Sentences with phrase «second team of astronomers»

Meanwhile, a second team of astronomers has used NASA's refurbished Hubble Space Telescope to detect Cepheids in another galaxy in the Virgo cluster.

Although a second team of astronomers failed to find signs of Gliese 581 g in their data, if its existence is confirmed, it will be the most habitable exoplanet yet found.

Not exact matches

Several hours later, a team of astronomers known as the ROTSE (Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment) collaboration, led by Carl Akerlof of the University of Michigan, reported that the visible - light counterpart of the burst was also seen in the images taken with a small, robotic telescope operated by their team, starting only 22 seconds after the burst.

In 2012 and 2014 a team led by an astronomer from Paris Observatory took a second look at the auroras using the ultraviolet capabilities of the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) installed on Hubble.

«Millisecond pulsars have extremely predictable arrival times, and our instruments are able to measure them to within a ten - millionth of a second,» said Maura McLaughlin, a radio astronomer at West Virginia University in Morgantown and member of the NANOGrav team.

And when matter ejected from the second explosion caught up with the debris from the first, the resulting collision produced an extremely bright flash, which is what astronomers observed with SN 2006gy, the team reports in the 15 November issue of Nature.

Water Emissions - In September of 2002, a team of astronomers (including Cristiano Cosmovici of the Institute for Cosmic and Planetary Science) announced at the Second European Workshop on Exo / Astrobiology that they had detected water «maser» emissions from three of 17 star systems suspected of hosting planets, including Upsilon Andromedae, using the 32 - meter Medicina radio telescope near Bologna.

On March 25, 2015, a team of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope revealed observations which indicate via the transit method that Alpha Centauri B may have a second planet «c» in a hot inner orbit, just outside planet candidate «b.» After observing Alpha Centauri B in 2013 and 2014 for a total of 40 hours, the team failed to detect any transits involving planet b (previously detected using the radial velocity variations method and recently determined not to be observed edge - on in a transit orbit around Star B).

In a pre-print submitted on November 21, 2011, a team of astronomers revealed the finding of a second potential super-Earth «c» with at least 3.4 Earth - masses in a potentially habitable - zone orbit (~ 0.12 AUs) with a period of 28.1 days around Gliese 667 C, or MLO 4 C, (Bonfils et al, 2011; and Delfosse et al, 2011, in prep).