Sentences with phrase «of astronomers reported»

On June 3, 2014, a team of astronomers reported the discovery of two super-Earths orbiting ancient Kapteyn's Star.

Last February a team of astronomers reported detecting an afterglow from a mysterious event called a fast radio burst, which would pinpoint the precise position of the burst's origin, a longstanding goal in studies of these mysterious events.

In August, a team of astronomers reported that Mira has a 13 - light - year - long tail of glowing stardust, something never seen in any other star.

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

This week an international team of astronomers reports the first multiple - star system to be observed during the earliest stage of formation.

In today's issue of Nature, a team of astronomers reports a breakthrough.

Not exact matches

January 30, 2013 — Astronomers report the exciting discovery of a new way to measure the mass of supermassive black holes in galaxies.

Rings are common sights around the four largest planets of the solar system, but astronomers reported in March that they had found the celestial circles around an unexpected and much smaller fifth target: an asteroid named (10199) Chariklo.

Astronomers this month announced a similar discovery for an even larger gas giant, reporting that the Juno spacecraft, which is orbiting Jupiter, had found that the planet's rotating cloud belts reach roughly 3,000 kilometers below the top of the atmosphere.

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.

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 discovery, also reported in a paper accepted to the Astronomical Journal, can also help astronomers better understand the planetary population of our galaxy.

The discovery has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, but National Geographic reports that the origin of the dust is puzzling in its own right, raising still more questions for astronomers.

In March of 2006, astronomers reported an 80 light year - long nebula near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, the Double Helix Nebula, which is, as the name implies, twisted into a double spiral shape.

In the first published account of sugar and alcohol in a comet, astronomers have detected ethanol, the sugar glycolaldehyde, and other organic molecules spewing from a comet known as comet Lovejoy, New Scientist reports.

This is a result in itself and, together with the reports of amateur astronomer John McKeon, has helped us come up with our preliminary estimate which slightly reduces previous estimates of the flux of impacting objects in Jupiter.

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.

And Proxima b could have lost significant amounts of water during its formative years, astronomer Ignasi Ribas of the Institute of Space Sciences in Barcelona and colleagues reported in 2016 in Astronomy & Astrophysics.

In October 1917, the prominent astronomer Harlow Shapley reported that the brightness of novae in various nebulae would place some of them millions of light - years away, in conflict with other measurements of rapid internal motion within the nebulae.

► «Geoffrey Marcy, a prominent astronomer at the University of California [UC], Berkeley, has resigned following a university investigation that concluded he had repeatedly sexually harassed women,» another Wednesday ScienceInsider reported.

They cite as inspiration Galileo Galilei, the 17th century astronomer and father of modern science, who challenged the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church to report the Earth orbited around the sun.

Other papers in the package also touch on the presence of water ice on Ceres, which had already been reported by the Dawn team and by astronomers observing the dwarf planet from afar.

In the 1960s astronomers reported evidence of a planet orbiting nearby Barnard's Star.

So any residents of the Iota Horologii system — which bears at least one giant planet — presumably experience more frequent outbursts, astronomers will report in an upcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

As astronomers report online today in Nature, the Herschel Space Observatory has discerned a watery spectral line at the far - infrared wavelength of 538 microns.

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.

Adding wings made of glass or other refractive materials in flight would allow astronomers to better steer future space missions, the team reports online today in Nature Photonics.

But in February, independent teams of astronomers armed with Spitzer data reported they could not detect water vapor in either planet's infrared glow as it passed behind its star.

Using the optical 8.1 - meter Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, astronomers then managed to determine the galaxy's distance: more than 3 billion light - years, as reported in a second paper in the same issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters.

These «ultradiffuse galaxies» appear to have had much of their star - forming gas stolen, Jin Koda, an astronomer at Stony Brook University in New York, and colleagues report.

In a pair of papers in the 1 November issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters, radio astronomer Nichi D'Amico of the Bologna Astronomical Observatory in Italy and his colleagues report that the pulsar's faint radio blips disappear during nearly half of its orbit, presumably eclipsed by a shroud of gas from its companion.

Spanning well over half a million light - years, NGC 6872 (seen in white and pink in this image acquired with the European Very Large Telescope) is at least five times the size of our own Milky Way, astronomers reported here on Thursday at the 221st meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

That gas, astronomers report this month in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, has been whipped up so much by its encounter with the intergalactic medium — like a comet's tail of ice crystals getting buffeted by the solar wind — that it has condensed into stars.

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.

In an upcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal, astronomers report observations by the heat - seeking instruments aboard the Spitzer Space Telescope, which show the planet's hottest region is located near its twilight zone — the line bisecting the day and night sides.

Sukanya Chakrabarti, an astronomer at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, reported the findings January 8 at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A furiously blinking x-ray source near the center of the Milky Way has given the best evidence to date that black holes spin, astronomers reported here 30 April at a meeting of the American Physical Society.

Now, astronomers report that a little red star (inset, circled), discovered decades ago 5.67 ° northwest of Fomalhaut, shares the same distance and motion through space.

Wako Aoki, an astronomer at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan in Tokyo, and his colleagues have discovered a star bearing signs of just such an explosion, they report online today in Science.

Reporting in an upcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal, astronomers say the same cloud of dust and gas that gave birth to the star — known as 1RXS JI60929.1 - 210524 and located about 450 light - years away in the constellation Scorpius — probably split apart, which is what often happens when binary star systems are born.

The University of Kentucky has paid astronomer Martin Gaskell $ 125,000 to settle his discrimination suit, as reported in our sister blog Science Careers.

Reporting today at the U.K. National Astronomy Meeting in Llandudno, Wales, astronomers say they have used an array of radio telescopes to detect a belt of pebble - sized rocks around a young star — the next stage in planet formation.

As astronomers report online today in Nature, magnetic fields inside M33's six most massive giant molecular clouds — large concentrations of dense gas and dust that give birth to stars — line up with the spiral arms, suggesting the magnetic fields helped create the huge clouds and that they regulate how the clouds fragment to form new stars.

Now, as astronomers will report in an upcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal, a third and smaller giant — similar in mass to Uranus — orbits beyond the others.

«A thick lump of dust, rocks, and gas» is how astronomer Jane Greaves of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland describes the new protoplanet she reported on in April at a meeting in Belfast sponsored by the Royal Astronomical Society.

But astronomers report that nonetheless neutrinos forged much of the universe's fluorine, an element added to toothpaste and water to fight cavities and whose cosmic origin has long been mysterious.

Last year, astronomers reported that extrasolar planets may outnumber stars in our galaxy by almost a two - to - one margin, and that three - quarters of these worlds are likely to be free - floaters, not bound to any star.

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.

Based on those observations, reported in the current issue of The Astrophysical Journal, the authors confirm what astronomers had been thinking about HD 80606b.