Sentences with phrase «before most astronomers»

The work suggests that some planetary systems were born billions of years before most astronomers thought the universe had spawned the raw materials needed to make them.

Not exact matches

What's most surprising is that we've never seen interstellar objects pass through before,» said Karen Meech, an astronomer at UH's Institute for Astronomy in Honolulu specializing in small bodies and their connection to solar system formation.
Before astronomers determined the distance to GN - z11, the most distant measured galaxy, EGSY8p7, had a redshift of 8.68.
A few decades before a close encounter, at most, astronomers would observe a strange perturbation in the orbits of the outer planets.
Astronomers spotted the black hole, the most distant ever found, sitting inside a bright object so far away that the light had been traveling for 13 billion years before reaching Earth.
I have mentioned before, with great approval (here and here), the English - born mathematician, astronomer and physicist Freeman Dyson, who is 94, and has spent most of his working life at Princeton's Institute of Advanced Study.
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