Sentences with phrase «other astronomers searched»

Wendy Freedman of the Carnegie Observatories in California, Barry Madore of the California Institute of Technology, and 25 other astronomers searched M100, a large spiral galaxy.

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With computers powering through a billion objects, astronomers can search more methodically for such extreme quasars — or for any other type of unusual object.

Eventually, patient searching did yield other FRBs, and astronomers slowly began to take them seriously as a scientific phenomenon.

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.

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.

A team of astronomers at the University of Chicago and Grinnell College seeks to change the way scientists approach the search for Earth - like planets orbiting stars other than the sun.

An astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley, he is leading the search for exoplanets: worlds that orbit other stars.

Astronomers went in search of planets circling other stars.

The origin of a fast radio burst in this type of dwarf galaxy suggests a connection to other energetic events that occur in similar dwarf galaxies, said co-author and UC Berkeley astronomer Casey Law, who led development of the data - acquisition system and created the analysis software to search for rapid, one - off bursts.

In its updated form, it receives e-mail requests from astronomers and automatically executes the observations, searching for planets around other stars and monitoring the flickering of gas falling into black holes.

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

As NASA beefs up its search for life elsewhere, it has selected two teams of astronomers, planetary scientists and other specialists, led by the University of Arizona and Arizona State University, to join in a systematic search for Earth - like planets.

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.

Within his search for nebulae, Charles Messier both undertook own scans, leading to 19 original Messier discoveries during that year, and used all the catalogs compiled previously by other astronomers he had access to: Edmond Halley's list of 6 objects, the catalog of William Derham, who chiefly had extracted from Hevelius» star catalog, Prodomus Astronomiae, which was available in a French translation by Pierre de Maupertuis, and Nicolas Lacaille's Catalog of Southern «Nebulae» of 1755, as well as lists of Maraldi and Le Gentil, with some references to (but very probably not the list of) De Chéseaux, probably from Le Gentil.

One way that astronomers and astrobiologists search for life in the galaxy is observation of rocky planets orbiting other stars.

That is the magnitude of the task facing astronomers as they search for small, rocky Earth - like planets around other stars - planets that might harbor life

Other astronomers, after months of searching, could not verify the claim.

Brown has said that while he'd love to be the first to spot it, he's also hoping that other astronomers will get inspired to join the search.

With this rudimentary idea that sunspots were related to climate, other astronomers, often sustaining criticism from their peers, searched for more data that could establish a stronger link between sunspots and climate.