Sentences with phrase «nearby stars using»

SPHERE's primary task is to discover and study giant exoplanets orbiting nearby stars using direct imaging.

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The researchers observed FRB 150807 while monitoring a nearby pulsar — a rotating neutron star that emits a beam of radio waves and other electromagnetic radiation — in our galaxy using the Parkes radio telescope in Australia.
We usually use it to look for very faint planets in the close vicinity of nearby stars, by painstakingly observing them one by one,» said Pueyo.
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.
Using the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer, or LBTI, in Arizona, the HOSTS Survey determines the brightness and density of warm dust floating in nearby stars» habitable zones, where liquid water could exist on the surface of a planet.
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.
They used a series of filters, like polarised, glare - blocking sunglasses but bigger and more precise, to observe the light from a nearby, relatively dim neutron star — a dense stellar corpse with a colossal magnetic field — and compared it with light from ordinary nearby stars.
That won't be a problem for PLATO, which will use 34 separate small telescopes to observe a wide field of view in order to monitor large numbers of bright, relatively nearby stars.
Using the nearby Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO), astrophysicists from UC Santa Barbara have observed something similar: an exploding star slamming into a nearby companion star.
Using its latest camera, Hubble shows a wider and sharper view of the Eagle Nebula's «Pillars of Creation,» immense columns of cold gas bathed in the ultraviolet light of nearby massive young stars.
Astronomers hoping to learn about the first stages of galaxy formation after the Big Bang can use the chemical composition of stars to help them unravel the histories of our own and nearby galaxies.
Astronomers have measured the passing of a super-Earth in front of a bright, nearby Sun - like star using a ground - based telescope for the first time.
Astronomers found signs of a growing planet around TW Hydra, a nearby young star, using the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA).
Marois and his team used ground - based infrared detection to seek out exoplanets around nearby, young, massive stars — those whose planets would have wide orbits and emit significant amounts of radiation as they cool from their relatively recent births millions of years ago.
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered an immense cloud of hydrogen dubbed «The Behemoth» bleeding off a planet orbiting a nearby star.
Useful catalogue numbers and designations for the star include: Alf or Alp Aur B, Gl 194 B, and ADS 3841 P. (According to Robert Burnham, Jr. (1931 - 93), the designation «B» was already used for a nearby faint field star that was found later to be unrelated to the system gravitationally.)
APF and Keck Observatory traced out the planets» orbits over many years using the Doppler technique that has successfully found hundreds of mostly larger planets orbiting nearby stars.
Maunakea, Hawaii — A team of astronomers using ground - based telescopes in Hawaii, California, and Arizona recently discovered a planetary system orbiting a nearby star that is only 54 light - years... Read more»
The scientists from the USA, Australia, and Europe used the powerful DEIMOS spectrograph installed on the world's largest optical telescope at Keck Observatory to conduct a major survey of nearby galaxies called SLUGGS, which mapped out the speeds of their stars.
This month, a privately funded project called Breakthrough Initiatives announced that it is partnering with the European Southern Observatory to use similar vortex technology to find and image a putative Earth - like planet in the nearby Alpha Centauri star system.
This same combination was also used to find other super-Earths orbiting nearby stars in planet searches led by UH astronomer Andrew Howard and UC Berkeley Professor Geoffrey Marcy.
One either uses a much smaller photometric aperture than normal, excluding the nearby star, or one uses a much wider aperture, containing both stars, and makes a correction for the dilution of the companion.
Maunakea, Hawaii — A team of astronomers using ground - based telescopes in Hawaii, California, and Arizona recently discovered a planetary system orbiting a nearby star that is only 54 light - years away.
Scientists believe that gas and dust may have been stripped by nearby galaxies or from an early burst of star formation that used up all the gas.
Pulsars «blink» in a consistent fashion and astronomers can use these stars to find nearby objects and to detect gravitational waves.
Astronomers have used a ground - based telescope for the first time to detect a «super-Earth» exoplanet while it was transiting a nearby sun - like star.
For example, while still in its scientific checkout phase, scientists using ALMA have found evidence for Earth - mass planets around nearby stars; as it nears its full complement of 66 antennas, ALMA will deduce the presence of many more exoplanets and study the chemical composition of the planetary nurseries.
Initial data came from the TRENDS (TaRgetting bENchmark - objects with Doppler Spectroscopy) high - contrast imaging survey that uses adaptive optics and related technologies to target older, faint objects orbiting nearby stars, and precise measurements were made at the W. M. Keck Observatory on the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
Beyond our own galaxy, band 3 can be used to image molecules in nearby galaxies at high resolution, to probe the cold interstellar medium of galaxies, and to peer into dust - obscured galaxies to observe star formation.
This apparent movement, or parallax, can be used to figure out distances between Earth and specific, nearby stars.
This project uses the PACS and SPIRE instruments with the objective of studying infrared excesses due to exo - Kuiper belts around nearby solar - type stars.
Anne - Marie Lagrange and her group have used these adaptive optics systems to painstakingly search nearby stars (typically within a distance of 250 lightyears) for exoplanets.
Along with John Regan of Dublin City University, CCA research fellow Eli Visbal, and colleagues, Bryan used state - of - the - art computer simulations to show how a galaxy that has just collapsed and started forming stars can irradiate a galactic partner nearby so that some of the partner galaxy's gas collapses into a black hole.
The discs are found to be well aligned with the stellar equators, as in the case... ▽ More Many nearby main - sequence stars have been searched for debris using the far - infrared Herschel satellite, within the DEBRIS, DUNES and Guaranteed - Time Key Projects.
Aims: We aim... ▽ More Context: Extended circumstellar emission has been detected within a few 100 milli - arcsec around > 10 % of nearby main sequence stars using near - infrared interferometry.
The TESS satellite, which will launch in 2017, will use four cameras to search for exoplanets around bright nearby stars.
Abstract: Many nearby main - sequence stars have been searched for debris using the far - infrared Herschel satellite, within the DEBRIS, DUNES and Guaranteed - Time Key Projects.
Astronomers using K2, the second planet - finding mission of the Kepler space telescope, recently detected three such planets orbiting a nearby dwarf star.
The first, called MARVELS, will use a new instrument to repeatedly measure spectra for approximately 8,500 nearby stars like our own Sun, looking for the telltale wobbles caused by large Jupiter - like planets orbiting them.
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The game also includes two flight modes: Supercruise which is used to travel between distant objects in a star system, and a sub-supercruise flight mode which is used to fly towards nearby objects like a space station or cargo canister.
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