Sentences with phrase «easier for astronomers»

In February 2017, pinpointing the locations of FRBs will become much easier for astronomers with the commissioning of the Deep Synoptic Array prototype, an array of 10 radio dishes at Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory in California.

In part because of their immense numbers, such stars are in some respects easier for astronomers to study.

Typically, stars are characterized by how much iron they contain, because iron is a relatively common element and is almost always the easiest for astronomers to detect.

They will be easiest for astronomers to study again with the even higher - powered telescopes they'll need to start understanding what the planets look like — and, for example, whether they might be attractive to life.

Not exact matches

Astronomers expect TESS to find about 20,000 planets in its first two years in operation, focusing on nearby, bright stars that will be easy for other telescopes to investigate later.

Discovering molecules like amino acetonitrile is a big deal, because it's not easy for them to materialize in the extreme temperatures of space, says radio astronomer Anthony Remijan of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia: «Too hot and they are destroyed, too cold and they can't form.»

Jennifer Yee, an astronomer at the Harvard — Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and KMTNet team member, says that longer monitoring would make it easier to detect the signals of rogue Earths — and to distinguish them from confounding effects such as stellar flares, which can mimic ultrashort microlensing events.

So that's made it easy for — and the reason I say radio astronomy is because I'm following this one specific group of radio astronomers for another project and I've seen how off - the - shelf consumer electronics has really made their mission possible.

«Amazingly, even though the sky is known to be full of transient objects emitting at X - and gamma - ray wavelengths,» NRL astronomer Dr. Joseph Lazio pointed out, «very little has been done to look for radio bursts, which are often easier for astronomical objects to produce.»

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.