Sentences with phrase «of astronomers used»

In 2009, a team of astronomers used the Swift Spacecraft to measure the luminosity output of a distant Quasar, named S5 0014 +81, and measure the mass of the central black hole.

The team of astronomers used the VLBA to determine the structure of Sgr A * at five radio wavelengths (6.0, 3.6, 2.0, 1.35 cm, and 7 mm).

Two teams of astronomers used the light's changing wavelength to calculate the speed at which the stars wobbles; from this speed, they inferred the planet's mass and, using previously published size measurements, calculated its density.

A group of astronomers used Hubble to study the remnant of the Type Ia supernova explosion SNR 0509 - 68.7 — also known as N103B (seen at the top).

An international team of astronomers used the Suzaku telescope, which is sensitive to x-rays, and an optical telescope to peer at two objects identified by a previous survey as AGNs.

An international team of astronomers used the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope to estimate whether there might be water on the seven earth - sized planets orbiting the nearby dwarf star TRAPPIST - 1.

So one team of astronomers used data from the Gaia space observatory to simulate the interiors of solar - type stars, which are similar in mass and age to our own sun.

Asteroids are discovered by small, dedicated teams of astronomers using optical telescopes that repeatedly scan the sky looking for star - like objects, which change location in the sky slightly over the course of an hour or so.

In 2005, Kashlinsky led a team of astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to explore the background glow of infrared light in one part of the sky.

A team of astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has captured the most detailed images ever of the hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris.

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»

In 1996, another group of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered that they might have directly observed a companion to Proxima with the implied brightness of a brown dwarf and an apparent visual separation of only about half the Earth - Sun distance — 0.5 AU (Schultz et al, 1998).

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).

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.

An international team of astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made an unparalleled observation, detecting significant changes in the atmosphere of a planet located beyond our solar system.

A team of astronomers using NASA's Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope has now discovered one such signal originating from the center of the Andromeda, or M31, galaxy — a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light - years from Earth.

Green Bank, WV — A team of astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) has made the first conclusive detection of what appear to be the leftover building blocks of galaxy formation — neutral hydrogen clouds — swarming around the Andromeda Galaxy, the nearest large spiral galaxy to the Milky Way.

A team of astronomers using a pair of National Science Foundation radio telescopes has made the first measurements of the size and expansion of a mysterious, intense fireball resulting from a cosmic gamma ray burst last May.

The smallest protoplanetary disk ever seen rotating around a young star has been detected by an international team of astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array radio telescope.

Last year, a team of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope, had reported the detection of signs of water vapour being vented off Europa's south pole.

On June 29, 2011, a team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope and other telescopes around the world announced their detection of ULAS J1120 +0641, which is the oldest known quasar measured thus far with a redshift of z ~ 7.08 and which indicates that its light has taken around 12.9 billion years to reach Earth from just 770 million years after the Big Bang (ESO science release).

On August 31, 2011, a team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) announced their discovery of one of the most metal - poor stars known in the Milky Way's galactic halo.

Four years later, another team of astronomers using the 2.5 - meter Isaac Newton Telescope at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma (and relying on evidence supplied by their own dynamical models of Sagittarius and on preliminary results from the international Sloan Digital Sky Survey team) announced that they had found an excess of young stars belonging to a stellar system located at 183,000 ly (56,000 pc) from the center of the Milky Way.

On November 6, 2010, three teams of astronomers using three different telescopes tracking the occultation of a 17th - magnitude star in the north - central part of Constellation Cetus by Eris revealed preliminary results indicating that the dwarf planet may be smaller in diameter than Pluto after all, based on the unexpectedly short times of occultation reported.

Not exact matches

Earlier this year, astronomer and physics professor Nicole Gugliucci used a term that neatly captured the scenario of men stealing a woman's idea.

However, two astronomers — Gianluca Masi of The Virtual Telescope Project and Michael Schwartz of Tenagra Observatories, Ltd. — managed to track down the Tesla using orbit data provided by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Perhaps in the future, astronomers will use this and other new highly detailed images to understand what triggered one of the brightest outbursts in the Milky Way's history.

Astronomers did not realize back then that the type of lenses they were using smeared the images of stars slightly, making them look bigger than they are.

It is like asking a bunch of astronomers whether they all study the same sun when they are all using different equipment and without recognizing that they all think about what is meant by the words «study», «same» and «sun in different ways.

■ Cardinal Nicolas of Cusa (1401 -1464), Bishop of Brixon mathematician as well as astronomer who postulated non-circular planetary orbits, developed a mathematical theory of relative motion, and even used concave lenses to correct near - sightedness.

Normally, a picture like this would show lots of stars as well as dust lit up by those stars, but astronomers used an image taken in visible light to subtract off the stars in the IR image, leaving just the dust behind.

There are many conceivable uses for a gargantuan 10 - meter mirror in space, but taking pictures of rocky, potentially habitable worlds — «direct imaging,» in astronomer lingo — is the killer app.

Astronomer Heino Falcke plans to use a global network of radio telescopes to snap the black hole at the Milky Way's heart

«Astronomers can use the data we drew on to create this image as a kind of guidepost,» New York University astronomer Michael Blanton says.

After finding signs that Jupiter's icy moon emits repeating plumes of water near its southern pole, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope hope to detect more evidence of the geysers.

Astronomers are used to working at the limits of human imagination, but even they have a hard time envisioning the kinds of insights they will be able to pull out of the bounteous new databases.

The team was studying the warm gas in this disk using a technique called spectro - astrometry, which allows astronomers to detect small changes in the position of moving gas.

Harvard - Smithsonian and Dartmouth College astronomers have generated a new 3 - D map of its interior using the astronomical equivalent of a CAT scan.

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.

«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.»

This international network, 10 years in the making, allows astronomers to use the Internet to assemble data from dozens of telescopes.

Astronomers have used SPHERE to obtain many other impressive images, as well as for other studies including the interaction of a planet with a disc, the orbital motions within a system, and the time evolution of a disc.

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.

«We find no evidence of the orbit clustering needed for the Planet Nine hypothesis in our fully independent survey,» says Cory Shankman, an astronomer at the University of Victoria in Canada and a member of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS), which since 2013 has found more than 800 objects out near Neptune using the Canada - France - Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii.

But in January, astronomers used optical and infrared telescopes to look back nearly to the beginning of the universe, just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, where they saw newborn ellipticals — ancient galaxies so dusty they're nearly invisible.

Using observations from several telescopes, Yale University astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and colleagues studied 10 bright clumps of stars within the galaxy, known as globular clusters, and measured their velocities.

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.

Astronomers often use supercomputers to simulate how a supernova evolves, generating vast amounts of data.

Astronomers exploit this property of space to use the clusters as a zoom lens to magnify the images of far - more - distant galaxies that otherwise would be too faint to be seen.

«Astronomers capture best view ever of disintegrating comet: Using Hubble telescope, team gathers data on size, speed and path of debris.»