Sentences with phrase «with leading astronomers»

Working with leading astronomers, and hearing presentations by some of the foremost experts on supernovae, opened the students» eyes to the depth of astronomical research opportunities available.

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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.

«This study offers new insight on the problem of multiple stellar populations in star clusters,» said study lead author Chengyuan Li, an astronomer at KIAA and NAOC who also is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences» Purple Mountain Observatory.

With funding from her L'Oreal Women in Science Fellowship and the support of UCL, she brought leading astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Janet Drew, and Ruth Gregory for a day of presentations and breakout sessions last September.

«Makemake's moon proves that there are still wild things waiting to be discovered, even in places people have already looked,» said Dr. Alex Parker, lead author of the paper and the SwRI astronomer credited with discovering the satellite.

«With ALMA we can see that there's a direct link between these radio bubbles inflated by the supermassive black hole and the future fuel for galaxy growth,» said Helen Russell, an astronomer with the University of Cambridge, UK, and lead author on a paper appearing in the Astrophysical JourWith ALMA we can see that there's a direct link between these radio bubbles inflated by the supermassive black hole and the future fuel for galaxy growth,» said Helen Russell, an astronomer with the University of Cambridge, UK, and lead author on a paper appearing in the Astrophysical Jourwith the University of Cambridge, UK, and lead author on a paper appearing in the Astrophysical Journal.

«The uncanny consistency of this stellar remnant offers intriguing evidence that the fundamental force of gravity — the big «G» of physics — remains rock - solid throughout space,» said Weiwei Zhu, an astronomer formerly with the University of British Columbia in Canada and lead author on a study accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal.

With the help of the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a German - led group of astronomers have observed the intriguing characteristics of an unusual type of object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter: two asteroids orbiting each other and exhibiting comet - like features, including a bright coma and a long tail.

«Twenty years ago, light pollution could be considered only a problem for astronomers,» says lead author Fabio Falchi, a high school physics teacher in Thiene, Italy, who became concerned about the growing threat of light pollution in the 1990s after it began interfering with his hobby of amateur astronomy.

«This dust - formation process can occur continuously for years, with the dust slowly building up over time, which aligns with astronomer's observations of varying amounts of dust surrounding the sites of stellar explosions,» added lead author Liu.

A team led by astronomer Garik Israelian of the European Southern Observatory recently examined nearly 500 stars, including 86 with planets, and found that most of the planet - bearing stars contained very little lithium, a trait they share with our sun.

An Australian - led group of astronomers working with European collaborators has revealed the «DNA» of more than 340,000 stars in the Milky Way, which should help them find the siblings of the Sun, now scattered across the sky.

Services of a Trip Leader Astronomer, including a private, astronomer - led poolside sky show, with advice on viewing and photographing the souAstronomer, including a private, astronomer - led poolside sky show, with advice on viewing and photographing the souastronomer - led poolside sky show, with advice on viewing and photographing the southern sky.

«The ALMA data reveal that AzTEC - 3 is a very compact, highly disturbed galaxy that is bursting with new stars at close to its theoretically predicted maximum limit and is surrounded by a population of more normal, but also actively star - forming galaxies,» said Dominik Riechers, an astronomer and assistant professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and lead author on a paper published today (Nov. 10) in the Astrophysical Journal.

A team of astronomers led by Wouter Vlemmings, Chalmers University of Technology, have used the telescope Alma (Atacama Large Millimetre / Submillimetre Array) to make the sharpest observations yet of a star with the same starting mass as the Sun.

Describing the discovery October 16 in Astrophysical Journal Letters, the team of astronomers led by Arjen van der Wel of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany report that the lensing galaxy is relatively light, young and bursting with new stars.

«We saw what looked like a new star,» says astronomer Edo Berger of Harvard University, who led a team that spotted the light with the DECam on the Blanco telescope in Chile.

First up: In conjunction with the National Science Foundation, Caltech, and the Thirty Meter Telescope, DISCOVER brought together four leading astronomers to describe their studies of wayward comets, alien worlds, black holes, and the expanding universe.

An international team of astronomers led by Paulo Freire of the Jodrell Bank Observatory at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, detected the gas by observing 15 millisecond pulsars — compact, rapidly spinning stars that emit bursts of radio waves with clockwork precision.

Two teams of astronomers led by researchers at the University of Cambridge have looked back nearly 13 billion years, when the Universe was less than 10 percent its present age, to determine how quasars — extremely luminous objects powered by supermassive black holes with the mass of a billion suns — regulate the formation of stars and the build - up of the most massive galaxies.

Hendrik Hildebrandt from the Argelander - Institut für Astronomie in Bonn, Germany and Massimo Viola from the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands led a team of astronomers [1] from institutions around the world who processed images from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS), which was made with ESO's VLT Survey Telescope (VST) in Chile.

«Last Sunday, after seven years in space traveling nearly three billion miles, Stardust landed in the Great Salt Lake Desert with a treasure from when the solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago,» says astronomer Donald Brownlee of the University of Washington, who led the Stardust team.

A team led by astronomer Kevin Luhman of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, found extra emissions of infrared light from a faint dwarf with just 15 times Jupiter's mass — at the threshold of what astronomers consider «planetary mass.»

«With transits we can learn much more about the planets than with any other method to find planets,» says lead study author Hans Deeg, an astronomer at Spain's Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary IslaWith transits we can learn much more about the planets than with any other method to find planets,» says lead study author Hans Deeg, an astronomer at Spain's Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islawith any other method to find planets,» says lead study author Hans Deeg, an astronomer at Spain's Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands.

Astronomers working with NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), led by Caltech's Fiona Harrison, have found a pulsating dead star beaming with the energy of about 10 million suns.

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.

Astronomers, under the lead of the Georg - August - Universität Göttingen and with participation of the Leibniz - Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP) using ESO's MUSE instrument...

When two neutron stars collided on Aug. 17, a widespread search for electromagnetic radiation from the event led to observations of light from the afterglow of the explosion, finally connecting a gravitational - wave - producing event with conventional astronomy using light, according to an international team of astronomers.

«Although galaxy collisions of this type are not uncommon, only a few galaxies with eye - like, or ocular, structures are known to exist,» said Michele Kaufman, an astronomer formerly with The Ohio State University in Columbus and lead author on a paper published in the Astrophysical Journal.

Mu Herculis was first discovered to have a dimmer companion in 1781 with a relatively wide orbit by Sir William Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel (1738 - 1822, portrait), who was born Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel and who discovered the planet Uranus — which led to his appointment in 1782 as private astronomer to the King of England.

Hurt's illustration was created to highlight scientific conclusions on the inner galaxy from a team of astronomers led by Robert Benjamin and associated with the Spitzer infrared space telescope.

Within his search for nebulae, Charles Messier both undertook own scans, leading to 19 original Messier discoveries during that year, and used all the catalogs compiled previously by other astronomers he had access to: Edmond Halley's list of 6 objects, the catalog of William Derham, who chiefly had extracted from Hevelius» star catalog, Prodomus Astronomiae, which was available in a French translation by Pierre de Maupertuis, and Nicolas Lacaille's Catalog of Southern «Nebulae» of 1755, as well as lists of Maraldi and Le Gentil, with some references to (but very probably not the list of) De Chéseaux, probably from Le Gentil.

«We're not biologists, and we're not astronomers, but we had the right tools,» Paulette Clancy, a chemical molecular dynamics expert, who led the study, said, according to a statement released by Cornell University, adding: «Perhaps it helped, because we didn't come in with any preconceptions about what should be in a membrane and what shouldn't.

Extensive ongoing observing programs, led by Harry Teplitz and Richard Ellis at the California Institute of Technology, will allow astronomers to study the deep - field galaxies with Hubble to even greater depths in ultraviolet and infrared light prior to the launch of JWST.

«When astronomers go observing at night with telescopes, they say «clear skies» to mean good luck,» Jonathan Fraine of the University of Maryland, and the study's lead author, said in a statement.

«Studies of comets and asteroids show that the solar nebula that spawned our Sun and planets was rich in water and complex organic compounds,» noted Karin Öberg, an astronomer with the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., and lead author on a paper published in the journal Nature.

«Even though the Large Magellanic Cloud is one of our nearest galactic companions, we expect it should share some uncanny chemical similarity with distant, young galaxies from the early universe,» said Marta Sewiło, an astronomer with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author on a paper appearing in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

The papers, one with lead author Katherine de Kleer, a UC Berkeley graduate student, and coauthored by UC Berkeley research astronomer Máté Ádámkovics, and the other coauthored by Ádámkovics and David R. Ciardi of Caltech's NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, have been accepted for publication in the journal Icarus.

KAMUELA, Hawaii — With data collected from the mighty W. M. Keck Observatory, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) astronomer Mike Brown — known as the Pluto killer for discovering a Kuiper - belt object that led to the demotion of Pluto from planetary status — and Kevin Hand from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have found the strongest evidence yet that salty water from the vast liquid ocean beneath Europa's frozen exterior actually makes its way to the surface.

To further investigate, astronomers led by Nanda Rea of the University of Amsterdam sought help from NASA's Chandra and Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, to follow up with the observations.

The research team, led by astronomers at Osaka University and Ibaraki University, observed a young star named HD142527 in the constellation Lupus (the Wolf) with ALMA.

Now, an international team of astronomers, led by Jennifer Yee from the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Andrzej Udalski from the Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory, has announced the discovery of an extrasolar world at a distance of 13,000 light - years away, toward the direction of the Milky Way's center, while utilising OGLE simultaneously with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

Overview With the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) observation, astronomers led by Shigehisa Takakuwa, Associate Research Fellow at the In...

With the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) observation, astronomers led by Shigehisa Takakuwa, Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica (ASIAA), Taiwan, found spiral arms of molecular gas and dust around the «baby twin» stars, binary protostars.

«With this one amazing picture, we can explore the earliest days of black holes in the Universe and see how they change over billions of years,» Niel Brandt of Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania, who led a team of astronomers studying the deep image, said in a statement.

Researchers created the map using Hubble's largest survey of the universe, the Cosmic Evolution Survey («COSMOS») with an international team of 70 astronomers led by Scoville.

Combining the images from the FORS instrument on the ESO telescope using four different filters with those of other large telescopes, a team of astronomers led by Karen Meech of the Institute for Astronomy in Hawaii found that «Oumuamua varies in brightness by a factor of 10 as it spins on its axis every 7.3 hours.

An international team of astronomers led by Jeong - Eun Lee in Kyung Hee University, Korea, observed the baby twin star system IRAS 04191 +1523 with ALMA.

She takes little comfort in astronomer John's assurances that the approaching, oversized asteroid Melancholia won't make impact, since the leading scientists agree that it's on a collision course with Earth.

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