Sentences with phrase «most astronomers now»

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

Not exact matches

Astronomers conducting a galactic census of planets in the Milky Way now suspect most of the universe's habitable real estate exists on worlds orbiting red dwarf stars, which are smaller but far more numerous than stars like our Sun.

So with access to these and other facilities, Canadian astronomers can now work in most of the subfields of astronomy, although planetary science is still underrepresented.

That is exactly how astronomers now believe most black holes form.

Astronomers craving their first image of a planet beyond our solar system now have fresh targets to explore: newly identified siblings of Beta Pictoris, the most famous dust - shrouded star in the sky.

This might all sound like rather circumstantial evidence, but most (not all) astronomers now agree that the evidence is strong enough to accept that black holes exist.

Now astronomers know that Circinus X-1, one of the Milky Way's most bizarre objects, is 30,700 light - years from Earth.

Most professional astronomers now work that way too, operating telescopes remotely with computers and rarely looking through an eyepiece.

Astronomers now know that the Sun is in such a bubble, which extends 100 light years in most directions.

Lead researcher Dr David Clements, from the Department of Physics at Imperial College London, explains: «Although we're able to see individual galaxies that go further back in time, up to now, the most distant clusters found by astronomers date back to when the universe was 4.5 billion years old.

Astronomers now know that most stars do form in groups, forged from the same cloud of gas that collapsed in on itself due to the attractive force of gravity.

Astronomers now develop their theories mindful that Earth most likely occupies an ordinary, unprivileged place in the cosmos.

Now, astronomers have found the most distant gravitational lens yet.

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).

Working with fellow Carnegie astronomer George Preston, Shectman conducted an objective - prism survey for the oldest and most «metal - poor» stars in the halo of the Milky Way galaxy, and helped to provide the foundation for the study of what is now called near - field cosmology.

These investigations would help astronomers and engineers design and plan for the most efficient receivers best suited to the large telescopes that now dominate the Green Bank site.

By now, most of this raw material has probably been gobbled up by the two galaxies, but astronomers suspect that some primitive clouds are still floating free.

The skies of HAT - P - 7b are decorated with clouds made of ruby and sapphire, KELT - 9b is hotter than most stars, and now astronomers have noticed something strange about a gas giant called WASP - 19b.

Astronomers now believe, however, that GRBs seems so powerful because most of their energy is being beamed out of bi-polar jets in a brief burst, unlike the later stage of a supernova when neutrinos are emitted from all around the exploding star.

But astronomers are now reporting the discovery of a remarkable system of three planets orbiting Gliese 581, including the most earth - like planet found beyond our solar system.