Sentences with phrase «similar team of astronomers»

Not exact matches

An international team led by University of Maryland astronomers has constructed a detailed description of a similar gamma - ray burst event, named GRB160625B.

So one team of astronomers used data from the Gaia space observatory to simulate the interiors of solar - type stars, which are similar in mass and age to our own sun.

A hot, metallic, Earth - sized planet with a density similar to Mercury — situated 339 light years away — has been detected and characterised by a global team of astronomers, including the University of Warwick.

To predict when astronomers might find the first planet similar in size to Earth that also orbits far enough from its star to boast liquid water, the team scoured the discovery records of 370 exoplanets.

On January 16, 2002, a team of astronomers (including (Debra A. Fischer, Geoffrey W. Marcy, R. Paul Butler, Steven S. Vogt, and Gregory W. Henry) announced the discovery of a planetary companion «b,» whose mass has been estimated at a minimum of 20 percent that of Jupiter (exoplanets.org; and Fischer et al, 2003, in pdf) with a similar diameter.

To make a detailed study of the X-ray properties of young stars, a team of astronomers, led by Elaine Winston from the University of Exeter, United Kingdom, analyzed the Chandra X-ray data of both NGC 1333, located about 780 light - years from Earth, and the Serpens cloud, a similar cluster of young stars about 1,100 light - years away.

But now, a team of astronomers has found a galaxy that is comparable in size to ours but with a similar proportion of dark matter as VIRGOHI21.

It had been thought that Makemake would have an atmosphere similar to that of Pluto but leader of the Team of Astronomers, Jose Luis Ortiz of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, CSIC, Spain explained «As Makemake passed in front of the star and blocked it out, the star disappeared and reappeared very abruptly, rather than fading and brightening gradually.

On September 24, 2002, a team of astronomers (including William D. Cochran, Artie P. Hatzes, Michael Endl, Diane B. Paulson, Gordon A. H. Walker, Barbara McArthur, Bruce Campbell, and Stephenson Yang) at the Planetary Systems and their Formation Workshop announced the preliminary confirmation of a long - suspected planetary companion «A1» (or «b») with a minimum mass of 1.76 that of Jupiter (MacDonald Observatory's Gamma Cephei and press release; Tautenburg Observatory press release in German; DPS session summary; Walker et al, 1992; Lawton and Wright, 1989; and Campbell et al, 1988), with a similar diameter.

A hot, metallic, Earth - sized planet with a density similar to Mercury - situated 339 million light years away — has been detected and characterised by a global team of astronomers, including the University of Warwick.

A team of astronomers has found a Jupiter - size planet in a circular orbit around a faint nearby star, raising intriguing prospects of finding a solar system with characteristics similar to our own.