Sentences with phrase «chance for any astronomer»
It was the last chance for any astronomer alive to see Venus pass across the face of the sun — and it can tell us about planets much, much further away
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He joined the local Black Hills Astronomical Society while still in high school in 1957 and became its president a few years later, before seizing on the chance to work with professional astronomers when he took a job at the University of Arizona as a research technician developing imaging devices for telescopes in 1968.
After unsuccessfully lobbying to change those rules, Illingworth instead helped create a new «Early Release Science» (ERS) program to circumvent them — up to 500 hours of diverse observations front - loaded to Cycle 1 for immediate release to the public, giving all astronomers a chance to absorb the results and apply lessons learned to Webb proposals of their own.
All this may mean there is a better - than - even chance the search will find no planets at all, says Markus Kasper, an astronomer and ESO science lead for the collaboration.
For decades, astronomers found such stars by chance, not realizing the archaeological promise they held.
Because gas is the raw material for creating stars, NGC 253 is literally jettisoning its chances to be as big as it could be; but it's also giving astronomers a ringside seat on a phenomenon that probably puts a lid on galaxy growth throughout the universe.
Astronomers will continue monitoring Fomalhaut b for decades to come because they may have a chance to observe a planet entering an icy debris belt that is like the Kuiper Belt at the fringe of our own solar system.
Astronomers jumped on the chance to check Oumuamua for radio signals that would indicate it was communicating with aliens, but the search has so far found only quiet.
Hunting for habitable exoplanets now may be easier: Cornell University astronomers report that hydrogen pouring from volcanic sources on planets throughout the universe could improve the chances of locating life in the cosmos.