Sentences with phrase «team of astronomers last»

Interestingly, another team of astronomers last January came up with the same estimate using a different database and different technique.

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Last summer, a team of astronomers tried three times to catch the tiny shadow of a distant world as it raced across our planet, like a tiny eclipse, at 60,000 mph.

Astronomer Ronald Gilliland of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, and his team observed the cluster nearly continuously for 8.3 days last July, one of the largest chunks of time granted for a single Hubble project.

Last week researchers reported they had traced a cosmic blast of radio waves back to its source for the first time — but now another team of fast - acting astronomers has called the result into question.

Last month, a team of astronomers announced the discovery of the first alien world that could host life on its surface.

Last February a team of astronomers reported detecting an afterglow from a mysterious event called a fast radio burst, which would pinpoint the precise position of the burst's origin, a longstanding goal in studies of these mysterious events.

«Last Sunday, after seven years in space traveling nearly three billion miles, Stardust landed in the Great Salt Lake Desert with a treasure from when the solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago,» says astronomer Donald Brownlee of the University of Washington, who led the Stardust team.

To conduct the new study, the Hawaiian team, led by astronomer Istvan Szapudi, combined two large - scale observations of the cosmos that already had been completed: the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which represents the last, dying embers of the big bang, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which comprises images of millions of galaxies.

A team of astronomers using a pair of National Science Foundation radio telescopes has made the first measurements of the size and expansion of a mysterious, intense fireball resulting from a cosmic gamma ray burst last May.

Last year, a team of astronomers found a white dwarf named LP40 - 365.

Last year, a team of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope, had reported the detection of signs of water vapour being vented off Europa's south pole.

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 associated with Australia's Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope announced Monday the discovery of three new Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs)-- intense bursts of radio emission lasting mere milliseconds.