Sentences with phrase «of astronomers last»

Interestingly, another team of astronomers last January came up with the same estimate using a different database and different technique.

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.

Not exact matches

Astronomers have trained a flurry of telescopes on the object discovered last month, and now we're being rewarded with super-exciting details.

Vico's fantasia abhors partial vision, and the great mathematician and astronomer Henri Poincare is on his side when he observes in his Last Essays that in questions of ethics science alone can not suffice because it «can see only one part of man, or, if you prefer, it sees everything but it sees everything from the same angle.»

The last segment of it has an astronomer from Georgia State University, Rachel Kuzio De Naray, discussing life on other planets.

But after last week's malfunction of a crucial piece of equipment on NASA's planet - hunting Kepler space telescope, the May 20 gathering of more than 100 astronomers in Cambridge,...

Astronomers had theorized but never witnessed this remnant - stoking until last November, when Hiroya Yamaguchi of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a bizarre signature in the remnant's X-rays: Cool iron atoms clustered inside a ring of their fevered ferrous cousins.

Our black hole's violent meeting with G2 began last year, and as it continues, it should give astronomers a chance to peer inside the galactic center — the neighborhood around the black hole — rather than just simulate the swirling disc of gas and dust surrounding it.

With funding from her L'Oreal Women in Science Fellowship and the support of UCL, she brought leading astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Janet Drew, and Ruth Gregory for a day of presentations and breakout sessions last September.

Last summer, a team of astronomers tried three times to catch the tiny shadow of a distant world as it raced across our planet, like a tiny eclipse, at 60,000 mph.

Last week at the American Astronomical Society's meeting, astronomers announced the detection of a second type of radio static from the heavens, and although it may not come from an era quite as ancient as TV snow does, it may probe the period immediately afterward — an equally mysterious time when the first stars and black holes were lighting up.

Moreover, the academic job situation for astronomers in Canada has improved in the last few years, owing to the retirements of the large cohort of astronomers hired in the late 1960s and the fact that university enrolments have swelled as a result of population growth, the baby boom echo, and increased participation rate.

In the second half of last year the blazar CTA 102, which is 7,600 million light years from Earth, brightened considerably, drawing the attention of all the astronomers who specialise in this kind of objects.

But compare the image taken in June last year with one taken by amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley on 8 May and you will see that one of them, known as the south equatorial belt, has disappeared.

Astronomers based their analysis of comet Lovejoy, published last Friday in Science Advances, on observations made in January when the comet passed so close to the sun it could be seen with the naked eye.

Tom Theuns and Liang Gao, astronomers at Durham University in England, used a computer model last year to study how two types of dark matter, known as warm and cold, may have influenced the formation of the very first stars in the universe — and the first giant black holes.

But after last week's malfunction of a crucial piece of equipment on NASA's planet - hunting Kepler space telescope, the May 20 gathering of more than 100 astronomers in Cambridge, Mass., proved all too timely.

The Hubble Space Telescope found no evidence of large planets in a giant swarm of a million suns, astronomers announced here last week at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

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.

The spins line up in an eerie way too, according to observations published last year by astronomer Stephen Slivan of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge.

Astronomer Ronald Gilliland of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, and his team observed the cluster nearly continuously for 8.3 days last July, one of the largest chunks of time granted for a single Hubble project.

This high - resolution image of Jupiter's moon Io was snapped last November 6 by the Galileo spacecraft, and it has given astronomers their best look at the most volcanically active object in the solar system since the Voyager flyby in 1979.

A galaxy without stars seems as nonsensical as a centipede without legs, but last February astronomer Robert Minchin, now at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, reported the first - ever sighting of just such an object.

Last year British astronomers identified the most massive star ever seen: a behemoth weighing 265 times as much as our sun, so huge that it challenges astronomers» models of how stars are born.

But last week, at a meeting of the European Astronomical Society here, astronomers lamented that the system has so far thwarted discovery efforts — and announced new schemes to probe it.

Only in the last century, though, have astronomers grasped the structure of the cosmos accurately.

«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.

It was the last chance for any astronomer alive to see Venus pass across the face of the sun — and it can tell us about planets much, much further away

With its radio link to Earth severed, Cassini's last «transmission» will be the light from this fireball, a modest blaze of glory that astronomers might glimpse from Earth.

Astronomers will have to be prepared to catch these dramatic last acts of a star's life.

Astronomers have at last observed polarisation of light by virtual particles in a neutron star's magnetic field, a long - expected quantum effect

Last week researchers reported they had traced a cosmic blast of radio waves back to its source for the first time — but now another team of fast - acting astronomers has called the result into question.

Last year astronomers discovered evidence of another unexpectedly uniform kind of variability among gamma - ray bursts, stellar explosions that are even more luminous than Type Ia supernovas.

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.

Last year astronomers used the telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, to send a beam of radio waves to Titan.

It wasn't until the end of the last century, though, that astronomers began to realize that Mercury wasn't just erratic in behavior but in substance too.

When Jupiter emerged from its annual pass behind the sun last March, amateur astronomers saw a brand - new blotch of vermilion on the solar system's largest planet, just west of the Great Red Spot, Jupiter's signature storm.

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

Studies presented last week at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Pasadena, California, are giving astronomers in search of Planet Nine extra encouragement.

Last spring, astronomers finally figured out what sort of beast Geminga is.

«It really is the last missing piece» of the periodic table, says Anna Frebel, an astronomer at MIT who was not involved in the research.

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.

But last summer, astronomers studying a distant quasar with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory claimed they found that part of the quasar's radiation was absorbed by warm - hot intervening material.

White dwarfs — the exposed cores of dead stars — are the last place astronomers expected to find an oxygen atmosphere.

Last October news broke of allegations that University of California, Berkeley, astronomer Geoff Marcy had for years harassed female students.

And last year, when astronomers trained the Hubble Space Telescope on some of these dying stars, the images they got back revealed a process that was far more complex and subtle than anyone had imagined.

While much of last August's gathering in Chicago celebrated what the Sloan has already achieved, astronomers were also treated to a preview of what lies ahead.

Last February a team of astronomers reported detecting an afterglow from a mysterious event called a fast radio burst, which would pinpoint the precise position of the burst's origin, a longstanding goal in studies of these mysterious events.

«We're not sure whether these stars are holding onto reservoirs of gas much longer than expected, or whether there's a sort of «last gasp» of second - generation gas produced by collisions of comets or evaporation from the icy mantles of dust grains,» said Meredith Hughes, an astronomer at Wesleyan University and coauthor of the study.

Last August astronomers affiliated with the project gathered in Chicago to review results from SDSS - II and to prepare for a third survey — SDSS - III, of course — which recently began and will continue until 2014.