The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the technique, called astrometry, involves measuring the motions of a star as an unseen planet tugs the star back and forth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - UPI.com] Reference

One of the biggest requirements arguments was over an exact and usually uninteresting subfield of astronomy called astrometry, the study of how to measure precisely a star’s position in the sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Grand and Bold Thing] Reference

The player above is able to use two of his "astrometry" detection cards on that star.    From Wordnik.com.  [thing-a-day 2010] Reference

The first player organizes his hand by type, for example he may have 3 "astrometry" cards, 2 "pulsar timing" cards, and 2 "direct imaging" cards.    From Wordnik.com.  [thing-a-day 2010] Reference

This is called astrometry; it's really hard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Universe Today] Reference

Mission SIM, which will use astrometry, is planned for 2009.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Speculist: October 2004 Archives] Reference

The astrometry method detects motion from side to side, perpendicular to the observer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exoplanet Not Really There? | Universe Today] Reference

Astronomers expect astrometry to work much better above the distorting effects of the atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exoplanet Not Really There? | Universe Today] Reference

And another American satellite, the Space Interferometry Mission SIM, which will use astrometry, is planned for 2009.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Speculist: September 2004 Archives] Reference

In May 2009, astronomers were jubilant: finally, an extra solar planet had been found by using the method of astrometry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exoplanet Not Really There? | Universe Today] Reference

The cool thing is that Hubble has been keeping itself scientifically busy doing astrometry (high accuracy positional measurements) with the Fine Guidance Sensor.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Update on Hubble] Reference

Using astrometry to look for exoplanets has been around for 50 years, but it hadn't bagged a verified exoplanet – until, astronomers thought, earlier this year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exoplanet Not Really There? | Universe Today] Reference

We present a companion of the \le 2 Myr young classical T Tauri star GQ Lup in the Lupus star forming region at 140 \pm 50 pc from imaging, astrometry, and spectroscopy.    From Wordnik.com.  [NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: April 2005 Archives] Reference

The researchers used astrometry.net to determine the images' positions on the sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

The astrometry pool on Flickr automatically adds labels to the astronomy photos you upload.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily DIY] Reference

Furthermore, a detection of Fomalhaut b in 2009 will provide a crucial third epoch for astrometry.    From Wordnik.com.  [SpaceRef Top Stories] Reference

Some of the star patterns are obscure and would not be detected without something like astrometry. net.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brad Ideas - Comments] Reference

The discovery of a Jupiter-like "exoplanet" orbiting the star VB 10 is the first to be made using the astrometry method.    From Wordnik.com.  [CEO Blog - Time Leadership] Reference

The discovery marks the first time astronomers have used astrometry to find a previously unknown planet, researchers said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

The finding confirms that astrometry could be a powerful planet-hunting technique for both ground - and space-based telescopes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student Operated Press] Reference

At the present time, astrophysics may be said to have absorbed descriptive astronomy, and astrometry necessarily includes practical research.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference

"With astrometry, you can picture it like a teeter-totter," David Charbonneau, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American] Reference

Using astrometry to find exoplanets involves measuring the precise motions of a star on the sky as an unseen planet tugs the star back and forth.    From Wordnik.com.  [CEO Blog - Time Leadership] Reference

Ground-based astrometry has been used for more than a century, but none of the extrasolar planets it has detected has been verified in subsequent studies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily News & Analysis] Reference

Like astrometry, radial velocity detects the wobble of a star, but it measures Doppler shifts in the star's light caused by motion toward and away from us.    From Wordnik.com.  [SPACE.com] Reference

"Unfortunately, astrometry is a very difficult business," said Bean, explaining that Earth's atmosphere can introduce distortions that affect the measurements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily News & Analysis] Reference

They are taught telescope optics, imaging techniques, astronomical photometry to measure the light of stars, and astrometry to determine the orbit of asteroids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entertainment] Reference

Like astrometry, radial velocity detects the "wobble" of a star, but it measures Doppler shifts in the star's light caused by its motion towards and away from us.    From Wordnik.com.  [CEO Blog - Time Leadership] Reference

I adelphia net webmail him of the myxomycota astrometry bounteousness and he acarpelous that it was one of the scholastically contorted cure of his neutralized tigris.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

If you look at astrometry. net’s software, it takes a star map and breaks it up into defined quadrangles of stars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Battlestar Galactica: Watched the Finale? Exclusive Interview With Kevin Grazier, Science Advisor] Reference

Jim’s idea was, the better the astrometry, the better the science; maybe they could measure the motions of stars over time.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Grand and Bold Thing] Reference

For example, it may say, "astrometry: 2".    From Wordnik.com.  [thing-a-day 2010] Reference

Gaia is a global space astrometry mission.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Dr Pepper CEO discusses soft drink links to obesity, taxes] Reference

Added a center grid to the astrometry panel.    From Wordnik.com.  [VersionTracker: Mac OS X] Reference

astrometry problem and, 86.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Grand and Bold Thing] Reference

astrometry, 86.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Grand and Bold Thing] Reference