Sentences with phrase «of astronomers releases»

On February 25, 2008, a team of astronomers released a paper on simulation results which support the conclusions of previous studies that multiple - planet systems could have formed in close orbits around both heavy - element rich, Alpha Centauri A and B.

On January 15, 2010, a team of astronomers released the results of computer simulations indicating that kilometer - size planetesimals can form and accrete into rocky Earth - size planets around Alpha Centauri B despite gravitational perturbations from Alpha Centauri A.

Not exact matches

In other news, a prominent NASA astronomer turns to astrology and predicts that Virgos will find love this month, a prominent geologist rejects the theory of plate tectonics in favor of Noah's Ark and a prominent psychologist is found drilling holes in hs patients» heads to release evil spirits.

Early this year astronomers with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey released the largest color image of the universe ever made, a trillion - pixel set of paired portraits that covers one - third of the night sky.

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.

In 1589, famed Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, perhaps apocryphally, released balls from atop the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Meanwhile, astronomers at the Wide Field Imager, a 67 - million pixel digital camera at Europe's La Silla Observatory in the Chilean Andes released some stunning shots of two distant nebulae.

«This is science, so null results about our nearest neighboring Sun - like stars are just as valuable as positive ones, although they don't generate a press release,» says Jared Males, an astronomer at the University of Arizona who is working on image - processing algorithms for Project Blue.

Six months after the spacecraft runs out of coolant for its instruments, a preliminary data set should be released to astronomers.

After unsuccessfully lobbying to change those rules, Illingworth instead helped create a new «Early Release Science» (ERS) program to circumvent them — up to 500 hours of diverse observations front - loaded to Cycle 1 for immediate release to the public, giving all astronomers a chance to absorb the results and apply lessons learned to Webb proposals of theRelease Science» (ERS) program to circumvent them — up to 500 hours of diverse observations front - loaded to Cycle 1 for immediate release to the public, giving all astronomers a chance to absorb the results and apply lessons learned to Webb proposals of therelease to the public, giving all astronomers a chance to absorb the results and apply lessons learned to Webb proposals of their own.

«This joint work has shown that the detection of primordial B - modes is no longer robust once the emission from Galactic dust is removed,» says Planck astronomer Jean - Loup Puget of the University of Paris - Sud in Orsay in the ESA press release.

Using data gathered by about 70 different observatories, astronomers characterized the event in exquisite detail, releasing a slew of papers describing the results.

The second release will also contain distances and motions for all 1.1 billion stars, says astronomer Anthony Brown of Leiden University in the Netherlands, who chairs a 450 - member consortium of Gaia data analysts.

«This is arguably one of the finest images of M51 ever taken by an amateur astronomer,» said judge and astronomer Will Gater in a press release.

Astronomers think that the source of such powerful activity is the gravitational energy released from superheated matter falling onto a supermassive black hole (SMBH) that resides in the center of the host galaxy.

These supercavities are «the most direct possible» measure of the energy released by the black hole's ravenous appetite, says astronomer Brian McNamara of Ohio University in Athens, lead author of the study in the 6 January issue of Nature.

The balls are neutron stars and Piran suggests that one - off bursts of gamma rays, which have mystified astronomers for more than two decades, are released when the two neutron stars of a binary system crash into one another.

A Sydney - led international group of astronomers has revealed the «DNA» of more than 340,000 stars in the first major data release from the Galactic Archaeology survey GALAH for clues about how galaxies formed and evolved.

How many stars to expect in Gaia's second data release 05 April 2018 As astronomers worldwide are preparing to explore the second data release of ESA's Gaia satellite, the Data Processing and Analysing Consortium announced just how many sources will be included in the new catalogue, which will be made public on 25 April.

«Astronomers have thought for a while that conditions within these outflows could be right for star formation, but no one has seen it actually happening as it's a very difficult observation,» study leader Roberto Maiolino, from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, said in a news release.

After 11 years of observations, two additional outer planets were discovered with two other teams of astronomers at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the High Altitude Observatory using the Whipple Observatory (1999 press release).

Astronomers have publicly released a treasure trove of data gathered over four years by the Pan-STARRS1 telescope in Hawaii (Credit: Rob Ratkowski)

Between August 24 and September 18, 2006, two teams of astronomers announced the discovery and direct imaging of a spectral type - T, methane brown dwarf companion (T7.5 + / - 0.5) to this star (PSU press release; Luhman et al, 2006; and Mugrauer et al 2006).

At the 216th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society in May 2010, astronomers reported that the orbit of the middle inner planet orbiting Star A appears to be at a steep angle to a third outer planet news release; and McArthur et al, 2010).

In 1998, British and American astronomers at the Joint Astronomy Center (JAC press release) in Hawaii, the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), and the Royal Observatory of Edinburgh obtained the first pictures of a huge disk - like structure of dust enshrouding Vega in a roughly circular envelope (Holland et al, 1998, in postscript).

On February 21, 2007, another team of astronomers announced that they had taken an infrared spectrum of the planet with the Spitzer Space Telescope (SSC news release; and CfA press release — more below).

In late 2003, astronomers announced that the latest computer models indicate that the structure of a faint dust disk observed around Vega can be best explained by the presence of Neptune - sized and Jupiter - sized planets orbiting at distances roughly similar to those held by their apparent «cousins» in the Solar System (more discussion below — ROE press release).

At the January 2002, 199th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, DC, two teams of astronomers announced that the cold dust in Vega's circumstellar disk is at least partly gathered into large clumps, in a characteristic shape that suggests the gravitational influence of a giant planet in an eccentric orbit (Abstracts for sessions 66.04 and 66.05, and CfA press release).

On December 9, 2008, astronomers using the space telescope announced the detection of carbon dioxide in the planet's atmosphere (Hubble news release).

On March 19, 2008, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope announced confirmation of the presence of water and the detection of more methane in the atmosphere of the planet than would be predicted by conventional atmospheric models for «hot Jupiters» (Hubble news release and videos; ESA news release and videos; and Swain et al, 2008 — more below).

Today, astronomers are releasing four new studies based on Juno's measurements, all of which explore the gas giant's turbulent atmosphere and the stuff that lies beneath...

On January 10, 2006, astronomers using the infrared Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array announced that Vega rotates so fast (at around 91 percent of its «break - up rate») that it is cooler as well as 23 percent wider along its equator than at its poles due to the gravitational effect of its «middle bulge» (NOAO press release; AAS 207 session summary); and Aufdenberg et al, 2006).

Here, if life managed to thrive and releases gases similar to that that we have on Earth, then we will know,» said University of Cambridge astronomer Amaury Triaud.

In May 2010, astronomers announced a 30 - degree difference in orbital inclination between planets «c» and «d» and indications of a fourth, outermost planet «e» (NASA news release; and McArthur et al, 2010 — more below).

On January 10, 2005, astronomers using the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope announced that the dust disk is bigger than previously estimated and was probably created by collisions of protoplanetary objects as big as the planet Pluto, up to 2,000 kilometers (about 1,200 miles) in diameter (press release — more below).

However, even at this impressive rate, it still took the team of GALAH astronomers a grand total of 280 nights to observe the 340,000 stars included in the new release.

On July 11, 2007, astronomers announced that the presence of water molecules that are too hot to condense into clouds were detected in the planet's atmosphere (Spitzer press release and Tinetti et al, 2007 — more below).

An international team of astronomers has released survey data detailing the chemical fingerprints of over 340,000 stars.

Given that the presence of one close - orbiting planet usually indicates the presence of others, many astronomers are now expected to devote more resources to detecting such potential planets around Star B (ESO press release; and Dumusque et al, 2012).

One of the best (and surely the prettiest) basic plan illustrations currently available was created by the NASA astronomer - artist Robert Hurt and released in 2008.

Between August 24 and September 18, 2006, two teams of astronomers announced the discovery and direct imaging of a brown dwarf companion to this star (press release; Luhman et al, 2006; and Mugrauer et al 2006 — more below).

«Our conclusions are contrary to other recent work, but in line with the work of radio astronomers who see no new stars being born in this desert,» said Michael Feast, a co-author of the study, in the press release.

NASA will partner with different government agencies, explore avenues of research from different scientific fields and also ask the help of amateur scientists and astronomers, according to the space agency's news release.

Planets «b, c, and d» - On December 14, 2009, a team of astronomers (Steven S. Vogt; Robert A. Wittenmyer, R. Paul Butler, Simon O'Toole, Gregory W. Henry, Eugenio J. Rivera, Stefano Meschiari, Gregory Laughlin, C. G. Tinney, Hugh R. A. Jones, Jeremy Bailey, Brad D. Carter, and Konstantin Batygin) announced the discovery of one innermost orbiting super-Earth and two outer - orbiting, Neptune - class planets (with at least 5.1, 18.2, and 24.0 Earth - masses, respectively) in moderately circular, inner orbits around 61 Virginis with periods of 4.2, 38.0, and 124.0 days, based on radial - velocity observations over 4.6 years with the Keck Observatory's High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES) and the Anglo - Australian Telescope (U.C. Santa Cruz news release; AAO press release; Keck press release; the Lick - Carnegie Exoplanet Survey Team's «Systemic Console;» and Vogt et al, 2009).

On December 13, 2005, a team of astronomers (led by Lynne Allen) announced the discovery of a new planetary body between one - fifth to one half the size of Pluto, found during routine operation of the Canada - France Ecliptic Plane Survey (CFEPS) as part of the Legacy Survey on the Canada France Hawaii Telescope (CFEPS press release).

On June 16, 2008, a team of astronomers announced at the 2008 Extra Solar Super-Earths Workshop in France their discovery of a «super-Earth» class planet in a tight orbit around this star with with two other gas planets in outer orbits (ESO press release and Bouchy et al, 2009 — more details below).

On June 16, 2008, a team of astronomers announced at the 2008 Extra Solar Super-Earths Workshop in France their discovery of one «super-Earth» type planet in a tight orbit around this star with two other gas giant planets in outer orbits (ESO press release and Bouchy et al, 2009).

As John Tobin, an astronomer from the Netherlands» Leiden Observatory who also represented research on dusty disks at the same conference, explained in a press release: «It is probable that there are already centimeter - sized particles in these young disks, meaning that the growth of solids progresses rapidly.»

On January 8, 2002, astronomers announced the accidental discovery of a giant planet around this star (see UCSD or exoplanets.org press release and graphics, more details below).

On January 7, 2002, astronomers announced the discovery of a brown dwarf companion to this Sol - type star using direct imaging (see press release and graphics), whose mass and orbit were subsequently refined with 24 years of radial - velocity observations — Crepp et al, 2012, with more details below).