

A team led by ESO astronomer Giacomo Beccari has used these data of unparallelled quality to precisely measure the brightness and colours of all the stars in the Orion Nebula Cluster.

That much dust — tens of thousands of tons — could not have been created by the blow alone, says Mike A'Hearn, the project's lead scientist and an astronomer at the University of Maryland: «You can not pulverize that much material in an impact.»

The team that made this discovery, led by Yale University astronomer Tabetha Boyajian — the star's namesake — suggested a variety of explanations for its strange behavior, including that the star itself was variable, that it was surrounded by clouds of dust or dusty comets, or that planets around it had collided or were still forming.

A team of astronomers, led by Karina Caputi of the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute at the University of Groningen, has now unearthed many distant galaxies that had escaped earlier scrutiny.

Following up on the discovery, an international team of scientists led by the Swiss astronomer Vincent Bourrier from the Observatoire de l'Université de Genève, used the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study the amount of ultraviolet radiation received by the individual planets of the system.

A team of astronomers led by James Bauer, a research professor of astronomy at the University of Maryland, found that there are about seven times more long - period comets measuring at least 1 kilometer across than previously predicted.

A team of astronomers led by John Webb of the University of New South Wales has been measuring how the light from quasars is absorbed by gas clouds that lie between them and us but are still billions of light - years away, and thus did their absorbing billions of years ago.

«The ALMA data reveal that AzTEC - 3 is a very compact, highly disturbed galaxy that is bursting with new stars at close to its theoretically predicted maximum limit and is surrounded by a population of more normal, but also actively star - forming galaxies,» said Dominik Riechers, an astronomer and assistant professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and lead author on a paper published today (Nov. 10) in the Astrophysical Journal.