Sentences with phrase «made by astronomers»

I learned so much about new discoveries made by astronomers using SOFIA.

In all, observations were made by astronomers from every continent on Earth, including Antarctica.

The same can't be said about dark energy, a truly astonishing discovery made by astronomers a decade ago while observing distant exploding stars.

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One astronomer responded to our survey by saying that, though he does not believe in a personal God, «I try frequently to open my mind to an influence of what is good, and the subjective and psychological effects of this can be quite profound, such that I am happy to make contact with the religious tradition by saying that I am praying to God.»

The Swiss team made its discovery using a ground - based technique pioneered by Geoff Marcy and Canadian astronomer Bruce Campbell in the 1980s.

Astronomers made the measurements by streamlining and strengthening the construction of the cosmic distance ladder, which is used to measure accurate distances to galaxies near and far from Earth.

But the formations and motions of the stars in PSR J0337 +1715 make the system unique among those found by astronomers.

The Extravagant Universe, by Harvard astronomer Robert Kirshner, 2002, quoting from memory what Zwicky would say when the two of them had offices down the hall from each other at Caltech: «In 1933, I told those no - good spherical bastards that supernovas make the neutron stars.

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.

Cerro Paranal's altitude above sea level is another — the VLT's optical and infrared view of the sky is uninterrupted by clouds and the atmosphere is so thin there is not even enough turbulence to make the stars twinkle, pretty for you and me but an annoying source of error for astronomers.

The discovery was made using inexpensive ground - based telescopes, including one specially designed to detect exoplanets and jointly operated by astronomers at Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University.

By combining the power of a «natural lens» in space with the capability of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers made a surprising discovery — the first example of a compact yet massive, fast - spinning, disk - shaped galaxy that stopped making stars only a few billion years after the big bang.

A team of astronomers led by Wouter Vlemmings, Chalmers University of Technology, have used the telescope Alma (Atacama Large Millimetre / Submillimetre Array) to make the sharpest observations yet of a star with the same starting mass as the Sun.

Since different elements and compounds absorb light at characteristic wavelengths, astronomers can determine what chemicals make up a planet's atmosphere by measuring the relative amounts of light that come in at particular wavelengths.

Background Astronomers can figure out what distant stars are made of (in other words, their atomic composition) by seeing what type of light the star produces.

The particles» incredible brightness makes some astronomers suspect that the rings are much younger than the planet: If they were old, they would have been darkened by accumulated carbon from meteoroid impacts.

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].

Astronomer Andrew Fox of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, and his colleagues made the discovery while studying a stream of gas shed by two nearby galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, which orbit the Milky Way.

It packed as much energy in its mere 5 - millisecond duration as the sun puts out in a month, making it by far the strongest, quickest signal radio astronomers have observed, although it wasn't nearly as powerful as the elusive gamma ray bursts that populate the universe.

The find — made by the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA)-- could help astronomers understand how early galaxies grew into the ones we observe today.

Astronomers made the new mass estimate by watching how strongly the gravity of the galaxy cluster distorted the light of objects behind it.

Hazes and clouds high up in the atmospheres of exoplanets may make them appear bigger than they really are, according to new research by astronomers at the Space Research Institute (IWF) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

By the time the astronomers decide which measurement to make — whether to pin down the photon to one definite route or to have it follow both paths simultaneously — the photon could have already journeyed for billions of years, long before life appeared on Earth.

The astronomers selected the Milky Way - like progenitors by sifting through more than 24,000 galaxies in the entire catalogs of the Cosmic Assembly Near - infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS), taken with Hubble, and the FourStar Galaxy Evolution Survey (ZFOURGE), made with the Magellan telescope.

Produced by stars, the dust causes light to look redder than it really is when observed visually, which can make it difficult for astronomers studying properties of stars.

This discovery was made public in 2015 by a team of astronomers led by Professor Eric Mamajek of the University of Rochester (USA).

First developed by British radio astronomers in 1946, arrays make use of several radio telescopes spaced some distance apart, «synthesizing» a single telescope with an aperture equal to the spacing between the farthest elements.

An international team of astronomers led by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has made a surprising discovery about the birthplace of groups of stars located in the halo of our Milky Way galaxy.

By measuring the CMB polarization data provided by POLARBEAR, a collaboration of astronomers working on a telescope in the high - altitude desert of northern Chile designed specifically to detect «B - mode» polarization, the UC San Diego astrophysicists discovered weak gravitational lensing in their data that, they conclude, permit astronomers to make detailed maps of the structure of the universe, constrain estimates of neutrino mass and provide a firm test for general relativitBy measuring the CMB polarization data provided by POLARBEAR, a collaboration of astronomers working on a telescope in the high - altitude desert of northern Chile designed specifically to detect «B - mode» polarization, the UC San Diego astrophysicists discovered weak gravitational lensing in their data that, they conclude, permit astronomers to make detailed maps of the structure of the universe, constrain estimates of neutrino mass and provide a firm test for general relativitby POLARBEAR, a collaboration of astronomers working on a telescope in the high - altitude desert of northern Chile designed specifically to detect «B - mode» polarization, the UC San Diego astrophysicists discovered weak gravitational lensing in their data that, they conclude, permit astronomers to make detailed maps of the structure of the universe, constrain estimates of neutrino mass and provide a firm test for general relativity.

Harvard astronomer Robert Kirshner is a charter member of one of the two groups that made the cosmological constant respectable again (the other group is led by Saul Perlmutter at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California).

The discovery will help astronomers work out how much of the stuff was made during the big bang and how much was made later by stars.

Cicero wrote of a bronze device made by Archimedes in the third century B.C. And James Evans, a historian of astronomy at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, thinks that the eclipse cycle represented is Babylonian in origin and begins in 205 B.C. Maybe it was Hipparchus, an astronomer in Rhodes around that time, who worked out the math behind the device.

Maunakea, Hawaii — An international team of astronomers led by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has made a surprising discovery about the birthplace of groups of stars located in the halo of our Milky Way galaxy.

Astronomers make sense of the universe by organizing it into a series of «nested» levels.

The astronomers began their quest by using the VLBA to make very high resolution images of more than 1,200 galaxies, previously identified by large - scale sky surveys done with infrared and radio telescopes.

«By doing this survey and making the results available, we are bringing low - frequency radio data, previously quite difficult to produce, to all astronomers in a simple and easy manner,» Perley said.

Measurements taken by a team of astronomers from the Universities of Geneva and Bern are given in the framework of the PlanetS NCCR; the figures come from observations made over sodium spectral lines.

In an effort to understand how black holes shape the evolution of galaxies, astronomers spent eight months creating a series of time - lapse movies from 400 observations made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

The first serious SETI search was made in 1960 by the radio astronomer Frank Drake, and SETI has continued on the world's largest telescopes ever since.

The astronomers discovered it by combining numerous smaller images made with the GBT into one large image.

This mission was picked up by Percival Lowell, an American astronomer who had made a name for himself promoting the idea that Mars had canals (and therefore intelligent life) on it.

To make a detailed study of the X-ray properties of young stars, a team of astronomers, led by Elaine Winston from the University of Exeter, United Kingdom, analyzed the Chandra X-ray data of both NGC 1333, located about 780 light - years from Earth, and the Serpens cloud, a similar cluster of young stars about 1,100 light - years away.

Astronomers made the latest discovery by using data from the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera 3 on board Hubble, as well as other ground - based telescopes including European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope.

By 1752, French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille made astrometric positional measurements using state - of - the - art instruments of that time.

The first definitive detection of an exoplanet was made in 1992 by an astronomer at NSF's Arecibo Observatory collaborating with a postdoctoral researcher at NSF's Very Large Array.

Also, astronomers familiar with the signal are considering the possibility of a microlensing event — a distant radio source may have been momentarily amplified by HD164595 through the warping of spacetime, creating a cosmic lens, making the radio signal look like a suspect radio burst.

Technological developments beginning in the 1980s finally made it possible for astronomers to actually detect planets outside our solar system, and the first discoveries of such exoplanets were made in the 1990's by NSF - funded astronomers.

In particular, the conclusion that no major arm runs through Sagittarius has already been strongly made by the Russian astronomer Anna Mel «nik in papers published in 2001 and 2005.

During this presentation, Dr. Marc Kassis, Keck Observatory Support Astronomer, will share with you the advances MOSFIRE has made, some of the instrument's technical challenges, and the complex observing strategies employed by Keck astronomers to achieve their scientific goals.

Discovery of the system's extraordinary properties was made by a team of astronomers from Vanderbilt and Harvard with the assistance of colleagues at Lehigh, Ohio State and Pennsylvania State universities, Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network and the American Association of Variable Star Observers and is described in a paper accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal.