Sentences with phrase «astronomers understand»

The observations should help astronomers understand more about how and why star formation begins to shut down in a galaxy.

The results will ultimately help astronomers understand how the growth patterns of supermassive black holes change over time — a key factor in the development of black holes and the galaxies that host them.

Studying younger solar systems such as 51 Eridani will help astronomers understand the formation of our neighbor planets, and how common that planet - forming mechanism is throughout the universe.

This helps astronomers understand the underlying force of the blast and the impact such events could have on star formation across the galaxy.

Modern images of the rings of Saturn have helped astronomers understand how unique the individual rings are.

This research provides new information that helps astronomers understand the growth of galaxies and how a galaxy's surroundings fuel star formation.

Planetary atmospheres can block certain wavelengths of light, depending on what kind of chemicals they contain, so the fact that one wavelength of infrared radiation is blocked while another passes through can help astronomers understand that there's not only an atmosphere there, but also provide clues as to what it's made of.

Astronomers understand many things about our place in space quite well.

Its detection helps astronomers understand the chemical processes that occur during the formation of planetary systems and that ultimately lead to the creation of the ingredients for life.

This image confirms the presence of discrete hydrogen clouds in the halo, and could help astronomers understand the origin and evolution of the rarefied atmosphere that surrounds our Galaxy.

Astronomers understand this, too, which is why they're so uncomfortable these days.

A solitary planet in an eccentric orbit around an ancient star may help astronomers understand exactly how such planetary systems are formed.

A still - growing core of a galaxy in the early universe may help astronomers understand how massive elliptical galaxies get their start.

The discovery may help astronomers understand the atmospheres, and ultimately the life - supporting potential, of worlds beyond our solar system.

The Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn has picked up three dozen specks of interstellar stardust, a find that will help astronomers understand how bits of exploded stars are reborn in new star systems.

They are helping astronomers understand stellar evolution and even the ultimate fate of the universe

The discovery could help astronomers understand how the most massive galaxies in the universe are built.

The find — made by the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA)-- could help astronomers understand how early galaxies grew into the ones we observe today.

If the «string - of - pearls» exocomets are indeed fragments of a larger body, they could help astronomers understand the composition of their massive parent, Roberge says.

The improved tally will help astronomers understand the relationship between the size of these radio sources and their age, as well as the nature of the galaxy itself.

Knowing how common Venus - like planets are elsewhere will also help astronomers understand why Earth's atmosphere evolved in ways vastly different from its neighbor.

This close - up view should help astronomers understand how collisions, which were once far more common than they are now, influenced star formation and the evolution of galaxies in the early universe.

The new Vesta photos from the Dawn probe, which NASA unveiled today (Aug. 1), include the spacecraft's first full - frame view of the entire asteroid and should help astronomers understand how the space rock formed in the early solar system, researchers said.

Close observations of Vesta will help astronomers understand the early days of the solar system, as well as the processes that formed and shaped rocky planets like Earth.

A 21 - year study of a pair of ancient stars — one a pulsar and the other a white dwarf — helps astronomers understand how gravity works across the cosmos.

The new flick should help astronomers understand the narrow jets formed by neutron stars and black holes in our galaxy and beyond.

This result helps astronomers understand the workings of the cosmic «thermostat» that controls the launching of radio jets from the supermassive black hole.

This will help astronomers understand the underlying force of the blast, and what impact such events could have on star formation across the galaxy.

A solitary planet in an eccentric orbit around an ancient star may help astronomers understand exactly how such planetary systems are formed.

Not exact matches

Working in concert with LIGO's two detectors, Virgo should help give astronomers an even better understanding of black hole behavior and, by extension, the inner workings of the universe.

Perhaps in the future, astronomers will use this and other new highly detailed images to understand what triggered one of the brightest outbursts in the Milky Way's history.

An astronomer does not «see God» in science by finding some new and rare piece of data that proves God exists as if God were like an alien visiting from another planet, which would be a childish and materialistic understanding of what God is.

This latest research by HKU astronomers promises a new era in our ability to study and understand this fascinating if brief period in the final stages of the lives of low - and mid-mass stars.

Astronomers also want to understand more broadly how supermassive black holes affect the larger galaxies around them.

Based on a culmination of ten years of research work, the new method to estimate more accurate distances between planetary nebulae and the Earth developed by HKU astronomers promises a new era in scientists» ability to study and understand the fascinating if brief period in the final stages of the lives of low - and mid-mass stars.

The new results from SPHERE, along with data from other telescopes such as ALMA, are revolutionising astronomers» understanding of the environments around young stars and the complex mechanisms of planetary formation.

Some astronomers seek to understand the origins of our universe by reconstructing the lives of its oldest sources of light.

The discovery, also reported in a paper accepted to the Astronomical Journal, can also help astronomers better understand the planetary population of our galaxy.

Dust, it turns out, has foiled many astronomers before Keating, adding a confounding haze that has altered how scientists have understood the universe over the centuries.

This new finding fills in a long - missing piece in the puzzle representing our galaxy's chemical evolution, and is a big step forward for astronomers trying to understand the amounts of different chemical elements in stars in the Milky Way.

Another model predicted that cycle 24 would be weaker than recent cycles, but the present model's accuracy in predicting past events and scientists» deeper understanding of the underlying solar physics may give it an edge, according to David Hathaway, a solar astronomer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

But understanding the amounts of lithium observed in stars around us today in the Universe has given astronomers headaches.

THERE was a time when Stéphane Udry and his fellow astronomers thought they understood planets.

Though astronomers still do not know what kinds of events or objects produce FRBs, the discovery is a stepping stone for astronomers to understand the diffuse, faint web of material that exists between galaxies, called the cosmic web.

«The result is almost certainly correct, as predicting the nearly straight - line motion of nearby stars is a well - understood calculation,» says astronomer Adam Burgasser of the University of California, San Diego, who was not involved in the study.

To understand the current, mostly privately funded space race, University of Arizona astronomer Impey begins by looking back.

Armed with a deeper understanding of Kepler's quirks, the astronomers argue they can more easily flag where and how the spacecraft's minor defects could compromise data.

These peculiar galaxies are like a natural experiment played out on a cosmic scale and by cataloguing them, astronomers can better understand the physical processes that warp spiral and elliptical galaxies into new shapes.

In January 2014, astronomers watched a rare supernova light up and began filling in one of the most embarrassing gaps in their understanding of the universe.

Before JWST goes to work, astronomers want to be sure they can understand the data it will gather.