Sentences with phrase «of astronomers»

This week an international team of astronomers reports the first multiple - star system to be observed during the earliest stage of formation.

A group of astronomers who met in 1961 to figure out the odds of finding intelligent life in our own galaxy turn out to have been really smart and really lucky.

Last month, a team of astronomers announced the discovery of the first alien world that could host life on its surface.

It has attracted thousands of astronomers from around the world.

The next generation of astronomers is very active and shows great promise.

Just last month, the collision of a pair of neutron stars was observed in both light and gravity through a joint effort involving thousands of astronomers on every continent in the world.

A team of astronomers says it has found a new and remarkably simple way to measure the mass of a black hole: examine the shape of its home galaxy.

The receivers are now installed and being prepared for use by the community of astronomers.

An international team of astronomers looked for clues in the early universe.

A group of astronomers now hope to fill this gap in our knowledge.

This merger also triggered an explosion studied by hundreds of astronomers around the world.

A deviation from the predictions of general relativity would be welcomed by a lot of astronomers and physicists.

Several of the astronomers who obtained observation time for this cycle attend the conference.

It happens to sit neatly with the opinion of some astronomers who hold that the universe was always there and did not need a beginning.

The data they collect are distributed through professional journals and preserved on the hard drives of astronomers scattered around the globe.

That search, high on the wish list of astronomers, is incredibly difficult.

Instead, the team of astronomers systematically searched for examples of a very specific type of cosmic coincidence.

Since they've run out of astronomers interested in playing, they have extended membership to people from other disciplines.

In 1998, two teams of astronomers announced, shockingly, that the expansion rate of space is increasing over time.

Now, after 6 months of analysis, an international team of astronomers has discovered why the event was so extraordinary.

In this particular, even the scientists established that the region of sky where the source was located was around 60 square degrees big and was searched by 25 different groups of astronomers.

An international team of astronomers led from Chalmers University of Technology has used the giant radio telescope Lofar to create the sharpest astronomical image ever taken at very long radio wavelengths.

A group of astronomers used Hubble to study the remnant of the Type Ia supernova explosion SNR 0509 - 68.7 — also known as N103B (seen at the top).

EACH NEW GENERATION of astronomers discovers that the universe is much bigger than their predecessors imagined.

The science team for this study consists of astronomers at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Hiroshima University, University of Edinburgh, and University of Cambridge.

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»

The American Astronomical Society is offering opportunities for AAS members to secure funding to travel to a Society meeting in order to increase the number of astronomers from historically underrepresented groups.

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).

The international team of astronomers made use of the Guo Shou Jing telescope located in the Hebei Province, China, in order to ascertain whether the powerful solar storms were generated via the same method as standard solar flares.

An Australian - led group of astronomers working with European collaborators has revealed the «DNA» of more than 340,000 stars in the Milky Way, which should help them find the siblings of the Sun, now scattered across the sky.

International team of astronomers releases the largest - ever compilation of exoplanet - detecting observations, made from observatory atop Maunakea

Recently, a team of astronomers reported discovering a pulsating star that appears to shine with the energy of 10 million suns.

Using data from the Kepler space telescope, a pair of astronomers from Columbia University may have found the first example of an «exomoon»: a Neptune - size world circling a planet 10 times Jupiter's mass that is about between 80 and 90 percent as close to its sun as Earth is to ours.

An international team of astronomers including researchers from the University of British Columbia has discovered a new dwarf planet orbiting in the disk of small icy worlds beyond Neptune.

While the overwhelming majority of astronomers believe in the existence of dark matter, a handful of heretics have begun to question the wisdom of believing in something that no one has ever seen.

By measuring the CMB polarization data provided by POLARBEAR, a collaboration of astronomers working on a telescope in the high - altitude desert of northern Chile designed specifically to detect «B - mode» polarization, the UC San Diego astrophysicists discovered weak gravitational lensing in their data that, they conclude, permit astronomers to make detailed maps of the structure of the universe, constrain estimates of neutrino mass and provide a firm test for general relativity.

About 10 years ago, a group of astronomers started talking about creating a unified, global virtual observatory.

Many of our astronomers in East Asia have long been involved in pursuing the most important problems in astronomy by utilizing the amazing telescopes on top of Mauna Kea.

That was the verdict from a landmark meeting of astronomers last week which saw the unveiling of a huge haul of new exoplanets in our galaxy.

An international team of astronomers recently announced the discovery of an astonishing number of faint low surface brightness dwarf galaxies in the Fornax Cluster, suggesting that the «missing satellites» are now being found.

Investigating the flashes, Marshak and his colleagues found that similar reflections from our pale blue dot caught the attention of astronomer Carl Sagan in 1993.

On March 4, 2014, a team of astronomers also revealed the detection of a larger super-Earth «c» with around 8.7 (+5.8 / -4.7) Earth - masses at an average distance of 0.176 (+0.009 / -0.030) AU from host star Gl 682.