Sentences with phrase «team of astronomers discovered»

Using the awesome power of the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, an international team of astronomers discovered the presence of methyl isocyanate in the triple star system IRAS 16293 - 2422, located around 400 light - years away in the constellation of Ophiuchus.

MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — A team of astronomers discovered a Jupiter - like planet within a young system that could serve as a decoder ring for understanding how planets formed around our sun.

An international team of astronomers discovered four Earth - sized exoplanets amid stellar noise.

It was while monitoring a star barely two million years old called V830 Tau, located in the Taurus stellar nursery some 430 light years away, that an international team of astronomers discovered the youngest known hot Jupiter.

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Two teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe.

Recently, a team of astronomers reported discovering a pulsating star that appears to shine with the energy of 10 million suns.

Adam Riess turned astronomy on its head when he led a team of astronomers (the High - z Team) that discovered the expansion of the universe is actually speedingteam of astronomers (the High - z Team) that discovered the expansion of the universe is actually speedingTeam) that discovered the expansion of the universe is actually speeding up.

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.

By using the full power of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer an international team of astronomers has discovered exozodiacal light close to the habitable zones around nine nearby stars.

Using archival data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and the XMM - Newton and Chandra X-ray telescopes, a team of astronomers have discovered a gigantic black hole, which is probably destroying and devouring a big star in its vicinity.

Using the HARPS spectrograph on the European Southern Observatory's 3.6 - meter telescope in Chile, a Brazilian - led team of astronomers has discovered an extrasolar system that bears a striking resemblance to our own.

«Finding brown dwarfs near our sun is like discovering there's a hidden house on your block that you didn't know about,» said astronomer Michael Cushing, a WISE team member at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and lead author of the study on the Y dwarfs.

An international team of astronomers led by Dr. Andrea Kunder of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) in Germany has discovered that the central 2000 light years within the Milky Way Galaxy hosts an ancient population of stars.

An international team of astronomers has discovered the first Earth - mass planet that transits, or crosses in front of, its host star.

But a team of astronomers recently discovered something odd enough to make even their most jaded colleagues take notice: a vast fountain of antimatter that appears to be spewing from our galaxy's center.

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.

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.

Now a team of astronomers, led by Tobias Owen of the University of Hawaii, has discovered nitrogen ice on Pluto's surface (International Astronomical Union Circular, No 5532).

«This newly discovered gas cloud is shaped like a very long filament, about 200 light years in extent and ten light years across, with a mass about 50,000 times that of our sun,» says team leader, Professor Michael Burton, an astronomer at UNSW Australia.

As soon as it was discovered, the cluster drew the attention of a team of astronomers led by Michael McDonald of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research in Cambridge.

An international team of astronomers, led by Hakim Atek of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, has discovered over 250 tiny galaxies that existed only 600 - 900 million years after the Big Bang [1]-- one of the largest samples of dwarf galaxies yet to be discovered at these epochs.

Three new planets classified as habitable - zone super-Earths are amongst eight new planets discovered orbiting nearby red dwarf stars by an international team of astronomers from the UK and Chile.

The team of astronomers who discovered it — led by Robert Quimby of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena — tentatively have labeled the 4.7 billion light - years away ex-star a Type II - L supernova because of its brightness and because its light spectrum shows a primarily hydrogen content.

Astronomers don't yet know which particular conditions could have triggered such «extraordinary luminosity,» as the team that discovered the supernova writes in the 20 October issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

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

A recently discovered dwarf galaxy in the constellation Lynx may serve well as a proxy for better understanding the developing chemistry of the early universe, according to a research team that includes University of Virginia astronomers.

Now an international team of astronomers, led by researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, has discovered a dust - filled galaxy from the very early universe.

A team of European astronomers has located what may be the largest collection of planets discovered to date outside our own solar system.

Using archival data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and the XMM - Newton and Chandra X-ray telescopes, a team of astronomers have discovered a gigantic black hole, which is probably destroying and devouring a massive star in its vicinity.

After 11 years of observations, two additional outer planets were discovered with two other teams of astronomers at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the High Altitude Observatory using the Whipple Observatory (1999 press release).

Maunakea, Hawaii — A team of astronomers using ground - based telescopes in Hawaii, California, and Arizona recently discovered a planetary system orbiting a nearby star that is only 54 light - years... Read more»

«Many astronomers are surprised at this discovery, because they didn't expect such strong radio emission from this object,» said Shri Kulkarni, a Caltech professor who was on the team that first discovered a brown dwarf in 1995, and advisor to one of the students.

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.

A team of astronomers may have discovered a «hot Jupiter» exoplanet with an atmosphere that snows titanium oxide — a kind of sunscreen — exclusively on the one side of the planet that is bathed in perpetual darkness.

A planet 100 light - years away that resembles a young Jupiter has been discovered by an international team of astronomers that includes six UCLA scientists.

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant massive galaxy cluster with a core bursting with new stars.

Maunakea, Hawaii — A team of astronomers using ground - based telescopes in Hawaii, California, and Arizona recently discovered a planetary system orbiting a nearby star that is only 54 light - years away.

An international team of astronomers has discovered that a young galaxy had a central disk of gas in which hundreds of new stars were being born every year — at a time when the Universe was only a fraction of its current age.

A team of astronomers using NASA's Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope has now discovered one such signal originating from the center of the Andromeda, or M31, galaxy — a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light - years from Earth.

A team of astronomers from Germany and Britain have discovered a new planet, which has the potential to be habitable.

In August 2003, the same team (as well as another team) of astronomers discovered that the brown dwarf had its own brown dwarf companion (Gemini press release — more below).

A team of astronomers has confirmed that a pulsar discovered in 2012 by a group of high - school students is, in fact, part of an extremely rare binary system.

MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant massive galaxy cluster with a core bursting with new stars.

The ice mountains rise up from a region of the heart - shaped feature, which Stern and his team have informally nicknamed Tombaugh Regio in honor of the late astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto in 1930.

Photo Source: S. Brunier; Design & Illustration: P. Vosteen (CC BY - ND) A team of astronomers has discovered what appears to be a grand exodus of more than 100 hydrogen clouds streaming away from the center of the Milky Way and heading into intergalactic space.

MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — A team of astronomers at the Friedrich Alexander University led by Péter Németh has discovered a binary star moving nearly at the escape velocity of our galaxy.

Last month an amateur team of astronomers from the La Sagra Sky Survey Observatory in southeast Spain discovered an asteroid roughly 150 feet wide as it -LSB-...]

A team of astronomers from the University of Cambridge have identified nine new dwarf satellites orbiting the Milky Way, the largest number ever discovered at once.

A team of astronomers have identified nine new dwarf satellites orbiting the Milky Way, the largest number ever discovered at once.

«This is the first exoplanet discovered with the Gemini Planet Imager, one of the new generation instruments designed specifically for discovering and analyzing faint, young planets orbiting bright stars,» said Franck Marchis, Senior Planetary Astronomer at the SETI Institute and member of the team that built the instrument and now conducts the survey.