Sentences with phrase «for astronomers today»

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Today we have an investigation for little astronomers to demonstrate how our Universe is expanding.

The «DNA» collected traces the ancestry of stars, showing astronomers how the Universe went from having only hydrogen and helium — just after the Big Bang — to being filled today with all the elements we have here on Earth that are necessary for life.

A huge explosion at the centre of our Galaxy 15 million years ago may be responsible for many features astronomers see there today.

In two talks today at the Division for Planetary Sciences in Pasadena, California, astronomers report that a small asteroid located in the inner asteroid belt between those two planets took a major hit early last year.

With today's advanced instruments, astronomers can for the first time search the universe's gravitational extremes for relativity's possible breaking point.

«Today, and thousands of discoveries later, astronomers are on the cusp of finding something people have dreamed about for thousands of years — another Earth.»

It will answer many of the questions at the forefront of astrophysics today and will pose new and unanticipated riddles for future generations of astronomers.

Did you know that today Canada is involved in some highly sophisticated projects, and that Canadian astronomers are renowned for being the most efficient in the world?

Although the goal is clear, possible approaches and ideas are plenty: the abundance of proposed approaches stems from the fact that no telescope that exists today (or at least, accessible to astronomers) is capable enough to directly search for biosignatures in known exo - earths.

This was feasible by the advent of Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), located on a mountaintop plateau in Chile, which works in tandem to detect electromagnetic waves at a wavelength range in the millimeter (pivotal for studying molecular gas) and a sensitivity level that is just starting to be explored by astronomers today.

Such a planet would be very difficult for astronomers to detect with today's astronomical instruments and methods.

The Call for Proposals issued today, 30 March 2011, invites astronomers to draw up plans for scientific projects with ALMA, and submit them to the observatory between 1 June and 30 June.

The 17th century astronomer's place in society has parallels to today's scientists, a speaker at Saturday's March for Science in Tacoma said.