Sentences with phrase «noted by astronomers»

The first record of a solar flare and a magnetic storm was noted by astronomer Richard Carrington in 1859.

Not exact matches

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.»

Yet it somehow devours only a tiny fraction of its available food supply — a smorgasbord of gas and dust cast off by nearby stars, notes radio astronomer Heino Falcke of Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands.

The existence of such active galaxies in the nearby universe was first noted by the American astronomer Carl Seyfert more than 70 years ago.

As first noted more than a decade ago by astronomer Luc F. A. Arnold, particularly large panels or groups of panels flying in formation — even bigger, perhaps, than the star itself — would cause huge, discrete dips related to their geometric shape as they transited.

The comet was spotted on April 4, 1861 by A.E. Thatcher, an amateur skywatcher in New York City, earning him kudos from the noted astronomer Sir John Herschel.

In 1986 a group of astronomers observing the motions of the Milky Way and neighbouring galaxies noted that the galaxies were moving toward the Hydra - Centaurus superclusters in the southern sky with velocities significantly different from those predicted by the expansion of the universe in accordance with the Hubble law (see Hubble's constant).

Astronomers noted this find, using the verification by multiplicity technique, came out of the first two years of Kepler data.

The IAA award citation notes that the VSOP team «realized the long - held dream of radio astronomers to extend those baselines into space, by observing celestial radio sources with the HALCA satellite, supported by a dedicated network of tracking stations, and arrays of ground radio telescopes from around the world.»

This was a product of not only the length of time astronomers were trying to note changes in other stars due to the existence of orbiting planets, but by state - of - the - art optical and spectroscopic instruments that were limited in spectral and spatial resolution.

Over the past decade, astronomers have suggested that the different types of AGN may all be the same type of object, with the different properties noted by observers resulting from different viewing angles as seen from Earth.

In March 2014, a Nature article by astronomers Chad Trujillo and Scott Sheppard noted that some of the most distant Kuiper Belt objects had unusual orbital alignments and suggested that effect was caused by gravity from a small planet.

The title of the exhibition, Whose beginning is not, nor end can not be, is taken from the work Angel - talks by Magus John Dee (1527 - 1609), a noted mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, occultists and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I.