Sentences with phrase «most astronomers»

Most astronomers thought that most solar systems looked like our own.

After this point, most astronomers agree that the universe will continue to expand, cooling and losing energy in the process.

Most astronomers do not encounter unusual hazards in their work.

Yet most astronomers are not primarily interested in practical uses.

Most astronomers now believe that the sun was born in a cloud of gas and dust full of other young stars.

Most astronomers agree that the majority of the matter in the universe is dark matter, which is invisible.

The Universe could be more than twice as old as most astronomers believe and be destined to collapse in a «big crunch» in 79 billion years.

Some astronomers argue that there is evidence that quasars are actually relatively close to the earth and therefore are not nearly as bright as most astronomers believe.

Before Einstein, most astronomers assumed, as with DI Herculis, that a third body would make the orbit conform to Newton's equations.

The team has also found evidence to silence a minority of sceptics who argue that what most astronomers take to be microlensing events are actually caused by natural variations in the intrinsic brightness of the stars being observed.

But Young - Wook Lee of Yonsei University Observatory in Seoul, South Korea, says most astronomers have been looking in the wrong place.

Most astronomers in the consortium won't need to travel to SALT itself; they will submit observational requests via the Internet.

While most astronomers suspected that Eris was bigger than Pluto, no one was sure.

Today, most astronomers probably refer to this star by its designation of «Gl 438» in the famous Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars (CNS, now ARICNS database) of Wilhelm Gliese (1915 - 93).

Most astronomers refuse to embrace MOND.

Most astronomers felt that some common physical explanation underlay both the jets and the outflows.

Ask most astronomers where to find the oldest stars in the galaxy and they'll tell you to look at globular clusters, dense knots of stars that hover above and below the plane of the Milky Way.

The work suggests that some planetary systems were born billions of years before most astronomers thought the universe had spawned the raw materials needed to make them.

An Asteroid with a Secret Inside When McCord and his colleagues picked apart the geochemistry of the Vesta fragments, starting in the early 1970s, they confirmed a startling implication of Vesta observations: The asteroid couldn't have the simple, uniform structure that most astronomers of the time expected.

But most astronomers like leap seconds.

At the time, even most astronomers weren't interested in this weird, tiny orb on the fringe of the solar system.

The debate has sputtered along intermittently ever since, with some observers detecting patterns in red shifts but most astronomers dismissing these as mere coincidences caused by the lack of accurate red shift data.

Though most astronomers regard the question as either irrelevant or unanswerable, in Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang (Doubleday, $ 24.95) Steinhardt and Turok try to provide an answer.

Dramatic images of dried - up floodplains and apparent riverbeds have most astronomers convinced that liquid water once gushed on Mars, perhaps supporting ancient life.

But at present, the value of W is uncertain by a factor of 10, with most astronomers putting it somewhere between 0.1 and 1.0.

The reason most astronomers had assumed black holes were powering ULXs is that these X-ray sources are so incredibly bright.

Zapped with cosmic rays and ultraviolet light, the space between the stars is so hostile that most astronomers once thought it couldn't possibly harbor something as fragile as molecules.

Interest in these calculations waned among most astronomers when it became apparent that the lion's share of the synthesis of elements heavier than helium must have occurred inside stars rather than in a hot big bang.

Galaxies would collide, and stars and galaxies would achieve velocities that, today, baffle most astronomers.

Most astronomers concentrate on a particular question or area of astronomy, for example, planetary science, solar astronomy, the origin and evolution of stars, or the formation of galaxies.

Until New Horizons arrived at the dwarf planet in July 2015, most astronomers believed heavy ions from Pluto's atmosphere would quickly be lost to space.

Today, most astronomers agree that Planet X, as Lowell defined it, does not exist.»

Most astronomers assume that the gas is heated by the magnetic field that pervades the corona.

Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, says the new results confirm what most astronomers had predicted: Pluto's thin atmosphere is cooling as the planet moves away from the Sun and will eventually disappear as the gas freezes.

«As we have talked about our work over the last years, most astronomers in the audience reminded us that they had never seen such an event,» said Bildsten.

While most astronomers were trying to find worlds far enough away from their stars to be habitable, Sanchis - Ojeda and colleagues wanted to find out how short a planet's year could be.

Searching for slow - moving, nearly invisible objects in the outer solar system was a laborious and thankless task that most astronomers didn't think was worth the effort.

Most astronomers thought that the plumes force their way out through cracks in an icy crust sitting over a sea of liquid water.

For practical reasons this was extremely fortuitous, as most astronomers had assumed the black hole would be too big to get a good look at, he explains, «like putting your face right next to the wall and trying to describe it.»

Most astronomers believe a spherical cloud of dark matter envelops our galaxy.

Most astronomers believe that the bombardment was caused by shifts in the orbits of the giant planets, which destabilised the asteroid belt, hurling giant rocks our way.

«Most astronomers, myself included, thought we at least knew the members of the Local Group,» says Daniel Zucker of Cambridge University, whose team found the new batch of eight galaxies.

As useful as Webb might be for studying Proxima b, most astronomers are far more optimistic about using a coming generation of ground - based Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs), behemoths with mirrors up to 40 meters wide, scheduled to debut in the mid-2020s.

Most astronomers believe that a quasar is a massive black hole at the centre of a galaxy, greedily sucking in stars and gas, which become so hot that they give off tremendous amounts of energy.

Most astronomers believe that a third star, unobserved as yet, is disturbing the orbit.

Most astronomers believe that they grew to the enormous sizes that we can observe today by feeding mostly on interstellar gas from its surroundings, which is unable to escape its gravitational pull.

Most astronomers think that these objects generate their enormous amounts of energy as gravity and friction heat material that falls into a central «supermassive» black hole.

The cloud may even be much closer than most astronomers think and be part of the debris of a nearby supernova.