Sentences with phrase «drives of astronomers»

The data they collect are distributed through professional journals and preserved on the hard drives of astronomers scattered around the globe.

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In 1998 astronomers discovered that the expansion rate of the universe was increasing, driven by an unknown repulsive force.

These may help astronomers unravel what drives the solar wind, the stream of charged particles that flows from the sun and permeates the solar system.

Schaefer and a group of other astronomers will start out near Casper, Wyo., but they're ready to jump in the car and drive anywhere else along the eclipse path if it looks like it might be cloudy.

The mirror is the brainchild of astronomer Roger Angel, whose boyish face masks a competitiveness that drove him to engage in one - upmanship with rival mirror makers.

To date, astronomers have identified four objects suspected of either collision - or rotation - driven activity.

The astronomers can then compare the outflow mass with the velocities at various locations in the bubbles to determine the amount of energy needed to drive the outburst and possibly the origin of the explosive event.

And it was the beginning of a golden age for astronomers: a perfect trifecta of advances in electronic instrumentation, computing power, and engineering were assembling to produce a new generation of telescopes — one that would radically change the way we understood the cosmos and the forces that drive it.

The astronomers then used this map to make one of the most precise measurements yet of the dark energy currently driving the accelerated expansion of the universe.

For this study, the scientists had one driving question, said UC Berkeley astronomer and lead author Erik Petigura: Among all these different types of planets, how common were the ones that were sized like Earth?

And in this culture of test - driven insanity I take solace in When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer:

Caroline had often assisted her father with his observations, in pursuit of an unknown planet; when astronomer William Herschel discovered Uranus, Caroline could only watch helplessly as unremitting jealousy drove Arthur to madness.