Sentences with phrase «other astronomers reported»

Not exact matches

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.

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 reports.

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 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 nebulae.

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.

Adding wings made of glass or other refractive materials in flight would allow astronomers to better steer future space missions, the team reports online today in Nature Photonics.

In August, a team of astronomers reported that Mira has a 13 - light - year - long tail of glowing stardust, something never seen in any other star.

Now, as astronomers will report in an upcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal, a third and smaller giant — similar in mass to Uranus — orbits beyond the others.

But the new twins, known collectively as Par 1802 and located 1500 light - years away, contain one member that is brighter and hotter than the other, a team of astronomers led by Keivan Stassun of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, reports today in Nature.

Astronomers there say the University of California, which funds the observatory, has slashed its budget to fund other projects and has issued a report recommending converting Lick to a public museum.

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.

The AAS further endorses the report's key recommendations on optimizing instrumentation for, and offering broad access to, the full suite of public and private telescopes; on developing the capacity to further investigate Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) discoveries; on identifying the facilities needed to realize other decadal survey priorities; and on continuing technology development and astronomer training needed for the future.

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.