Sentences with phrase «seen by astronomers»

A violent explosion picked up by a NASA satellite earlier this year is the oldest object ever seen by astronomers, its light having been emitted some 13 billion years ago.

Our Bodies consist of Cellular Structures wherein are Atomic sub-stellar nebulas much like those seen by astronomers in our earth's night - time.

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An astronomer does not «see God» in science by finding some new and rare piece of data that proves God exists as if God were like an alien visiting from another planet, which would be a childish and materialistic understanding of what God is.

It's actually the expanding debris from a star first seen in 1572 by astronomer Tycho Brahe.

It was not until the detection of quasars, which allow astronomers to see the light emitted by matter falling into black holes, that we had evidence that they were real objects and not just mathematical curiosities predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity.

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.

By then, X-ray-detecting goggles may enable an astronomer, ambling home one evening, to look skyward and see the death glow of the same supernova Brahe observed in its infancy.

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).

But compare the image taken in June last year with one taken by amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley on 8 May and you will see that one of them, known as the south equatorial belt, has disappeared.

«With ALMA we can see that there's a direct link between these radio bubbles inflated by the supermassive black hole and the future fuel for galaxy growth,» said Helen Russell, an astronomer with the University of Cambridge, UK, and lead author on a paper appearing in the Astrophysical Journal.

Astronomers spy one of the brightest and longest gamma - ray bursts ever seen, caused by a black hole swallowing a star.

A team led by astronomer Steven Majewski of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville sorted through a half - billion objects in the 2MASS catalog to find several thousand M giants, a distinctive class of red - giant star common in the Sagittarius dwarf but rarely seen above or below the plane of our galaxy.

By tallying up everything we can see, astronomers should be able to predict if there's enough stuff out there to pull the cosmos back together.

A transit was first seen in 1631, two decades after the invention of the telescope, by French astronomer Pierre Gassendi.

Astronomers tracked the interplanetary shocks caused by two powerful bursts of solar wind traveling from the sun to Uranus, then used Hubble to capture their effect on Uranus» auroras — and found themselves observing the most intense auroras ever seen on the planet.

Imaging the cosmos at near - infrared wavelengths allowed the astronomers to see objects that are both obscured by dust, and extremely distant [2], created when the Universe was just an infant.

Despite all these negatives, humidity does have one major upside: It steadies the «seeing,» the astronomer's descriptive and remarkably untechnical term for the blurriness caused by Earth's atmosphere.

But by stretching the limits of the world's biggest telescopes, astronomers have seen a handful of planets directly.

Additionally, the thousands of worlds discovered by NASA's planet - hunting Kepler mission strongly suggest that «there should be as many small planets like the Earth as there are stars,» Morse explains, meaning that to see one astronomers should not need to build a gargantuan telescope that could peer clear across the galaxy.

ALMA picks up light emitted by glowing dust in SDP.81 and also sees signs of carbon monoxide and water molecules in the ring, helping astronomers determine its structure and internal motion.

Astronomers have produced a highly detailed image of the Crab Nebula, by combining data from telescopes spanning nearly the entire breadth of the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves seen by the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to the powerful X-ray glow as seen by the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory.

By seeing which wavelengths are absorbed as the starlight passes through the planet's atmosphere, astronomers could determine whether the atmosphere contains water, carbon monoxide, methane, and carbon dioxide.

By pushing the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope to its limits astronomers have shattered the cosmic distance record by measuring the distance to the most remote galaxy ever seen in the UniversBy pushing the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope to its limits astronomers have shattered the cosmic distance record by measuring the distance to the most remote galaxy ever seen in the Universby measuring the distance to the most remote galaxy ever seen in the Universe.

«The one - year proprietary period effectively means this hidden, unavailable data can not be seen in time for follow - up by the community of astronomers until more than three years into [Webb's] mission.»

One ERS program led by University of California, Los Angeles, astronomer Tommaso Treu will do just that, pointing Webb at a Frontier Fields cluster called Abell 2744 to see what lies beyond the limits of Hubble's view.

This explains why the astronomers were initially baffled by the observations; they had never seen a supernova so far into the UV before.

Astronomers have suggested several times over the past year that the BICEP2 team had been fooled by that Galactic signal (see «Full - Galaxy dust map muddles search for gravitational waves»).

Here's how we know: astronomers can estimate how many asteroids of a given size are out there, even if we haven't seen them all, by looking at the rate of re-detection, or how often we see the same asteroid a second time.

By seeing the same features in both the gas and the dust components of the disk, the astronomers believe they have found compelling evidence that there are two planets coalescing remarkably far from the central star.

Astronomers see hints that two distant quasars, beacons of energy powered by matter spiraling into gigantic black holes, are wrapped in cocoons of gas the size of our Milky Way.

«This discovery was puzzling since astronomers believe that this gas should be long gone by the time we see evidence of a debris disk,» he said.

By observing this light, astronomers can see an image of how the Universe looked when that light was emitted.

Background Astronomers can figure out what distant stars are made of (in other words, their atomic composition) by seeing what type of light the star produces.

In 1877, Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli described seeing linear marks on Mars (canali; mistranslated as canals) that were thought to be constructed by some civilization.

To see whether these are generated by the same process as happens on the sun — the breaking and reconnection of magnetic fields (pictured above)-- astronomers studied light from 100,000 stars using China's Guo Shouiing Telescope.

Although this is not the first time astronomers have witnessed a star being gobbled up by a black hole, the bursts are putting out energy far greater than previously seen.

Lead researcher Dr David Clements, from the Department of Physics at Imperial College London, explains: «Although we're able to see individual galaxies that go further back in time, up to now, the most distant clusters found by astronomers date back to when the universe was 4.5 billion years old.

So thirsty are theorists for new insights into black holes and relativistic processes that, with each LIGO detection, observational astronomers have leapt into action to target those enormous patches of sky, hoping to see some afterglow or other emission of electromagnetic radiation — even though by definition the resulting larger black hole should emit no light.

Indeed, hundreds of these epic events are seen every year by the armies of astronomers that scan the skies in search of them.

Conversely, astronomers here can see pigmentation on exoplanets and determine their makeup by looking at their color.

When the gravitational wave event GW170817 was detected, astronomers rushed to search for the source using conventional telescopes (see the Introduction by Smith).

The Copernican view was shared by others: stars would be seen as points if the telescope's lens was darkened by smoke, wrote Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens in his book Systema saturnium, published in 1659, 17 years after Galileo's death.

The event could be seen by amateur astronomers with sophisticated instruments, while the Hubble Space Telescope and Kuiper Airborne Observatory could study wavelengths that are not transmitted through the atmosphere.

Astronomers will measure the mass by examining images of each of the background stars to see how far the stars are offset from their real positions in the sky.

Astronomers can thus see a particular moment in time and location in space by «tuning» their receiver to the appropriate frequency.

By harnessing the extreme sensitivity of the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have directly observed a pair of Milky Way - like galaxies seen when the universe was only eight percent of its current age.

Beginning in July 2015, bright clouds were again seen on Neptune by several observers, from amateurs to astronomers at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii.

The dips seen in the star's light were too massive and erratic to be produced by anything natural, creating an enigma that sent both astronomers and the public aflutter.

An international team of astronomers, led by PhD student Erik Kool of Macquarie University in Australia, used laser guide star imaging on the Gemini South telescope to study why we don't see as many of these core - collapse supernovae as expected.

In 2015, a team of astronomers led by Yale's Tabetha Boyajian saw the light from the star KIC 8462852 suddenly and repeatedly dip in brightness.