Sentences with phrase «used nearby galaxies»

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The researchers observed FRB 150807 while monitoring a nearby pulsar — a rotating neutron star that emits a beam of radio waves and other electromagnetic radiation — in our galaxy using the Parkes radio telescope in Australia.

In a recent paper published in The Astrophysical Journal, Boorman (and colleagues from the NuSTAR active galaxies science team) described how data from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has been used to study the intrinsic behaviour of a «hidden» supermassive black hole in a galaxy nearby to our own — IC 3639 — some 175 million light years from Earth, relatively close by in cosmic terms.

Astrophysicist Paul Westoby and colleagues from Liverpool John Moores University in the U.K. used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to survey spectral lines from 360,000 relatively nearby galaxies.

Astronomers working with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have used a 2.5 - meter telescope at the Apache Point Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, to map the location of more than 930,000 nearby galaxies, determining the distance to each by how much the expansion of the universe has stretched, or «redshifted,» the wavelength of the galaxy's light.

In the 1970s, astronomers Vera Rubin and Kent Ford used the same basic arguments to show, in much more convincing detail, that spiral galaxies appear to keep their shapes because of the gravitational glue from nearby dark matter.

Suspecting that Andromeda, a nearby giant spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way, might sport a similar stream, researchers led by Rodrigo Ibata of the Strasbourg Observatory in France used the Isaac Newton Telescope at La Palma, Canary Islands, to find out.

Astronomers hoping to learn about the first stages of galaxy formation after the Big Bang can use the chemical composition of stars to help them unravel the histories of our own and nearby galaxies.

First, a team led by astronomer Jon Miller of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, used the European Space Agency's XMM - Newton satellite to study two bright x-ray sources in the nearby galaxy NGC 1313.

Using the combined power of nine radio telescopes arrayed across the Southern Hemisphere, the images reveal features just 15 light - days across in the heart of the nearby galaxy Centaurus A, 12 million light - years away.

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope's Hyper Suprime - Cam observed the nearby large spiral galaxy M81, together with its two brightest neighbors.

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope's Hyper Suprime - Cam prime - focus camera recently observed the nearby large spiral galaxy M81, together with its two brightest neighbors, M82 and NGC3077.

Our fellow detectives use information about its location to look for a GRB's galactic accomplice amongst the line - up of nearby galaxies.

The scientists from the USA, Australia, and Europe used the powerful DEIMOS spectrograph installed on the world's largest optical telescope at Keck Observatory to conduct a major survey of nearby galaxies called SLUGGS, which mapped out the speeds of their stars.

MAUNA KEA, Hawaii — A team of scientists, led by Dr. Sebastian Hoenig from the University of Southampton, has accurately measured the distance to the nearby NGC4151 galaxy, using the W. M.... Read more»

Scientists believe that gas and dust may have been stripped by nearby galaxies or from an early burst of star formation that used up all the gas.

Drs. Alan Roy and James Ulvestad of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, together with Drs. Edward Colbert and Andrew Wilson of the Space Telescope Science Institute and the University of Maryland, used the VLBA to image a light - year - sized radio jet in NGC 4151, a relatively nearby spiral galaxy.

Beyond our own galaxy, band 3 can be used to image molecules in nearby galaxies at high resolution, to probe the cold interstellar medium of galaxies, and to peer into dust - obscured galaxies to observe star formation.

An international group of scientists led by German Hans - Walter Rix from the Max - Planck - Institut fur Astronomie in Heidelberg is studying 24 nearby disk galaxies, similar to our own Milky Way, using the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array radio telescope have found previously unseen evidence that galaxy collisions trigger energetic quasar activity in relatively nearby galaxies.

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope have found previously unseen evidence that galaxy collisions trigger energetic quasar activity in relatively nearby galaxies.

Astronomers have used a radio telescope in outback Western Australia to see the halo of a nearby starburst galaxy in unprecedented detail.

Along with John Regan of Dublin City University, CCA research fellow Eli Visbal, and colleagues, Bryan used state - of - the - art computer simulations to show how a galaxy that has just collapsed and started forming stars can irradiate a galactic partner nearby so that some of the partner galaxy's gas collapses into a black hole.

Abstract: We report on mid - and far - IR Spitzer observations of 7 nearby dusty elliptical galaxies by using the Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS) and Infrared Spectrograph (IRS).

In order to study the origin and the propertie... ▽ More We report on mid - and far - IR Spitzer observations of 7 nearby dusty elliptical galaxies by using the Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS) and Infrared Spectrograph (IRS).