Sentences with phrase «thousands of astronomers»

From August 3 - 14, thousands of astronomers from around the world gathered in Honolulu, Hawaii, to discuss the latest astronomical discoveries at the International Astronomical Union (IAU) General Assembly.

Just last month, the collision of a pair of neutron stars was observed in both light and gravity through a joint effort involving thousands of astronomers on every continent in the world.

Clara Moskowitz: Still a big deal for the astronomy community; they like to call it the Super Bowl of Astronomy, you know, thousands of astronomers gather for this annual meeting.

Thousands of astronomers have not seen this

Thousands of astronomers and physicists.

Not exact matches

It started evolving and ended up producing thousands of universes, planets and stars, so vast that astronomers can not even track it all.

So the fact that the Bible predicted the heart of Big Bang cosmology, thousands of years before any astronomer had even dreamed of the concept, was one piece of evidence that told me: this book has predictive power.

Both groups of astronomers studied a particular quasar called APM 08279 +5255, which harbors a black hole 20 billion times more massive than the sun and produces as much energy as a thousand trillion suns.

Seeing Red Astronomers think MU69 is part of this cold classical population because of its location in the solar system and because its reddish hue matches the Hubble Space Telescope's catalog of thousands of other such objects.

But that tense day, December 26, 2004, stunned the small group of astronomers who dutifully detect and plot trajectories of hundreds of thousands of the millions of chunks of rock whizzing around the solar system.

Last year, x-ray astronomers also found hints of «intermediate» black holes with hundreds to thousands of times our sun's mass in other galaxies (ScienceNOW, 7 June 2001), but they hadn't measured the gravitational pulls of such holes — the best way to confirm their presence and gauge their masses.

A team led by astronomer Steven Majewski of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville sorted through a half - billion objects in the 2MASS catalog to find several thousand M giants, a distinctive class of red - giant star common in the Sagittarius dwarf but rarely seen above or below the plane of our galaxy.

Since then, astronomers have found thousands of these blinking collapsed stars, which have confirmed Einstein's theory of gravity and have been proposed as a kind of GPS for spacecraft (SN: 2/3/18, p. 7).

Though astronomers have indirectly detected thousands of exoplanets, they are just starting to get fuzzy pictures of the orbs themselves.

That much dust — tens of thousands of tons — could not have been created by the blow alone, says Mike A'Hearn, the project's lead scientist and an astronomer at the University of Maryland: «You can not pulverize that much material in an impact.»

No telescope yet exists that can take a picture of even a giant exoplanet; astronomers compare the task to taking a picture of a firefly next to a searchlight thousands of miles away.

Additionally, the thousands of worlds discovered by NASA's planet - hunting Kepler mission strongly suggest that «there should be as many small planets like the Earth as there are stars,» Morse explains, meaning that to see one astronomers should not need to build a gargantuan telescope that could peer clear across the galaxy.

Since Voorwerp is 65,000 light years across on its longer axis, the cloud could hold a record of tens of thousands of years of history, potentially allowing astronomers to discern how the quasar died.

Segue 2 is probably just one of many such astronomical miniatures orbiting the Milky Way, says UCI astronomer Evan Kirby: «Simulations predict that there should be tens of thousands of these things.»

Astronomers have strongly suspected that dust also forms after supernovas, the violent explosions of giant stars that send atoms hurtling through space at thousands of kilometers a second.

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.

Two decades ago astronomers discovered that our solar system and a few thousand neighboring stars lie just inside a vast bubble, within which the thin gas of interstellar space is much thinner still — and also hotter.

Sixteen years and thousands of awe - inspiring images later, the fixed Hubble is an invaluable tool for astronomers.

But now, astronomer Richard Elston of the University of Florida in Gainesville and co-workers have unveiled seven far bigger disks, spanning thousands of AUs.

Although astronomer David Jewitt of the Institute for Astronomy in Hawaii thinks Rabinowitz has done a good job counting the big asteroids, he is more worried about the hundreds of thousands of rocks smaller than 1 kilometer but larger than 100 meters.

Astronomers can now learn about the chemical and orbital properties of asteroids just by identifying their color, guided by the tens of thousands of new asteroids revealed in the survey.

In a survey of ninety thousand radio galaxies, the astronomers identified 1500 compact galaxies among them.

His boss, astronomer Steven Majewski, needed help transforming thousands of raw digital telescope images into a form useful for data analysis.

Astronomer Knut Olsen of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, Arizona, and his colleagues observed thousands of stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Thousands of physicists, astrophysicists, and astronomers are searching for dark matter, mysterious stuff whose gravity seems to hold the galaxies together.

Astronomers have found a very young galaxy that produces thousands of stars a year — hundreds of times more than our own Milky Way.

When astronomers scale up to the number of supernovae they expect to be taking place throughout the entire universe they reach a mind - boggling number: thousands of exploding stars every hour.

It will incorporate thousands of radio telescope dishes across vast expanses of southern Africa and Australia, but to test out techniques, astronomers are building precursors in both host countries.

This was decades before the discoveries of thousands of extrasolar planets began in the 1990s, and years before astronomer Frank Drake presented his probabilistic argument for the rarity of communicating civilizations in the cosmos in 1961.

Astronomers tested for changes in the gravitational constant using 21 years of data from a pulsar (the ultradense remnant core of a dead star that spins like a crazed lighthouse, sending astronomers bursts of light a thousand times pAstronomers tested for changes in the gravitational constant using 21 years of data from a pulsar (the ultradense remnant core of a dead star that spins like a crazed lighthouse, sending astronomers bursts of light a thousand times pastronomers bursts of light a thousand times per second).

The distortions are tiny, but starting in 2000, astronomers managed to detect the effect, which is known as cosmological weak lensing, in surveys of thousands of galaxies.

This is very closely analogous to a question that astronomers have discussed for thousands of years, concerning the Earth and the sun.

Astronomers believe that light from the explosion reached Earth in 1680; debris within the remnant, now more than 10 light - years across, still flies outward at thousands of kilometers per second.

Given that planetary lifetimes are measured in billions of years, it's unlikely astronomers will happen by chance to be observing a planet during a temporary surge of oxygen or methane lasting just thousands or even millions of years.

Thousands of similar structures could lurk in the galaxy, say astronomers who presented the discovery here yesterday at the 221st meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

«CDM predicts that galaxies like the Milky Way should be orbited by tens of thousands of clumps of dark matter,» says Beth Willman, an astronomer at Haverford College.

The three astronomers combined several images to amplify the faint loops and flares seen rising thousands of light - years from the plane of ngc 55, which lies some 5 million light - years from Earth.

The feature was first detected in 2016 by EarthScope, a collection of thousands of seismic instruments sprinkled throughout the U.S. Vadim Levin, a geophysicist at Rutgers University, says this wealth of sensors lets earth scientists peer under the North American continent, just as the Hubble Space Telescope has enabled astronomers to gaze deep into the night sky.

Over the past two decades, astronomers have discovered thousands of planets orbiting other stars.

The black hole — which is buried within a giant cluster containing thousands of stars — marks the first time astronomers have detected a black hole with the help of an orbiting star.

Given that light from IC 2497 takes tens of thousands of years to reach the Voorwerp, astronomers speculate that the quasar must have turned off less than 200,000 years ago.

In the coming years, Ehrenreich expects that astronomers will find thousands of this kind of planet.

An international team of astronomers, led by the University Göttingen and with researchers from AIP, has found that one of the stars in NGC 3201 is being flung backwards and forwards at speeds of several hundred thousand kilometres per hour, with the pattern repeating every 167 days.

Among the thousands of exoplanets astronomers have found, Neptune - sized worlds are the most abundant.

By measuring the distances of thousands of supernovae, astronomers can map in detail how cosmic expansion has increased with time.