Sentences with phrase «by space observations»

The perspective provided by space observations is crucial for monitoring global change and for providing data needed to develop an understanding of the Earth system.

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And that has led to the observation that the fast food space may currently be marked by a good deal of momentum - driven sentiment.

Only with the dawn of the space age in the 20th century has it been possible for humans to travel far enough into space to verify by direct observation that the earth is a globe.

We know that sea levels are increasing thanks to the satellite observations, collated by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, as well as coastal tide gauge records monitored by Australia's leading science body, the CSIRO.

I should be very willing to believe that each permanent space is either uniformly elliptic or uniformly hyperbolic, if any observations are more simply explained by such a hypothesis.

«Mammon Ascendant» deserves a paragraph - by - paragraph refutation, but in the interest of space, I'll limit my comments to a narrow set of observations — some of which David Bentley Hart will likely find heretical.

In the section on tape - measure shots, for example, we have this observation by former Yankees pitching great Lefty Gomez: «When Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon, he and all the space scientists were puzzled by an unidentifiable white object.

Like the observations about the potential for Christian and Dele to exploit the space left by Baines in particular.

Using observations by the Hubble Space Telescope, the research team has for the first time found young populations of stars within globular clusters that have apparently developed courtesy of star - forming gas flowing in from outside of the clusters themselves.

Follow - up observations taken at Weryk's request by astronomer Marco Micheli, using a European Space Agency telescope in the Canary Islands, only deepened the mystery.

The Hubble Deep Field (HDF) is an image of a small region of the sky, based on the results of a series of observations by the Hubble Space Telescope.

«Observations with multiple space telescopes have revealed that, while other neutron stars spin multiple times a minute, this object rotates only once about every 6.5 hours — making it by far the slowest - spinning star in its class discovered to date,» said David Burrows, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State.

This intriguing fingerprint quickly triggered additional observations by teams of astronomers worldwide who obtained observing time with additional space observatories including NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR).

By combining observations from the ground and in space, the team observed a plume of low - energy plasma particles that essentially hitches a ride along magnetic field lines — streaming from Earth's lower atmosphere up to the point, tens of thousands of kilometers above the surface, where the planet's magnetic field connects with that of the sun.

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Thanks to about a thousand hours of observation by the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have compiled a dark matter map of a tiny slice of the sky, about two square degrees of the entire sky's 40,000 - square - degree span.

Dark energy — a hidden type of energy embedded in empty space, whose existence is strongly confirmed by recent observations — is crucial because quantum physics says that any energy field will always yield random fluctuations.

That's the lesson from new observations by the Hubble Space Telescope, which has spotted the signs of midsize black holes at the hearts of ancient stellar swarms called globular clusters.

A Voyage to the Moon — a satirical account of a space voyage, often cited as the first science fiction story — was written by the real Cyrano de Bergerac in 1649, just 40 years after Galileo's first telescopic observations of the moon.

It would focus on the composition and thickness of the ocean, already reckoned to be briny and rich in magnesium salts following previous observations of seeps to the surface by other space probes flying nearby.

In addition to the Hubble portraits, the survey includes observations by the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the ultraviolet GALEX satellite.

To settle the matter as quickly as possible, the Space Telescope Science Institute moved up the fourth Hubble observation of Fomalhaut b by a few months.

The Deep Space Network, managed by JPL, is an international network of antennas that supports interplanetary spacecraft missions and radio and radar astronomy observations for the exploration of the solar system and the universe.

But new observations by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope now indicate that these distance estimates may be influenced by unexpected properties of cepheids.

He notes one caveat: The analysis hinges on the assumption that space is «flat» — an assumption supported by observations, but not yet confirmed.

In an upcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal, astronomers report observations by the heat - seeking instruments aboard the Spitzer Space Telescope, which show the planet's hottest region is located near its twilight zone — the line bisecting the day and night sides.

«Our observation that within these crystals, two side - by - side layers can slip or slide across to create space for guests suggests that these MOFs are actually smarter than we thought because they can respond to external stimuli without losing their crystallinity,» says Hor.

«We are going to observe Saturn again in May 2017 and hope to investigate the nature of Saturn's rings further by taking advantages of observations with space missions and ground - based telescopes.»

Observations of Callisto's near - space environment by instruments on board the spacecraft Galileo, which is orbiting Jupiter, lead us to believe that there is such a sub-surface ocean.

In the simulation, they found that over decades colonies would appear and disappear (much like observations of actual fairy circles) and that they would eventually self - organize into regularly spaced honeycomb patterns, with each colony surrounded by six others.

Recently, this paradigm had been challenged by far - infrared / sub-millimeter observations brought about by the advent of space observatories like Herschel and ground based interferometers like the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA).

The observations validate recent simulations by research groups at Princeton, Oxford, and Rutgers universities, which suggest that as the Milky Way's spiral arms and galactic bar travel in space, they can gravitationally deflect stars into streams that run inward or outward from the galactic core, like spokes in a wheel.

Led by astrophysicist Paul Crowther of the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom, the group sifted through observations taken by the Hubble Space Telescope earlier in this decade and combined them with new images by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Cerro Paranal, Chile.

The discovery sprang from an observation by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which spotted the infrared glow of a band of dust near a bright star called Eta Corvi.

But new observations by Herschel, a far infrared space observatory operated by the European Space Agency, show that massive elliptical galaxies can form from the merger of two large galaspace observatory operated by the European Space Agency, show that massive elliptical galaxies can form from the merger of two large galaSpace Agency, show that massive elliptical galaxies can form from the merger of two large galaxies.

Now, a team led by Joshua Bloom of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena has found this faint supernova signature in recent Hubble Space Telescope observations of GRB 011121.

Some of this debris was thought to lurk within a few light - years of the sun and generate x-rays that have been detected by space probes and ground - based observations.

«By mixing [the data from] these instruments, we'll get information about the current star formation rate, but we'll also get information about the star formation history,» explained Hans Ulrik Nørgaard - Nielsen, an astronomer at the Danish Space Research Institute in Denmark and the principal investigator for the proposed observations.

What's more, observations by NASA's Kepler space telescope suggest that between 5 and 10 per cent of planetary systems cram several planets closer to their host star than Mercury is to the sun.

Observations by the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope have taken advantage of gravitational lensing to reveal the largest sample of the faintest and earliest known galaxies in the Universe.

To determine just how far away they are, researchers will combine the information from the Hubble images with observations taken by NASA's Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes, which see in infrared and x-ray light, respectively.

But new observations by the Hubble Space Telescope, published online today in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, remove any remaining doubt.

This is the first detection of the roughly half of the normal matter in our universe — protons, neutrons and electrons — unaccounted for by previous observations of stars, galaxies and other bright objects in space.

You end up with this interesting observation where you get both floods and droughts just by taking the usual precipitation pattern and doing a shift,» said George Huffman, a research meteorologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Other winners include work on induced pluripotent stem cells and regenerative medicine, which gets a 40 % increase to $ 69 million, and space - related research, including Earth observation, which will go up by 36 % to $ 631 million.

Observations by Zach Berta - Thompson at the University of Colorado at Boulder last year hinted that GJ 1132b was surrounded by a cloud of neutral hydrogen — a sign it was losing its gas to space, which may render it uninhabitable.

The findings come from a new analysis of observations made by the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes.

This work is based on observations made with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), managed and controlled by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md..

This observation coincides with the theory of neuronal recycling, developed by Stanislas Dehaene, and which stipulates that advanced cultural cognitive processes, such as mathematics, recycle ancient evolutionary brain functions, such as a sense of number, space and time.

A team led by astronomer Paul Kalas of the University of California, Berkeley, detected a planetary candidate orbiting Fomalhaut, a star 25 light - years away in the constellation Pisces Australis (the Southern Fish), using visible - light observations from the Hubble Space Telescope.