Sentences with phrase «observations by the astronomers»

In addition to observations by astronomers world - wide, the Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey (GPIES) will look at 600 carefully selected stars over the next few years.

Modelling of Tau Ceti's dust disk observations by the astronomers indicate, however, that the mass of the colliding bodies up to 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) in size may total around 1.2 Earth - masses, compared with 0.1 Earth - masses estimated to be in the Solar System's Edgeworth - Kuiper Belt (Greaves et al, 2004).

Not exact matches

Follow - up observations taken at Weryk's request by astronomer Marco Micheli, using a European Space Agency telescope in the Canary Islands, only deepened the mystery.

This intriguing fingerprint quickly triggered additional observations by teams of astronomers worldwide who obtained observing time with additional space observatories including NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR).

In fact, Swift X-ray and optical observations were carried out two days after FRB 131104, thanks to prompt analysis by radio astronomers (who were not aware of the gamma - ray counterpart) and a nimble response from the Swift mission operations team, headquartered at Penn State.

The spins line up in an eerie way too, according to observations published last year by astronomer Stephen Slivan of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge.

By contract, Chilean astronomers get 10 % of the observation time on each telescope installed in the country.

Isshi Tabe and Dr Jun - ichi Watanabe, of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers (ALPO) in Japan, set up the Find Flash project following the observation of an impact flash by four Japanese amateur astronomers on 20th August 2010.

Thanks to years of observations by the versatile probe, astronomers now know Saturn as intimately as macaroni knows cheese.

More observations are needed to determine if Voorwerp was truly energised by an expired quasar, says astronomer Meg Urry of Yale University.

The new COS observations build and expand on the findings of a 2015 Hubble study by the same team, in which astronomers analyzed the light from one quasar that pierced the base of the bubble.

Astronomers detect planets too far away for direct observation by the dimming in light when a world passes in front of, or transits, its host star.

Astronomers dismissed her observations until four years later, when they were confirmed by a man.

This explains why the astronomers were initially baffled by the observations; they had never seen a supernova so far into the UV before.

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.

In an upcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal, astronomers report observations by the heat - seeking instruments aboard the Spitzer Space Telescope, which show the planet's hottest region is located near its twilight zone — the line bisecting the day and night sides.

«I'm excited by the prospects of characterizing additional small, potentially habitable planets using the combination of BLENDER and ground - based follow - up observations,» says astronomer Courtney Dressing of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge.

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.

Now, new observations show that light from a nearby neutron star is significantly polarized, reports a team led by Roberto Mignani, an astronomer at the Institute for Spatial Astrophysics in Milan, Italy, reports.

Meanwhile, astronomers are continuing the kinds of observations undertaken by BICEP2, which are still regarded as the most promising means of witnessing the birth throes of our universe.

«By mixing [the data from] these instruments, we'll get information about the current star formation rate, but we'll also get information about the star formation history,» explained Hans Ulrik Nørgaard - Nielsen, an astronomer at the Danish Space Research Institute in Denmark and the principal investigator for the proposed observations.

The measurements confirm observations by another team of astronomers from the Netherlands, which detected the polarized bursts using the William E. Gordon Telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

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.

«Observations with the next generation of radio telescopes will tell us more about what actually happens when a star is eaten by a black hole — and how powerful jets form and evolve right next to black holes,» explains Stefanie Komossa, astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany.

But had Galileo followed the results of his observations to their logical conclusion, he should have backed another system — the Tychonic view that Earth didn't move, and that everything else circled around it and the Sun, as developed by Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe in the sixteenth century.

When Hubble observations showed this also occurring around galaxies too puny to warp light by themselves, astronomers realized that the galaxies must be suffused with an unseen kind of material — dark matter — that invisibly adds mass to the universe.

The new x-ray observations, presented by Yale University astronomer Kevin Schawinski, reveal that the quasar is no longer active, probably because the black hole ran out of food.

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.

Due to the close binary orbital interactions of the host star with Alpha Centauri A and Star B's own increased stellar activity during recent years, the astronomers were only able to detect the radial - velocity variations of host star B that were caused by the 3.236 - day orbit of the planet (with a semi-major axis of 0.04 AU) only after more than four and a half years of careful observation.

By parsing the cells with slices of laser light and then correcting for any obstruction with the same AO technique astronomers use to correct blurriness in observations of stars, the scientists have come up with a microscopy technique that looks like an artistic rendering.

The observations are consistent with the hypothesis that Vega is viewed with its pole of rotation pointing toward Earth (first proposed by astronomer Richard O. Gray), so that the relatively cool equator corresponds to the darker «limb of the star» and heightens the gravity - darkening effect.

Kamuela, HI — Combining observations from the world's largest telescopes with small telescopes used by amateur astronomers, a team of scientists discovered that the large main - belt asteroid (87) Sylvia has a complex interior, thanks to the presence of two moons orbiting the main asteroid, and probably linked to the way the multiple system was formed.

Based on 14 years of radial velocity observations from four ground - based observatories as well as astrometric measurements with the Hubble Space Telescope, the astronomers found that planets «c» and «d» are inclined by 30 + / - 1 degrees with respect to each other is expected to affect theories of how multi-planet systems evolve.

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 the Keck II remote observing room, Dr. Carey Lisse, head of NASA's Comet ISON observation programs, is joined by astronomers Neil Dello Russo, Anita Cochran, Ron Vervack and Hideyo Kawakita.

Due to the close binary orbital interactions of the host star with Alpha Centauri A and Star B's own increased stellar activity during recent years, the astronomers were only able to detect the radial - velocity variations of host star B that were caused by the 3.236 - day orbit of the planet (with a semi-major axis of 0.04 AU) only after more than three years of careful observation.

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.

However, later observations by other astronomers using interferometric astrometry and recent radial velocity data found no evidence to support the existence of a companion greater than 0.8 Jupiter mass with an orbital period around Proxima Centauri of between one and about 2.7 years (Benedict et al, 1999).

ALMA observations by a team of astronomers led by Nadia Murillo and Shih - Ping Lai have found the youngest disk around a protostar to date, at an earlier stage than predicted by most models.

A team of astronomers, led by Thomas Beatty of Pennsylvania State University, used the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) to perform a spectroscopic study of the planet's atmosphere in the near - infrared and conducted the observation as the planet passed behind its parent star.

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

By exploiting both ground - and space - based telescopes, therefore, astronomers today can combine observations from across the spectrum, which has produced a previously hidden and extremely captivating picture of the Universe (Figure 3 and Figure 4).

The new finding corroborates earlier observations of the same asteroid by astronomers Andrew S. Rivkin and Joshua Emery who also used the Infrared Telescope Facility.

After 12 years of development by a large number of engineers and astronomers in France, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and at ESO, and following an extensive period of demanding work installing and testing this very complex instrument, initial observations have now confirmed that MATISSE is working as expected.

Mr. Crispin's fourth point was an observation that the idea of the cosmos had permeated the common culture, as evinced by the fact that even the Astronomer Royal had stopped saying traveling into space was foolish science fictional fantasy.

To further investigate, astronomers led by Nanda Rea of the University of Amsterdam sought help from NASA's Chandra and Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, to follow up with the observations.

By tracking the motion of stars orbiting close to Sgr A *, a team of German and Czech astronomers have analyzed 20 years of observations made by the VLT and other telescopes using a new technique that pinpoints the positions of these starBy tracking the motion of stars orbiting close to Sgr A *, a team of German and Czech astronomers have analyzed 20 years of observations made by the VLT and other telescopes using a new technique that pinpoints the positions of these starby the VLT and other telescopes using a new technique that pinpoints the positions of these stars.

Overview With the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) observation, astronomers led by Shigehisa Takakuwa, Associate Research Fellow at the In...

A NASA instrument built to help astronomers learn about the structure and behaviour of neutron stars, super-dense stellar skeletons left behind by massive explosions, has been mounted to an observation post outside the International Space Station after delivery aboard a SpaceX supply ship earlier this month.

With the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) observation, astronomers led by Shigehisa Takakuwa, Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica (ASIAA), Taiwan, found spiral arms of molecular gas and dust around the «baby twin» stars, binary protostars.