Sentences with phrase «out of astronomers»

Since they've run out of astronomers interested in playing, they have extended membership to people from other disciplines.

Not exact matches

Astronomers still don't know what causes these stellar tantrums, but Eta Carinae continues to spew out powerful winds of gas and dust at speeds of roughly 6.2 million mph (10 million kph).

Although a mechanical failure recently put the telescope out of commission (SN: 6/15/13, p. 10), Kepler's census of planets orbiting roughly 170,000 stars is enabling astronomers to predict how common planets...

Astronomers are used to working at the limits of human imagination, but even they have a hard time envisioning the kinds of insights they will be able to pull out of the bounteous new databases.

«All we can say right now is this was something that was tossed out of another star system,» says Karen Meech, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii.

«Some scholars... have flatly denied the prediction, while others have struggled to find a numerical cycle by means of which the prediction could have been carried out,» writes astronomer Miguel Querejeta.

This puzzling difference in the evolutionary timescales of discs around two stars of the same age is another reason why astronomers are keen to find out more about discs and their characteristics.

With greater knowledge of the composition of exoplanet atmospheres and their dynamics, astronomers hope to figure out which formation theories can explain the diversity of planet types revealed over the past 2 decades.

This was borne out in the questionnaire, which found that although job - location restrictions due to home - life commitments had an important impact on the careers of both male and female astronomers, the issue was of greater concern to women.

This data set has allowed astronomers not only to measure distances for far more of these galaxies than before — a total of 1600 — but also to find out much more about each of them.

«I came out of there wanting to be an astronomer, and that never changed.»

Astronomers have long sought out the sun's «siblings,» stars born from the same cloud of gas and dust, because of the clues they'd provide regarding the sun's origins.

In 1572, astronomer Tycho Brahe and many others watched as a previously unknown star in the constellation Cassiopeia blasted out gobs of light and then eventually disappeared.

Completed in 1980 but operational before then, the VLA was behind the discoveries of water ice on Mercury; the complex region surrounding Sagittarius A *, the black hole at the core of the Milky Way galaxy; and it helped astronomers identify a distant galaxy already pumping out stars less than a billion years after the big bang.

«We find no evidence of the orbit clustering needed for the Planet Nine hypothesis in our fully independent survey,» says Cory Shankman, an astronomer at the University of Victoria in Canada and a member of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS), which since 2013 has found more than 800 objects out near Neptune using the Canada - France - Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii.

Applying the same technique to other regions of the Milky Way will help astronomers figure out what our galaxy looks like from the outside and compare it to other spiral galaxies.

The rest of Earth's interior remains as frustratingly out of reach as it was three centuries ago, when astronomer Edmond Halley suggested that our planet was hollow and filled with life.

Planetary nebulae, which got their name after being misidentified by early astronomers, are formed when an ageing star weighing up to eight times the mass of the sun ejects its outer layers as clouds of luminous gas (see Why stars go out in a blaze of glory).

This allows astronomers to map out the chemical and physical properties of the material at different points in the nebula.

As Comet ISON, or whatever is left of it, heads back out to the Oort Cloud, astronomers are keenly interested to see what happens next.

The observed measurements are helping the astronomers figure out the sequence of events triggered by the collision of the neutron stars.

After Jenkins and his colleagues have weeded out sunspots and other planet poseurs from the data, Marcy and other astronomers use the Doppler wobble method with terrestrial telescopes to verify that the remaining planet candidates, or «objects of interest,» are indeed planets.

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.

Repeating this process for a sequence of positions from the center of the galaxy out to its visible edge allowed astronomers to determine rotation speeds at various distances.

In fact, Swift X-ray and optical observations were carried out two days after FRB 131104, thanks to prompt analysis by radio astronomers (who were not aware of the gamma - ray counterpart) and a nimble response from the Swift mission operations team, headquartered at Penn State.

These rare events, called superflares by astronomer Bradley Schaefer of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, are 100 to 10 million times more powerful than anything our sun has dished out in human history.

«This discovery of the first ever quintuple planetary system has me jumping out of my socks,» says group member and veteran planet hunter Geoffrey Marcy, an astronomer at the University of California at Berkeley.

In the 1970s, astronomer Jill Tarter pointed out that the term also referred to a dark, cooling star near the end of its life.

And although he is confident that the disks are real, Marcy points out that astronomers» models of brown dwarfs are still in their infancy, and it's hard to predict exactly how much heat they produce.

Astronomers would dearly have liked to get a glimpse of such structures to find out more about how galaxies were born.

Astronomers are racing to figure out what causes powerful bursts of radio light in the distant cosmos

Regardless, if TESS can indeed locate hundreds of nearby planets, astronomers will have their hands full for the foreseeable future — finding out what those planets are like and what kinds of habitats they might support and, just maybe, flinging some future probe toward one enticing - looking world.

For more clues to the nature of dark matter, astronomers have looked out beyond our neighboring galaxies, into deep stretches of space where the influence of the unseen material shows up in other, more dramatic ways.

A team led by astronomer Dimitar Sasselov of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, used several large telescopes to scrutinize 59 candidate stars that OGLE singled out for a closer look via subtle dips in their light outputs.

Further studies of SN 2009ip and its aftermath will help tease out the physics of these exotic supernovae, says Armin Rest, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland, who was not part of the study team.

Yet with each go - round (Mercury has an 88 - day year), the planet stubbornly appeared out of place during perihelion from where astronomers expected it.

Other astronomers say the method of pulling faint planetary signals out of background noise needs to be verified.

In order to find out whether BLAPs are actually hot dwarfs, the astronomers used two of their largest telescopes to make observations.

Although a mechanical failure recently put the telescope out of commission (SN: 6/15/13, p. 10), Kepler's census of planets orbiting roughly 170,000 stars is enabling astronomers to predict how common planets similar to Earth are across the galaxy.

«Since gamma ray bursts are usually so well behaved, this really stood out,» says radio astronomer Dale Frail of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Soccorro, New Mexico.

Astronomers hadn't found enough of them to account for all the dark matter — but it turns out they were looking for the wrong color star.

A SCIENCE - FICTION scene could be playing out for real about 4900 light years from Earth, where astronomers have spotted the first known pair of planets jointly orbiting a binary star system (Science, doi.org/h8h).

Spinning the Cosmic Web The first inkling of the gaping holes in the universe's distribution of galaxies came in the late 1970s, when astronomers began sketching out the three - dimensional structure of the cosmos.

Schaefer and a group of other astronomers will start out near Casper, Wyo., but they're ready to jump in the car and drive anywhere else along the eclipse path if it looks like it might be cloudy.

«The fact it repeats rules out — for this object anyway — any of the models that are just one - offs, whether they involve mergers or evaporating black holes or something else,» says study co-author James Cordes, an astronomer at Cornell University.

Using the most powerful radio telescope in the world, an international team of astronomers has set out to look for answers in the star L2 Puppis.

Their huge luminosity helps astronomers to map out the location of distant galaxies, something the team exploited.

Then the floodgates opened: Astronomers quickly found more than 1,000 similar bodies, most of them about 4 billion miles from the sun, though a few orbit four or five times farther out.

When Dutch astronomer Willem de Sitter pointed out that one interpretation of general relativity looked awfully like an expanding universe, Einstein sought a flaw in his reasoning.

Astronomers figured this must be a short - lived phase, because a normal galaxy forming stars that fast would soon run out of fuel (gas and dust).