Sentences with phrase «other astronomers produced»

Also that year, other astronomers produced a «movie» showing motions in the jet of material ejected from the disk around Scorpius X-1's neutron star.

Not exact matches

Volcanism, Misra said, may help distinguish between oxygen that is produced by life or other planetary processes by helping astronomers better understand the planet's environment.

Background Astronomers can figure out what distant stars are made of (in other words, their atomic composition) by seeing what type of light the star produces.

Before 1987, astronomers believed that only red supergiants would explode as supernovae, but this observation proved that other types of evolved stars can produce these explosions too.

Also, some massive black holes (MBHs) orbit each other inside a single galaxy, and four galaxies contain triple MBHs.38 Astronomers believe galaxy mergings produced these systems, but as already stated, galaxies rarely merge today, because they are so far apart.

Combining the best features of the National Science Foundation's new Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia with those of the NSF's Very Large Array in New Mexico, astronomers have produced a vastly improved radio image of the Orion Nebula and developed a valuable new technique for studying star formation and other astrophysical processes.

Astronomers have also found planets that orbit pairs of stars rather than single stars, and other planets orbiting «failed» stars called brown dwarfs that aren't mighty enough to produce light and energy (or carry out fusion) like normal stars do.

Universities, which will produce the next generation of astronomers and instrument builders, as well as other scientists and engineers, must be supported as a key part of the new system.