Sentences with phrase «spotted by astronomers»

But in 2009, it appears the exoplanet, called TMR - 1C, is back from the dead having been spotted by astronomers using the Canada - France - Hawaii telescope.

The first exoplanet was discovered in 1993, and over 1,800 other worlds have been spotted by astronomers since that time.

DD45, which passed just 0.00048 AU from Earth, is one of a growing list of potentially hazardous asteroids that have been spotted by astronomers in advance of their closest approach.

Including a tiny moon just recently spotted by astronomers.

Not exact matches

If the planet happens to be close to its perihelion, Brown says, astronomers should be able to spot it in images captured by previous surveys.

Actually, Uranus had also been spotted long before — in 1690, by the British Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed, who thought it was a star.

Comet 332P was discovered in November 2010, after it surged in brightness and was spotted by two Japanese amateur astronomers.

Jenniskens and Brian Marsden, director of the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hypothesize that the parent comet was spotted in 1490 by Asian astronomers before it fell apart.

Now, astronomers have overcome that problem by tracking bright spots of radio emission from the Triangulum Galaxy — also known as M33 — which the new study locates at 2.4 million light years from Earth.

It was the first asteroid discovered, spotted by Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi in 1801.

The planet — Proxima b — was discovered by astronomers who spent years looking for signs of the tiny gravitational tug exerted by a planet on its star, after spotting hints of such disruption in 2013.

To spot the black hole's event horizon, a team of astronomers — led by Michael Garcia and Ramesh Narayan of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts — watched what happened as a black hole stole gas away from a nearby star.

«Our measurements of the bright spot suggest there are powerful shock waves in the star's atmosphere that reach higher temperatures than are predicted by current theoretical models for AGB stars,» says Theo Khouri, astronomer at Chalmers and member of the team.

The theory goes that before exploding, the progenitor star has its hydrogen outer coat stolen by a companion star in orbit around it, but astronomers have never before been able to spot the thieving companion because the supernova is so bright.

Astronomers detect planets by spotting stars that repeatedly wobble toward and away from Earth, tugged by the gravity of one or more planetary companions.

It was first spotted in August of this year as an unusually fuzzy - looking object by astronomers using the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii [1].

The astronomers spotted the stars by using the Canada - France - Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

Astronomers spotted the sizeable object now called «Oumuamua (Hawaiian for «first messenger») streaking by Earth last October.

MAUNA KEA, HI — Astronomers have for the first time spotted four images of a distant exploding star, arranged in a cross-shape pattern by a powerful gravitational lens.

The comet was spotted on April 4, 1861 by A.E. Thatcher, an amateur skywatcher in New York City, earning him kudos from the noted astronomer Sir John Herschel.

French amateur astronomer Marc Delcroix processed the amateur images and confirmed the discovery of a bright spot on an image by French amateur Régis De-Bénedictis, then in others taken by fellow amateurs in September and October.

Maunakea, Hawaii — Astronomers have spotted a primitive galaxy being devoured by a gigantic neighboring galaxy — a discovery that could provide clues about the early universe.

Previously, NGC 4993's claim to fame was having first been spotted by William Herschel, the 18th - century British astronomer who also discovered Uranus.

Astronomers at Princeton University first spotted this exoplanet in 2011 but a detailed study of its atmosphere, reported this week by NASA, reveals that it is an entirely new kind of planet.

But then two years ago, astronomers spotted a fast radio burst (FRB) that repeats, a phenomenon that can't be explained by a one - off event.

Fate has it that most of these wandering asteroids are very dark and are often spotted later rather than sooner by astronomers.

The first one was spotted in 2007 by the astronomer Duncan Lorimer, who together with one of his students stumbled upon the signal accidentally in old telescope data; at the time, few believed it.

We know today's GRS was described by American astronomer Carr Walter Pritchett in 1878, but some believe it's the same «permanent spot» observed by Italian astronomer Gian Domenico Cassini in 1665 [sources: Encyclopaedia Britannica; Clavin; Daniels].

After spotting a potential candidate with the 2.4 - meter Hubble Space Telescope, the team of astronomers pointed the 10 - meter Keck II telescope, operated by the W. M. Keck Observatory, to witness the turbulent, star - bursting galactic core forming millions of stars at a ferocious rate.

Astronomers looked at it and realized she had spotted something they had never seen before: a gas cloud as big as our solar system, illuminated by energy from a nearby galaxy's black hole [source: Plait].