Sentences with phrase «of astronomers led»

A team of astronomers led by Carnegie's Jonathan Gagné measured for the first time the temperature...

This was the Pale Red Dot campaign, in which a team of astronomers led by Guillem Anglada - Escudé, from Queen Mary University of London, was looking for the tiny back and forth wobble of the star that would be caused by the gravitational pull of a possible orbiting planet.

An international team of astronomers led by Jeong - Eun Lee in Kyung Hee University, Korea, observed the baby twin star system IRAS 04191 +1523 with ALMA.

Combining the images from the FORS instrument on the ESO telescope using four different filters with those of other large telescopes, a team of astronomers led by Karen Meech of the Institute for Astronomy in Hawaii found that «Oumuamua varies in brightness by a factor of 10 as it spins on its axis every 7.3 hours.

The team of astronomers led by Tomoya Hirota, an assistant professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and SOKENDAI (the Graduate University for Advanced Studies) observed a massive baby star called Orion KL Source I in the famous Orion Nebula, located 1,400 light - years away from the Earth.

Now a team of astronomers led by Khee - Gan Lee, a post-doc at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, has created a map of hydrogen absorption revealing a three - dimensional section of the universe 11 billions light years away — the first time the cosmic web has been mapped at such a vast distance.

ALMA observations by a team of astronomers led by Nadia Murillo and Shih - Ping Lai have found the youngest disk around a protostar to date, at an earlier stage than predicted by most models.

In 2006, a small team of astronomers led by Franck Marchis, astronomer at the Carl Sagan center of the SETI Institute, detected the presence of a small 12 km diameter moon around the large Trojan asteroid (624) Hektor.

Hurt's illustration was created to highlight scientific conclusions on the inner galaxy from a team of astronomers led by Robert Benjamin and associated with the Spitzer infrared space telescope.

Maunakea, Hawaii — Using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, a group of astronomers led by Joseph Hennawi of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have discovered the first quadruple quasar: four rare active black holes situated in close proximity to one another.

Maunakea, Hawaii — Using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, a group of astronomers led by Joseph Hennawi of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have discovered the first quadruple quasar:... Read more»

Using this technique, a team of astronomers led by Neil Crighton (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy; now at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne) has found the best evidence to date for a flow of pristine intergalactic gas onto a galaxy.

Maunakea, Hawaii — An international team of astronomers led by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has made a surprising discovery about the birthplace of groups of stars located in the halo of our Milky Way galaxy.

A team of astronomers led by Carnegie's Jonathan Gagné...

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.

In 2015, a team of astronomers led by Yale's Tabetha Boyajian saw the light from the star KIC 8462852 suddenly and repeatedly dip in brightness.

Using NASA's super-sensitive Chandra X-ray space telescope, a team of astronomers led by Q. Daniel Wang at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has solved a long - standing mystery about why most super massive black holes (SMBH) at the centers of galaxies have such a low accretion rate — that is, they swallow very little of the cosmic gases available and instead act as if they are on a severe diet.

Following the recent discovery of one of these «superluminous supernovas,» a team of astronomers led by Matt Nicholl from the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Mass., has uncovered vital clues about where some of these extraordinary objects come from.

A team of astronomers led by Maria Rosa Zapatero Osorio of the Astrophysics Institute of the Canary Islands used two Spanish telescopes to find 18 faint, red objects in a cluster of stars called Sigma Orionis.

An international team of astronomers led by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has made a surprising discovery about the birthplace of groups of stars located in the halo of our Milky Way galaxy.

This discovery was made public in 2015 by a team of astronomers led by Professor Eric Mamajek of the University of Rochester (USA).

Two teams of astronomers led by researchers at the University of Cambridge have looked back nearly 13 billion years, when the Universe was less than 10 percent its present age, to determine how quasars — extremely luminous objects powered by supermassive black holes with the mass of a billion suns — regulate the formation of stars and the build - up of the most massive galaxies.

As soon as it was discovered, the cluster drew the attention of a team of astronomers led by Michael McDonald of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research in Cambridge.

The Magellanic Clouds, the two largest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, appear to be connected by a bridge stretching across 43,000 light years, according to an international team of astronomers led by researchers from the University of Cambridge.

But the new twins, known collectively as Par 1802 and located 1500 light - years away, contain one member that is brighter and hotter than the other, a team of astronomers led by Keivan Stassun of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, reports today in Nature.

An international team of astronomers led by Paulo Freire of the Jodrell Bank Observatory at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, detected the gas by observing 15 millisecond pulsars — compact, rapidly spinning stars that emit bursts of radio waves with clockwork precision.

Sure enough, an independent team of astronomers led by Rodrigo Ibata of Strasbourg Observatory in France just found another miniature galaxy falling prey to our own.

In fact, at the same meeting another team of astronomers led by William Dawson of the University of California, Davis, announced the discovery of the Musket Ball Cluster, somewhat closer to Earth, which also consists of two smaller clusters in the process of merging.

Describing the discovery October 16 in Astrophysical Journal Letters, the team of astronomers led by Arjen van der Wel of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany report that the lensing galaxy is relatively light, young and bursting with new stars.

A team of astronomers led by Wouter Vlemmings, Chalmers University of Technology, have used the telescope Alma (Atacama Large Millimetre / Submillimetre Array) to make the sharpest observations yet of a star with the same starting mass as the Sun.

Now, a large team of astronomers led by Charles Alcock of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, has used the Hubble Space Telescope and ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile to study a microlens that was discovered in 1993.

An international team of astronomers led by Dr. Andrea Kunder of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) in Germany has discovered that the central 2000 light years within the Milky Way Galaxy hosts an ancient population of stars.

A team of astronomers led by John Webb of the University of New South Wales has been measuring how the light from quasars is absorbed by gas clouds that lie between them and us but are still billions of light - years away, and thus did their absorbing billions of years ago.

A team of astronomers led by James Bauer, a research professor of astronomy at the University of Maryland, found that there are about seven times more long - period comets measuring at least 1 kilometer across than previously predicted.

An international team of astronomers led by Yale University and the University of California - Santa Cruz have pushed back the cosmic frontier of galaxy exploration to a time when the universe was only 5 % of its present age.

Fast forward 500 years, and a team of astronomers led by John Bally (University of Colorado, USA) has used the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) to peer into the heart of this cloud.

Now a group of astronomers led by Asa Bluck of the University of Victoria in Canada have found a (relatively) simple relationship between the colour of a galaxy and the size of its bulge: the more massive the bulge the redder the galaxy.

Not exact matches

The Pope relied on the leading astronomers of the day, and they opposed the new science of Galileo.

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.

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.

The latest study to bolster this argument was presented earlier in the meeting by lead author Courtney Dressing, another CfA astronomer, who measured the masses and sizes of a handful of small transiting planets to estimate the rocky - to - gaseous transition zone.

«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.

The study, led by astronomers from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia and published in Nature, reveals the presence of a ring around the planet.

An international team led by University of Maryland astronomers has constructed a detailed description of a similar gamma - ray burst event, named GRB160625B.

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.

«Makemake's moon proves that there are still wild things waiting to be discovered, even in places people have already looked,» said Dr. Alex Parker, lead author of the paper and the SwRI astronomer credited with discovering the satellite.

The study was led by astronomers at the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics.

This year DISCOVER honors David Charbonneau, a Harvard University astronomer whose research could soon lead to an equally stunning revelation: By studying alien worlds, he may find the first direct evidence of life beyond Earth, a sign that our living planet is — yet again — one among many.

This was first confirmed during a solar eclipse in 1919 by a team led by the British astronomer Arthur Eddington; the scientists observed that stars near the limb of the Sun were shifted in position by the Sun's gravity.