Sentences with phrase «other astronomers thought»
According to Ed Weiler, NASA's project scientist at headquarters for the EUVE, «Other astronomers thought he was crazy.»
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Seeing Red Astronomers think MU69 is part of this cold classical population because of its location in the solar system and because its reddish hue matches the Hubble Space Telescope's catalog of thousands of other such objects.
For nearly 100 years, astronomers have tried to understand how the Milky Way and other spiral galaxies formed these dramatic patterns — and now they think they finally have the answer.
«Comets retain a record of conditions from the early solar system, but astronomers think some comets might preserve that history more completely than others,» said Michael DiSanti, an astronomer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author of the new study in the Astronomical Journal.
Astronomers think the tail will help them probe the star's evolution over the past 30,000 years, and the discovery raises the possibility that other stars sport such features.
Astronomers once thought SMBHs with their intense gravitational pull indiscriminately devoured all sorts of stars, dust and other matter in epic amounts.
Although astronomers have detected other EKOs whose orbits lie mostly 50 AUs, these objects have very eccentric orbits, and almost all eventually move inward to within 38 AUs of the Sun, which place them within Neptune's gravitational reach and so these EKOs are generally thought to have been scattered out to their present orbits by a gravitational slingshot with Neptune to become part of the «Scattered Disk.»
Some astronomers think the Earth's gravity snagged the wandering Moon and trapped it in orbit, while others think the two formed together.
At 7:41 a.m. local Livingston time that morning, the Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope, LIGO Hanford and the Virgo gravitational wave detector in Europe had all detected two incredibly dense objects called neutron stars smashing into each other — an event some astronomers thought they would have to wait years or even decades to see.
Other astronomers have looked for this x-ray source but thought little of it, just labeling it p1 and leaving it up to later study — it wasn't clear whether the x-rays were coming from inside or behind the supernova remnant.