Sentences with phrase «other astronomers on»

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.

Not exact matches

The last segment of it has an astronomer from Georgia State University, Rachel Kuzio De Naray, discussing life on other 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 even caught the collision's chemical fingerprints, revealing the creation of 10 to 100 Earths» worth of gold and other heavy elements, ending decades of debate on their cosmic origins.

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.

On the other hand, perhaps Newton's law of gravity no longer applied at great distances from Earth, as the British astronomer George Biddell Airy believed.

Astronomers are not sure whether they merely grazed each other or collided head - on, but either way it triggered a powerful eruption that launched other nearby protostars and hundreds of colossal streamers of gas and dust out into interstellar space at over 150 kilometres per second.

Astronomer Owen Gingerich spent 30 years on a near - obsessive quest to track down copies of De Revolutionibus that were once owned by Galileo, Kepler, and others and proves Koestler wrong.

Because parallax measurements are so difficult to obtain for far - distant star - forming regions on the other side of the galaxy, astronomers widely agree they will chiefly serve as important calibration points to augment existing kinematic distance measurements.

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.

But if two exoplanets orbiting the same star have a strong gravitational influence on each other, the time of transit is not periodic, and astronomers can use this information to more accurately calculate their masses.

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.

China's astronomers rallied around the idea of leapfrogging to a 12 - meter telescope that, if completed quickly before other giants like the TMT, would for some years be the largest telescope on Earth.

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.

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.

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.

To get a different view, astronomer Giovanna Tinetti and her colleagues at the European Space Agency and University College London focused instead on the light grazing the atmosphere of HD 189733 b. Tinetti had predicted that water would absorb more light at the longer wavelength of 5.8 microns (thousandths of a millimeter) than at 3.6 microns, in contrast with other molecules such as methane and ammonia.

Now, astronomers have unveiled the first evidence that dusty rings adorn other mature stars on an equally diverse but far grander scale.

For decades Pluto, later joined by its moon Charon, had a wide swath to itself on astronomers» plots of the solar system — no other bodies were known to dwell beyond Neptune in the long - hypothesized debris field known as the Kuiper Belt.

While many astronomers are queuing up for time on the giant telescopes just coming on line, others are drawing plans for even larger telescopes.

Sunspot cycles — on other stars — are helping astronomers study the sun's variations and the ways they might affect Earth

On the other hand, astronomers today make use of gravitational lensing all the time to study the universe.

Perytons and FRBs are quite similar, except that astronomers realized that perytons originate on Earth, possibly from some meteorological phenomenon, while FRBs come from other galaxies.

Astronomers suspected that tidal forces, which arise because the Milky Way's gravity is stronger on one side of the cluster than on the other, could break up clusters — especially more diffuse ones.

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.

Using a new computer technique that accounts for the planets» gravitational tugs on each other, astronomer Simon Grimm of the University of Bern in Switzerland and his colleagues calculated the seven planets» masses with five to eight times better precision than before.

For astronomers, the proposed new telescope represents tremendous promise: With a mirror nearly three times larger than any other on Earth, it could detect signs of life in other solar systems and provide clues to the origins of the universe.

Other standout entries include a photograph of the Pleiades cluster, taken by a 15 - year - old astronomer, and an image of this year's transit of Venus across the sun, which was taken on 6 June.

But Fox suspects that other giant spirals also get replenished when gas - rich satellites fall toward them; we just happen to live in one of the few galaxies where this process is occurring today, giving astronomers a ringside seat on the refueling of a giant galaxy.

SETI efforts to date have only garnered a small, scattered amount of time on large radio telescopes, and they typically «piggyback» on other scientific observations, passively listening to whatever target other astronomers are investigating.

Although astronomers would prefer a single explanation for both, each phenomenon is difficult to explain on its own and even harder to explain when considered in tandem with the other.

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

Other astronomers had deduced that while spacing two telescopes just the right distance apart would suppress light at the center of the field of view, the suppression became even deeper if you flanked the telescopes with two more, smaller scopes, one on each side.

Astronomers have long known that the craters visible on moons were caused by the impact of other bodies, billions of years ago.

From these and many other observations, astronomers have built up a good picture of the stages in the lives of stars, with each stage in the pathway from birth to death depending on the mass of the star.

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.

The discovery would help astronomers better understand the formation of our Solar System as well as others, and how unique (or not) our own family of planets really is compared to the many others which are now being discovered on a regular basis.

French amateur astronomer Marc Delcroix processed the amateur images and confirmed the discovery of a bright spot on an image by French amateur Régis De-Bénedictis, then in others taken by fellow amateurs in September and October.

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

The visiting astronomer, on the other hand, could have come from anywhere in the world.

«The first detection of biosignatures on other worlds may be one of the most significant scientific discoveries of our lifetime,» says Garreth Ruane, an astronomer with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

To astronomers in other nearby galaxies it would be a visible as a bright pink spot on the Sagittarius Arm.

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

Boston University astronomer Philip Muirhead said that if planets outside the solar system, or exoplanets, were houses, GJ1132b «is not the house right next to yours, but it's on the other side of the block,» according to USA Today.

Astronomers made the latest discovery by using data from the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera 3 on board Hubble, as well as other ground - based telescopes including European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope.

On the other hand, supposing the astronomer discovers a comet, does some calculations and then inserts a report into the next IPCC review claiming that the comet will strike the earth.

On the other side is a self - regulating process because a country that pays more typically means that it has more people which means that there are also more astronomers putting in more proposals.

On June 16, 2008, a team of astronomers announced at the 2008 Extra Solar Super-Earths Workshop in France their discovery of a «super-Earth» class planet in a tight orbit around this star with with two other gas planets in outer orbits (ESO press release and Bouchy et al, 2009 — more details below).

It means that on average, each paper published by a Canadian astronomer has been quoted 16 times by other astronomers around the world, and that this average is the best recorded for all countries.

On June 16, 2008, a team of astronomers announced at the 2008 Extra Solar Super-Earths Workshop in France their discovery of one «super-Earth» type planet in a tight orbit around this star with two other gas giant planets in outer orbits (ESO press release and Bouchy et al, 2009).