Sentences with phrase «for astronomers from»

To foster and recognize excellence in astronomy and provide opportunities for astronomers from historically underrepresented groups, the AAS awards grants to enable astronomers to travel to attend meetings and or conduct research.

«We are keen to start scientific observations for astronomers from all over the world», says ALMA Director, Thijs de Graauw.

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Please, any Christian, honestly answer the following: The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.

For example, from the time of 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, the earth was viewed as the center of the universe, called the geocentric theory, with the sun and planets revolving around it.

Astronomers estimate the age of the universe in two ways: 1) by looking for the oldest stars; and 2) by measuring the rate of expansion of the universe and extrapolating back to the Big Bang; just as crime detectives can trace the origin of a bullet from the holes in a wall.

Rees's eligibility for the prize originates from his looking at the «big questions» of the universe from an astronomer's stand - point.

The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.

For the first time ever, an asteroid or comet from another star has been caught hurtling through our solar system, astronomers announced late Thursday.

In the case of GRB 990123, astronomers were able for the first time to obtain a record of the event from a variety of instruments as its radiation reached Earth.

For instance, astronomers have traditionally estimated the distances to remote galaxies using a spectrometer, which divides light from an object into its constituent wavelengths.

Bizarrely, the supernovae appeared to be farther away from Earth than anybody had anticipated, implying that the cosmos was altogether bigger than astronomers had bargained for, as though gravity's pulling power was somehow being overwhelmed.

For several decades astronomers have been sweeping the skies with radio telescopes hoping to stumble across a message from ET.

Repository: American Association for the Advancement of Science Archives, 1200 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20005, [email protected] Creator: Moulton, F. R. Title: F. R. Moulton Files Dates: 1901 - 1948 Extent: 9 linear feet (22 Hollinger boxes) Abstract: Forest Ray Moulton (1872 - 1952) was an astronomer who served as AAAS Permanent Secretary from 1937 to 1946 and Administrative Secretary from 1946 - 1948.

With funding from her L'Oreal Women in Science Fellowship and the support of UCL, she brought leading astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Janet Drew, and Ruth Gregory for a day of presentations and breakout sessions last September.

Moulton, an astronomer from the University of Chicago known for the planetesimal theory of planet formation, served as AAAS Permanent Secretary and then Administrative Secretary, 1937 to 1948.

Levan concludes: «Now, astronomers won't just look at the light from an object, as we've done for hundreds of years, but also listen to it.

Visit exploratorium.edu/mars for a schedule and videos, or get the latest Mars news from NASA or Discover's own Bad Astronomer.

Two years ago, astronomers Lisa Randall and Matthew Reece of Harvard University fingered dark matter for a 35 million - year cycle — which they later revised to 32 million years — based on the birth dates of large craters from comet crashes.

Drawing on his data from the Hubble observations, Li estimates that the nucleus — the solid body of the comet itself — is no more than about 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) across, smaller than what many astronomers initially expected for such an energetic comet.

A month after the January announcement, NASA released its first full data set from the Kepler mission, and the results left astronomers straining for superlatives.

Repeating this process for a sequence of positions from the center of the galaxy out to its visible edge allowed astronomers to determine rotation speeds at various distances.

Kepler watches for extremely slight dips in the amount of light coming from a star, a possible indication that a planet is passing across the star's face in what astronomers call a transit.

Around the same time, at Georgia State University's Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA), astronomer Harold McAlister championed an interferometry machine combining the light from six separate telescopes on California's Mount Wilson.

Similarly, from the anomalous brightness of distant supernovas, astronomers prefer to deduce a novel entity in space, dark energy, rather than modify Einstein's general theory of relativity to adjust the formulas for the universe's expansion.

In an interview with Nautilus, astronomer and «travel agent» Jana Grcevich touted Mars as one of the key locations for hiking, thanks to the planet's beautiful red rocks, which get their color from their high iron oxide content.

Much more solid evidence for dark matter came from Vera Rubin, an observational astronomer, who in the late 1960s and early 1970s made detailed quantitative measurements of stars rotating in galaxies.

Astronomers can watch neutron stars orbit each other for many years using more traditional observatories, and all the while, energy leaks away from the system in the form of invisible gravitational waves.

In addition, 55 Cancri e transits its star, meaning it crosses the star's face as seen from Earth, casting a shadow that astronomers can data - mine for information about the planet's possible atmosphere and surface.

What caused the ionization is not known for certain but astronomers suspect light from the first stars is the culprit.

Astronomers used a radio telescope called the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) to look for organic molecules in the Large Magellanic Cloud, located about 160,000 light - years from Earth.

In that case, astronomers might not have to settle for indirect evidence from lensing.

That allowed the country's astronomers to apply for observing time under the same advantages as scientists from member states.

That's what researchers from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore expected to find when they combined data on 458 GRBs discovered by satellites since 2007, a painstaking chore that no one had undertaken before, says Melissa Nysewander, a former STScI astronomer and a co-author of the study submitted for publication to The Astrophysical Journal.

After searching through images obtained from the Hubble Space Telescope's brand - new Advanced Camera for Surveys and the 10 - meter Keck Telescope in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, astronomer Michael West of the University of Hawaii, Hilo, and his colleagues in the United States and United Kingdom found what may be more than 300 intergalactic globular clusters, the farthest ones roughly 400 million light - years away.

Such a long incubation for HDST may seem excessive but is actually an improvement over Hubble's, which began in 1946 with a visionary report from astronomer Lyman Spitzer.

Astronomers have discovered objects that suck in gas which then disappears from the Universe for good, and they are even studying the matter teetering on the brink of this ultimate abyss.

Radio astronomers search instead for the gravitational signals from these binaries.

So far it hasn't identified a source for cosmic neutrinos, but astronomers believe the project and its successors will soon capture particles from some of the most exotic powerhouses in the universe.

For astronomers who observe the universe through radio waves generated by stars and galaxies, interference from an Earth - based source can easily drown out any far - off signal.

A SCIENCE - FICTION scene could be playing out for real about 4900 light years from Earth, where astronomers have spotted the first known pair of planets jointly orbiting a binary star system (Science, doi.org/h8h).

For more than 30 years, astronomers have known that Vega has a massive belt of cold dust far from the star, analogous to our solar system's Kuiper Belt.

Mysterious radio wave flashes from far outside the galaxy are proving tough for astronomers to explain.

Although astronomers hope to wrest further discoveries from the mission's archives for generations to come, the end is near for Kepler's hunt for habitable worlds.

«If there are plumes emerging from Europa, it is significant because it means we may be able to explore that ocean for organic chemistry or even signs of life without having to drill through unknown miles of ice,» says study lead William Sparks, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute.

Now Matthew Holman and Matthew Payne, two astronomers from the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, have taken the idea a step further by analysing the Cassini data for multiple possible orbits instead of just one.

But Eric Mamajek, a University of Rochester astronomer who specializes in stellar dynamics, likens Portegies Zwart's proposal to searching for members of his own 1993 high school class from a random sampling of Manhattan thirtysomethings.

The Search for Extraterrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations (SERENDIP) has scanned billions of radio sources in the Milky Way by piggybacking receivers on antennas in use by observational astronomers, including Arecibo.

It took three years for astronomers to test this theory by measuring, during an eclipse, how the sun shifted light from a star.

Astronomers weren't looking for these phenomena when they discovered them; they were looking instead, as they had been for many years, for confirmation of their theory that stars were indeed born from infalling gas.

The astronomers should not have to wait long for a response from the Government.