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The Crab Nebula, the result of a bright supernova explosion seen by Chinese and other astronomers in the year 1054, is some 6,500 light - years from Earth.

Not exact matches

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.

When two astronomers bump into each other in the hallway, one doesn't say to the other: «We've discovered seven Earth - sized planets in the Goldilocks Zone just 40 light years away.»

Early in Einstein's career, astronomers didn't know about other galaxies.

In other news, a prominent NASA astronomer turns to astrology and predicts that Virgos will find love this month, a prominent geologist rejects the theory of plate tectonics in favor of Noah's Ark and a prominent psychologist is found drilling holes in hs patients» heads to release evil spiritIn other news, a prominent NASA astronomer turns to astrology and predicts that Virgos will find love this month, a prominent geologist rejects the theory of plate tectonics in favor of Noah's Ark and a prominent psychologist is found drilling holes in hs patients» heads to release evil spiritin favor of Noah's Ark and a prominent psychologist is found drilling holes in hs patients» heads to release evil spiritin hs patients» heads to release evil spirits.

In 1974, U.S. astronomers Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor discovered a pair of radio - emitting neutron stars called pulsars orbiting each other.

That began to change when one of Piazzi's rivals, the astronomer William Herschel, noted that Ceres only appeared as a point of light in his telescope rather than a resolved disk, like the other known planets.

General relativity came on the scene before anyone knew that the universe is expanding, a time when astronomers could not be certain that those fuzzy splotches of light in the sky were actually other galaxies.

Astronomers announced the planets along with six other newfound small, temperate worlds today at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle.

Astronomers study our own and other galaxies with telescopes and simulations, in an effort to piece together their structure and history.

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.

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.

Seeing Red Astronomers think MU69 is part of this cold classical population because of its location in the solar system and because its reddish hue matches the Hubble Space Telescope's catalog of thousands of other such objects.

Leavitt worked out the «period - luminosity relationship» in 1908, giving astronomers a powerful tool for measuring the distance to stars and other astronomical objects.

Astronomers long considered two other main candidates in addition to synchrotron radiation: black - body radiation, which results from the emission of heat from an object, and inverse Compton radiation, which results when an accelerated particle transfers energy to a photon.

In 1572, astronomer Tycho Brahe and many others watched as a previously unknown star in the constellation Cassiopeia blasted out gobs of light and then eventually disappeareIn 1572, astronomer Tycho Brahe and many others watched as a previously unknown star in the constellation Cassiopeia blasted out gobs of light and then eventually disappearein the constellation Cassiopeia blasted out gobs of light and then eventually disappeared.

As they are opaque to visible light it is difficult for astronomers to observe their inner workings, and so other tools are needed to unveil their secrets — observations in the infrared or in the submillimetre parts of the spectrum, for example, where the dust clouds, only a few degrees over absolute zero, appear bright.

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 leads a team of astronomers who have been using the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) to look for failed supernovae in other galaxies.

The cool star's composition is tricky to study, but astronomers can look at 16 other stars in the same «moving group», all of which orbit the galaxy backwards and are very old.

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.

In the first published account of sugar and alcohol in a comet, astronomers have detected ethanol, the sugar glycolaldehyde, and other organic molecules spewing from a comet known as comet Lovejoy, New Scientist reportIn the first published account of sugar and alcohol in a comet, astronomers have detected ethanol, the sugar glycolaldehyde, and other organic molecules spewing from a comet known as comet Lovejoy, New Scientist reportin a comet, astronomers have detected ethanol, the sugar glycolaldehyde, and other organic molecules spewing from a comet known as comet Lovejoy, New Scientist reports.

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.

Astronomers can watch neutron stars orbit each other for many years using more traditional observatories, and all the while, energy leaks away from the system in the form of invisible gravitational waves.

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.

Astronomers hope to analyze the atmospheres of these and other super-Earths by examining the starlight filtering through them, perhaps using the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled for launch in 2013.

TrES - 4 and other oddball planets among the 250 or so discovered in the past 12 years are challenging, even revolutionizing, astronomers» assumptions about how planets and planetary systems form.

«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.

For more clues to the nature of dark matter, astronomers have looked out beyond our neighboring galaxies, into deep stretches of space where the influence of the unseen material shows up in other, more dramatic ways.

In this two - hour PBS special (a fine companion to The Life of Super-Earths), NOVA combines cutting - edge planetary science with the thrill of human exploration, putting astronomers and astrobiologists «on location» across the solar system as they explain the scientific search for life on other worlds.

In the late 1980s, Bodhan Paczynski of Princeton University and several other astronomers realized there was a way to detect unseen compact bodies that might be lurking in the halo of our galaxIn the late 1980s, Bodhan Paczynski of Princeton University and several other astronomers realized there was a way to detect unseen compact bodies that might be lurking in the halo of our galaxin the halo of our galaxy.

A quasar in the constellation of Draco contains two massive black holes orbiting each other, claim astronomers in the Netherlands and the US.

With the help of the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a German - led group of astronomers have observed the intriguing characteristics of an unusual type of object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter: two asteroids orbiting each other and exhibiting comet - like features, including a bright coma and a long tail.

A further blow came in 1929 when American astronomer Edwin Hubble observed that galaxies were flying apart from each other like pieces of cosmic shrapnel.

The deciphering of the fifth tablet was key to understanding the references to the trapezoid in the other tablets, revealing just how advanced ancient Babylonian astronomers were.

On the other are astronomers reveling in a grassroots priority - setting exercise — unprecedented for China — who have doubts about the ambitious design and favor something simpler.

The Extravagant Universe, by Harvard astronomer Robert Kirshner, 2002, quoting from memory what Zwicky would say when the two of them had offices down the hall from each other at Caltech: «In 1933, I told those no - good spherical bastards that supernovas make the neutron stars.

Just as radio channels close to each other in frequency can bleed into one another, creating static, so too can radio interference from different technologies bleed into the channels astronomers use to observe.

So when NASA launched a gamma - ray telescope into space in 2008, astronomers figured the high - energy radiation it detected would point the way to easily identifiable supernova remnants, black holes, and other extroverted objects.

This exploding star, named iPTF14hls, has erupted continuously for the last three years, and it may have had two other outbursts in the past, astronomers report in the Nov. 9 Nature.

In 1961 astronomers had not yet discovered a single planet orbiting a star other than the sun.

In October 1917, the prominent astronomer Harlow Shapley reported that the brightness of novae in various nebulae would place some of them millions of light - years away, in conflict with other measurements of rapid internal motion within the nebulaIn October 1917, the prominent astronomer Harlow Shapley reported that the brightness of novae in various nebulae would place some of them millions of light - years away, in conflict with other measurements of rapid internal motion within the nebulain various nebulae would place some of them millions of light - years away, in conflict with other measurements of rapid internal motion within the nebulain conflict with other measurements of rapid internal motion within the nebulae.

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.

There wasn't any good reason to believe in the reality of other universes — at least not until near the beginning of the new millennium, when astronomers made one of the most remarkable discoveries in the history of science.

After their first announcement in The Astronomical Journal, Brown and Batygin released a paper in March telling other astronomers where to look for the world.

Other papers in the package also touch on the presence of water ice on Ceres, which had already been reported by the Dawn team and by astronomers observing the dwarf planet from afar.

Rasmussen compares Stamets to visionary entrepreneur - scientists like Thomas Edison or «some of the truly fine amateur naturalists or astronomers of the 17th and 18th centuries — people who were experts in their fields, but had other ways to occupy their days.»

Astronomers went in search of planets circling other stars.

Two teams of astronomers made headlines in November after announcing they had photographed planets orbiting regular stars other than our own sun.