Sentences with phrase «by space scientist»

Funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation, Aurorasaurus is a citizen project set up to track the aurora borealis and is led by space scientist Liz MacDonald.

It is reasonable to expect that the research by space scientists using data from the Webb will produce significant advances in understanding the formation and evolution of the oldest stars in our universe, the life cycles of stars, the environmental composition of different exoplanets, and possibilities for living systems on planets circling other stars.

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Although Saturn was visited by three spacecraft in the 1970s and 1980s, my fellow scientists and I couldn't have imagined what the Cassini space probe would discover during its sojourn at the ringed planet when it launched 20 years ago.

The «cosmic ray test» was developed by Silas Beane, a nuclear physicist at the University of Washington, and involves scientists building up a simulation of space using a lattice or grid.

Some scientists fear that the bacteria from planet Earth brought by Elon Musk's Tesla into space may contaminate other worlds.

Scientists who study within the 2 variants of Space, One being Outer and the other being Inner are slowed to rationalize with right - minded fidelity, that Inner Space and Outer Space are but the sameness yet their Sizes of these Spaces are seen only by the material that one sees.

June 4, 2013 — Scientists may not know for certain whether life exists in outer space, but new research from a team of scientists led by a University of South Florida astrobiologist now shows that one key element that produced life on Earth was carried here on mScientists may not know for certain whether life exists in outer space, but new research from a team of scientists led by a University of South Florida astrobiologist now shows that one key element that produced life on Earth was carried here on mscientists led by a University of South Florida astrobiologist now shows that one key element that produced life on Earth was carried here on meteorites.

Our Sun is one star out of about 200 billion stars that make up our Milkyway Galaxy which is no more or less special than any other galaxy scientists have discovered hurling through a vast unimaginably large expanse of space that we call the Universe (which is about 99 % empty space by the way).

Life - Producing Phosphorus Carried to Earth by Meteorites June 4, 2013 — Scientists may not know for certain whether life exists in outer space, but new research from a team of scientists led by a University of South Florida astrobiologist now shows that one key element that produced life on Earth was carried here on mScientists may not know for certain whether life exists in outer space, but new research from a team of scientists led by a University of South Florida astrobiologist now shows that one key element that produced life on Earth was carried here on mscientists led by a University of South Florida astrobiologist now shows that one key element that produced life on Earth was carried here on meteorites.

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.

Founded in 1857, the Chicago Academy of Sciences was founded by nature aficionados and amateur scientists seeking a space where they could study and share the specimens they collected.

Adapting Dean's negotiability dimension to the climate discussion space, we can see that participation may be on issues that are decided by «elites» (whether scientists, politicians, or professional communicators) or are negotiated by all of the participants.

Professor David Southwood of the Royal Astronomical Society warned that «the average space scientist would be concerned by how overstretched the staff are», while the Mullard Space Science Laboratory suggested the resources «may not be up to the ambitions» of the UK governspace scientist would be concerned by how overstretched the staff are», while the Mullard Space Science Laboratory suggested the resources «may not be up to the ambitions» of the UK governSpace Science Laboratory suggested the resources «may not be up to the ambitions» of the UK government.

Instead, Tarlé thinks that scientists can explain the excess positrons by better understanding what happens as cosmic ray particles travel through space.

Second, I will work to further support LGBTQ scientists — whether students, early - career, or otherwise — for example by developing safe spaces by initiating diversity - focused conversations during weekly lab meetings and visible signage on my office.

The group of five planets, all smaller than Neptune, was found by citizen scientists scouring data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, which measures light from distant stars.

IT»S A BIRD... This radar image of the Chinese Tiangong - 1 space station was recently captured by scientists at Germany's Fraunhofer FHR research institute.

Previously, scientists have used Micius to distribute quantum keys between the satellite and the ground, teleport the properties of photons from the ground into space (SN Online: 7/7/17) and produce photons with their properties linked, or entangled, despite being separated by 1,200 kilometers (SN: 8/5/17, p. 14).

Scientists need to learn more about our protective field to understand many natural processes, from those occurring deep inside the planet, to weather in space caused by solar activity.

SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, headed by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, has been in the spotlight with recent test flights of its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon space capsule, which the company hopes to use to run a space taxi service for NASA astronauts to the ISS (New Scientist, 18 December 2010, p 12).

Ravi is the project scientist for the Deep Synoptic Array prototype, which is being constructed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Caltech and funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration through the JPL President's and Director's Fund Program.

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.

«It was accompanied by radio emissions that suggest there's a potential for a CME,» SWPC space scientist Rob Steenburgh told Space.com.

The scientists decided to make a parody of a trailer for a Star Wars movie, but instead of showing starship cruisers hurtling through space towards the Death Star, they chose a biological process with its own built - in narrative: the fertilization of an egg by a sperm, in which millions of sperm race to be the one that succeeds and creates the next generation of life.

Scientists from the University of Edinburgh have discovered that the puzzle could be resolved by determining the speed of gravity in the cosmos from a study of gravitational waves - space - time ripples propagating through the universe.

«The ice cores obtained through international collaborations were critical to the success of this study in that they allowed us to develop records from parts of Antarctica not often visited by U.S. - based scientists,» said co-author Tom Neumann of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who participated in a Norway - U.S. traverse that collected several of the cores used in this study.

Scientists from the University of New Hampshire and colleagues have published comprehensive findings on space - based radiation as measured by a UNH - led detector aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).

For the first time, scientists worldwide and at Penn State University have detected both gravitational waves and light shooting toward our planet from one massively powerful event in space — the birth of a new black hole created by the merger of two neutron stars.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, N.M., developed ChemCam in partnership with scientists and engineers funded by the French national space agency, CNES, the University of Toulouse and research agency, CNRS.

For years, cash - strapped Canadian space scientists have enjoyed success largely by partnering with other countries, an approach that gives them access to large - scale, powerful instrumentation in return for a relatively small investment.

Space scientists from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) report that data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) show lighter materials like plastics provide effective shielding against the radiation hazards faced by astronauts during extended space trSpace scientists from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) report that data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) show lighter materials like plastics provide effective shielding against the radiation hazards faced by astronauts during extended space trspace travel.

«About a third of the gamma - ray objects seen by Fermi remained unknown in the most recent catalog, and this result represents an important advance in understanding their natures,» said David Thompson, a Fermi deputy project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

During three flybys of Enceladus, between April 2010 and May 2012, the scientists collected extremely precise measurements of Cassini's trajectory by tracking the spacecraft's microwave carrier signal with NASA's Deep Space Network.

But today, space weather scientists are reaping such a windfall, as the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has released 16 years of radiation measurements recorded by GPS satellites.

Until then, scientists regarded black holes as simple objects — quite literally holes in space, completely described by just three variables: their mass, spin and charge.

«Some of the most interesting sites will be those that offer fresh material — perhaps exposed by an impact, a crack or plume activity like comets have — and those with diverse material,» said Keiko Nakamura - Messenger, OSIRIS - REx sample site scientist and the deputy lead for curation at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Recording these temperatures continuously can help scientists develop a detailed picture of the physics by which the ocean melts the ice shelves from below, says oceanographer Laurence Padman of Earth & Space Research in Corvallis, Oregon.

But by tinkering with that alignment — spacing it out with other materials or embedding it in a lattice composite at the nanoscale (a nanometer is one billionth of a meter)-- scientists can potentially exponentially increase the strength of these magnets: The stronger the magnet, the fewer of them you need.

The scientists, whose conclusions were published online December 24, 2008, by Advances in Space Research, also point out that chemical processes could even make the silk digestible.

Located in Santa Clara, BioCurious is a co-working space outfitted with science equipment and shared by «scientists, technologists, entrepreneurs, and amateurs who believe that innovations in biology should be accessible, affordable, and open to everyone,» according to its Web site.

Rats usually fear strange open spaces, but having a companion by their side makes the rodents more intrepid, scientists report in the current issue of Animal Cognition.

To better understand these events, scientists led by Aaron Evans of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, US, have trained the Hubble Space Telescope on several dozen spots in the sky where they appear underway, producing a spectacular gallery of these violent but beautiful occurrences.

With a truck - size cargo bay, robotic arm, and — by Apollo standards — palatial crew quarters, the shuttle would be able to carry large satellites for release into orbit, haul up and piece together space - station components, and provide a temporary orbital home for scientists and engineers.

A new simulation created by scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., reveals just how far around the globe such aerosol particles can fly on the wind.

Although apparently highly technical, the piece has been strongly criticised by professional climate scientists, including Gavin Schmidt, of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York.

Following up on the discovery, an international team of scientists led by the Swiss astronomer Vincent Bourrier from the Observatoire de l'Université de Genève, used the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study the amount of ultraviolet radiation received by the individual planets of the system.

Almost all India's space research is headed up by the Bangalore - based Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which employs more than 11,000 scientists and engineers who design, build, and launch satellites for clients from India and overseas while also preparing for India's moon misspace research is headed up by the Bangalore - based Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which employs more than 11,000 scientists and engineers who design, build, and launch satellites for clients from India and overseas while also preparing for India's moon misSpace Research Organisation (ISRO), which employs more than 11,000 scientists and engineers who design, build, and launch satellites for clients from India and overseas while also preparing for India's moon mission.

Four days after its launch on 17 January, the Jason - 3 high - precision ocean altimetry satellite is delivering its first sea surface height measurement data in near - real time for evaluation by engineers from the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), EUMETSAT, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and scientists from the international Ocean Surface Topography Science Team.

Convened last week in Sydney by the Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research, the event brought together mining companies, robotics experts, lunar scientists and government agencies that are all working to make space mining a reaSpace Engineering Research, the event brought together mining companies, robotics experts, lunar scientists and government agencies that are all working to make space mining a reaspace mining a reality.

Scientists are learning how to detect and recognize those waves by studying supercomputer models run at two NASA campuses, the Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California, and the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.