Sentences with phrase «young radio astronomers»

The idea had been kicking around since the 1920s, when Georges Lemaitre, a Belgian priest - scholar, first tentatively proposed it, but it didn't really become an active notion in cosmology until the mid-1960s when two young radio astronomers made an extraordinary and inadvertent discovery.

The European Radio Interferometry School (ERIS) is a bi-annual graduate level school that forms a fundamental part of the training and development of young radio astronomers.

Drake was a young radio astronomer at the time, working at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia.

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«If you have young magnetars that have just been born in supernova explosions, only a few decades old, they could be very bursty objects, have very violent youths, and that could give rise to repeating fast radio bursts,» says astronomer Brian Metzger of Columbia University, who was not involved in the new study.

A team of astronomers has doubled the number of known young, compact radio galaxies — galaxies powered by newly energized black holes.

Reporting today at the U.K. National Astronomy Meeting in Llandudno, Wales, astronomers say they have used an array of radio telescopes to detect a belt of pebble - sized rocks around a young star — the next stage in planet formation.

«We have found a remarkably large dust mass concentrated in the central part of the ejecta from a relatively young and nearby supernova,» said Remy Indebetouw, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and the University of Virginia, both in Charlottesville, USA.

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope have found a pulsar — a spinning, superdense neutron star — that apparently is considerably younger than previously thought.

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's newly commissioned Green Bank Telescope have detected remarkably faint radio signals from an 820 year - old pulsar, making it the youngest radio - emitting pulsar known.

Astronomers using a global combination of radio telescopes to study a stellar explosion some 30 million light - years from Earth have likely discovered either the youngest black hole or the youngest neutron star known in the Universe.

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's (NSF) newly commissioned Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have detected remarkably faint radio signals from an 820 year - old pulsar, making it the youngest radio - emitting pulsar known.

The first Young European Radio Astronomers Conference (YERAC) was held in Paris in 1968, during the height of student and workers protests.

Astronomers using radio telescopes in New Mexico and California have discovered a giant, rotating disk of material around a young, massive star, indicating that very massive stars as well as those closer to the size of the Sun may be circled by disks from which planets are thought to form.

The smallest protoplanetary disk ever seen rotating around a young star has been detected by an international team of astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array radio telescope.