Sentences with phrase «observations of other binary»

Future observations of other binary and triple - star systems may yield further clues.

Not exact matches

I pictured my bacteria saying to each other, «We can not undergo binary fission in the beaker of someone who makes pithy observations at open - mic nights!

The Hebrew University team of scientists have shown that these contradicting observations can be reconciled if the source of radioactive plutonium (as well as other rare elements, such as gold and uranium) is in mergers of binary neutron stars.

«Various observations of one particular star over the years and with different telescopes have revealed vastly different things — at one time a pulsar and the other an X-ray binary,» said Alessandro Papitto of the Institute of Space Sciences (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas — Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya) in Barcelona, Spain, and lead author of a paper published in the journal Nature.

But when Demos Kazanas at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and his colleagues looked at 18 years» worth of X-ray observations of neutron stars in binary systems in the Small Magellanic Cloud, they found that half were slowing down — at the same rate as the others were accelerating.

But other observations need to confirm the true planetary nature of these candidate events, because the observed dips may also be due to an eclipsing binary star in the background whose light blends with the foreground star studied by Kepler.

But its announcement was delayed due to the time required to understand two other discoveries: a LIGO - Virgo three - detector observation of gravitational waves from another binary black hole merger on August 14, and the first - ever detection of a binary neutron star merger in light and gravitational waves on August 17.