Sentences with phrase «small team of astronomers»

In 2006, a small team of astronomers led by Franck Marchis, astronomer at the Carl Sagan center of the SETI Institute, detected the presence of a small 12 km diameter moon around the large Trojan asteroid (624) Hektor.

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.

The team was studying the warm gas in this disk using a technique called spectro - astrometry, which allows astronomers to detect small changes in the position of moving gas.

Now, a team of astronomers has used position and velocity data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as well as computer simulations of stellar evolution in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC, pictured above), a small satellite galaxy near the Milky Way, to show that these speeding stars may come from there.

The team also analyzed the radio waves in a new way, revealing that what looked like individual bursts were actually composed of many smaller sub-bursts, says astronomer Andrew Seymour of the Universities Space Research Association at Arecibo.

As instruments improved, astronomers detected smaller wobbles caused by smaller planets, until in 2004 a team using the Hobby - Eberly Telescope was arguably the first to find a super-Earth, 55 Cancri e. Others were revealed when their gravity briefly magnified the light of a distant star, a process known as gravitational lensing.

An international team of astronomers including researchers from the University of British Columbia has discovered a new dwarf planet orbiting in the disk of small icy worlds beyond Neptune.

An international team of astronomers has identified a record breaking brown dwarf (a star too small for nuclear fusion) with the «purest» composition and the highest mass yet known.

The key observation from the new research is that the small dip in the HAT - P - 7 b light curve when the planet passes behind its star «is roughly equivalent to the signal of an Earth - size planet when it passes in front of its parent star,» says Paul Kalas, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley, who is not part of the Kepler team.

But Michael Skrutskie, a University of Virginia astronomer and a member of the WISE science team, is especially interested in the satellite's ability to pick out previously unknown brown dwarfs, objects larger than planets but too small to sustain nuclear fusion of hydrogen.

«Each family member drifts away from the center of the family in a way that depends on its size, with small guys drifting faster and further than the larger guys,» said team leader Marco Delbo, an astronomer from the Observatory of Cote d'Azur in Nice, France.

Asteroids are discovered by small, dedicated teams of astronomers using optical telescopes that repeatedly scan the sky looking for star - like objects, which change location in the sky slightly over the course of an hour or so.

In fact, at the same meeting another team of astronomers led by William Dawson of the University of California, Davis, announced the discovery of the Musket Ball Cluster, somewhat closer to Earth, which also consists of two smaller clusters in the process of merging.

In January an international team of astronomers confirmed that one of the largest black holes in the universe is paired with a much smaller partner nearby — the first definitive observation of black holes in a close binary system [subscription required].

While astronomers have been mired in plans for an exotic array of space - based telescopes, a small, creative team of scientists and engineers based at Princeton University has come out of intellectual left field with a new idea that could cut years from NASA's schedule and cost far less than anyone had believed possible.

To find out, astronomer Alan Dressler of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and his team are training some of the world's largest telescopes on a small swath of sky in the constellation Sextans.

Kamuela, HI — Combining observations from the world's largest telescopes with small telescopes used by amateur astronomers, a team of scientists discovered that the large main - belt asteroid (87) Sylvia has a complex interior, thanks to the presence of two moons orbiting the main asteroid, and probably linked to the way the multiple system was formed.

In the latter half of 2008, two teams of astronomers began technically difficult searches for small terrestrial planets around the two brightest stars of the Alpha Centauri triple system.

A team of astronomers has characterized the smallest known asteroid using Earth - based telescopes.

An international team of astronomers has looked at something very big — a distant galaxy — to study the behavior of things very small — atoms and molecules — to gain vital clues about the fundamental nature of our entire Universe.

The smallest protoplanetary disk ever seen rotating around a young star has been detected by an international team of astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array radio telescope.

Using a smaller dataset over 6.5 rather than 11 years, a rival team of astronomers has not been able confirm the existence of planetary candidates «g» and «f» (more).

A team of astronomers has now made the first measurements of small - scale ripples in the hydrogen gas that makes up these intergalactic connections.

On July 29, 2005, a team of astronomers (including Mike Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David Rabinowitz) announced the discovery of a planetary body (2005 FY9) that appeared to be somewhat smaller than Pluto (more from the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes and Licandro et al, 2006).

On November 6, 2010, three teams of astronomers using three different telescopes tracking the occultation of a 17th - magnitude star in the north - central part of Constellation Cetus by Eris revealed preliminary results indicating that the dwarf planet may be smaller in diameter than Pluto after all, based on the unexpectedly short times of occultation reported.