Sentences with phrase «team of astronomers took»

An international team of astronomers took a snapshot in April 2017 of the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy.

Not exact matches

Several hours later, a team of astronomers known as the ROTSE (Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment) collaboration, led by Carl Akerlof of the University of Michigan, reported that the visible - light counterpart of the burst was also seen in the images taken with a small, robotic telescope operated by their team, starting only 22 seconds after the burst.

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.

To take a better galactic census, a team led by astronomer Rodrigo Ibata of the Strasbourg Observatory in France took the most detailed images yet of the space around Andromeda, exposing swarms of faint stars distributed near the galaxy.

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.

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.

That means the progenitor of the neutron star must have been more massive than the heaviest stars still around in the cluster, which weigh up to 35 solar masses, says astronomer Michael Muno of the University of California, Los Angeles, whose team first identified the object in Chandra observations taken in May and June this year.

An international team of astronomers led from Chalmers University of Technology has used the giant radio telescope Lofar to create the sharpest astronomical image ever taken at very long radio wavelengths.

On February 21, 2007, another team of astronomers announced that they had taken an infrared spectrum of the planet with the Spitzer Space Telescope (SSC news release; and CfA press release — more below).

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.

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.

MAUNA KEA, HAWAII — An international team of astronomers has obtained the best view yet of a collision that took place between two galaxies when the universe was only half its current age using the... Read more»

MAUNA KEA, HAWAII — An international team of astronomers has obtained the best view yet of a collision that took place between two galaxies when the universe was only half its current age using the W. M. Keck Observatory and many other telescopes on the ground and in space.

On June 29, 2011, a team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope and other telescopes around the world announced their detection of ULAS J1120 +0641, which is the oldest known quasar measured thus far with a redshift of z ~ 7.08 and which indicates that its light has taken around 12.9 billion years to reach Earth from just 770 million years after the Big Bang (ESO science release).