Sentences with phrase «for professional astronomers»

Getting Mercury in the crosshairs of a telescope is as problematic for professional astronomers as it is for amateurs like Melillo.

Not exact matches

«Professional astronomers have long been searching for such an event,» said UC Berkeley astronomer Alex Filippenko, who followed up the discovery with observations at the Lick and Keck observatories that proved critical to a detailed analysis of explosion, called SN 2016gkg.

A group of citizen scientists and professional astronomers, including Carnegie's Jonathan Gagné, joined forces to discover an unusual hunting ground for exoplanets.

He joined the local Black Hills Astronomical Society while still in high school in 1957 and became its president a few years later, before seizing on the chance to work with professional astronomers when he took a job at the University of Arizona as a research technician developing imaging devices for telescopes in 1968.

Amateur astronomers, long major players in ascertaining the exact orbits of asteroids, are likely to play less and less of a role as professionals turn their powerful telescopes to the objects once considered too mundane for academics to study at all.

The estimate was presented at an international workshop on Jupiter for professional and amateur astronomers organised by Europlanet 2020 Research Infrastructure at the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur in Nice, France.

Members of the Planet Hunters citizen science project were the first to notice it when they scoured Kepler's data for transiting worlds overlooked by professional astronomers» automated planet - hunting algorithms.

Branded Dark Sky Parks (DSPs) by the International Dark - Sky Association, these «optically clean» places are a blessing for astronomers, both amateur and professional.

Funding for astronomy is far more limited than that available for cancer research, say, and compared with most other fields of science, the number of professional astronomers is astonishingly small (the membership of the American Astronomical Society would just about fit into Radio City Music Hall).

-RRB- is the largest body of professional astronomers in the world and has set up the Office of Astronomy for Development -LRB-

The Rosetta mission has an opportunity for you, one that will allow you to collaborate with professional astronomers and study a comet in tandem with a real space mission.

Founded in 1899, the American Astronomical Society is the major professional organization for astronomers in North America.

A group of citizen scientists and professional astronomers joined forces to discover an unusual hunting ground for exoplanets.

[43] Some amateur and professional astronomers regularly monitor for outbursts using either optical or radio telescopes.

The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is an organization of both professional and amateur astronomers that has developed a strong outreach and education program for amateur astronomers and the public.

Washington, DC — A group of citizen scientists and professional astronomers, including Carnegie's Jonathan Gagné, joined forces to discover an unusual hunting ground for exoplanets.

Choose from an increasing number of interstellar and intergalactic tours guided by professional astronomers, and be sure to check out one for educators that explains how to use this remarkable resource in the classroom.

Through Galaxy Zoo «citizen scientists» take part in helping professional astronomers assemble valuable data for research and exploration.