Sentences with phrase «while most astronomers»

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.

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

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While peering through one of the clusters, Abell 2744, astronomers recently found a candidate for one of the most distant galaxies known, a toddler growing up about 500 million years after the Big Bang.

Since the postwar period, these OSPs in astronomy have been common U.S. practice, and while they have mostly been ius non scriptum, they have been alluded to in reports of the NSF's Division of Astronomical Sciences, 8 and largely followed by federally funded agencies (NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, for example, among the most expensive U.S. astronomical facilities, 9 is open to any astronomer in the world10).

While Persian astronomers were the first to catalogue the Andromeda galaxy, only in the last five years that we have studied in exquisite detail the most distant suburbs of the Andromeda galaxy via the Pan-Andromeda Archaeological Survey (PAndAS), undertaken with the Canada - France - Hawaii Telescope and measured with the Keck Observatory, providing our first panoramic view of our closest large companion in the cosmos.

The superior sensitivity of the latest generation of ground - based instruments has allowed astronomers to discover a wealth of exoplanets (most of them in multi-planetary systems) around red dwarfs, while overturning our conventional notions and expectations regarding planetary formation and evolution processes around metal - poor stars.

While most astronomical sources still list a distance from Sol of 47.3 light - years (ly)-- apparently as estimated in the early 1970s — for the CM Draconis system, some astronomers studying the star more recently have been citing a revised distance of 54 to 55 ly away.

[9] While ice is not the only possible cause of these reflective regions, astronomers believe it is the most likely.

Astronomer Vera Rubin, while observing the spin of galaxies, first noted that most of the matter in galaxies can not be seen.

While the mystery of KIC 8462852's brightness variations is still far from settled, a new study by a team of astronomers that has utilised NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggests that the culprit is most probably a huge swarm of cometary fragments that revolve around the star on highly elongated eccentric orbits.

While the comet will not collide with the sun, most astronomers say the odds are rather long that it will remain intact after its closest pass by the sun.

While most people tend to think of Green Bank as hiring scientists and astronomers, it takes a village to run the scientific and educational programs.

Most of the NSF's support for astronomers comes through the Division of Astronomical Sciences, while some funding comes through the Division of Physics.