Sentences with phrase «year by astronomer»

The spins line up in an eerie way too, according to observations published last year by astronomer Stephen Slivan of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge.

Chafer was approached last year by astronomers Yvan Dutil and Stéphane Dumas of the Defence Research Establishment Valcartier in Canada with the idea of broadcasting a scientific message before launching the space probe.

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The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.

Based on a culmination of ten years of research work, the new method to estimate more accurate distances between planetary nebulae and the Earth developed by HKU astronomers promises a new era in scientists» ability to study and understand the fascinating if brief period in the final stages of the lives of low - and mid-mass stars.

An international team of astronomers has determined that Centaurus A, a massive elliptical galaxy 13 million light - years from Earth, is accompanied by a number of dwarf satellite galaxies orbiting the main body in a narrow disk.

It was discovered by French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille whilst observing from South Africa in 1752 and was catalogued three years later in 1755.

But compare the image taken in June last year with one taken by amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley on 8 May and you will see that one of them, known as the south equatorial belt, has disappeared.

Venus orbits the Sun, but not exactly on the same plane as the Earth, so it only passes directly between us and the Sun — what astronomers call a transit; think of it as a «mini-eclipse» — every century or so (and then, due to the odd dance of gravity, it happens in pairs separated by 8 years).

This year DISCOVER honors David Charbonneau, a Harvard University astronomer whose research could soon lead to an equally stunning revelation: By studying alien worlds, he may find the first direct evidence of life beyond Earth, a sign that our living planet is — yet again — one among many.

However, he was not the first to record the spiral galaxy; it was probably first documented by the Sicilian astronomer Giovanni Battista Hodierna around 100 years earlier.

Fast forward 500 years, and a team of astronomers led by John Bally (University of Colorado, USA) has used the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) to peer into the heart of this cloud.

A team led by astronomers at The Australian National University has discovered the oldest known star in the Universe, which formed shortly after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago.

Some 12 years since it was thought lost because of a systems failure, a NASA satellite has been found, still broadcasting, by an amateur astronomer.

Jupiter is hit by an average of 6.5 objects per year that create impacts large enough to be visible from Earth, according to preliminary results from a worldwide campaign by amateur astronomers to observe the giant planet.

In the past few years, astronomers have solidified the case for cosmic acceleration by studying ever more remote supernovae.

If Castilho can't find at least another 4 million reais ($ 1.25 million) by the end of the year, he says, Brazilian astronomers will lose access to those facilities.

Astronomer Owen Gingerich spent 30 years on a near - obsessive quest to track down copies of De Revolutionibus that were once owned by Galileo, Kepler, and others and proves Koestler wrong.

By peering this deeply into the galaxy at millions of stars, astronomers should unleash «a tsunami of transit discoveries» within the next several years, Sasselov predicts.

A team led by astronomer Kenji Hamaguchi of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, used the XMM - Newton and Chandra x-ray satellites to study a stellar nursery just 550 light - years from Earth.

Now, astronomers have overcome that problem by tracking bright spots of radio emission from the Triangulum Galaxy — also known as M33 — which the new study locates at 2.4 million light years from Earth.

The team calculates an age of only 400 - 600 million years old, which agrees with the age estimated from its rotation period (a technique pioneered by CfA astronomer Soren Meibom).

Once confirmed, a transit allows astronomers to confidently measure a planet's orbital period — its year — as well as to estimate its size, by comparing the depth of its shadow with the estimated dimensions and luminosity of its star.

Thanks to years of observations by the versatile probe, astronomers now know Saturn as intimately as macaroni knows cheese.

By cross-correlating the arrival times of all the different pulses to nanosecond precision across decades, astronomers hope to detect gravitational waves with wavelengths measured in light - months and light - years as their passing periodic ripples distort spacetime around Earth.

The Orion Nebula is the nearest region of massive star formation to Earth, and is therefore studied in great detail by astronomers seeking to better understand how stars form and evolve in their first few million years.

The planet — Proxima b — was discovered by astronomers who spent years looking for signs of the tiny gravitational tug exerted by a planet on its star, after spotting hints of such disruption in 2013.

Those disks typically don't last more than 10 million years, so astronomers inferred that Jupiter formed by the time that disk dissipated.

By placing life in the cosmic spotlight — at a meeting dedicated to Copernicus, no less — Carter was flying in the face of a scientific worldview that began nearly 500 years ago when the Polish astronomer dislodged Earth and humanity from center stage in the grand scheme of things.

Superimposed on the spectrum were dark absorption lines, caused by gases in a cloud somewhere between the burst and Earth — about 7 billion light - years from Earth, according to astronomers at Caltech.

By modelling the rock's orbit over the coming days, astronomers also hope to have a better sense of the threat it may pose to Earth in the next 100 years or so, Spahr told New Scientist.

Using the world's largest radio telescope, two astronomers from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia have detected the faint signal emitted by atomic hydrogen gas in galaxies three billion light years from Earth, breaking the previous record distance by 500 million light years.

Using data gathered by an infrared camera during a survey of such stars, astronomers have found that the brightness of a brown dwarf — dubbed 2MASS 2139, which lies about 47 light - years from Earth — varied as much as 30 % in less than 8 hours.

It took three years for astronomers to test this theory by measuring, during an eclipse, how the sun shifted light from a star.

A team of astronomers led by John Webb of the University of New South Wales has been measuring how the light from quasars is absorbed by gas clouds that lie between them and us but are still billions of light - years away, and thus did their absorbing billions of years ago.

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.

And because such an event takes place just once every 14 to 16 years, it will be eagerly watched by astronomers around the world.

That's why astronomers reckon by light - years — the distance that light, racing at 186,282.4 miles per second, travels from one of your birthdays to the next.

«The one - year proprietary period effectively means this hidden, unavailable data can not be seen in time for follow - up by the community of astronomers until more than three years into [Webb's] mission.»

BABY FACE Saturn's rings (shown in an image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on August 12, 2017) are relatively young, a few hundred million years old at most, astronomers say.

Astronomers dismissed her observations until four years later, when they were confirmed by a man.

By carefully monitoring tens of millions of stars in the Magellanic Clouds, two small companions of our Milky Way galaxy, astronomers have detected some 20 microlenses over the past 10 years.

By combining the power of a «natural lens» in space with the capability of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers made a surprising discovery — the first example of a compact yet massive, fast - spinning, disk - shaped galaxy that stopped making stars only a few billion years after the big bang.

Using data captured by ALMA in Chile and from the ROSINA instrument on ESA's Rosetta mission, a team of astronomers has found faint traces of the chemical compound [Freon - 40]--(CH3Cl), also known as methyl chloride and chloromethane, around both the infant star system IRAS 16293 - 2422, about 400 light - years away, and the famous comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko (67P / C - G) in our own Solar System.

Astronomers have suggested several times over the past year that the BICEP2 team had been fooled by that Galactic signal (see «Full - Galaxy dust map muddles search for gravitational waves»).

Meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens of NASA's Ames Research Center forecasts that a narrow, dense filament of material shed by Swift - Tuttle in the year 1479 will trigger an hour - long spike in activity at 4:18 a.m. eastern daylight time on the morning of August 12.

In addition to observations by astronomers world - wide, the Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey (GPIES) will look at 600 carefully selected stars over the next few years.

«These stories are all exactly what you would expect from the survivors of a celestial impact,» Masse says, leafing through 2,000 - year - old drawings by Chinese astronomers that show comets of all shapes and sizes.

Radio astronomer Mark Reid's work to map the Milky Way galaxy may be set back a year by the closure of U.S. radio telescopes.

Upon closer examination of the data — compiled from nearly 500 hours of observation by the 64 - meter Parkes radio telescope in Australia — a team led by astronomer Duncan Lorimer of West Virginia University in Morgantown estimated that the blast actually came from about 3 billion light - years away.