Sentences with phrase «as astronomers»

Might be interesting to see how frequently Soon and Baliunas, individually, are cited (as astronomers).

Does this phenomenon indicate that the sun is getting hotter as some astronomers believe or is it dependent upon comparatively unimportant changes in the earth's atmosphere?

Many of her installations have been the result of intensive research and collaboration with specialists as diverse as astronomers, nanotechnologists, and firework manufacturers.

The city within the walls was only inhabited by the nobles, high priests and esteemed citizens such as astronomers whereas the lower classes lived in simple wood and thatch huts beyond.

They were recognized for their expertise as astronomers:

As astronomers worldwide are preparing to explore the second data release of ESA's Gaia satellite, the Data Processing and Analysing Consortium announced just how many sources will be included in the new catalogue, which...

But as astronomers find more and more examples of type Ia explosions, including with Kepler, they realize not all are created equal.

As astronomers focused their attention on dark matter, they began to collect additional evidence of its existence.

As astronomers gathered clues about the existence — and staggering amount — of dark matter, they turned to the computer to create models of how the strange stuff might be organized.

«We have named more than 10 times as many craters on the surface of Mars as astronomers have in the last 50 years.»

As astronomers work to learn more about the environment it, a new paper in Astrophysical Journal Letters makes predictions about what would happen to young, highly magnetized stars in Sgr A *'s vicinity.

Though it was far too close to its star to be habitable, scientists said it was a sign that more promising discoveries would be on the way, as astronomers analyze the fourth and final year of data from Kepler, which suffered a malfunction this spring.

But not enough: Galaxies should have about three times as much ordinary matter as astronomers see.

Location, location, and location: the old real - estate adage about what's really important proved applicable to astrophysics as astronomers used the sharp radio vision of the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array to pinpoint the distance to a pulsar.

The old real - estate adage about what's really important proved applicable to astrophysics as astronomers used the sharp radio «vision» of the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) to pinpoint the distance to a pulsar.

Earlier this year, scientists using the European Southern Observatory (ESO) 3.6 m Telescope in Chile discovered the smallest exoplanet - as astronomers call planets that orbit a star other than the Sun - yet.

As astronomers discover previously - unknown exoplanets, many are especially interested in finding worlds within the so - called habitable zone around suns.

Pluto may have recently been demoted to the status of dwarf planet, but as astronomers learn more about this distant body, they are learning it behaves more like a planet than once believed.

The results presented by Lockman suggest that, as some astronomers have predicted, the hot gas in the halo slowly cools and condenses into hydrogen clouds along with wispy filaments that connect them.

As astronomers kept looking at the thing, they didn't spot a comet's trademark coma, the fuzzy blob of gas and dust surrounding a comet's icy core.

The study of alien worlds is entering its next phase as astronomers amass the best planets outside our Solar System to look for signs of life.

As astronomers discovered the first extrasolar planets, it quickly became obvious that the formation theories we'd built around our own solar system were only part of the story.

Packing copious amounts of hydrogen sulfide — the chemical ingredient that gives farts their awful smell — this storm is not behaving as astronomers predicted, with the latest results...

How many stars to expect in Gaia's second data release 05 April 2018 As astronomers worldwide are preparing to explore the second data release of ESA's Gaia satellite, the Data Processing and Analysing Consortium announced just how many sources will be included in the new catalogue, which will be made public on 25 April.

But as astronomers report online today in Nature, the galaxy is losing more gas than this — between three and 30 solar masses per year — as winds, radiation pressure, and supernova explosions from the starburst itself drive gas away.

Now, as astronomers report online today in Nature, they've seen the same phenomenon on a dim sun located 18.5 light years away in the constellation Lyra.

AS ASTRONOMERS dream up elaborate schemes to detect planets orbiting other stars, the signature of one such planet may have been sitting under their noses.

As much as astronomers love new instruments to play with, nothing beats seeing extraterrestrial chemistry in action.

As astronomers studied Allende, they quickly realized they had some of the answers in their hands.

If so, the Kuiper Belt objects might not be as primitive as astronomers thought, says Dale Cruikshank of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.

Now, as astronomers will report in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a star's chances of being born in a cluster depend on how close it is to the galaxy's center.

As the astronomers report online today in Nature, different galaxies gave birth to dramatically different mixes of stars.

As astronomers have gained access to better spectrographs, including one on the Hubble Space Telescope, they have built up a crude three - dimensional map of our locale.

As astronomers learned more about celestial objects, the specter of supernatural influence naturally began to fade.

If a moon disintegrated in Saturn's orbit, as some astronomers have suggested, the rings should be about half ice and half rock.

A distant solar system will be the arena for an unusual celestial arrangement, one sure to please Scrabble players as well as astronomers

However, as astronomers will report in The Astrophysical Journal, a thorough search for the companion, which should have survived the explosion, has turned up nothing.

Now, as astronomers report in work submitted to The Astrophysical Journal, they've used data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft to study seven planet - hosting stars, finding no moons at all.

Now, as astronomers will report in an upcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal, a third and smaller giant — similar in mass to Uranus — orbits beyond the others.

As astronomers report online today in Nature, magnetic fields inside M33's six most massive giant molecular clouds — large concentrations of dense gas and dust that give birth to stars — line up with the spiral arms, suggesting the magnetic fields helped create the huge clouds and that they regulate how the clouds fragment to form new stars.

These wild swings indicated that the material from the accretion disk was falling onto the neutron star in fits and starts, rather than in a long and constant stream as astronomers theorized.

Low - surface - brightness galaxies, as astronomers call them (dim being too simple a word), are not new.

Normally that's no problem, as astronomers can study a galaxy's light to learn how far away it is and how fast it's moving.

As astronomers report online today in Nature, the Herschel Space Observatory has discerned a watery spectral line at the far - infrared wavelength of 538 microns.

As compelling as the technique is, it has yet to deliver any detections, although the likelihood of success grows over time as astronomers incorporate more pulsars into their observations.

New theoretical models show that hydrogen in white dwarfs should emit blue light, not red as astronomers once thought.

However, such a simple task becomes increasingly hard as astronomers attempt to count the more distant and fainter galaxies.

Collectively, the findings support the notion that type Ia supernovas suffer from «stellar amnesia,» meaning that they «forget» the specifics of their earlier selves and become largely identical once they go off — just as astronomers hoped.

So when it comes to forming these explosions, a lack of metals may not be as important as astronomers had thought.

As astronomers presented new planetary measurements and observing techniques at the conference, Kepler engineers in California were strategizing about how to remotely repair one of two broken reaction wheels that precisely point the telescope.