Sentences with phrase «about other astronomers»

Female astronomers it turns out knew both about his reputation and about other astronomers, learning they needed to share this information with each other to know who to avoid.

Not exact matches

Early in Einstein's career, astronomers didn't know about other galaxies.

TrES - 4 and other oddball planets among the 250 or so discovered in the past 12 years are challenging, even revolutionizing, astronomers» assumptions about how planets and planetary systems form.

On the other are astronomers reveling in a grassroots priority - setting exercise — unprecedented for China — who have doubts about the ambitious design and favor something simpler.

Pinpointing the sources of gravitational waves will allow astronomers to point other telescopes their way, boosting the chances of learning more about them via x-rays, gamma - rays, radio waves, neutrinos and more.

Astronomers expect TESS to find about 20,000 planets in its first two years in operation, focusing on nearby, bright stars that will be easy for other telescopes to investigate later.

Astronomers are back in the dark about what dark matter might be, after new observations showed the mysterious substance may not be interacting with forces other than gravity after all.

By measuring those rising and falling «light curves,» Kepler will give astronomers valuable information about planets orbiting other stars — including exoplanets in far - out orbits that other techniques can't detect — and even free - floating planets that don't orbit stars at all.

Still, the burst puts scientists closer to the first generation than ever before: It is about 150 million years older than any other known astrophysical object, says astronomer Nial Tanvir of the University of Leicester in England, the lead author of one of the new Nature papers.

Visible light can't pierce Venus's thick shroud of clouds, so most of what astronomers know about the planet's surface comes from observations in radar and other wavelengths.

In 1933, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky suggested the existence of dark matter when he found that the galaxies in a particular cluster swirl about each other too fast to be bound by their gravity alone.

Since first observing a planet orbiting a star other than our sun in 1992, astronomers have made definitive sightings of about 1000 «exoplanets» and have identified a further 3000 to 4000 candidate exoplanets.

Cities Around Other Stars The reality is that astronomers barely know the basics about Kuiper belt objects, much less whether they harbor life.

Other astronomers are seeking out additional archival measurements of the star's brightness to learn more about its long - term dimming.

Astronomers have argued for 2 decades about whether there might be other quasars hidden by dust, as are some nearby nonquasar black holes.

And astronomer and geologist Peter Schultz talks about his chosen method of learning about the universe — smashing things into each other.

Astronomers believe the bullets, which are about 10 times the size of our solar system, are clumps of iron atoms (bright blue tips) and other gas ejected from within the nebula after an unknown violent event.

«With transits we can learn much more about the planets than with any other method to find planets,» says lead study author Hans Deeg, an astronomer at Spain's Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands.

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).

Astronomers have uncovered about 10 other galaxy candidates at this early era.

FRB 121102 is unique: astronomers have seen it flash about 30 times but the others only once.

But what would astronomers say about a planet by any other name?

That measurement was surprising because it doesn't match what astronomers know about other Neptune - mass exoplanets.

The distance to NGC 4414, 19.1 megaparsecs or about 60 million light - years, along with similarly determined distances to other nearby galaxies, contributes to astronomers» overall knowledge of the rate of expansion of the universe.

However, later observations by other astronomers using interferometric astrometry and recent radial velocity data found no evidence to support the existence of a companion greater than 0.8 Jupiter mass with an orbital period around Proxima Centauri of between one and about 2.7 years (Benedict et al, 1999).

Though astronomers have discovered thousands of planets orbiting other stars, very little is known about how they are born.

A new study by astronomers at University of California at Berkeley shows when it comes to planets, smaller means more, a finding that has strong implications for the prospects of relatively puny planets like Earth appearing in other solar systems.like So far, the smallest extrasolar planets found to date are about two to three times Earth's mass, but a random survey of 166 nearby stars shows the extended family of planets is fairly robust.

Other radio astronomers are working to answer myriad questions about dark matter, fast radio bursts, and much more.

Subsequently, however, an even more distant quasar with a tentative redshift of z = 6.40 was announced on January 9, 2003, near the SDSS detection limit of a redshift of z ~ 6.5 for bright quasars, and other teams of astronomers detected even more distant, fast - star - forming irregular proto - galaxies, including: gravitationally - lensed HCM 6A behind galaxy cluster Abell 370 with a redshift of z ~ 6.56, which appears to be converting about 40 Solar - masses into stars annually; (PhysicsWeb; IFA press release; Hu et al, 2002, in pdf; and erratum); and the possible «superwind - galaxy» LAE J1044 - 0130 (Subaru press release; and Ajiki et al, 2002, in pdf).

I'm also grateful for the other astronomers at Carnegie, who were always happy to talk with me about science beyond my specific research project.

The radio observations have revealed a size of the fireball, unobtainable by any other technique, thereby enabling astronomers to learn about inner workings of such objects,» said Shri Kulkarni, professor of astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

In an effort to learn more about dark matter, astronomers observed how galaxy clusters collide with each other — an event that could hold clues about the mysterious invisible matter that makes up most of the mass of the universe.

In case of P13, which lies on the outskirts of the galaxy NGC7793, about 12 million light years from Earth, astronomers found the black hole to be more luminous than other black holes.

Astronomers believe that many of these objects have collided and merged with each other over time to grow into the giant and luminous galaxies seen today (more on 18 galaxies about 11 billion ly away).

Students explore the simple mathematics behind light and other forms of electromagnetic energy including the properties of waves, wavelength, frequency, the Doppler shift, and the various ways that astronomers image the universe across the electromagnetic spectrum to learn more about the properties of matter and its movement.

Our own astronomers ruminate about ideas such as the origins of the universe and how the various celestial bodies are related to each other.

Wolfgang Tillmans invited leading astronomer Dimitar Sasselov to discuss his involvement in the NASA Kepler mission to find other Earth - like planets, and to explore some of his unanswered questions about light, the beginning of infinity, the edge of visibility and our perception of colour.

Wolfgang Tillmans invited leading astronomer Dimitar Sasselov to discuss his involvement in the NASA Kepler mission to find other Earth - like planets, and to explore some of his unanswered questions about light, the beginning of infinity, the edge of