Sentences with phrase «of astronomers working»

On August 29, 2012, the Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) revealed that a team of astronomers working with the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Search (HARPS) project had discovered two planets «b» and «c» around the red dwarf star Gliese 163.

On November 1, 2010, a team of astronomers working with the NASA - UC Eta - Earth Survey revealed the detection of a super-Earth in a torch orbit with a minimum of 8.2 + - 1.2 Earth - masses around BD +26 2184, using radial - velocity measures from the Keck Observatory's High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES).

By measuring the CMB polarization data provided by POLARBEAR, a collaboration of astronomers working on a telescope in the high - altitude desert of northern Chile designed specifically to detect «B - mode» polarization, the UC San Diego astrophysicists discovered weak gravitational lensing in their data that, they conclude, permit astronomers to make detailed maps of the structure of the universe, constrain estimates of neutrino mass and provide a firm test for general relativity.

An Australian - led group of astronomers working with European collaborators has revealed the «DNA» of more than 340,000 stars in the Milky Way, which should help them find the siblings of the Sun, now scattered across the sky.

Not exact matches

During a press teleconference on Monday, William Sparks, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute, said «we are really working at the limits of Hubble's unique capabilities.»

Working in concert with LIGO's two detectors, Virgo should help give astronomers an even better understanding of black hole behavior and, by extension, the inner workings of the universe.

I have met some of the Jesuit astronomers who work with Vatican Observatories and they take their science (and spirituality) VERY seriously.

Bishop Jezierski has decided that a fitting sarcophagus will now be designed for the remains of Copernicus that have been discovered, not only to honour this renowned astronomer, but as a testimony to the unity of deep faith and meticulous science which his life's work represented.

And so the Riverside conference headlines the assurance of celebrity astronomer Carl Sagan, who says that «scientists and the religious community must work together to preserve the environment of the Earth.

These findings lend credence to the fast - pebble - collapse theory of planetesimal formation, says Joseph Masiero, an astronomer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Calif., who was not involved in the work.

Astronomer Jill Tarter, the subject of the new book Making Contact worked to construct the telescope in the face of funding difficulties.

«The images now are just at that intriguing resolution that lets you make stuff up,» says Mike Brown, the California Institute of Technology astronomer whose work helped motivate the reclassification of Pluto and Ceres as dwarf planets.

Oleg Kargaltsev, assistant professor of physics, George Washington University, who worked on the study on B0355 +54, said that the orientation of B0355 +54 plays a role in how astronomers see the pulsar, as well.

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 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.»

Based on a culmination of ten years of research work, the new method to estimate more accurate distances between planetary nebulae and the Earth developed by HKU astronomers promises a new era in scientists» ability to study and understand the fascinating if brief period in the final stages of the lives of low - and mid-mass stars.

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.

Venus Express proved it would work: Looking at one infrared wavelength allowed astronomers to see hot spots that might be signs of active volcanism (SN Online: 6/19/15).

Brexit was on the mind of many, because it could severely hinder the ability of European scientists to work in the U.K. Francisco Diego, an astronomer at University College London, reminded the crowd that science has shown all humans trace their origins back to Africa.

«It's a tough measurement,» says Mark Devlin of the University of Pennsylvania, an astronomer who has done similar work.

So with access to these and other facilities, Canadian astronomers can now work in most of the subfields of astronomy, although planetary science is still underrepresented.

He joined the local Black Hills Astronomical Society while still in high school in 1957 and became its president a few years later, before seizing on the chance to work with professional astronomers when he took a job at the University of Arizona as a research technician developing imaging devices for telescopes in 1968.

Confirming the finding will take additional work, but if true, «it's scratching the edge of the universe,» says astronomer Richard Ellis of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, who took part in the research.

Caltech astronomer Davy Kirkpatrick, who works on related research, says that brown dwarfs like this one seem to have compositions similar to those of the giant planets detected orbiting faraway stars.

«This is pretty heroic work,» says astronomer David Hanes of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.

«It really is excellent work — I believe this is the smallest parallax ever obtained, and it is certainly a milestone in modern observational astronomy,» says Mareki Honma, an astronomer at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.

A 21 - year study of a pair of ancient stars — one a pulsar and the other a white dwarf — helps astronomers understand how gravity works across the cosmos.

But the work of ground - based astronomers was not overshadowed by the images beamed from orbit.

The goal of this work that I did with Berkeley astronomer Andrew Howard was to measure the fraction of stars that have small planets in close orbits.

When Vassar College promoted a lecture by billing Vera Rubin, one of the pioneering dark matter astronomers of the 1970s, as the «discoverer» of dark matter, Barbarina sent me an e-mail: «I will certainly call my attorney on Monday, and have him write a letter to Ms. Rubin, stating that any and all potential public claims to my father's work will be equally publicly challenged by me.»

«One could think that the topic of her own research work... is so fascinating and at the same time so difficult that one could work on it a life long,» Michael Grewing, an astronomer retired from the Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimétrique in Grenoble, France, writes in an e-mail to Science Careers.

Paglen was able to identify and photograph these secret spacecraft due to the work of a diverse international group of amateur astronomers who maintain a catalogue of classified spacecraft in Earth's orbit by producing mathematical descriptions of orbits using simple tools like stopwatches and binoculars.

«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.

Don't forget the amateurs, they make up the majority of astronomers and do much serious and useful work.

In a valley in Idaho, a French team will analyse spectral lines in the corona, in part to support the infrared work of the CfA team, says Serge Koutchmy, an astronomer at the Institute of Astrophysics in Paris.

During the past 10 years, working in step with a rival group of scientists centered at Harvard University, Perlmutter and his collaborators have peered to the far edge of what astronomer Edwin Hubble called «the dim boundary — the utmost limits of our telescopes.»

He began to work with celebrated astronomer and science advocate Carl Sagan in the 1970s, making the painting on the cover of Sagan's The Dragons of Eden and winning an Emmy as part of the team behind the sets and visual art of Cosmos.

Now, other astronomers have clocked the speed of this outflow in work that may eventually resolve the key question raised by its discovery: What caused it?

One more thing he has learned while working by the side of more senior astronomers is to restrain his ambitions.

In 1933, the Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky (pictured, right), working at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, applied this principle to the motion of galaxies that make up the Coma cluster, a group of over 1000 galaxies some 300 million light years from us.

Working with UW astronomer Eric Agol, doctoral student Ethan Kruse has confirmed the first «self - lensing» binary star system — one in which the mass of the closer star can be measured by how powerfully it magnifies light from its more distant companion star.

Each of the telescopes that the astronomers of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) are currently working to bring into their black - hole - observing, planet - size array is a special case.

Associate Professor Daniel Zucker, from Macquarie University and the AAO, said astronomers measured the locations and sizes of dark lines in the spectra to work out the amount of each element in a star.

In fact, Kepler described astronomers as «the priests of God, called to interpret the Book of Nature»; Newton acclaimed «this most beautiful [solar] system» as self - evidently the work of «an intelligent and powerful Being»; Galileo, for all his spats with Jesuit theologians, hungered for the approval of the Pope; Francis Bacon wanted a new age of Christianity in a new technological Eden; and Einstein famously said «the aspiration towards truth and understanding... springs from the sphere of religion».

In just two years of work with the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, astronomers have discovered eight new organic molecules near the center of the Milky Way, bolstering theories that key chemical precursors of life were first forged in deep space.

Astronomer Volker Bromm of the University of Texas, Austin, calls the Berkeley team's work «excellent» and says it's «certain to spark a plethora of new theoretical work.»

Astronomers working with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have used a 2.5 - meter telescope at the Apache Point Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, to map the location of more than 930,000 nearby galaxies, determining the distance to each by how much the expansion of the universe has stretched, or «redshifted,» the wavelength of the galaxy's light.

«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.

The work suggests that some planetary systems were born billions of years before most astronomers thought the universe had spawned the raw materials needed to make them.

«This is a clever piece of work,» says astronomer Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.