Sentences with phrase «attention of astronomer»
Investigating the flashes, Marshak and his colleagues found that similar reflections from our pale blue dot caught the attention of astronomer Carl Sagan in 1993.
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LCO's speed and flexibility have caught the attention of astronomers and their funders.
Images of Pluto's «heart» grabbed the attention of astronomers and the general public alike as the New Horizons spacecraft prepared for its high - velocity flyby.
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Even the best astronomers of the day stumbled when they turned their attentions Earthward.
They are named after the Dutch - American astronomer Bart Bok, who first drew attention to them in the 1940s as possible sites of star formation.
In the second half of last year the blazar CTA 102, which is 7,600 million light years from Earth, brightened considerably, drawing the attention of all the astronomers who specialise in this kind of objects.
As scientists prepare to catch their first gravitational waves, attention is turning to devices that will let astronomers peek into the invisible interiors of black holes and observe the forbidden, early history of time
As soon as it was discovered, the cluster drew the attention of a team of astronomers led by Michael McDonald of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research in Cambridge.
The upside of all the public attention, Wright says, is that it has lured many astronomers to work on Tabby's Star «precisely because all the «aliens» talk annoyed them, and they wanted to find a natural explanation.»
Mars is all over the media these days, grabbing attention because of its Earth - like qualities, but if you look just at vital statistics you might wonder if astronomers are focusing on the wrong planet.
In this context, it has been argued that the IAU is «an institutional and ideological expression of scientific diplomacy» 3 and that astronomers «behaved like ambassadors of their own country» and wanted to be at the «center of attention in scientific and diplomatic negotiations.»
This remarkable phenomenon has attracted the attention of many astronomers (equally both professionals and amateurs), who observe galaxies regularly as they «hunt» supernovae.
As astronomers focused their attention on dark matter, they began to collect additional evidence of its existence.
Climate naysayer Steven Goddard (aided by his quasi-publicist, Marc Morano) has focused attention on a quirky New York Times report from 1881 on an astronomer's worries about climate disruption from a shift in the inclination of the axis of the Earth:
Since it occurred immediately after the invention of the telescope, astronomers had no idea that the lack of sunspots were unusual and did not give it much attention.