Sentences with phrase «for astronomers hoping»

For astronomers hoping to squeeze Hubble - like levels of discovery out of Webb's limited life, every moment of the telescope's time will be precious.

This is great news for astronomers hoping to detect the gravity waves that ought to be produced by these titanic events.

Not exact matches

As astronomers poke around for galaxies so far away (and so far back in time), they hope to find the seeds of what eventually became modern galaxies.

Astronomers hope informatics will do the same for them.

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

Astronomers have high hopes for that instrument, planned as an 8.4 - meter telescope with a 3.2 - gigapixel camera on a Chilean mountaintop that can quickly scan the entire sky.

By early next spring, astronomer David Kipping hopes to know if the object he's spent his early career searching for is really there.

«Ours isn't the only group looking for planets around young stars, and my hope is that astronomers can find enough of them to shed light on some of the nagging questions about planet formation,» Johns - Krull said.

Astronomers hope to analyze the atmospheres of these and other super-Earths by examining the starlight filtering through them, perhaps using the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled for launch in 2013.

SAN JOSE, California — They don't hold out much hope that Vulcans will arrive on our doorsteps intoning «live long and prosper,» but many astronomers believe that making radio contact with an alien civilization would fundamentally alter humanity for the better.

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.

That prospect sends chills down the spines of some astronomers, who hope to build even bigger space telescopes using the new technologies developed at such great cost for Webb.

Two outside sources say the silver lining for astronomers is that NASA hopes to share the fiscal burden equally between astrophysics and other branches of the $ 18 - billion agency rather than pummeling its science programs.

Astronomers plan to measure masses for at least 50 TESS planets that are smaller than Neptune in the hopes that many of them will have rocky, and therefore potentially habitable, surfaces.

In particular, astronomers were hoping for clues as to what forces might have shaped the Helix's ragged edge, which looks like a series of arrows pointing back to the dying star at the center.

So thirsty are theorists for new insights into black holes and relativistic processes that, with each LIGO detection, observational astronomers have leapt into action to target those enormous patches of sky, hoping to see some afterglow or other emission of electromagnetic radiation — even though by definition the resulting larger black hole should emit no light.

He, Natarajan, and other astronomers have been looking for these kinds baby black holes, hoping to confirm that they do, indeed, exist and then trying to work out their origins from the downstream consequences.

In the U.K., where only 20 % of U.K. Ph.D. recipients are still practicing astronomy in a university or observatory by age 40, the outlook is similarly bleak, but many U.K. astronomers are holding out hope for a fulfilling career.

It's just what astronomers have been hoping for.

And despite no hope for repairs should any critical parts break, astronomers in Baltimore are optimistic that the «people's telescope» has got at least a few more good years left.

Mildly encouraging news for Earthlings hoping to escape the scorched ruins of our own planet: A team of astronomers has found evidence for four Earth - sized (ish) worlds orbiting tau Ceti, a Sun - like star located just 12 light years away.

Astronomers are hoping to use NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) and the ESA's Darwin planned groups of observatories to search for a rocky inner planet in the so - called «habitable zone» (HZ) around Iota Persei.

Astronomers are hoping to use NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) and the ESA's Darwin planned groups of observatories to search for rocky inner planets in the so - called «habitable zone» (HZ) around both Stars A and B.

Astronomers are hoping to use NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) and the ESA's Darwin planned groups of observatories to search for a rocky inner planet in the so - called «habitable zone» (HZ) around Gamma Pavonis.

Artificial intelligence is giving scientists new hope for studying the habitability of planets, in a study from astronomers Chris Lam and David Kipping.

For astronomers, studying asteroids is one of the few ways they can hope to glean how the solar systems and planets evolve.

Astronomers in Japan found evidence for the new object when they turned a powerful telescope in the Atacama desert in Chile towards the gas cloud in the hope of understanding the strange movement of its gases.

Even with faint hopes still alive — and with plenty of unanalyzed data in the can that will keep scientsits busy for years — astronomers and planetary scientists expressed their dismay through social media.

Astronomers are hoping to use NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) and the ESA's Darwin planned groups of observatories to search for a rocky inner planet in the so - called «habitable zone» (HZ) around Kappa Ceti.

Astronomers are hoping to use NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) and the ESA's Darwin planned groups of observatories to search for a rocky inner planet in the so - called «habitable zone» (HZ) around Pi3 Orionis.

Astronomers are hoping to use NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) and the ESA's Darwin planned groups of observatories to search for a rocky inner planet in the so - called «habitable zone» (HZ) around 61 Ursae Majoris.

Astronomers have high hopes for this planet - hunting spacecraft: https://lat.ms/2EQUyrB https://twitter.com/NASA/status/986665072989822977 …

Astronomers are hoping to use NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) and the ESA's Darwin planned groups of observatories to search for a rocky inner planet in the so - called «habitable zone» (HZ) around Gamma Leporis A.

«For some people, seeing really is believing, so we were hoping to get something in time,» said Shep Doeleman, an astronomer at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who is leading the effort to photograph a black hole, known as the Event Horizon Telescope, or EFor some people, seeing really is believing, so we were hoping to get something in time,» said Shep Doeleman, an astronomer at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who is leading the effort to photograph a black hole, known as the Event Horizon Telescope, or Efor Astrophysics who is leading the effort to photograph a black hole, known as the Event Horizon Telescope, or EHT.

Astronomers are hoping to use NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) and the ESA's Darwin planned groups of observatories to search for a rocky inner planet in the so - called «habitable zone» (HZ) around Alpha Mensae.

With the combined power of a worldwide network of radio telescopes, astronomers hope to peer into the heart of our galaxy and image — for the first time — the very edges of a black hole.

Astronomers are hoping to use NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) and the ESA's Darwin planned groups of observatories to search for a rocky inner planet in the so - called «habitable zone» (HZ) around 18 Scorpii.

When it's complete, the astronomers hope that they can use it to nail down Vela's mass, and thus the puzzle of the remaining piece of the Local Group's motion — «that discrepancy that has been haunting us for 25 years,» Kraan - Korteweg said.

With human perception of time and environmental change in mind, I hope you'll read the invaluable essay on «Existential Risks» contributed by Martin J. Rees, the Cambridge University cosmologist and Astronomer Royal of England, at the 2014 Vatican meeting that built much of the foundation for Pope Francis's encyclical on humans and the environment.

A few token VCs for the poor bloody squaddies, while Lord Stern and the Astronomer Royal sit well behind the front line, planning the campaign against us, our way of life, and the hopes of the 90 percent of the world's population who can only dream of a decent carbon footprint.