Sentences with phrase «team of astronomers thinks»

But if it is a planet, as one team of astronomers thinks, we may be in for some celestial fireworks in 2032, when Fomalhaut b starts to plough through a broad belt of debris that surrounds the star and icy comets within the belt smash into the planet's atmosphere.

Not exact matches

Using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) of radio telescopes, an international team of astronomers from the United States and Taiwan studied the area generally thought to mark the Galactic center.

Star formation is a longer process than previously thought, and is heavily dependent on outside events, such as supernova explosions, to trigger it, a team of astronomers has concluded.

It had been thought that Makemake would have an atmosphere similar to that of Pluto but leader of the Team of Astronomers, Jose Luis Ortiz of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, CSIC, Spain explained «As Makemake passed in front of the star and blocked it out, the star disappeared and reappeared very abruptly, rather than fading and brightening gradually.

An international team of astronomers has found that a strange repeating fast radio burst is even odder than previously thought.

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-...]