Sentences with phrase «other leading astronomers»
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.
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He leads a team of astronomers who have been using the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) to look for failed supernovae in other galaxies.
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.
An astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley, he is leading the search for exoplanets: worlds that orbit 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.
A team led by recent graduate Scott Engle of Villanova University in Pennsylvania recalibrated historic measurements of Polaris by Ptolemy in 137 C.E., by the Persian astronomer Al - Sufi in 964 C.E., and others.
Still, the burst puts scientists closer to the first generation than ever before: It is about 150 million years older than any other known astrophysical object, says astronomer Nial Tanvir of the University of Leicester in England, the lead author of one of the new Nature papers.
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.
«With transits we can learn much more about the planets than with any other method to find planets,» says lead study author Hans Deeg, an astronomer at Spain's Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands.
«Comets retain a record of conditions from the early solar system, but astronomers think some comets might preserve that history more completely than others,» said Michael DiSanti, an astronomer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author of the new study in the Astronomical Journal.
Harvard astronomer Robert Kirshner is a charter member of one of the two groups that made the cosmological constant respectable again (the other group is led by Saul Perlmutter at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California).
Astronomers led by Richard Massey of Durham University in England surmise that because the interactions did not affect the normal matter, they must have occurred through some force other than gravity that influences only dark matter.
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.
Other prominent astronomers, such as San Francisco State University astronomer Geoff Marcy who has helped to discover many extrasolar planets, note that there may in fact be many different physical processes that lead to the formation of planets.
The papers, one with lead author Katherine de Kleer, a UC Berkeley graduate student, and coauthored by UC Berkeley research astronomer Máté Ádámkovics, and the other coauthored by Ádámkovics and David R. Ciardi of Caltech's NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, have been accepted for publication in the journal Icarus.
The star exhibits weird fluctuations in its brightness, leading a few astronomers to propose — among many other ideas — that maybe a swarm of alien megastructures is orbiting around the object.
Combining the images from the FORS instrument on the ESO telescope using four different filters with those of other large telescopes, a team of astronomers led by Karen Meech of the Institute for Astronomy in Hawaii found that «Oumuamua varies in brightness by a factor of 10 as it spins on its axis every 7.3 hours.
Wolfgang Tillmans invited leading astronomer Dimitar Sasselov to discuss his involvement in the NASA Kepler mission to find other Earth - like planets, and to explore some of his unanswered questions about light, the beginning of infinity, the edge of visibility and our perception of colour.
Wolfgang Tillmans invited leading astronomer Dimitar Sasselov to discuss his involvement in the NASA Kepler mission to find other Earth - like planets, and to explore some of his unanswered questions about light, the beginning of infinity, the edge of