Sentences with phrase «astronomers in»

This places Astronomers in the 95th percentile of salary satisfaction.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope may detect these biosignatures and help astronomers in their quest for life outside Earth.

Netzer, author of Shine Shine Shine, creatively explores this question and other conundrums in the touching story of George and Irene, two quirky astronomers in Toledo who were meant to be together.

The discovery of hot ultraviolet stars in globular clusters proved to be a real surprise to astronomers in the 1970s, who thought that only young, massive stars could shine in the ultraviolet.

Astronomers in the US have discovered an exoplanet with the longest known year, lasting for 704 Earth days.

It was opposed by hundreds of professional astronomers in a formal petition led by New Horizons Principal Investigator Dr. Alan Stern.

The great interest for astronomers in observing the infrared light of the Universe is due to its powers of penetration.

Astronomers In Socorro, a dozen astronomers help support the international users of the VLA and the VLBA through data reduction, project planning, observing advice, and on - site guideance.

The Crab Nebula, the result of a bright supernova explosion seen by Chinese and other astronomers in the year 1054, is some 6,500 light - years from Earth.

Cannan Huey - You, just 11 years old, impressed professional astronomers in January with his research on a massive intergalactic gas cloud.

A group of astronomers in Germany and the Czech Republic observed three stars in a cluster near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

The past decade saw an increase in the contingent of professional astronomers in the United States.

«The American Astronomical Society (AAS) is the largest organization of professional astronomers in the United States.

This expanding cloud of gas surrounding a dying star is known to amateur astronomers in the Southern Hemisphere as the «Eight - Burst» or the «Southern Ring» Nebula.

However, to astronomers in the 18th century and earlier, it wasn't clear that the Milky Way was a galaxy and not just a distribution of stars.

Astronomers in the latter half of the 20th century have made wondrous discoveries, expanding our understanding of the universe and our vision beyond the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.

The aim of the visit was to stimulate collaborations between professional and amateur astronomers in light of the large sky surveys that will come online in the next decade.

Shadows and Silhouettes Kit for amateur astronomers in amateur astronomy clubs in the Night Sky Network to use in their public outreach programs and events.

The discovery of a powerful aurora surrounding a distant failed star may in future aid astronomers in their hunt for habitable planets.

After 12 years of development by a large number of engineers and astronomers in France, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and at ESO, and following an extensive period of demanding work installing and testing this very complex instrument, initial observations have now confirmed that MATISSE is working as expected.

The study was the accumulation of work by approximately 3,600 credited authors — by one estimate more than 10 percent of all the astronomers in the world.

«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.

A team of astronomers in Chile recently tracked the motion of about 400 nearby stars zooming through space.

Astronomers in Japan found evidence for the new object when they turned a powerful telescope in the Atacama desert in Chile towards the gas cloud in the hope of understanding the strange movement of its gases.

At this time, only about 15 % of astronomers in Canada are women, but that's changing because we know that about 25 % of the students in physics and astronomy at university are women.

The astronomers in Chile studied the movements of stars flying through space above our solar system's section of the Milky Way.

Canadian astronomers turn out to be the most highly cited astronomers in the world.

In the mid-1960s, looking at the center of our Galaxy, astronomers in California found the signal of ammonia.

In late September 2010, a group of astronomers in the United States using spectroscopic data from ground - based instruments announced the discovery of a potentially hospitable planet, Gliese 581g, orbiting the star Gliese 581 just 20 light - years away.

This will give astronomers in this country an input into some of the most exciting telescope projects of the next two decades.

He collaborates with many astronomers in the United States and around the world including David Lambert, the current director of McDonald Observatory.

, an association of amateur astronomers in the city of Montpellier, in the south of France.

You can meet some of our volunteer astronomers in our latest pro-am article.

The AAS, with about 7,000 members, is the major organization of professional astronomers in North America.

In December last year, astronomers in Australia discovered a possibly habitable super-earth called Wolf 1061c, a planet 14 million light years away from Earth, located in what scientists call the «Goldilocks» zone.

To astronomers in other nearby galaxies it would be a visible as a bright pink spot on the Sagittarius Arm.

Founded in 1899, the American Astronomical Society is the major professional organization for astronomers in North America.

«By doing this survey and making the results available, we are bringing low - frequency radio data, previously quite difficult to produce, to all astronomers in a simple and easy manner,» Perley said.

Artificial intelligence could help astronomers in the search for alien life, according to new research from Plymouth University in the United Kingdom.

signal: The search for extraterrestrial intelligence got a brief boost in July when astronomers in Puerto Rico announced they had spotted a strange signal coming from a star known as Ross 128.

Provision of advice, guidance and information for astronomers in all countries in the region about IAU programs.

And despite no hope for repairs should any critical parts break, astronomers in Baltimore are optimistic that the «people's telescope» has got at least a few more good years left.

-RRB- is the largest body of professional astronomers in the world and has set up the Office of Astronomy for Development -LRB-

«Ever since Edwin Hubble first started working on the distances to galaxies, back in the late 1920s, the distance to the Virgo cluster has been the primary goal of astronomers in order to derive the Hubble constant.»

The is the implication of work by astronomers in the US who have, for the first time, determined the individual masses of the two worlds.

First developed by British radio astronomers in 1946, arrays make use of several radio telescopes spaced some distance apart, «synthesizing» a single telescope with an aperture equal to the spacing between the farthest elements.

Astronomers in the US claim to have pinpointed the position of the Solar System on the map of our Galaxy (see Diagram).

The international team of astronomers in this study consists of L. Roth (Southwest Research Institute, USA; University of Cologne, Germany), J. Saur (University of Cologne, Germany), K. D. Retherford (Southwest Research Institute, USA), D. F. Strobel (The Johns Hopkins University, USA), P. D. Feldman (The Johns Hopkins University, USA), M. A. McGrath (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, USA), F. Nimmo (University of California, USA).

Earlier this year, astronomers in London detected a spectacular, once - in - a-century supernova (dubbed SN2014J) in a relatively nearby galaxy known as Messier 82 (M82), or the Cigar Galaxy, 12 million light - years away.

(The potentially habitable super-Earth announced by a team of astronomers in September and later questioned by a rival team does not appear to transit, limiting the possibility of such detailed study.)