Sentences with phrase «team of astronomers looked»

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

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He leads a team of astronomers who have been using the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) to look for failed supernovae in other galaxies.

The team also analyzed the radio waves in a new way, revealing that what looked like individual bursts were actually composed of many smaller sub-bursts, says astronomer Andrew Seymour of the Universities Space Research Association at Arecibo.

«If Neanderthal man had had ultraviolet eyes and could look above the atmosphere, he could have seen the beginning of this tail forming,» says astronomer and team leader Christopher Martin of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

A team led by astronomer Dimitar Sasselov of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, used several large telescopes to scrutinize 59 candidate stars that OGLE singled out for a closer look via subtle dips in their light outputs.

In 2012 and 2014 a team led by an astronomer from Paris Observatory took a second look at the auroras using the ultraviolet capabilities of the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) installed on Hubble.

Using the most powerful radio telescope in the world, an international team of astronomers has set out to look for answers in the star L2 Puppis.

«Previously, astronomers had been looking at the aftermath of short - period bursts largely in optical light, and were not really finding anything besides the light of the gamma - ray burst itself,» explained Andrew Fruchter of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., a member of Tanvir's research team.

For example, another research team has already analyzed the gas and dust emitted by Wild 2, and astronomers look forward to January 2006 when a Stardust capsule containing thousands of comet dust particles will return to Earth for more thorough investigation.

«The new ALMA results imply a rapidly rising gas content in galaxies with increasing look - back time,» said Manuel Aravena, an astronomer at the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile, and Co-leader of the research team.

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.

«We saw what looked like a new star,» says astronomer Edo Berger of Harvard University, who led a team that spotted the light with the DECam on the Blanco telescope in Chile.

Using data obtained by other astronomers, the team created computer models of what globular clusters should look like in the presence and absence of dark matter halos.

Two teams of astronomers led by researchers at the University of Cambridge have looked back nearly 13 billion years, when the Universe was less than 10 percent its present age, to determine how quasars — extremely luminous objects powered by supermassive black holes with the mass of a billion suns — regulate the formation of stars and the build - up of the most massive galaxies.

An international team of astronomers has looked at something very big — a distant galaxy — to study the behavior of things very small — atoms and molecules — to gain vital clues about the fundamental nature of our entire Universe.

This was the Pale Red Dot campaign, in which a team of astronomers led by Guillem Anglada - Escudé, from Queen Mary University of London, was looking for the tiny back and forth wobble of the star that would be caused by the gravitational pull of a possible orbiting planet.

An international team of astronomers has used the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope to look for atmospheres around four Earth - sized planets orbiting within