Sentences with phrase «of astronomers at»

The findings will be monitored by a team of astronomers at Geneva University, led by Professor Michel Mayor.

MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — A team of astronomers at the Friedrich Alexander University led by Péter Németh has discovered a binary star moving nearly at the escape velocity of our galaxy.

But a group of astronomers at Columbia University now think they've found an exomoon for real, roughly 4,000 lightyears away.

After 11 years of observations, two additional outer planets were discovered with two other teams of astronomers at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the High Altitude Observatory using the Whipple Observatory (1999 press release).

Starting in the 1970s, Greenberg was vindicated by a team of astronomers at the University of California, San Diego.

She accepted an offer from a group of astronomers at Berkeley, part of a collaboration studying a rare type of supernova that some believe holds the key to measuring the expansion of the universe.

A team of astronomers at the University of Chicago and Grinnell College seeks to change the way scientists approach the search for Earth - like planets orbiting stars other than the sun.

Not exact matches

During a press teleconference on Monday, William Sparks, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute, said «we are really working at the limits of Hubble's unique capabilities.»

On human time scales, that's a long time,» Duncan Brown, an astronomer at Syracuse University who's a member of the LIGO research collaboration, previously told Business Insider.

'' [A] stronomers don't know exactly how planets are formed,» Emma Yu, an astronomer at the University of Texas in Austin, writes at «Ask An Astronomastronomer at the University of Texas in Austin, writes at «Ask An AstronomerAstronomer».

The biggest number of planets appears to be a new class of planets, called «mini-Neptunes,» Benjamin Fulton, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the California Institute of Technology, said during the briefing.

Nightly rooms at the Sheraton Grand hotel in Nashville start at $ 359, but includes a penthouse viewing party, and in Jackson Hole, Wyo., the well heeled will take a gondola up to the top of the ski mountain for a viewing party at 10,450 feet, complete a resident astronomer, telescopes and mimosas.

«Uranus and Neptune never had the time to grow into gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn,» Imke de Pater, an astronomer at the University of California Berkeley who wasn't involved in the study, wrote in an accompanying article in Nature Astronomy.

Astronomers still don't know what causes these stellar tantrums, but Eta Carinae continues to spew out powerful winds of gas and dust at speeds of roughly 6.2 million mph (10 million kph).

In a time when women were discouraged from studying math and science, Nancy Grace Roman became a research astronomer and the first Chief of Astronomy at NASA.

David Kipping, an astronomer at Columbia University who was not involved with the research, told the New Scientist that there «is a legitimate case to be made that this system could host life, and we may be able to infer the presence of that life in the next decade.»

Astronomers looked at the available evidence and concluded that really there must be some sort of «cement» that binds all the universe together, for the evidence was staring them in the face.

Gingerich is emeritus professor at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and a renowned astronomer and historian of science.

It is telling that the great astronomers Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler held the title of «Imperial Mathematician» in Prague, whereas Galileo, when accepting a position at the Medici court, insisted his title be «Mathematician and Philosopher to the Grand Duke.»

If a biologist, historian, paleontologist, archeologist, astronomer or cosmologist made any of these claims, much less all of them, they would be laughed at.

Rees's eligibility for the prize originates from his looking at the «big questions» of the universe from an astronomer's stand - point.

In the nineteenth century, LaPlace announced that God was a hypothesis of which the rational mind had no further need; God took the great astronomer at his word.

Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître (About this sound lemaitre.ogg (help · info) 17 July 1894 — 20 June 1966) was a Belgian priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain.

Back in the 1960s, he notes, astronomers arrived at full confidence that the discovery of extraterrestrial life was about to happen.

I'm an astronomer and astrobiologist based at the University of Southern Queensland, in Toowoomba, Queensland.

A group of people gathered at the Battery Park City esplanade on Fri., June 3, when B.P.C. resident, physician and amateur astronomer Sheldon Palgon examined Saturn through his powerful telescope.

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.

On January 23 at 4:47 a.m. EST, astronomers discovered that something big had exploded in the distant reaches of the cosmos.

Now astronomers are ready to start poking at some fundamental truths about the universe, from the formation of the first stars and galaxies to what makes the cosmos tick.

According to lead author Guillermo Torres, another astronomer at the CfA, this validation process took more than a year and a half and relied on some of the world's largest telescopes as well as intensive simulation runs on a NASA supercomputer.

«The images now are just at that intriguing resolution that lets you make stuff up,» says Mike Brown, the California Institute of Technology astronomer whose work helped motivate the reclassification of Pluto and Ceres as dwarf planets.

Astronomer Heino Falcke plans to use a global network of radio telescopes to snap the black hole at the Milky Way's heart

Astronomers announced the planets along with six other newfound small, temperate worlds today at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle.

But when Norbert Schörghofer, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, stumbled across Woodcock's papers decades later, he was baffled.

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 are used to working at the limits of human imagination, but even they have a hard time envisioning the kinds of insights they will be able to pull out of the bounteous new databases.

A while back, I wrote a column for Discover analyzing your place in space: astronomers» best look yet at where you fit into the big, crazy, cosmic scheme of things.

Astronomer Melina Bersten and her colleagues at the Instituto de Astrofísica de La Plata in Argentina soon learned of the serendipitous discovery and realized that Buso had caught a rare event, part of the first hour after light emerges from a massive exploding star.

At a conference, another astronomer asked him if the center could archive a terabyte of data that had been collected from the MACHO sky survey, a project designed to study mysterious cosmic bodies that emit very little light or other radiation.

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.»

«All we can say right now is this was something that was tossed out of another star system,» says Karen Meech, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii.

At first, astronomers suspected that 1987A was a class of supernova known as type 1a — the detonation of a stellar core left behind after a star like the sun quietly sheds gas at the end of its lifAt first, astronomers suspected that 1987A was a class of supernova known as type 1a — the detonation of a stellar core left behind after a star like the sun quietly sheds gas at the end of its lifat the end of its life.

«Professional astronomers have long been searching for such an event,» said UC Berkeley astronomer Alex Filippenko, who followed up the discovery with observations at the Lick and Keck observatories that proved critical to a detailed analysis of explosion, called SN 2016gkg.

In one dramatic example, astronomers at Cambridge University discovered the «Field of Streams,» a spray of stars stretching nearly one - quarter of the way across the sky.

«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.

According to Mather and other leading astronomers now working on a report to be released this summer by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), that quest and others require an even bigger space telescope that would observe, as Hubble does, at optical, ultraviolet and near - infrared wavelengths.

Astronomers had long thought globular clusters formed their millions of stars in bulk at around the same time, with each cluster's stars having very similar ages, much like twin brothers and sisters.

Venus Express proved it would work: Looking at one infrared wavelength allowed astronomers to see hot spots that might be signs of active volcanism (SN Online: 6/19/15).

«It's very possible that Kepler 90 has even more planets,» study coauthor Andrew Vanderburg, an astronomer at the University of Texas at Austin, said in the teleconference.

A paper by one team that includes astronomers at Penn State, NASA, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and universities in Italy, the United Kingdom, and Germany has been accepted for future publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.