Sentences with phrase «team of astronomers identified»

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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.

Astronomer Karl Gebhardt of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an international team used the Hubble Space Telescope to chart the orbital motions of stars within galaxies containing giant black holes, including eight newly identified ones.

The first earthly pieces of Vesta were identified only in 1970, when a team of astronomers studying light reflected from the asteroid's surface found that its spectrum — which reveals the minerals present — perfectly matched that of a certain distinct class of meteorite.

That means the progenitor of the neutron star must have been more massive than the heaviest stars still around in the cluster, which weigh up to 35 solar masses, says astronomer Michael Muno of the University of California, Los Angeles, whose team first identified the object in Chandra observations taken in May and June this year.

It was first identified as a millisecond radio pulsar in 2005 with the National Science Foundation's Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and then later rediscovered as an X-ray pulsar by another team of astronomers in 2013.

An international team of astronomers, led by Imperial College London, used a new way of combining data from the two European Space Agency satellites, Planck and Herschel, to identify more distant galaxy clusters than has previously been possible.

An international team of astronomers used the Suzaku telescope, which is sensitive to x-rays, and an optical telescope to peer at two objects identified by a previous survey as AGNs.

A new research by a team of U.S. astronomers has identified a previously unseen set of minerals along Europa's chaos terrain, which are thought to have originated -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.