Sentences with phrase «way for astronomers»

The discovery of the star Icarus, published in the journal «Nature Astronomy» earlier this month, introduced a way for astronomers to look at singular stars in far - off galaxies.

The B - mode polarization signal provides a way for astronomers to calculate neutrino masses, as well as to chase a class of «primordial» B - modes that could be used to confirm inflation

Not exact matches

Astronomers estimate the age of the universe in two ways: 1) by looking for the oldest stars; and 2) by measuring the rate of expansion of the universe and extrapolating back to the Big Bang; just as crime detectives can trace the origin of a bullet from the holes in a wall.

Sunspots have been observed for more than two thousand years, but in the seventeenth century, astronomers devised new ways to view them, including a telescope - based projection device known as a helioscope.

This new finding fills in a long - missing piece in the puzzle representing our galaxy's chemical evolution, and is a big step forward for astronomers trying to understand the amounts of different chemical elements in stars in the Milky Way.

«The way to make astronomers look stupidest is to declare that Pluto, this thing that's been a planet for 75 years, isn't one,» he says.

Newberg adds that physicists hunting for particles of dark matter wafting through the Milky Way might detect fragments of Sagittarius, because many astronomers suspect that dwarf galaxies are especially rich in dark matter.

These objects all apparently blow up the same way, allowing astronomers to use them as standard beacons for reckoning the size and structure of the cosmos.

For more clues to the nature of dark matter, astronomers have looked out beyond our neighboring galaxies, into deep stretches of space where the influence of the unseen material shows up in other, more dramatic ways.

Astronomers think they have migrated deep into the Milky Way for billions of years, forming a knot of black holes that occasionally collide.

A team of astronomers at the University of Chicago and Grinnell College seeks to change the way scientists approach the search for Earth - like planets orbiting stars other than the sun.

But in fact there are several ways astronomers can search for them.

Luckily for Einstein, British astronomer Arthur Stanley Eddington believed there was a way to test the general theory.

Even though astronomers assume that tenuous gas clouds account for a considerable fraction of the total mass of the Milky Way galaxy, very little is known about them.

The Search for Extraterrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations (SERENDIP) has scanned billions of radio sources in the Milky Way by piggybacking receivers on antennas in use by observational astronomers, including Arecibo.

An international team of astronomers led by Dr. Andrea Kunder of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) in Germany has discovered that the central 2000 light years within the Milky Way Galaxy hosts an ancient population of stars.

Astronomers looking for signs have found that our Milky Way galaxy teems with exoplanets, some with conditions that could be right for extraterrestrial life.

The bounty of potentially habitable planets has astronomers scrambling for ways to revive the spirit of the Terrestrial Planet Finder, but on a shoestring budget.

Westerlund 1 is a unique natural laboratory for the study of extreme stellar physics, helping astronomers to find out how the most massive stars in the Milky Way live and die.

For nearly 2 centuries, astronomers have been using a trigonometric device called a parallax to measure the distances between Earth and other objects in our region of the Milky Way galaxy.

At the site of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, for example, she says astronomers routinely observe what looks like interstellar material disappearing without a trace.

The only way to make the quasars so bright, astronomers believe, is for supermassive black holes to devour gas at the hearts of large galaxies.

For many years, astronomers had a simple view of our Milky Way's central hub, or bulge, as a quiescent place composed of old stars, the earliest homesteaders of our galaxy.

Astronomers have been waiting for Voyager to cross this boundary — the heliopause, where solar particles give way to even speedier particles ejected by other stars — and enter interstellar space.

ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO — The Milky Way galaxy is tearing apart its oldest inhabitants, and for the first time, astronomers are witnessing the slaughter.

«The Milky Way grew up by growing out,» Melissa Ness, an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, said at a news conference.

As for the distant future, astronomers dream of an infrared counterpart to Gaia, which would be able to peer through the Milky Way's dust cloud into its very center, and also would excel at detecting and measuring faint red and brown dwarf stars in the solar neighborhood.

Astronomers at the University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) discovered for the first time that the hot gas in the halo of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning in the same direction and at comparable speed as the galaxy's disk, which contains our stars, planets, gas, and dust.

It took another three centuries for astronomers to convince themselves that the Milky Way is just one of billions of galaxies in the universe.

Never mind a delay of weeks or months — pity poor Thomas Hales, an American mathematician who has been waiting for five years to hear whether the mathematical community has accepted his 1998 proof of astronomer Johannes Kepler's 390 - year - old conjecture that the most efficient way to pack equal - size spheres (such as cannonballs on a ship, which is how the question arose) is to stack them in the familiar pyramid fashion that greengrocers use to stack oranges on a counter.

The discovery showed that gravitational waves offer a new way of observing the universe and are a major tool for astronomers.

A decade ago, astronomers discovered that the gas in our Milky Way galaxy is not spread out into a completely flat disk, but has ripples, launching a search for the disturbances that caused them.

I'm fascinated to know whether astronomers too have to pay their way to conferences and whether a chemist's lab costs are similar to how much I paid for my dive gear [for doing marine research].

Astronomer Rainer Klement of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, says the paper «comes up with an elegant way of explaining the velocity distribution we observe in the solar neighborhood.»

For nearly 100 years, astronomers have tried to understand how the Milky Way and other spiral galaxies formed these dramatic patterns — and now they think they finally have the answer.

One cool detail: Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, and our sister galaxy, Andromeda, move at 1.4 million miles per hour relative to the ubiquitous background energy left over from the Big Bang, a standard frame of reference for astronomers.

They were also able to accurately estimate the number of dwarfs in the halo, calculating a fraction of 7 per cent, higher than astronomers have previously found for the whole Milky Way.

One way to resolve this seeming paradox, astronomers have speculated, is for a second stellar wind from a nearby star to collide with the first wind, cooling the gas enough to preserve dust.

Eugene Magnier of the University of Hawaii, Jan van Paradijs of the University of Amsterdam and astronomers from Bavaria and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sifted through images of Andromeda, looking for circular smudges the same colour as globular clusters in the Milky Way.

«Astronomers discover S0 - 2 star is single and ready for big Einstein test: No companion found for famous young bright star orbiting Milky Way's supermassive black hole.»

An international team of astronomers led by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has made a surprising discovery about the birthplace of groups of stars located in the halo of our Milky Way galaxy.

Clara Moskowitz: Yeah, and like you said, «big data» is a term you hear a lot from astronomers these days, which is basically they've created this problem for themselves; their instruments are now bringing them back way more data than they can basically process or know what to do with.

Maunakea, Hawaii — An international team of astronomers led by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has made a surprising discovery about the birthplace of groups of stars located in the halo of our Milky Way galaxy.

If astronomers made the assumption that velocities observed for Milky Way stars or nebulae were due primarily to the rotation of the Milky Way and that the Milky Way had a simple rotation model, then they could use this model to determine two possible distances for each star or nebula.

Using Kepler data, astronomers extrapolated an estimated exoplanetary population for the Milky Way earlier this year and arrived at a staggering number: 100 billion.

Astronomers identified the new galaxy as eMACSJ1341 - QG - 1, and, as they describe in a recent paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, it's not the first galaxy that has been discovered this way, but it's the most powerful example of the effect spotted so far for a galaxy so faint.

Thanks to Rich Bradley for working hard in 1987 to make the 40 foot functional for the first groups of teachers, and the telescope mechanics for keeping it that way, Carl Heiles for inspiring us to observe neutral hydrogen, a true staple of our educational programs for teachers and youth, Bill Radcliffe (do you remember the time you single - handedly took the front end off the telescope???), Nathan Sharp, and Dave Woody for coming to the rescue when the 40 Foot needed a technical swift kick, Skip Crilly for updating the telescope and getting rid of pesky RFI, and all of the astronomers who have enlightened teachers and students over the years.

«To take a powerful new instrument, a tool for looking at the universe in a completely novel way, and install it at the greatest observatory in the world is a dream for an astronomer.

Except for Lalande 21185, astronomers believe that Sol and its current nearest neighbors were born close to or within the Milky Way's «thin disk.»

One way that astronomers and astrobiologists search for life in the galaxy is observation of rocky planets orbiting other stars.