Sentences with phrase «other astronomers found»

Other astronomers find the detections convincing, although most reserve the name «planet» for bodies that form within a planetary system and orbit stars, says theorist Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, D.C. «They should call them «planetary - mass brown dwarfs,»» Boss says.

Not exact matches

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«Some scholars... have flatly denied the prediction, while others have struggled to find a numerical cycle by means of which the prediction could have been carried out,» writes astronomer Miguel Querejeta.

The team also publish their findings in two papers in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and the data are now publicly available for other astronomers to make further discoveries.

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.

As instruments improved, astronomers detected smaller wobbles caused by smaller planets, until in 2004 a team using the Hobby - Eberly Telescope was arguably the first to find a super-Earth, 55 Cancri e. Others were revealed when their gravity briefly magnified the light of a distant star, a process known as gravitational lensing.

Last year, x-ray astronomers also found hints of «intermediate» black holes with hundreds to thousands of times our sun's mass in other galaxies (ScienceNOW, 7 June 2001), but they hadn't measured the gravitational pulls of such holes — the best way to confirm their presence and gauge their masses.

Until then the planet's true status will remain uncertain — and astronomers will likely continue second - guessing a handful of other Kepler finds.

«We imagined we were going to find other planetary systems in our own image,» says Andrew Howard, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii.

But until astronomers began finding planets around other stars, no one calculated how swallowing nearby objects would affect a star, says theoretical astrophysicist Mario Livio of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.

After a decade of searching for planets orbiting stars like our sun, astronomers had found nothing but giant planets, most of them gas balls like Jupiter, around other stars.

No collisions have been observed directly, but astronomers have found several pairs of black holes that are very close to each other, including some that are orbiting each other and some that seem to be on course for a collision.

Astronomer Boss gives an inside view of how new space telescopes like Kepler and Corot are on the verge of finding Earth - like worlds around other stars.

Law, team leader Shami Chatterjee of Cornell University and other astronomers on the team will present their findings today at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Grapevine, Texas, in the scientific journal Nature, and in two companion papers to appear in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

The astronomers were surprised to find that the galactic motions they measured did not cancel each other out over the volume they studied.

To catalog it, the planet - finding astronomers added a lowercase b, after other classification schemes that deem the star itself A. Astronomers used the «wobble» method to detect 51 Pegasi b, in which the planet's gravitational tug alters its stastronomers added a lowercase b, after other classification schemes that deem the star itself A. Astronomers used the «wobble» method to detect 51 Pegasi b, in which the planet's gravitational tug alters its stAstronomers used the «wobble» method to detect 51 Pegasi b, in which the planet's gravitational tug alters its star's light.

Astronomers expect TESS to find about 20,000 planets in its first two years in operation, focusing on nearby, bright stars that will be easy for other telescopes to investigate later.

That's exactly how two astronomers from Seoul National University in Korea found an ancient, relatively close galaxy — by combing other researchers» leftovers.

Since then, other astronomers had tried other methods of filtering out the star's noisy signal, and found that the evidence for planet Bb was inconclusive.

In the past year, astronomers searching for planets around other stars have found alien worlds that are smaller and younger than any previously known.

Since the discovery, they and other astronomers have found 16 additional worlds in this part of the Solar System.

In 1933, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky suggested the existence of dark matter when he found that the galaxies in a particular cluster swirl about each other too fast to be bound by their gravity alone.

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.

Black holes are weird enough, but in March astronomers found signs of something even stranger: twin massive black holes orbiting tightly around each other.

Since the first confirmed discovery in 1993, astronomers have found more than 3,000 planets in orbit around stars other than our Sun.

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.

Long after astronomers found moons orbiting other planets in our solar system, Mars remained a loner.

Astronomers are finding hundreds of planets orbiting stars other than our sun, some of them not much bigger than Earth.

Astronomers are on the verge of finding other Earths — but still far from knowing whether they are inhabited

«With transits we can learn much more about the planets than with any other method to find planets,» says lead study author Hans Deeg, an astronomer at Spain's Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands.

But the gravitationally lensed galaxy and other objects found at this early epoch are too far away and too dim for astronomers to use spectroscopy.

Other astronomers have claimed to find galaxies at even greater distances — at redshifts of 10 and 9, but those findings are still ambiguous, says Joshua Bloom of the University of California, Berkeley, who observed the afterglow using the Gemini South telescope in Chile.

Astronomers have found many hot Jupiters with water in their atmospheres, but others appear to have none.

In 1974, radio astronomers Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor, then of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, found just such a system: a pair of dense neutron stars in orbit around each other.

«You can see that this is an indirect method,» Maciejewski says, acknowledging that others have claimed planetary detections by transit timing in the past, only to have other astronomers rule out the purported finds.

It's so consistent that Type Ia supernovae are also called standard candles: Once astronomers find one in a region of space, they can use it as a baseline with which to compare other objects around it.

This same combination was also used to find other super-Earths orbiting nearby stars in planet searches led by UH astronomer Andrew Howard and UC Berkeley Professor Geoffrey Marcy.

Based on 14 years of radial velocity observations from four ground - based observatories as well as astrometric measurements with the Hubble Space Telescope, the astronomers found that planets «c» and «d» are inclined by 30 + / - 1 degrees with respect to each other is expected to affect theories of how multi-planet systems evolve.

«This is all supposed to be orchestrated in a way that TESS will find the objects, and then other current and future telescopes will be able to do the characterization of their atmospheres,» TESS scientific leader George Ricker, an astronomer at MIT, told Newsweek.

Water on other worlds may be harder to find than astronomers believed, according to a study of three hot Jupiters circling other worlds.

Since 1976, William Tifft, a University of Arizona astronomer, has found that distant stars and galaxies have redshifts that typically differ from each other by only a few fixed amounts.21 This is very strange if stars are actually moving away from us.

The findings help explain why astronomers have detected few circumbinary planets — which orbit stars that in turn orbit each other — despite observing thousands of short - term binary stars, or...

Chatterjee and other astronomers presented their findings to the American Astronomical Society's meeting in Grapevine, Texas, in the scientific journal Nature, and in companion papers in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Other astronomers had looked for radio emission from brown dwarfs and not found any.

However, later observations by other astronomers using interferometric astrometry and recent radial velocity data found no evidence to support the existence of a companion greater than 0.8 Jupiter mass with an orbital period around Proxima Centauri of between one and about 2.7 years (Benedict et al, 1999).

The spin rate of stars could help astronomers find intelligent life on other planets, a new study reveals.

A new study by astronomers at University of California at Berkeley shows when it comes to planets, smaller means more, a finding that has strong implications for the prospects of relatively puny planets like Earth appearing in other solar systems.like So far, the smallest extrasolar planets found to date are about two to three times Earth's mass, but a random survey of 166 nearby stars shows the extended family of planets is fairly robust.

Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other similar facilities to discover a new rotating neutron star, which is claimed to be one of the most extreme pulsars ever detected as its spin period is thousands of times longer than any such objects found so far.

That first quasar and others identified later puzzled astronomers because, when their light was analyzed to find the characteristic «signature» of emission at specific wavelengths shown by particular atoms, the pattern was at first indecipherable.

In the years since, astronomers have found other types of planets that don't exist in our solar system.