Sentences with phrase «of astronomers started»

About 10 years ago, a group of astronomers started talking about creating a unified, global virtual observatory.

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Nightly rooms at the Sheraton Grand hotel in Nashville start at $ 359, but includes a penthouse viewing party, and in Jackson Hole, Wyo., the well heeled will take a gondola up to the top of the ski mountain for a viewing party at 10,450 feet, complete a resident astronomer, telescopes and mimosas.

It started evolving and ended up producing thousands of universes, planets and stars, so vast that astronomers can not even track it all.

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.

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.

«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.

Astronomers are starting to suspect that the pebbles mixed with gas in the early solar system and then clumped together, growing from pebbles all the way up to objects the size of MU69.

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

When astronomers started finding planets around other stars in the 1990s, they fully expected to see the general structure of our own solar system repeated throughout the cosmos.

The galaxies in the early universe started off small and the theory of the astronomers is that the baby galaxies gradually grew larger and more massive by constantly colliding with neighbouring galaxies to form new, larger galaxies.

Starting in June, a team led by astronomer Nuno Santos of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, used HARPS to monitor a star called μ Arae, faintly visible to the eye.

Having the mass and radii of a planet allows the astronomers to calculate other features such as a planet's average density, «and once you know the average density of a planet, then you can start to say whether it's rocky or not,» Kane explained.

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.

Though astronomers have indirectly detected thousands of exoplanets, they are just starting to get fuzzy pictures of the orbs themselves.

But Ames astronomer Audrey Summers and I started with Rosenblatt's paper, made some corrections to it, and then asked ourselves what kind of instrument would be required to take the measurements.

Gijs Nelemans of Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands says astronomers are starting to realise how common star mergers must be.

According to EPICS team leader and ESO astronomer Markus Kasper, the instrument's eight - to -10-year construction period is scheduled to start in 2019, meaning its observations of Proxima b would only begin in the late 2020s.

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.

While waiting for the show to start, you can watch a «Victorian» astronomer give a magic lantern show of findings in astronomy in the year 1880 and, if there is time, take a stroll into the adjoining Space and Time galleries.

«We've come to recognize that Ceres has a lot of characteristics that are intriguing for those looking at how life starts,» says Andy Rivkin, a planetary astronomer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., who was not involved in the study.

But if it is a planet, as one team of astronomers thinks, we may be in for some celestial fireworks in 2032, when Fomalhaut b starts to plough through a broad belt of debris that surrounds the star and icy comets within the belt smash into the planet's atmosphere.

Brown - dwarf buddies: Astronomers still can't agree on what to call brown dwarfs: Are they failed stars, without enough mass to kick - start the nuclear reactions of typical stars, or are they supersize planets?

A team of astronomers led by Wouter Vlemmings, Chalmers University of Technology, have used the telescope Alma (Atacama Large Millimetre / Submillimetre Array) to make the sharpest observations yet of a star with the same starting mass as the Sun.

An Asteroid with a Secret Inside When McCord and his colleagues picked apart the geochemistry of the Vesta fragments, starting in the early 1970s, they confirmed a startling implication of Vesta observations: The asteroid couldn't have the simple, uniform structure that most astronomers of the time expected.

Once astronomers learned to recognize the milky coloration, they started finding bits of Vesta in surprising places.

Like other teams positioned in a 1500 - kilometer - wide swath across South America, the astronomers had started out the night with one mission: They intended to measure the size of Chariklo, an icy body that circles the sun between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus.

Most astronomers think the universe started forming its recognizable structure around clumps of dark matter, the mysterious substance that collectively weighs six times more than all the visible matter and so far has eluded all attempts to detect it directly (ScienceNOW, 13 September).

The distortions are tiny, but starting in 2000, astronomers managed to detect the effect, which is known as cosmological weak lensing, in surveys of thousands of galaxies.

Fermi also boasts a wide field of view, which should enable astronomers to catch bursts when they start and follow them as they peak and dim, seconds to minutes later.

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.

That places the galaxy's birth at the threshold of when the first organized galaxies started shining, astronomers believe.

Supersize ground telescopes — such as the Thirty Meter Telescope planned for Mauna Kea, Hawaii, and the European Extremely Large Telescope, spanning 42 meters (140 feet)-- will help astronomers probe the properties of the first galaxies, starting around 2018.

Starting in the 1970s, Greenberg was vindicated by a team of astronomers at the University of California, San Diego.

The astronomers struggled with foggy nights at the telescope, back in November 2017, and are only just starting to get scientific results from a few hours of data.

«Ever since Edwin Hubble first started working on the distances to galaxies, back in the late 1920s, the distance to the Virgo cluster has been the primary goal of astronomers in order to derive the Hubble constant.»

«We started it when a friend and colleague of ours, Azadeh Fattahi, an Iranian Ph.D. student at the University of Victoria in Canada, had to turn down a job offer from an American University and refused to attend two conferences in the U.S. due to the ban,» says Mathilde Jauzac, an astronomer at Durham University in the United Kingdom.

A still - growing core of a galaxy in the early universe may help astronomers understand how massive elliptical galaxies get their start.

The downside is that, if human beings somehow survive long enough to see the creation of this new monster, they will be living in a galaxy that some astronomers are already starting to refer to as Milkomeda.

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

Some of those teachers have started their own programs for students, and some of those students are now astronomers or young science teachers bringing their students to Green Bank.

On 6 October 1995, astronomers started a revolution with the discovery of 51 Pegasi b — the first planet found orbiting a Sun - like star beyond our solar system.

That's why astronomers have turned their gaze to young stars hundreds of light - years from Earth, in an effort to watch new worlds that are just starting to take shape.

«We didn't get the list of galaxies to look at until — I think it was 18 minutes before the start of the night,» said Josh Simon, one of the astronomers observing that night.

Since astronomers first started using telescopes, it could be seen that Jupiter seemed to be an active world, with its well - known colorful atmospheric belts, and of course the Great Red Spot.

The event started with the opening speech made by Manabu Noda, the curator of Nagoya City Science Museum, which was followed by the three lectures by astronomers.

This was feasible by the advent of Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), located on a mountaintop plateau in Chile, which works in tandem to detect electromagnetic waves at a wavelength range in the millimeter (pivotal for studying molecular gas) and a sensitivity level that is just starting to be explored by astronomers today.

Late on Thursday night, Johnson, Murray - Clay, and other astronomers started an online petition to «support the people who were targets of Geoff Marcy's inappropriate behavior.»

With its unprecedented look at the early Universe in X-rays, the CDF - S gives astronomers the best look yet at the growth of black holes over billions of years starting soon after the Big Bang.

Starting in Marrakech, explore the UNESCO - listed kasbah of Ait Benhaddou and visit the Hollywood of North Africa at Ouarzazate before a camel trek into the Sahara where you'll be joined by an astronomer for the night's spectacle.