Sentences with phrase «of astronomers also»

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.

Not exact matches

In his life he was also an inventor, philosopher, architect, sculptor, engineer, scientist, astronomer, writer and mathematician, and all of that with little formal education behind him.

Our bodily cells are only a tiny fraction of the subhuman individuals in existence; also each of us is but one of countless individuals on our own or perhaps higher levels (recall the billions of possibly inhabited planets that astronomers believe exist).

Such process includes human history but includes also the dim past studied by the paleontologist and the distant space of the astronomer.

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Several hours later, a team of astronomers known as the ROTSE (Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment) collaboration, led by Carl Akerlof of the University of Michigan, reported that the visible - light counterpart of the burst was also seen in the images taken with a small, robotic telescope operated by their team, starting only 22 seconds after the burst.

Astronomers also are not sure how the universe made these sorts of objects in the first place.

«This study offers new insight on the problem of multiple stellar populations in star clusters,» said study lead author Chengyuan Li, an astronomer at KIAA and NAOC who also is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences» Purple Mountain Observatory.

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.

Later that year, English astronomer Joseph Lockyer observed the same spectral line, wrote a paper and also sent it to the French Academy of Sciences.

Event moderator Jennifer Wiseman, an astronomer and director of the DoSER program at AAAS, asked Tippett how religious leaders and journalists can also help improve science - religion communication.

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.

The discovery, also reported in a paper accepted to the Astronomical Journal, can also help astronomers better understand the planetary population of our galaxy.

As further evidence, the astronomers also determined the motion and velocity of these stars.

Levan concludes: «Now, astronomers won't just look at the light from an object, as we've done for hundreds of years, but also listen to it.

Astronomers also will examine the birthplaces of planets, rotating disks of gas and dust known as protoplanetary disks that surround newly formed stars.

«But Gaia also measures star positions in nearby galaxies», explains University of Groningen astronomer Davide Massari.

NASA Ames was also the headquarters for SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, and Borucki became friendly with one of SETI's founders, the visionary astronomer Carl Sagan.

The team also analyzed the radio waves in a new way, revealing that what looked like individual bursts were actually composed of many smaller sub-bursts, says astronomer Andrew Seymour of the Universities Space Research Association at Arecibo.

This year, astronomers found they are also responsible for some of the most powerful explosions — short gamma - ray bursts.

Current telescopes such as the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite, and future telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an infrared observatory, and the Wide Field Infrared Space Telescope (WFIRST), also could help astronomers make better measurements of the expansion rate.

Last year, x-ray astronomers also found hints of «intermediate» black holes with hundreds to thousands of times our sun's mass in other galaxies (ScienceNOW, 7 June 2001), but they hadn't measured the gravitational pulls of such holes — the best way to confirm their presence and gauge their masses.

In the 1970s, astronomer Jill Tarter pointed out that the term also referred to a dark, cooling star near the end of its life.

Penn State astronomers also are among the leaders in the development and use of NASA's orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory.

The ancient astronomers also computed the time when Jupiter covers half of this 60 - day distance by partitioning the trapezoid into two smaller ones of equal area.

Now, astronomers have overcome that problem by tracking bright spots of radio emission from the Triangulum Galaxy — also known as M33 — which the new study locates at 2.4 million light years from Earth.

The pattern of dust distribution around a host star also can tell astronomers something about the potential planets in a star system.

Not only does Rest's research provide that crucial close - up look, but it also gives astronomers a complete picture of the explosion — something they can't get any other way.

Other papers in the package also touch on the presence of water ice on Ceres, which had already been reported by the Dawn team and by astronomers observing the dwarf planet from afar.

By modelling the rock's orbit over the coming days, astronomers also hope to have a better sense of the threat it may pose to Earth in the next 100 years or so, Spahr told New Scientist.

ALMA picks up light emitted by glowing dust in SDP.81 and also sees signs of carbon monoxide and water molecules in the ring, helping astronomers determine its structure and internal motion.

Astronomers recently gauged the age of the Fermi bubbles less directly, by arguing that whatever produced them also irradiated a long strand of gas shed by two nearby galaxies.

The team has also found evidence to silence a minority of sceptics who argue that what most astronomers take to be microlensing events are actually caused by natural variations in the intrinsic brightness of the stars being observed.

The pictures from this meeting, the last of which was only transmitted to Earth in June, confirmed some things that astronomers had expected, but they also sprang a few sur - prises.

By observing the length of each cycle of brightening and dimming in an RR Lyrae, and also measuring the star's brightness, astronomers can calculate its distance [2].

«The ALMA data reveal that AzTEC - 3 is a very compact, highly disturbed galaxy that is bursting with new stars at close to its theoretically predicted maximum limit and is surrounded by a population of more normal, but also actively star - forming galaxies,» said Dominik Riechers, an astronomer and assistant professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and lead author on a paper published today (Nov. 10) in the Astrophysical Journal.

Astronomers have strongly suspected that dust also forms after supernovas, the violent explosions of giant stars that send atoms hurtling through space at thousands of kilometers a second.

If clouds of hydrogen also cluster around quasars — which convert all nearby neutral hydrogen to invisible ionized gas — then quasars must have ionized more hydrogen than astronomers had assumed, Savaglio says.

Although the disk appeared to span less than 100,000 light - years, astronomers had seen sprinkles of other stars scattered far beyond the disk at the same distance from Earth, suggesting that the stars also belonged to the galaxy.

Examining the dense globular cluster of stars that hosts the pulsar, astronomers led by Francesco Ferraro, also at Bologna, found a red star near the pulsar's radio position.

They also allow astronomers to test their models of how stars evolve.

This delay «is an incredibly anachronistic concept, in the days of «big data,» for an $ 8 - billion mission funded with public resources with a five - year life,» says Garth Illingworth, an astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who also chaired an influential advisory committee for Webb.

The astronomers also compared the relative amounts of Freon - 40 that contain different isotopes of chlorine in the infant star system and the comet — and found similar abundances.

Using data captured by ALMA in Chile and from the ROSINA instrument on ESA's Rosetta mission, a team of astronomers has found faint traces of the chemical compound [Freon - 40]--(CH3Cl), also known as methyl chloride and chloromethane, around both the infant star system IRAS 16293 - 2422, about 400 light - years away, and the famous comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko (67P / C - G) in our own Solar System.

The decreasing number of galaxies as time progresses also contributes to the solution for Olbers» paradox (first formulated in the early 1800s by German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers): Why is the sky dark at night if the universe contains an infinity of stars?

Two decades ago astronomers discovered that our solar system and a few thousand neighboring stars lie just inside a vast bubble, within which the thin gas of interstellar space is much thinner still — and also hotter.

Last week, astronomers Marc Buie of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and Eliot Young of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado, also found the two tiny moons on Hubble photos made on 14 June 2002.

Also in this Hubble image is another pair of probably interacting galaxies — they are hiding to the right of NGC 5256 in the far distance, and have not yet been explored by any astronomer.

Its discovery also hints that many more cousins of Earth may be out there than astronomers thought.

And when Vera Rubin, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, showed in the 1970s that there was a matter deficit not only in galaxy clusters but also in individual galaxies, interest perked up.