Sentences with phrase «of astronomers including»

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.

The team of astronomers includes researchers and PhD students from Swinburne University of Technology (Australia), University of California at Santa Cruz (USA), San Jose State University (USA).

In addition to Brisken and Thorsett, the team of astronomers includes Aaron Golden of the National University of Ireland, Robert Benjamin of the University of Wisconsin, and Miller Goss of NRAO.

The international team of astronomers includes Karin Lind (formerly at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics [MPA], Germany, and now in Cambridge), Jorge Meléndez (Department of Astronomy, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Martin Asplund, Remo Collet (both at the Australian National University, Australia) and Zazralt Magic (MPA).

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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.

Newton, for example, told the Astronomer Royal, Flamsteed, to correct some astronomical data because it disagreed with theoretical predictions; several factors, including refraction of light by the atmosphere, were later proposed to justify the corrections.11

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

I believe, this question of ultimate meaning looms with greater and greater importance as we delve even deeper into the mysteries of existence, including the theoretical implications of the Big Bang theory (cf. Robert Jastrow, God and the Astronomers, 1978).

It includes the mini figures of three girl scientists: A paleontologist, an astronomer, and a chemist.

The discovery could spell trouble for standard theories of cosmology, including the role of enigmatic dark matter in galaxy formation, astronomers...

After analyzing this view of a glory on Venus — combining three wavelengths into a false - color image — astronomers were surprised to learn that the planet's clouds aren't pure sulfuric acid after all, but may include iron chloride and pure sulfur.

Astronomers captured the merging of neutron stars in various types of light, including ultraviolet, infrared and radio waves (above), as well as via gravitational waves — a first.

Astronomers have used SPHERE to obtain many other impressive images, as well as for other studies including the interaction of a planet with a disc, the orbital motions within a system, and the time evolution of a disc.

Cosmologists and astronomers describe the geometry of the Universe which includes both local geometry and global geometry.

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.

This intriguing fingerprint quickly triggered additional observations by teams of astronomers worldwide who obtained observing time with additional space observatories including NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR).

The unparalleled view it will provide to astronomers could include a glimpse of a stormy world.

A group of citizen scientists and professional astronomers, including Carnegie's Jonathan Gagné, joined forces to discover an unusual hunting ground for exoplanets.

Astronomers first classified «Oumuamua (Hawaiian for «scout») as a comet, but later observations didn't reveal the telltale signs, including clouds of dust or water vapor.

The discovery could spell trouble for standard theories of cosmology, including the role of enigmatic dark matter in galaxy formation, astronomers say in the Feb. 2 Science.

HD 85512b In September European astronomers announced the discovery of 50 new planets, including one of the most Earthlike ones yet: HD 85512b, a rocky world just 3.6 times as massive as our own and mild enough to have liquid water.

Critics of the agreement, including many politicians and some astronomers in Brazil, thought the original pledge of funding was way above the pay grade of the national science budget, especially as the country's finances worsened.

To learn more about specific galaxies, astronomers can draw on NASA's fleet of space telescopes, including Spitzer for infrared, the Hubble Space Telescope for visible light, and the Galaxy Evolution Explorer, called Galex, for ultraviolet.

Astronomers have developed a number of theories for why we haven't found more, but none of them could account for both the paucity of dwarf galaxies and their properties, including their mass, size, and density.

In the following years, the team that included Dr. Marilyn Latour, an astronomer from the Dr. Remeis - Sternwarte Bamberg, the astronomical institute of Friedrich - Alexander - Universität Erlangen - Nürnberg (FAU), studied these stars in more detail and concluded that they had stumbled upon a new class of variable star.

With the help of the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a German - led group of astronomers have observed the intriguing characteristics of an unusual type of object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter: two asteroids orbiting each other and exhibiting comet - like features, including a bright coma and a long tail.

Astronomers generally agree that enormous black holes lurk at the centre of most galaxies, and have identified plausible candidates in many galaxies, including the neighbouring dwarf galaxy M32 — and our own Milky Way.

While other astronomers, including Hubble, assumed that the distribution of galaxies throughout the universe was more or less uniform, Zwicky argued that «practically all» galaxies belonged to clusters.

The team that made this discovery, led by Yale University astronomer Tabetha Boyajian — the star's namesake — suggested a variety of explanations for its strange behavior, including that the star itself was variable, that it was surrounded by clouds of dust or dusty comets, or that planets around it had collided or were still forming.

No collisions have been observed directly, but astronomers have found several pairs of black holes that are very close to each other, including some that are orbiting each other and some that seem to be on course for a collision.

The bill includes $ 150 million for the mission, which U.S. astronomers ranked as their top priority in a 2010 survey of science priorities for the next decade.

«Many astronomers, including our group, have already provided a great deal of evidence that long - duration gamma - ray bursts (those lasting more than two seconds) are produced by the collapse of extremely massive stars.

In «Our Place in the Cosmos,» the astronomers Noam I. Libeskind and R. Brent Tully detail the discovery of Laniakea, a supercluster of about 100,000 large galaxies that includes our own Milky Way and spans nearly a half - billion light years.

For the past two years, a group calling itself the MACHO collaboration, which includes astronomers in the US, Australia and Britain, has monitored the brightness of stars in the central «bulge» of our Galaxy and in a satellite galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud.

A team led by astronomer Garik Israelian of the European Southern Observatory recently examined nearly 500 stars, including 86 with planets, and found that most of the planet - bearing stars contained very little lithium, a trait they share with our sun.

The Search for Extraterrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations (SERENDIP) has scanned billions of radio sources in the Milky Way by piggybacking receivers on antennas in use by observational astronomers, including Arecibo.

Astronomer Karl Gebhardt of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an international team used the Hubble Space Telescope to chart the orbital motions of stars within galaxies containing giant black holes, including eight newly identified ones.

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The new Vesta photos from the Dawn probe, which NASA unveiled today (Aug. 1), include the spacecraft's first full - frame view of the entire asteroid and should help astronomers understand how the space rock formed in the early solar system, researchers said.

So using the Hubble Space Telescope, MIT astronomer Julien de Wit and his colleagues, including some members from Grimm's team, observed the four middle planets as they passed in front of the star.

«This includes theorists studying dark matter and the formation of black holes, astrophysicists modelling the subsequent accretion process, and astronomers working on radio and X-ray observations.»

The new information is of particular interest to astronomers studying stellar evolution and the formation history of the Milky Way, including the role and distribution of dark matter.

Follow - up observations, including more detailed views of the globular clusters, should help astronomers settle the question and better understand these clusters» relationship to the galaxy.

Other standout entries include a photograph of the Pleiades cluster, taken by a 15 - year - old astronomer, and an image of this year's transit of Venus across the sun, which was taken on 6 June.

Astronomers have discovered hundreds of planets around the Milky Way, including rocky planets similar to Earth and gas planets similar to Jupiter.

A hot, metallic, Earth - sized planet with a density similar to Mercury — situated 339 light years away — has been detected and characterised by a global team of astronomers, including the University of Warwick.

As astronomers have gained access to better spectrographs, including one on the Hubble Space Telescope, they have built up a crude three - dimensional map of our locale.

Astronomers using both space - based and ground - based telescopes, including the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, have analyzed the destruction of the giant star, located in the galaxy NGC 1260 about 240 million light - years away.

Over the past couple of decades, intense effort in both theory and observation allowed astronomers to develop a coherent, consistent picture of how single stars were born that included gas disks and jets.

Theorists have proposed various mechanisms to explain this — including collisions of galaxies — but none fully jibe with the data, says University of Washington astronomer George Lake.