Sentences with phrase «of astronomers finds»

this news just in (did not know where to put it): «Caltech - Led Team of Astronomers Finds 18 New Planets, Discovery is the largest collection of confirmed planets around stars more massive than the sun»

Gone in a (cosmological) flash: a team of astronomers found 72 very bright, but quick events in a recent survey and are still struggling to explain their origin.

An international team of astronomers found Haumea's ring by watching it from observatories across Europe as it crossed in front of the distant star, URAT1 533 − 182543, on January 21st, 2017.

Last year, a team of astronomers found a white dwarf named LP40 - 365.

In 1996, a team of astronomers found a stream of stars that were apparently stripped from SagDEG by the Milky Way as a «tidal trail» (Mateo et al, 1996).

Not exact matches

However, the data could tell astronomers how common Earthlike planets are and what the chances of finding intelligent extraterrestrial life might be.

An astronomer does not «see God» in science by finding some new and rare piece of data that proves God exists as if God were like an alien visiting from another planet, which would be a childish and materialistic understanding of what God is.

Actually, our discovery of black holes is one of many triumphs of science despite Christianity trying to quash findings of astronomers and astrophysicists, back to Galileo and beyond.

«Astronomers now find they have painted themselves into a corner because they have proven, by their own methods, that the world began abruptly in an act of creation to which you can trace the seeds of every star, every planet, every living thing in this cosmos and on the earth.

They are meant to vault the student right into the middle of those fascinating discussions where the astronomer and the theologian find something in common.

Just like the debating astrologers, who can argue until the drought breaks as to whether Virgos or Capricorns will find love this month, must fear the approach of the astronomer and his telescope, you beleivers in the various sky - fairies must dread the contenance of the rational atheist..

In other news, a prominent NASA astronomer turns to astrology and predicts that Virgos will find love this month, a prominent geologist rejects the theory of plate tectonics in favor of Noah's Ark and a prominent psychologist is found drilling holes in hs patients» heads to release evil spirits.

These findings lend credence to the fast - pebble - collapse theory of planetesimal formation, says Joseph Masiero, an astronomer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Calif., who was not involved in the work.

Rings are common sights around the four largest planets of the solar system, but astronomers reported in March that they had found the celestial circles around an unexpected and much smaller fifth target: an asteroid named (10199) Chariklo.

As astronomers poke around for galaxies so far away (and so far back in time), they hope to find the seeds of what eventually became modern galaxies.

The second - century Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer Claudius Ptolemy founded the Western science of cartography.

While peering through one of the clusters, Abell 2744, astronomers recently found a candidate for one of the most distant galaxies known, a toddler growing up about 500 million years after the Big Bang.

Found and Lost Galvanized by the discovery of Malin 1, astronomers pored over the previous decades» photographic plates for hints of unnoticed, low - surface - brightness galaxies.

Astronomers this month announced a similar discovery for an even larger gas giant, reporting that the Juno spacecraft, which is orbiting Jupiter, had found that the planet's rotating cloud belts reach roughly 3,000 kilometers below the top of the atmosphere.

For example, astronomers recently realized that a planet - hosting star system has four suns, the second of its kind ever found.

After finding signs that Jupiter's icy moon emits repeating plumes of water near its southern pole, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope hope to detect more evidence of the geysers.

Professor Deepto Chakrabarty of the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology says he is optimistic that astronomers will find additional ultra-bright pulsars now that they know such objects exist.

Astronomers haven't been able to find the pinprick of light from a glowing orb in the middle of the debris.

Astronomers have discovered the most luminous galaxy ever found, shining with the equivalence of 300 trillion suns from the far side of the visible universe.

The intensity of observations outstripped all previous astronomical finds, said astronomer Edo Berger of Harvard University at an October 16 news conference in Washington, D.C. «I don't think there has been anything like this before.»

«Some scholars... have flatly denied the prediction, while others have struggled to find a numerical cycle by means of which the prediction could have been carried out,» writes astronomer Miguel Querejeta.

This puzzling difference in the evolutionary timescales of discs around two stars of the same age is another reason why astronomers are keen to find out more about discs and their characteristics.

«The outcome of the Auriga Project is that astronomers will now be able to use our work to access a wealth of information, such as the properties of the satellite galaxies and the very old stars found in the halo that surrounds the galaxy.»

The puzzle emerged after astronomers measured the cosmic microwave background — a bath of radiation, left over from the Big Bang — and found only slight variations in its temperature across the entire sky.

The team also publish their findings in two papers in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and the data are now publicly available for other astronomers to make further discoveries.

Astronomers sifted through a catalog containing measurements of hundreds of galaxies to find the speed and location of 16 satellites around Centaurus A.

This was borne out in the questionnaire, which found that although job - location restrictions due to home - life commitments had an important impact on the careers of both male and female astronomers, the issue was of greater concern to women.

«Finding systems like this that have lots of planets is a really neat way to test theories of planet formation and evolution,» says Jeff Coughlin, an astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., and NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif..

This data set has allowed astronomers not only to measure distances for far more of these galaxies than before — a total of 1600 — but also to find out much more about each of them.

Astronomers have found clear evidence of tiny but supermassive objects there, pulling on stars and stirring up hot disks of gas.

Mark Krumholz, an astronomer at the University of California at Santa Cruz, realized that questioning the untested common wisdom about the sun's suburban upbringing might mean it's easier to find a solar sibling than astronomers think.

«We find no evidence of the orbit clustering needed for the Planet Nine hypothesis in our fully independent survey,» says Cory Shankman, an astronomer at the University of Victoria in Canada and a member of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS), which since 2013 has found more than 800 objects out near Neptune using the Canada - France - Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii.

«Distant galaxy group contradicts common cosmological models, simulations: Astronomers find plane of dwarf satellites orbiting Centaurus A.» ScienceDaily.

Cosmologists and astronomers have found a discrepancy in the Hubble constant from opposite ends of the universe

So far, astronomers have found only a dozen of the most distant probes of Planet Nine's supposed sphere of influence.

Now a group of astronomers led by Asa Bluck of the University of Victoria in Canada have found a (relatively) simple relationship between the colour of a galaxy and the size of its bulge: the more massive the bulge the redder the galaxy.

But in 2003, astronomers found a small asteroid moving along the Blanpain orbit, suggesting the space rock might be the comet (or a piece of it) after...

This new finding fills in a long - missing piece in the puzzle representing our galaxy's chemical evolution, and is a big step forward for astronomers trying to understand the amounts of different chemical elements in stars in the Milky Way.

Astronomer Tiantian Yuan at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia and colleagues found the new record - holder thanks to a closer cluster of galaxies, which acted as a gravitational lens that helped astronomers produce two magnified images of A1689B11 (SN: 3/10/12, p. 4).

This year DISCOVER honors David Charbonneau, a Harvard University astronomer whose research could soon lead to an equally stunning revelation: By studying alien worlds, he may find the first direct evidence of life beyond Earth, a sign that our living planet is — yet again — one among many.

«Astronomers have found a lot of planets whose sizes can not be explained by standard theory,» says Laurent Ibgui of Princeton University.

POSSIBLY the clearest skies on Earth have been found — but to exploit them, astronomers will have to set up a telescope in one of the planet's harshest climates.

Harvard astronomer Douglas Finkbeiner is making an independent analysis of the Fermi data and likewise is finding that his results hang halfway between verification and falsification.

«Ours isn't the only group looking for planets around young stars, and my hope is that astronomers can find enough of them to shed light on some of the nagging questions about planet formation,» Johns - Krull said.

When astronomers started finding planets around other stars in the 1990s, they fully expected to see the general structure of our own solar system repeated throughout the cosmos.