Sentences with phrase «of astronomers looked»

An international team of astronomers looked for clues in the early universe.

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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.

Astronomers did not realize back then that the type of lenses they were using smeared the images of stars slightly, making them look bigger than they are.

Astronomers estimate the age of the universe in two ways: 1) by looking for the oldest stars; and 2) by measuring the rate of expansion of the universe and extrapolating back to the Big Bang; just as crime detectives can trace the origin of a bullet from the holes in a wall.

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

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.

By then, X-ray-detecting goggles may enable an astronomer, ambling home one evening, to look skyward and see the death glow of the same supernova Brahe observed in its infancy.

«The statistical significance is starting to look pretty good,» astronomer William Sparks of the Space Telescope Science...

Astronomers, therefore, look for signs of reionization by determining when 21 - centimeter emissions start to turn off — evidence that stars are, simultaneously, starting to turn on.

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).

«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.

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.

But in January, astronomers used optical and infrared telescopes to look back nearly to the beginning of the universe, just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, where they saw newborn ellipticals — ancient galaxies so dusty they're nearly invisible.

Applying the same technique to other regions of the Milky Way will help astronomers figure out what our galaxy looks like from the outside and compare it to other spiral galaxies.

Astronomers are now using a similar inference to solve the cosmic mystery of a black hole's birth — looking for stars that fail to explode.

He leads a team of astronomers who have been using the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) to look for failed supernovae in other galaxies.

«The statistical significance is starting to look pretty good,» astronomer William Sparks of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore says.

The cool star's composition is tricky to study, but astronomers can look at 16 other stars in the same «moving group», all of which orbit the galaxy backwards and are very old.

«Ours isn't the only group looking for planets around young stars, and my hope is that astronomers can find enough of them to shed light on some of the nagging questions about planet formation,» Johns - Krull said.

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.

«Astronomers can look for signs of this, but they don't see it.

To understand the current, mostly privately funded space race, University of Arizona astronomer Impey begins by looking back.

«If Neanderthal man had had ultraviolet eyes and could look above the atmosphere, he could have seen the beginning of this tail forming,» says astronomer and team leader Christopher Martin of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

Regardless, if TESS can indeed locate hundreds of nearby planets, astronomers will have their hands full for the foreseeable future — finding out what those planets are like and what kinds of habitats they might support and, just maybe, flinging some future probe toward one enticing - looking world.

For more clues to the nature of dark matter, astronomers have looked out beyond our neighboring galaxies, into deep stretches of space where the influence of the unseen material shows up in other, more dramatic ways.

A team led by astronomer Dimitar Sasselov of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, used several large telescopes to scrutinize 59 candidate stars that OGLE singled out for a closer look via subtle dips in their light outputs.

Astronomers have gotten the most detailed look yet at the atmosphere of a planet outside the solar system.

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.

In 2012 and 2014 a team led by an astronomer from Paris Observatory took a second look at the auroras using the ultraviolet capabilities of the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) installed on Hubble.

In the past, astronomers inferred the existence of exoplanets and their gases by looking for subtle changes in the light...

Most SETI projects tune in to the 1.42 to 1.72 - gigahertz range, reasoning that alien astronomers might expect earthly scientists to be looking there anyway as this is the frequency of radiation emitted by interstellar hydrogen and hydroxyl clouds.

Astronomers hadn't found enough of them to account for all the dark matter — but it turns out they were looking for the wrong color star.

«Zwicky began referring to Baade as «the Nazi»... He regarded most of the other Palomar astronomers as fools, and Walter Baade as a cretin... He would swear torrentially at night assistants, using scientific terms laced with obscenities... He referred to Baade and the others as spherical bastards — «They are spherical,» he said, «because they are bastards every way I look at them.»

These sources of pollution could prevent astronomers from getting a clear look at the night sky, limiting the sensitivity and accuracy of their measurements.

The astronomers looked carefully at the possibility that instead of indicating different ages, the different brightnesses and colours of some of the stars were due to hidden companion stars, which would make the stars appear brighter and redder than they really were.

Later this year, astronomers will begin a new sky survey to look for signs of the stuff among exploding stars and ancient galaxy clusters.

Now, however, astronomers know where to look to reliably see at least one: a patch of sky about one tenth the size of the full moon in the direction of the constellation Auriga.

Schaefer and a group of other astronomers will start out near Casper, Wyo., but they're ready to jump in the car and drive anywhere else along the eclipse path if it looks like it might be cloudy.

«Looking around the very nearest Sun - like stars is the next logical step in the search for another Earth,» says Supriya Chakrabarti, an astronomer at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, who is developing planet - imaging technologies for Project Blue.

In general, astronomers look for two hallmarks of technology.

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.

The planet — Proxima b — was discovered by astronomers who spent years looking for signs of the tiny gravitational tug exerted by a planet on its star, after spotting hints of such disruption in 2013.

Using the most powerful radio telescope in the world, an international team of astronomers has set out to look for answers in the star L2 Puppis.

«Previously, astronomers had been looking at the aftermath of short - period bursts largely in optical light, and were not really finding anything besides the light of the gamma - ray burst itself,» explained Andrew Fruchter of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., a member of Tanvir's research team.

Despite their name, MACHOs need not occur only in the galactic halo, so astronomers can search for them by looking for microlensing effects anywhere where there are large numbers of stars.

When Dutch astronomer Willem de Sitter pointed out that one interpretation of general relativity looked awfully like an expanding universe, Einstein sought a flaw in his reasoning.

The astronomers» goal is to finally reveal what our own Galaxy looks like if we could leave it, travel outward perhaps a million light - years, and view it face - on, rather than along the plane of its disk.

As improved telescope technology finds smaller and more distant asteroids, astronomers have identified clusters of similar - looking bodies clumped in analogous orbits.

In a just - published paper, astronomers used a sample of 40,000 galaxies in the COSMOS field, a large and contiguous patch of sky with deep enough data to look at galaxies very far away, and with accurate distance measurements to individual galaxies.

What looked at first like a sort of upside - down planet has instead revealed a new method for studying binary star systems, discovered by a University of Washington student astronomer.