Sentences with phrase «of astronomers now»

A group of astronomers now hope to fill this gap in our knowledge.

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

Bishop Jezierski has decided that a fitting sarcophagus will now be designed for the remains of Copernicus that have been discovered, not only to honour this renowned astronomer, but as a testimony to the unity of deep faith and meticulous science which his life's work represented.

«Astronomers now find they have painted themselves into a corner because they have proven, by their own methods, that the world began abruptly in an act of creation to which you can trace the seeds of every star, every planet, every living thing in this cosmos and on the earth.

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.

Astronomers conducting a galactic census of planets in the Milky Way now suspect most of the universe's habitable real estate exists on worlds orbiting red dwarf stars, which are smaller but far more numerous than stars like our Sun.

«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.

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.

VISTA's infrared capabilities have now allowed astronomers to see the myriad of stars in this neighbouring galaxy much more clearly than ever 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.

«The outcome of the Auriga Project is that astronomers will now be able to use our work to access a wealth of information, such as the properties of the satellite galaxies and the very old stars found in the halo that surrounds the galaxy.»

The team also publish their findings in two papers in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and the data are now publicly available for other astronomers to make further discoveries.

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.

Such an excess first emerged in the late 1960s and was mapped in 1981 by Glyn Haslam of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, but few astronomers thought much of it until now.

Now, a team of astronomers has used position and velocity data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as well as computer simulations of stellar evolution in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC, pictured above), a small satellite galaxy near the Milky Way, to show that these speeding stars may come from there.

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.

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.

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.

So with access to these and other facilities, Canadian astronomers can now work in most of the subfields of astronomy, although planetary science is still underrepresented.

Astronomer Donald Lynden Bell of Cambridge University, for instance, believes that his wife Ruth, now a professor in the atomistic - simulation group at Queen's University in Belfast, remained in a job below her capabilities for 30 years until she accepted her chair in Belfast in 1995.

Four and a half centuries later, archaeologist Jerzy Gasowski of the Pultusk School of Humanities in Poland says he's tracked down the remains of the man now revered as one of history's greatest astronomers.

Now, astronomers have identified a galaxy that had already begun to resemble the modern Milky Way when the universe was only 3 billion years old, one - fifth of its current age.

Meanwhile, astronomers using another NASA satellite, the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, believe they now know the source of powerful bursts of gamma rays coming from points distributed evenly across the sky.

Astronomers have now used the power of ESO's Very Large Telescope to explore one of its lesser known regions.

Astronomers craving their first image of a planet beyond our solar system now have fresh targets to explore: newly identified siblings of Beta Pictoris, the most famous dust - shrouded star in the sky.

Astronomers are now taking the next step of studying super-Earths» atmospheres directly.

Astronomers have now used the power of the ESO's Very Large Telescope to explore NGC 2035, one of its lesser known regions, in great detail.

The planet appears to be too hot and violent to support anything like life as we know it, but now that astronomers know how to study the atmosphere of one exoplanet, they are ready to try extending the technique to other, potentially more inviting worlds.

The age of blackholes is upon us, for astronomers now know how to recognise the clues which give away the presence of a black hole.

The excitement among astronomers earlier this year over reports of a «new» black hole may have surprised anyone who was under the impression that black holes are now routine.

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.

The annual Quadrantid meteor shower was first recognized nearly 170 years ago, but only now have astronomers identified its likely source: a fragment of a broken - up comet or asteroid.

But a pair of astronomers are now putting the question of what defines a galaxy to a public vote, in the hope of reaching a consensus and avoiding the sort of controversy that surrounded Pluto being stripped of its status as a planet.

Now that Winget has performed more than 30 simulations, astronomers can start using his measurements of how hydrogen plasmas absorb and emit light in the lab to make sense of actual white dwarfs.

Now, astronomers have overcome that problem by tracking bright spots of radio emission from the Triangulum Galaxy — also known as M33 — which the new study locates at 2.4 million light years from Earth.

The team of astronomers has now shown that the comet's orbit is stable for more than three hundred years.

Fellow IoA astronomer Floor van Leeuwen agrees, adding that individual velocity measurements of the stars will resolve the question definitively, but probably not before 10 to 15 years from now, when new satellites take to the skies.

Astronomers now think that the center of our Milky Way is home to a black hole nearly 3 million times as massive as the sun.

A team of astronomers, led by Karina Caputi of the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute at the University of Groningen, has now unearthed many distant galaxies that had escaped earlier scrutiny.

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.

Thanks to years of observations by the versatile probe, astronomers now know Saturn as intimately as macaroni knows cheese.

«My fear now is that the community will be so frightened of cost that they won't recommend any large telescope in the next decadal,» says one senior astronomer, who asked not to be named due to the politically sensitive nature of the situation.

The early solar system was a chaotic place, and astronomers now suspect many of the planets may have wandered before settling into today's orbits.

Now Matthew Holman and Matthew Payne, two astronomers from the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, have taken the idea a step further by analysing the Cassini data for multiple possible orbits instead of just one.

Until now, mainstream astronomers have dismissed the idea of actually finding any of our wayward kin, some 4.3 billion years after our stellar birth cluster is believed to have dissipated.

Then as now, astronomers estimated the distances to galaxies by studying Cepheid variables, an unusual class of stars whose brightness rises and falls predictably: The longer the period of variation, the more luminous the star.

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.

Now, other astronomers have clocked the speed of this outflow in work that may eventually resolve the key question raised by its discovery: What caused it?

Now, astronomer Andrew Fox of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, and his colleagues have used the Hubble Space Telescope to measure how the expelled gas is moving.

The team now want to find out more about the ring, and establish whether the known processes for galaxy formation and large scale structure could have led to its creation, or if astronomers need to radically revise their theories of the evolution of the cosmos.