Solar systems might be forming around stars in Earth's galaxy, astronomers...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  April 21, 1998 ;     697 words ......to scour the heavens, astronomers have found fresh evidence...three separate teams of astronomers announced Tuesday. These...is almost exactly what astronomers orbiting nearby stars would have seen if they...Center in Hawaii. The astronomers cautioned that so far...efforts to confirm ...

FARTHER OUT\OBSERVATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SUCH AS THE HUBBLE ARE LEADING...

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  January 28, 1996 ;     700+ words ......phenomenon was seen by astronomers as a pivotal moment in...having a world with life? Astronomers are not predicting that...advanced telescopes, astronomers predict it will not be...monitoring many thousands of nearby stars, hundreds of planets...they are as common as astronomers are ...

PBS aims high with six-part `Astronomers'

Chicago Sun-Times;  April 9, 1991 ;     473 words ......is looking for another hit with "The Astronomers." The six-part video and public-television...Video will sell the tapes before "The Astronomers" is broadcast for six weeks on WTTW...many shoot-for-the-moon projects, "The Astronomers" looks a lot better on paper than on...

Astronomers puzzled by `invisible' supernova Light should have been seen...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  January 4, 1999 ;     450 words ...Astronomers are perplexed over why a newly detected supernova, which...exploding star was reported recently in the journal Nature. Astronomers say the mystery could merely suggest incomplete sky...intriguing: invisible supernovas. Presumably, the great astronomers of the Orient would have seen the 1250 ...

Researchers View Planets Orbiting Nearby Stars

The Washington Post;  March 23, 2005 ;     642 words ...Astronomers have caught their first direct glimpse of planets orbiting nearby stars, detecting infrared light...400 times as bright, and astronomers can separate a planet from...similar in size to Jupiter, but astronomers had noted that HD 209458b...perfectly circular, leaving ...

What paradox? Taking advantage of yeoman work by an unheralded satellite,...

Discover;  June 1, 1997 ;     627 words ...For almost three years now astronomers have had to live with a paradox. In 1994 data...universe was younger than its oldest stars. Astronomers have floated all sorts of ideas to rectify...to make the oldest stars younger. Now two astronomers say they can resolve the conundrum. It seems...accurate catalog of ...

Astronomers find 'Earthlike object'

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  August 27, 2004 ;     700+ words ...ATLANTA -- European astronomers reported Thursday the discovery...Including the latest discovery, astronomers have now identified at least 125...a glimpse of what may lie ahead. Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory...

Hubble gives astronomers look at galaxies in their infancy

The Boston Globe;  December 7, 1994 ;     636 words ...Astronomers said yesterday that new Hubble pictures suggest that...that the universe itself is some 14 billion years old. "Astronomers are historians -- they study the history of the universe...able to piece together how all that we see came to be." Astronomers have long sought to understand how galaxies ...

Able to see through dust, astronomers get look at older galaxies

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  July 16, 1998 ;     422 words ...Astronomers using a sensitive new instrument have lifted a dusty...camouflages them. Researchers said the discoveries of astronomers at the University of Edinburgh Royal Observatory in...optical telescopes. The discoveries demonstrate that astronomers might have been missing a vital, formative period in...

ASTRONOMERS CONFIRM EXPLOSION OF STAR

The Boston Globe;  February 26, 1987 ;     613 words ......of a massive exploding star in a nearby galaxy -- brightest and nearest...years -- was confirmed yesterday by astronomers. Astronomers said the sighting of such an explosion...said Frogel and others, will allow astronomers to study the evolution and physics...exploded and became the supernova. ...

Hints of planets circling nearby stars.

Science News;  August 13, 1988 ;     700+ words ...Hints of planets circling nearby stars Detecting a planet the size of Jupiter orbiting a nearby star similar to the sun is like...when the observer is miles away. Astronomers have to rely on indirect measurements...companions. Two separate groups of astronomers now have accumulated the best ...

Red glimmer reveals most distant galaxy. (astronomers discover collection...

Science News;  March 21, 1998 ;     463 words ...Astronomers have glimpsed a galaxy so far from Earth that it ranks as the most distant...the universe formed, according to some estimates. The team of observational astronomers will report the findings in May in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. Astronomers have been searching for primordial galaxies for ...

Astronomers Find Residue from Stars

AP Online;  March 23, 2001 ;     561 words ......Science Writer AP Online 03-23-2001 Astronomers Find Residue from Stars WASHINGTON...third of universe's ``missing matter,'' astronomers say. A survey of images taken of the...percent of the missing matter sought by astronomers for 70 years. ``This is a previously...

Astronomers sweep away cosmic dust; reveal more and younger galaxies

AP Online;  July 15, 1998 ;     614 words ......Science Writer AP Online 07-15-1998 Astronomers using a sensitive new instrument have...Researchers say the discoveries by astronomers at the University of Edinburgh Royal...telescopes. The discoveries demonstrate that astronomers may have been missing a vital, formative...

Science: Satellite Data Sheds New Light on the Sun and Nearby Stars

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 24, 2008 ;     523 words ......the physical vibrations and surface characteristics of nearby stars that are similar to the Sun, researchers say. This novel...the great value of space-based observations and provides astronomers with insights into the interior of the Sun, other stars...Rotation and Planetary Transits). They determined ...