Sentences with phrase «team of astronomers made»

Two teams of astronomers made headlines in November after announcing they had photographed planets orbiting regular stars other than our own sun.

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The team also publish their findings in two papers in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and the data are now publicly available for other astronomers to make further discoveries.

The team that made this discovery, led by Yale University astronomer Tabetha Boyajian — the star's namesake — suggested a variety of explanations for its strange behavior, including that the star itself was variable, that it was surrounded by clouds of dust or dusty comets, or that planets around it had collided or were still forming.

He began to work with celebrated astronomer and science advocate Carl Sagan in the 1970s, making the painting on the cover of Sagan's The Dragons of Eden and winning an Emmy as part of the team behind the sets and visual art of Cosmos.

Adding wings made of glass or other refractive materials in flight would allow astronomers to better steer future space missions, the team reports online today in Nature Photonics.

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.

A team of astronomers led by Wouter Vlemmings, Chalmers University of Technology, have used the telescope Alma (Atacama Large Millimetre / Submillimetre Array) to make the sharpest observations yet of a star with the same starting mass as the Sun.

Now, an international team of astronomers has tackled the problem by making the largest ever study of hot Jupiters, exploring and comparing ten such planets in a bid to understand their atmospheres [1].

A team of astronomers has found a gas cloud that existed when the universe was 13 % of its current age that appears to be made of the pristine gas produced in the big bang but with just a wisp of heavier elements: 1/3000 of the level in our solar system.

Hendrik Hildebrandt from the Argelander - Institut für Astronomie in Bonn, Germany and Massimo Viola from the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands led a team of astronomers [1] from institutions around the world who processed images from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS), which was made with ESO's VLT Survey Telescope (VST) in Chile.

Jennifer Yee, an astronomer at the Harvard — Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and KMTNet team member, says that longer monitoring would make it easier to detect the signals of rogue Earths — and to distinguish them from confounding effects such as stellar flares, which can mimic ultrashort microlensing events.

New research from an international team of astronomers, with contributions from the University of Maryland, makes a major modification to a popular theory called the unified model.

This discovery was made public in 2015 by a team of astronomers led by Professor Eric Mamajek of the University of Rochester (USA).

An international team of astronomers led by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has made a surprising discovery about the birthplace of groups of stars located in the halo of our Milky Way galaxy.

Maunakea, Hawaii — An international team of astronomers led by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has made a surprising discovery about the birthplace of groups of stars located in the halo of our Milky Way galaxy.

Three teams of astronomers have made use of SPHERE, an advanced exoplanet - hunting instrument on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at ESO's Paranal Observatory, in order to shed light on the enigmatic evolution of fledgling planetary systems.

Measurements taken by a team of astronomers from the Universities of Geneva and Bern are given in the framework of the PlanetS NCCR; the figures come from observations made over sodium spectral lines.

A team of astronomers has made the first observations with a cutting - edge water - hunting instrument.

An international team of astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made an unparalleled observation, detecting significant changes in the atmosphere of a planet located beyond our solar system.

To make a detailed study of the X-ray properties of young stars, a team of astronomers, led by Elaine Winston from the University of Exeter, United Kingdom, analyzed the Chandra X-ray data of both NGC 1333, located about 780 light - years from Earth, and the Serpens cloud, a similar cluster of young stars about 1,100 light - years away.

Green Bank, WV — A team of astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) has made the first conclusive detection of what appear to be the leftover building blocks of galaxy formation — neutral hydrogen clouds — swarming around the Andromeda Galaxy, the nearest large spiral galaxy to the Milky Way.

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.

Discovery of the system's extraordinary properties was made by a team of astronomers from Vanderbilt and Harvard with the assistance of colleagues at Lehigh, Ohio State and Pennsylvania State universities, Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network and the American Association of Variable Star Observers and is described in a paper accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal.

By tracking the motion of stars orbiting close to Sgr A *, a team of German and Czech astronomers have analyzed 20 years of observations made by the VLT and other telescopes using a new technique that pinpoints the positions of these stars.

A team of astronomers has now made the first measurements of small - scale ripples in the hydrogen gas that makes up these intergalactic connections.

For decades, astronomers have wondered if the sun's core spins faster than its surface, and now, thanks to an international team of scientists, they have the answer: the interior makes a complete rotation in one week, which is 3.8 times faster than the middle and outermost layers.

On board, is the ultimate message in a bottle: a phonographic 12 - inch record made of gold - plated copper known as The Golden Record, compiled by a team of people led by the American scientist, astronomer and author Carl Sagan.