Sentences with phrase «for astronomers in»

The great interest for astronomers in observing the infrared light of the Universe is due to its powers of penetration.

Founded in 1899, the American Astronomical Society is the major professional organization for astronomers in North America.

Provision of advice, guidance and information for astronomers in all countries in the region about IAU programs.

The European Southern Observatory provides telescope facilities in Chile for astronomers in its 10 member countries.

Moreover, the academic job situation for astronomers in Canada has improved in the last few years, owing to the retirements of the large cohort of astronomers hired in the late 1960s and the fact that university enrolments have swelled as a result of population growth, the baby boom echo, and increased participation rate.

For an astronomer in the 1920s, Pasadena was the place to be.

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Nightly rooms at the Sheraton Grand hotel in Nashville start at $ 359, but includes a penthouse viewing party, and in Jackson Hole, Wyo., the well heeled will take a gondola up to the top of the ski mountain for a viewing party at 10,450 feet, complete a resident astronomer, telescopes and mimosas.

* In 2011, the Nobel Prize was awarded to the astronomers on those teams for the discovery.

Astronomers have detected signs for another planet in our solar system.

«I recall when we has giving lectures and it was a huge effort for him to speak (before the tracheotomy and the computer voice) he still made the effort to throw jokes in,» Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said on Twitter.

«Our dreams came true,» Gerd Weigelt, an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, said in an ESO press release about the new image.

Of an estimated 100 million television viewers — 10 times the number of people who tuned in for The Voice's season 1 finale — most stay up past the «main event» to watch former secretaries of the U.S. government debate nuclear policy with astronomer Carl Sagan.

Few biologists, few geologists, few physicists and astronomers are creationists, they see the evidence for evolution and an old — indeed, ancient — Earth in what they work with every day.

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.

Astronomers looked at the available evidence and concluded that really there must be some sort of «cement» that binds all the universe together, for the evidence was staring them in the face.

For example, in 1998, when astronomers were carefully scrutinizing the Andromeda galaxy, something was amiss.

Astronomers can forecast them out for the next 10,000 years and back in time for the last 10,000 years with a few strokes on their laptops.

Joseph H. Taylor, Jr. (1993 Nobel Prize in Physics) Paul Davies (Well Respected Physicist) Robert Jastrow (Astronomer, physicist and founder of NASA's Goddard Insttute of Space Studies) Max Planck (the Nobel Prize winning physicist) Arthur Compton (1927 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the Compton Effect)

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.

For example, astronomers are constantly telling us how foolish, indeed how arrogant, it is to regard the planet on which we live as in any sense the center of the universe around us.

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.

Although Milton had made a personal visit to Galileo during the latter's house - arrest and for obvious reasons deplored the verdict of the Inquisition against Galileo's heliocentrism, debate in the seventeenth century was still raging among astronomers as to which system was right, the Copernican or the Ptolemaic.

There are many conceivable uses for a gargantuan 10 - meter mirror in space, but taking pictures of rocky, potentially habitable worlds — «direct imaging,» in astronomer lingo — is the killer app.

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.

The discovery could spell trouble for standard theories of cosmology, including the role of enigmatic dark matter in galaxy formation, astronomers...

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.

A while back, I wrote a column for Discover analyzing your place in space: astronomers» best look yet at where you fit into the big, crazy, cosmic scheme of things.

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Astronomers had theorized but never witnessed this remnant - stoking until last November, when Hiroya Yamaguchi of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a bizarre signature in the remnant's X-rays: Cool iron atoms clustered inside a ring of their fevered ferrous cousins.

A new study published in the January 24 edition of Science Advances explores what this curious fact might mean for alien - hunting astronomers.

The team also publish their findings in two papers in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and the data are now publicly available for other astronomers to make further discoveries.

According to Mather and other leading astronomers now working on a report to be released this summer by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), that quest and others require an even bigger space telescope that would observe, as Hubble does, at optical, ultraviolet and near - infrared wavelengths.

Sunspots have been observed for more than two thousand years, but in the seventeenth century, astronomers devised new ways to view them, including a telescope - based projection device known as a helioscope.

Such an excess first emerged in the late 1960s and was mapped in 1981 by Glyn Haslam of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, but few astronomers thought much of it until now.

A paper by one team that includes astronomers at Penn State, NASA, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and universities in Italy, the United Kingdom, and Germany has been accepted for future publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Astronomers have identified over 2,300 new planets in Kepler data by searching for tiny dips in a star's brightness when a planet passes in front of it.

Leavitt worked out the «period - luminosity relationship» in 1908, giving astronomers a powerful tool for measuring the distance to stars and other astronomical objects.

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.

The discovery follows decades of astronomers searching for small black holes in the galactic center, where a supermassive black hole lives (SN: 3/4/17, p. 8).

Scouting out the locales where black hole pairs live allows astronomers to look for light produced in the collision.

[4] In 2013 astronomers published results on the evidence for a kilonova, associated with a short gamma - ray burst.

«We find no evidence of the orbit clustering needed for the Planet Nine hypothesis in our fully independent survey,» says Cory Shankman, an astronomer at the University of Victoria in Canada and a member of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS), which since 2013 has found more than 800 objects out near Neptune using the Canada - France - Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii.

Shostak is senior astronomer at the Center for SETI Research based in Mountain View, Calif..

The discovery has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, but National Geographic reports that the origin of the dust is puzzling in its own right, raising still more questions for astronomers.

Provides an opportunity for early career astronomers to gain experience in the world of science policy and serves to augment the policy advocacy programs of the society.

As they are opaque to visible light it is difficult for astronomers to observe their inner workings, and so other tools are needed to unveil their secrets — observations in the infrared or in the submillimetre parts of the spectrum, for example, where the dust clouds, only a few degrees over absolute zero, appear bright.

This new finding fills in a long - missing piece in the puzzle representing our galaxy's chemical evolution, and is a big step forward for astronomers trying to understand the amounts of different chemical elements in stars in the Milky Way.

Flashes of X-ray light near the center of the disk result in light echoes that allow astronomers to map the structure of the funnel - like flow, revealing for the first time strong gravity effects around a normally quiescent black hole.

IN MARCH, during a talk at the State University of New York, astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson made an impassioned plea for America to return to its Apollo - era mindset.

Fins on a Rocket At the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, astronomer Warren Brown employs yet another tactic in the hunt for this invisible target.