Sentences with phrase «of astronomers recently»

But a team of astronomers recently discovered something odd enough to make even their most jaded colleagues take notice: a vast fountain of antimatter that appears to be spewing from our galaxy's center.

Not exact matches

While peering through one of the clusters, Abell 2744, astronomers recently found a candidate for one of the most distant galaxies known, a toddler growing up about 500 million years after the Big Bang.

Although a mechanical failure recently put the telescope out of commission (SN: 6/15/13, p. 10), Kepler's census of planets orbiting roughly 170,000 stars is enabling astronomers to predict how common planets...

Recently, a team of astronomers reported discovering a pulsating star that appears to shine with the energy of 10 million suns.

For example, astronomers recently realized that a planet - hosting star system has four suns, the second of its kind ever found.

As recently as 2011, astronomers thought it was impossible to use spectroscopy — a technique that splits light from an object into different wavelengths to tell an object's composition — from orbit to reveal what Venus» surface is made of.

This research has become possible only recently with the advent of astronomers» precision measurements of the amounts of nuclei present in the early universe.

Until recently, astronomers fully expected to see gravity slowing down the expansion of the cosmos.

Although a mechanical failure recently put the telescope out of commission (SN: 6/15/13, p. 10), Kepler's census of planets orbiting roughly 170,000 stars is enabling astronomers to predict how common planets similar to Earth are across the galaxy.

For example, astronomers have been trying to explain why some recently discovered distant, but young, galaxies contain massive amounts of dust.

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.

Astronomers recently gauged the age of the Fermi bubbles less directly, by arguing that whatever produced them also irradiated a long strand of gas shed by two nearby galaxies.

Astronomers have identified a white dwarf star in our galaxy that may be the leftover remains of a recently discovered type of supernova.

Recently, astronomers have discovered a related form of supernova, called Type Iax, which look like Type Ia, but are much fainter.

Astronomers have recently found hundreds of new exoplanets, or planets beyond our own solar system.

Through these efforts, astronomers are attempting to understand recently discovered phenomena such as the first detections of gravitational waves from neutron star collisions and the accompanying electromagnetic fireworks as well as regular stars being engulfed by supermassive black holes.

Astronomers recently saw the chemical signature of phosphorus - oxygen molecules in a star - forming region, suggesting that simple precursors of DNA float in the soup of new solar systems.

To settle the issue, astronomers will probably have to wait for SPIDR (Spectroscopy and Photometry of the IGM Diffuse Radiation), a $ 89 million mission recently selected by NASA, says Taotao Fang of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Recently, astronomers looking for potentially habitable worlds have targeted red dwarf stars because they are the most common type of star, comprising 80 percent of the stars in the universe.

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.

Scientists around the world were reconnecting after the horrors of World War I, and general relativity had recently received stunning experimental confirmation when astronomers observed the sun's gravity bending starlight during a solar eclipse.

Recently astronomers have pinned down the location of the bursts and tentatively identified them as massive supernova explosions and neutron stars colliding both with themselves and black holes.

The road to progress is typically strewn with false starts, wrong turns and other miscues — as a group of astronomers and physicists known as the BICEP2 collaboration recently found out.

Astronomer Vicky Kalogera of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, who recently modeled the past of Cygnus X-1, says the forecast for its future makes sense.

The cloud of unanswered questions surrounding planetaries should not obscure the real insight astronomers have recently gained into the extraordinary death of ordinary stars.

Astronomers recently found a nursery full of infant galaxies — but more important, all 36 are nearby.

Recently, however, astronomers have offered an explanation: The jets of escaping matter are tapping into the accelerated rotational energy of the black hole itself.

A recently discovered dwarf galaxy in the constellation Lynx may serve well as a proxy for better understanding the developing chemistry of the early universe, according to a research team that includes University of Virginia astronomers.

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found the clearest indications yet that planets with masses several times that of Jupiter have recently formed in the discs of gas and dust around four young stars.

Mauna Kea, Hawaii — A team led by astronomers from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, recently used the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii to observe and measure a rare class of «active... Read more»

With an ever increasing range of powerful telescopes, astronomers have recently started to unveil the answers to many of these intriguing questions.

Maunakea, Hawaii — A team of astronomers using ground - based telescopes in Hawaii, California, and Arizona recently discovered a planetary system orbiting a nearby star that is only 54 light - years... Read more»

Mauna Kea, Hawaii — A team led by astronomers from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, recently used the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii to observe and measure a rare class of «active asteroids» that spontaneously emit dust and have been confounding scientists for years.

Some astronomers, however, have recently detected starspots which can result in false non-periodic detections and also a long - term variation in «seasonal» averages with a period of several years which deserves further study (Hargis et al, 2000).

On March 25, 2015, a team of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope revealed observations which indicate via the transit method that Alpha Centauri B may have a second planet «c» in a hot inner orbit, just outside planet candidate «b.» After observing Alpha Centauri B in 2013 and 2014 for a total of 40 hours, the team failed to detect any transits involving planet b (previously detected using the radial velocity variations method and recently determined not to be observed edge - on in a transit orbit around Star B).

While most astronomical sources still list a distance from Sol of 47.3 light - years (ly)-- apparently as estimated in the early 1970s — for the CM Draconis system, some astronomers studying the star more recently have been citing a revised distance of 54 to 55 ly away.

Maunakea, Hawaii — A team of astronomers using ground - based telescopes in Hawaii, California, and Arizona recently discovered a planetary system orbiting a nearby star that is only 54 light - years away.

Pluto may have recently been demoted to the status of dwarf planet, but as astronomers learn more about this distant body, they are learning it behaves more like a planet than once believed.

Though they usually take weeks or months to reach maximum brightness (and longer to fade away), astronomers recently observed a star called KSN 2015K whose supernova flared up to max brightness over in just 2.2 days and dimmed to half of that in 6.8 days, placing it among the fastest, brightest supernovas on record.

The novel design of the recently commissioned GBT met these challenges brilliantly, and gave astronomers their first look at the cluttered neighborhood around Andromeda.

A team of astronomers in Chile recently tracked the motion of about 400 nearby stars zooming through space.

Astronomers recently verified that titanium oxide in the outer atmosphere of a Mira - type giant star's absorbs its light, causing it to swell up and dim.

The remaining examples are mostly named after astronomers, the best known are probably Barnard's Star (which has the highest known proper motion of any star and is thus notable even though it is far too faint to be seen with the naked eye), Kapteyn's Star and recently Tabby's Star.

Astronomers using K2, the second planet - finding mission of the Kepler space telescope, recently detected three such planets orbiting a nearby dwarf star.

Mays was recently awarded a Fulbright Grant to travel to Santiago, Chile and work with international teams of astronomers who study Chile's northern deserts in 2010.