Sentences with phrase «named for the astronomer»

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Astronomer David Sobral and his colleagues named it CR7, which stands for COSMOS Redshift 7 but is also a nod to the Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo, who is known to fans as CR7.

Kepler's SNR (1604): Johannes Kepler, a German - born mathematician and astronomer, tracked this supernova for a year, lending it his name.

This exploding star, named iPTF14hls, has erupted continuously for the last three years, and it may have had two other outbursts in the past, astronomers report in the Nov. 9 Nature.

In 2011, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a new moon orbiting Pluto and later named it Kerberos, for the mythological god's three - headed dog.

Despite their name, MACHOs need not occur only in the galactic halo, so astronomers can search for them by looking for microlensing effects anywhere where there are large numbers of stars.

Ms. Duong noted that «The Cannon is named for Annie Jump Cannon, a pioneering American astronomer who classified the spectra of around 340,000 stars by eye over several decades a century ago — our code analyses that many stars in far greater detail in less than a day.»

Sagan had real - life inspiration for his book (and the 1997 movie of the same name): astronomer Jill Tarter, who spearheaded the search for extraterrestrial...

The NASA probe would also make close flybys of another Jovian moon, Io, while the ESA orbiter, dubbed Laplace (named for the French mathematician and astronomer), would investigate Callisto as well as Ganymede.

Long before Star Trek's Mr. Spock (inset), many astronomers during the 19th and early 20th centuries thought a planet named Vulcan circled the sun inside the orbit of Mercury (shown transiting the sun, main image) and tugged on the latter, accounting for peculiarities in Mercury's motion.

The camera is named for Caltech astronomer Fritz Zwicky, who first used the term «supernova» in 1931 to describe the explosions that mark a star's death (SN: 10/24/13).

The mysterious world was discovered in 1801 by astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, who named the object for the Roman goddess of agriculture, grain crops, fertility and motherly relationships.

This is the first known example of a gravitationally bound pair of planetary mass objects, and astronomers can't agree on a name for them.

The Allen Telescope Array, however, named for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who donated seed money for the project, will allow SETI astronomers to survey the skies for signs of alien intelligence 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Other astronomers find the detections convincing, although most reserve the name «planet» for bodies that form within a planetary system and orbit stars, says theorist Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, D.C. «They should call them «planetary - mass brown dwarfs,»» Boss says.

Named for famed 18th century astronomer William Herschel, the space telescope was the most powerful infrared observatory ever launched to space until it stopped functioning this week.

This occurred about 2 weeks after he had discovered another comet, on June 14, which became known as Comet Lexell; unusually, this comet was not named for its discoverer, Charles Messier, but for the calculator of its orbit, Anders Lexell, a Finnish astronomer and mathematician working at St. Petersburg Observatory.

The repeating bursts from this object, named FRB 121102 after the date of the initial burst, allowed astronomers to watch for it using the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), a multi-antenna radio telescope system with the resolving power, or ability to see fine detail, needed to precisely determine the object's location in the sky.

Tully names the project PTOLEMY after the second - century Egyptian astronomer of Greek descent and as an acronym for «Princeton Tritium Observatory for Light, Early - universe Massive - neutrino Yield.»

For example, the hot, harsh cluster environment might prevent the galaxy from continuing to accrete cold gas and form new stars; a process astronomers have named «starvation».

It was named for Giovanni Cassini, a 17th - century astronomer who was the first to observe four of Saturn's moons — Iapetus (1671), Rhea (1672), Tethys (1684) and Dione (1684).

LBN stands for «Lynds Bright Nebula,» named after the astronomer who published a catalogue of nebulae in 1965.

Astronomers named our solar system visitor «Oumuamua, which is Hawaiian for «scout» or «messenger» as it was first detected by the University of Hawaii's Pan-STARRS1 telescope.

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.

He dubbed it Georgium Sidus — Latin for «George's Star» — after his sponsor King George III, but other astronomers protested, and it was eventually given the name Uranus, sticking with the usual nomenclature of ancient Greek / Roman gods.

He thinks Eris is a fitting name for the new dwarf planet because astronomers have argued for so long over how to define a planet.

San Jose State undergraduate Michael Sandoval recently discovered a stellar object that astronomers don't have a name for yet.

Cassini, named for the 17th - century astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini, is being deliberately destroyed for a reason.

Edmond Halley, the astronomer famous for predicting the return of the Comet that bears his name, was born in 1656 and died in 1742.