Sentences with phrase «team of astronomers»

This week an international team of astronomers reports the first multiple - star system to be observed during the earliest stage of formation.

In 1998, two teams of astronomers announced, shockingly, that the expansion rate of space is increasing over time.

An international team of astronomers looked for clues in the early universe.

Two rival teams of astronomers are racing to capture unprecedented images of giant planets around other stars.

The stars were detected by two separate teams of astronomers.

Now, after 6 months of analysis, an international team of astronomers has discovered why the event was so extraordinary.

But a large international team of astronomers led by David Champion of the Australia Telescope National Facility in Epping, New South Wales, reports online this week in Science that the pulsar is in an eccentric 95 - day orbit.

An international team of astronomers used ALMA to observe the glowing remains of Supernova 1987A [2], which is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way about 160 000 light ‐ years from Earth.

The survey is led by Doug Johnstone, Research Officer at the National Research Council of Canada and Greg Herczeg, Professor at Peking University (China), and is supported by an international team of astronomers from Canada, China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and the United Kingdom.

In February, a third team of astronomers discovered the lifestyle difference: spin speed.

Mays was recently awarded a Fulbright Grant to travel to Santiago, Chile and work with international teams of astronomers who study Chile's northern deserts in 2010.

this news just in (did not know where to put it): «Caltech - Led Team of Astronomers Finds 18 New Planets, Discovery is the largest collection of confirmed planets around stars more massive than the sun»

Using the eight - metre Gemini North telescope in Hawaii, an international team of astronomers studied nine quasars that all lie about 10 billion light years away, capturing them when the Universe was less than four billion years old.

International team of astronomers releases the largest - ever compilation of exoplanet - detecting observations, made from observatory atop Maunakea

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.

The international team of astronomers made use of the Guo Shou Jing telescope located in the Hebei Province, China, in order to ascertain whether the powerful solar storms were generated via the same method as standard solar flares.

To answer this question, an international team of astronomers observed the evolved star L2 Puppis.

An international team of astronomers recently announced the discovery of an astonishing number of faint low surface brightness dwarf galaxies in the Fornax Cluster, suggesting that the «missing satellites» are now being found.

Hot, metallic, Earth - sized planet with a density similar to Mercury detected 339 million light years away and characterised by global team of astronomers, including the University of Warwick

An international team of astronomers last week detected the most distant gamma - ray burst ever recorded, light that was emitted when the universe was less than 5 percent of its present age.

Although a second team of astronomers failed to find signs of Gliese 581 g in their data, if its existence is confirmed, it will be the most habitable exoplanet yet found.

Now, a large team of astronomers led by Charles Alcock of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, has used the Hubble Space Telescope and ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile to study a microlens that was discovered in 1993.

By August 3, 2001, the same team of astronomers announced that they were able to use the quasar to mark the end of the period when radiation from the first stars and quasars tore apart and re-ionized the neutral hydrogen atoms that filled the universe for some 100 million years after the Big Bang (SDSS press release).

Sure enough, an independent team of astronomers led by Rodrigo Ibata of Strasbourg Observatory in France just found another miniature galaxy falling prey to our own.

Meanwhile, a second team of astronomers has used NASA's refurbished Hubble Space Telescope to detect Cepheids in another galaxy in the Virgo cluster.

A multinational team of astronomers involving the University of Adelaide has catalogued over 70 sources of very high energy gamma rays, including 16 previously undiscovered ones, in a survey of the Milky Way using gamma ray telescopes.

A multinational team of astronomers involving the University of Adelaide has catalogued over 70 sources o...

An international team of astronomers took a snapshot in April 2017 of the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy.

In two studies, international teams of astronomers suggest that recent images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory of two pulsars — Geminga and B0355 +54 — may help shine a light on the distinctive emission signatures of pulsars, as well as their often perplexing geometry.

This intriguing fingerprint quickly triggered additional observations by teams of astronomers worldwide who obtained observing time with additional space observatories including NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR).

Another bombshell came in 1998 when two teams of astronomers proved that cosmic expansion is actually speeding up due to a mysterious property of space called dark energy.

Observing 34 young stars, an international team of astronomers learned the waves can reveal the stars» relative ages and other traits — and so provide a valuable tool to explore the evolution of the universe.

But in February, independent teams of astronomers armed with Spitzer data reported they could not detect water vapor in either planet's infrared glow as it passed behind its star.

A Hungarian - US team of astronomers have found what appears to be the largest feature in the observable universe: a ring of nine gamma ray bursts — and hence galaxies — 5 billion light years across.

But if it is a planet, as one team of astronomers thinks, we may be in for some celestial fireworks in 2032, when Fomalhaut b starts to plough through a broad belt of debris that surrounds the star and icy comets within the belt smash into the planet's atmosphere.

Using the European Very Large Telescope (VLT), a French - Italian team of astronomers has found many more galaxies in the distant past than had been previously observed.

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.

The scene for this drama is high in the Chilean Andes, where on Saturday three teams of astronomers caught Eris in the act of passing directly in front of a star.

SEATTLE — Two teams of astronomers rang in the new year by announcing that our galaxy — like Saturn and a certain hobbit — possesses a grand ring of its own.

Now, taking advantage of very long observation times with the Chandra instrument and their detailed knowledge of the nearest SMBH, Sagittarius A * (Sgr A *), about 26,000 light years away at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy, he and an international team of astronomers tested the leading accretion models.

An expanded team of astronomers led by Kunio M. Sayanagi, an Assistant Professor at Hampton University in Virginia, leveraged the amateur observations to activate a «Target of Opportunity» proposal on the Hubble Space Telescope, which imaged the entire planet on Oct. 14.

On May 9, 2007, a similar team of astronomers announced the creation of the first thermal map of an extra-Solar planet, with an offset hot spot that be caused by super-high winds (CfA press release; Spitzer image caption; APOD; and Knutson et al, 2007 — more below).

In 2017, an international team of astronomers identified the surface of the red giant π Gruis in detail using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope.

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.