Sentences with phrase «southern skies»

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The object was discovered in August 4, 1826 by James Dunlop (1795 - 1848), who was observing the southern skies from the Brisbane observatory at Paramatta and who it as number 482 in his «A Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars in the Southern Hemisphere observed in New South Wales» (in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Volume 118, pp. 113 - 151).

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has also acknowledged the significance of Crux as the foremost constellation of the southern skies, and has proudly incorporated the cross-shaped symbol into the ESO logo.

Musca is a southern hemisphere constellation created by Dutch navigators Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman, who charted the southern skies from 1595 to 1597.

Previously discussed in a November 24, 2011 pre-print, the astronomers «surveyed a carefully chosen sample of 102 red dwarf stars in the southern skies over a six - year period» and found a «total of nine super-Earths (planets with masses between one and ten times that of Earth),» of which two orbiting within the habitable zones of Gliese 581 and Gliese 667 C. By combining all the radial - velocity data of red dwarf stars (including those without undetected planets) and examining the fraction of confirmed planets that was found, the astronomers were able to estimate the probable distribution of different types of planets around red dwarfs: for example, only 12 percent of such stars within 30 light - years may have giant planets with masses between 100 and 1,000 times that of the Earth (ESO news release; Bonfils et al, 2011; and Delfosse et al, 2011).

A view of the southern skies over the European Southern Observatory (ESO) 11.8 foot telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, with images of the stars Proxima Centauri (lower - right), and the double star Alpha Centauri AB (lower - left) from the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

In the past, I have searched for the largest bodies in the Kuiper belt in the southern skies and searched for distant icy bodies like Sedna in the Solar System and what they could tell us about the birth environment of our Solar System.

I have helped search the southern skies for the largest and brightest members of the Kuiper belt, including a few undiscovered dwarf planets.

All eighty - eight constellations of the northern and southern skies are covered in individual «chapters».

Now Patricia Henning, a radio astronomer at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, says a survey of the southern skies has finally uncovered a leading arm of gas as well, which suggests gravitational tides are at work.

«IceCube is a wonderful and unique astrophysical telescope — it is deployed deep in the Antarctic ice but looks over the entire Universe, detecting neutrinos coming through the Earth from the northern skies, as well as from around the southern skies,» said Vladimir Papitashvili of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Polar Programs.

ESO was formed in 1962 to give European astronomers access to the southern skies.

In that sea of alien suns the stars of Alpha Centauri — among the brightest in the southern skies — shine like a familiar and beckoning beacon.

A LACK of cash could end the only survey dedicated to searching the southern skies for Earth - grazing comets and asteroids.

The publicly funded observatory boasts two of the world's largest telescopes, and offers a rare opportunity to watch both the northern and southern skies from sites in Hawaii and in Chile.

A new Dutch telescope is set to help solve a nagging astrophysical mystery, by automatically scanning the southern skies alongside a giant array of radio dishes.

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) galaxy is a striking feature of the southern sky even to the unaided eye.

Researchers from the Dark Energy Survey used the Victor Blanco telescope in Chile to survey 26 million galaxies in a section of the southern sky for subtle distortions caused by the gravitational heft of both dark and normal matter.

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These two bright galaxies are clearly visible in the southern sky and came to the attention of Europeans during Ferdinand Magellan's explorations in the 16th century.

The team, led by McClure and co-principal investigators Adwin Boogert (University of Hawaii) and Harold Linnartz (Universiteit Leiden), plans to target the Chamaeleon Complex, a star - forming region visible in the southern sky.

The ripples journeyed to Earth from about 1.8 billion light - years away, in a region near the constellation Eridanus in the southern sky.

The star was discovered using the ANU SkyMapper telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory, which is searching for ancient stars as it conducts a five - year project to produce the first digital map the southern sky.

In an impressive display of crowd management, each world invades the southern sky at the same time, arrayed like a string of pearls after sunset.

Which is a good start — but being in the Northern Hemisphere, the VLBA and BeSSeL can not survey most of star - forming regions visible from the southern sky.

Through the Marano hole, a dust - free patch in the southern sky, they discovered 30 galaxies — 10 times more than IRAS surveys had implied and exactly the number required to explain the infrared background.

The 17 dwarf satellite galaxy candidates were discovered in the first two years of data collected by the Dark Energy Survey, a five - year effort to photograph a portion of the southern sky in unprecedented detail.

TESS will sweep the southern sky first and then, after a year, turn its attention to northern stars; all told, it will observe at least 30 million celestial objects.

The Dark Energy Survey is a five - year effort to photograph a large portion of the southern sky in unprecedented detail.

It appeared as a single red dot in the telescope's survey of the southern sky.

Kks3 is located in the southern sky in the direction of the constellation of Hydrus and its stars have only one ten - thousandth of the mass of the Milky Way.

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So for the umpteenth time, Melillo stretches his right hand up toward the southern sky and sights the sun with his pinkie finger.

Many astronomical highlights that hug the horizon in these popular stargazing locales are 10 ° to 15 ° higher in Costa Rica's southern sky.

A map of the southern sky shows the correlation between sources of incoming cosmic rays (circles) and the locations of active galaxies (red dots).

That constrained the site to within a region of about 30 square degrees in the southern sky.

Located 25 light - years from Earth and shining by its lonesome in the southern sky on October evenings, Fomalhaut is sometimes called «the solitary one.»

In one of ASKAP's first images, it observed an area of the southern sky covering 10 square degrees (50 times the size of the full moon) by capturing nine overlapping zones simultaneously.

The Australian SKA Pathfinder telescope (ASKAP), a precursor to the much larger Square Kilometre Array (SKA) which will begin construction later this decade, today released its first images of the southern sky.

July 29: The Delta Aquariids meteor shower peaks in the hours before dawn in a nearly dark southern sky, unhampered by a moon only a few days into its waxing phase.

Within a year a group led by Lawrence Rudnick of the University of Minnesota announced that the giant WMAP cold spot in the southern sky corresponds to just such a void, one that is far too large to be explained by conventional physics.

During the several trips on which he's observed the deep southern sky, he's agreed with an old friend's pronouncement.

Over the next four nights, look forward to thoroughly exploring the southern sky, from less - known corners of the Milky Way to the many deep - sky phenomena visible all through the night.

It was astronomer Bart Bok who said, «All the good stuff lies in the Southern sky.»

They are located about 1.8 billion light years away from Earth in the direction of the constellation Eridanus in the southern sky.

A mysterious cold spot lurked in the southern sky; fluctuations between large areas of the sky were even smaller than expected; and fluctuations at some scales seemed to align along a preferred direction, forming what has been dubbed an «axis of evil».

But in the case of the Event, which recorded a difference of 6.9 milliseconds, their calculations limited the field of possibilities merely to a wide strip of southern sky.

Four of the five post-1000 supernovae are famous: A 1006 explosion in the southern sky was the brightest in recorded history; a 1054 supernova in the constellation Taurus spawned the well - known Crab Nebula; and supernovae in 1572 and 1604 bear the names of two Renaissance astronomers, Tycho (Brahe) and (Johannes) Kepler.

The blue plates of the southern Sky Atlas and its Equatorial Extension (together known as the SERC - J), as well as the Equatorial Red (ER), and the Second Epoch [red] Survey (SES) were all taken with the UK Schmidt.