Sentences with phrase «of young astronomers»

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Holmes» equally talented father, an innovating physician and essayist, portrayed his son as The Young Astronomer, brilliant but aloof from the lives of others.

The young Welsh astronomer realized the alien had no chance of seeing the Milky Way, let alone the universe's oodles of dimmer galaxies.

Astronomers were observing a very young star (the position of which is marked in the image by the star shape) known to have a disk of material surrounding it, the kind that forms planets.

The new results from SPHERE, along with data from other telescopes such as ALMA, are revolutionising astronomers» understanding of the environments around young stars and the complex mechanisms of planetary formation.

Young star clusters and clouds of hydrogen that formed in our galaxy help trace the shapes of the Milky Way's arms, so astronomers are reasonably certain that it has a spiral structure (see right).

«Ours isn't the only group looking for planets around young stars, and my hope is that astronomers can find enough of them to shed light on some of the nagging questions about planet formation,» Johns - Krull said.

«If you have young magnetars that have just been born in supernova explosions, only a few decades old, they could be very bursty objects, have very violent youths, and that could give rise to repeating fast radio bursts,» says astronomer Brian Metzger of Columbia University, who was not involved in the new study.

Astronomers infer the presence of small rocky objects that give rise to such planets by detecting warm disks of dusty particles girdling young stars.

Observing 34 young stars, an international team of astronomers learned the waves can reveal the stars» relative ages and other traits — and so provide a valuable tool to explore the evolution of the universe.

The discovery gives astronomers a chance to find some of the closest young planets that may exist.

«This is a veritable factory of young supernovas,» says astronomer Susan Neff of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Astronomers have deduced that astonishing conclusion from the following facts: The Milky Way's familiar pinwheel of relatively young stars sits amid an extended spherical halo of older stars and gas.

For example, astronomers have been trying to explain why some recently discovered distant, but young, galaxies contain massive amounts of dust.

But Young - Wook Lee of Yonsei University Observatory in Seoul, South Korea, says most astronomers have been looking in the wrong place.

And since the color and brightness of young clusters gives their ages — and therefore, the time since a collision began — astronomers hope to put together a series of snapshots of the entire collision process by looking at many examples of merging galaxies.

The universe is turning out to be thronged with dim and ghostly young galaxies that had escaped the notice of astronomers.

University of Amsterdam astronomers Roy van Boekel and Michiel Min and their colleagues used the European Very Large Telescope array in northern Chile to focus on the cores of three young protoplanetary disks, surrounding stars a few hundred light - years away.

Corey lives with his wife and young daughter in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, where he manages to find the stars (occasionally) with the help of the Amateur Astronomer's Association of New York.

Last week, astronomers Marc Buie of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and Eliot Young of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado, also found the two tiny moons on Hubble photos made on 14 June 2002.

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.

Most astronomers now believe that the sun was born in a cloud of gas and dust full of other young stars.

Astronomers have calculated that the rings are less than a billion years old, mysteriously young compared to the 4.5 - billion - year age of the solar system.

Remarkably, these signs appeared around much younger stars than astronomers thought possible, suggesting that planet formation can begin soon after the formation of a protoplanetary disk.

A team of astronomers has doubled the number of known young, compact radio galaxies — galaxies powered by newly energized black holes.

Astronomers believe that planets form from disks of dust and gas that swirl around young stars.

To verify this rugby - scrimmage view of the early universe, astronomers need to see even younger, tinier proto - galaxies, at about 90 percent of the way back to the Big Bang.

To cite a recent example, speaking at an event organized by the pressure group Save British Science, Astronomer Royal Professor Sir Martin Rees this week voiced his concern that the lack of a long - term view from successive governments means there is a serious danger that the cohort of young academic researchers needed to replace the older generation will fail to materialize.

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.

Astronomers have found a very young galaxy that produces thousands of stars a year — hundreds of times more than our own Milky Way.

In 1983, astronomers discovered dust orbiting the star, suggesting it had a solar system, and Carl Sagan (pictured) chose to make Vega the source of a SETI signal in his 1985 novel Contact, though the responsible aliens weren't native to the star: At the time, Vega was thought to be only about a couple hundred million years old, probably too young for any planets to have spawned life.

U.S. and British astronomers have located the youngest known remnant of an exploding star in the Milky Way.

If certain debris disks are able to hold onto appreciable amounts of gas, it might push back astronomers» expected deadline for giant planet formation around young stars, the astronomers speculate.

It was while monitoring a star barely two million years old called V830 Tau, located in the Taurus stellar nursery some 430 light years away, that an international team of astronomers discovered the youngest known hot Jupiter.

Over the past couple of decades, astronomers have been able to detect hundreds of disks of dust and gas surrounding very young stars, which signify new planets in the making.

In fact, last week, astronomers found a rocky planet not much bigger than Earth whose orbit around its relatively young star is only 3 % of the distance from Earth to the sun (ScienceNOW, 21 April).

Now, an international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a very young hot Jupiter orbiting in the immediate vicinity of a star that is barely two million years old — the stellar equivalent of a week - old infant.

Astronomers have spotted a large ring of young stars around our galactic neighbour, the Large Magellanic Cloud, that probably formed when the Small Magellanic Cloud smashed past its sibling.

Given this and other recent finds, astronomers either have been phenomenally lucky — or, more likely, they have underestimated substantially the number of small, very young galaxies in the early Universe.

A new study led by University of California, Riverside astronomers casts light on how young, hot stars ionize oxygen in the early universe and the effects on the evolution of galaxies through time.

Astronomers have long suspected that the young, 12 - million - year - old star hosts a massive planet, since it is surrounded by a dusty disc of debris thought to be created by the collision of rocky bodies and infalling comets.

Astronomers have spied magnetic activity surrounding a massive young star in the Orion Nebula (inset), a hot spot of such activity in the Milky Way.

In the late 1990s, astronomers noticed a distinct warp in the disk of dust and gas orbiting a young star some 60 light - years from Earth.

Astronomer Eric Feigelson of Pennsylvania State University, University Park, and his colleagues identified 43 young stars roughly the size of our sun.

Astronomers have seen them shooting out of young stars just being formed, X-ray binary stars and even the supermassive black holes at the centers of large galaxies.

Astronomers used to debate whether the worlds of our solar system arose from a massive sheet of gas ripped out of our young sun during a near encounter with a passing star; that extended filament then supposedly clumped into planets.

It offers astronomers a front - row seat to the evolution of a young planetary system and it remains one of the closest, youngest and best - studied examples today.

Astronomers say they have found evidence of one of the youngest planets ever observed, smack in the process of being ripped apart by its juvenile star, Gizmodo reports.

Astronomers found signs of a growing planet around TW Hydra, a nearby young star, using the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA).

According to astronomer and team leader William Keel of the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, the presence of these young stars indicates that jets of fast - moving particles — which are ejected by quasars — bombarded the gas cloud.

A Southampton astronomer is among a team of international researchers whose work has revealed a surprising similarity between the way in which astronomical objects grow including black holes, white dwarfs and young stars.