Sentences with phrase «team of astronomers observed»

An international team of astronomers observed these remarkable objects with the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA).

To answer this question, an international team of astronomers observed the evolved star L2 Puppis.

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This intriguing fingerprint quickly triggered additional observations by teams of astronomers worldwide who obtained observing time with additional space observatories including NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR).

This was first confirmed during a solar eclipse in 1919 by a team led by the British astronomer Arthur Eddington; the scientists observed that stars near the limb of the Sun were shifted in position by the Sun's gravity.

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.

Observing 34 young stars, an international team of astronomers learned the waves can reveal the stars» relative ages and other traits — and so provide a valuable tool to explore the evolution of the universe.

To solve this problem, astronomers from Daniel Schaerer's research group at the Department of Astronomy of the Faculty of Sciences, and an international team proposed to observe «green pea» galaxies.

In the past few years, Hummel and a team of astronomers have observed wiggles in the jet.

Other papers in the package also touch on the presence of water ice on Ceres, which had already been reported by the Dawn team and by astronomers observing the dwarf planet from afar.

The team has also found evidence to silence a minority of sceptics who argue that what most astronomers take to be microlensing events are actually caused by natural variations in the intrinsic brightness of the stars being observed.

Using the European Very Large Telescope (VLT), a French - Italian team of astronomers has found many more galaxies in the distant past than had been previously observed.

So using the Hubble Space Telescope, MIT astronomer Julien de Wit and his colleagues, including some members from Grimm's team, observed the four middle planets as they passed in front of the star.

This mosaic shows 18 of the 19 quasars observed by an international team of astronomers, led by the ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

But now, a team of Swiss, French, and British astronomers have analysed ten galaxy clusters observed with the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope, and found that their BCGs are not fixed at the centre as expected.

An international team of astronomers led by Paulo Freire of the Jodrell Bank Observatory at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, detected the gas by observing 15 millisecond pulsars — compact, rapidly spinning stars that emit bursts of radio waves with clockwork precision.

Aiming to solve this shadowy problem, a team of astronomers utilized the high resolution of ALMA to observe the center of spiral galaxy M77.

Previous predictions are «exactly what was observed» by the research team, says astronomer Greg Laughlin of the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not affiliated with the study.

This week an international team of astronomers reports the first multiple - star system to be observed during the earliest stage of formation.

An international team of astronomers has turbocharged the Hubble Space Telescope, enabling it to observe a brightly glowing disc of matter that is being sucked into its galaxy's central black hole.

And when matter ejected from the second explosion caught up with the debris from the first, the resulting collision produced an extremely bright flash, which is what astronomers observed with SN 2006gy, the team reports in the 15 November issue of Nature.

Mauna Kea, Hawaii — A team led by astronomers from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, recently used the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii to observe and measure a rare class of «active... Read more»

A team of astronomers and engineers successfully linked three of the observatory's antennas at the 5000 - meter elevation observing site in northern Chile.

Mauna Kea, Hawaii — A team led by astronomers from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, recently used the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii to observe and measure a rare class of «active asteroids» that spontaneously emit dust and have been confounding scientists for years.

However, even at this impressive rate, it still took the team of GALAH astronomers a grand total of 280 nights to observe the 340,000 stars included in the new release.

On March 25, 2015, a team of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope revealed observations which indicate via the transit method that Alpha Centauri B may have a second planet «c» in a hot inner orbit, just outside planet candidate «b.» After observing Alpha Centauri B in 2013 and 2014 for a total of 40 hours, the team failed to detect any transits involving planet b (previously detected using the radial velocity variations method and recently determined not to be observed edge - on in a transit orbit around Star B).

The IAA award citation notes that the VSOP team «realized the long - held dream of radio astronomers to extend those baselines into space, by observing celestial radio sources with the HALCA satellite, supported by a dedicated network of tracking stations, and arrays of ground radio telescopes from around the world.»

On April 23, 2001, a team of astronomers (including Xiaohui Fan, Robert Becker, Michael Strauss, and Richard L. White) working with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) announced that they had observed a distant «quasar» from the earliest stellar era of the universe (see: news summary; SDSS press release; Becker et al, 2001; and Fan et al, 2001).

The team of astronomers led by Tomoya Hirota, an assistant professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and SOKENDAI (the Graduate University for Advanced Studies) observed a massive baby star called Orion KL Source I in the famous Orion Nebula, located 1,400 light - years away from the Earth.

An international team of astronomers led by Jeong - Eun Lee in Kyung Hee University, Korea, observed the baby twin star system IRAS 04191 +1523 with ALMA.