Sentences with phrase «for astronomers trying»

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.

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For example, astronomers have been trying to explain why some recently discovered distant, but young, galaxies contain massive amounts of dust.

So astronomers have been trying to look for gravitational waves.

It's back to the drawing board for astronomers and astrophysicists trying to explain why the supermassive black holes at the hearts of some galaxies pump out huge amounts of radiation.

Since then, other astronomers had tried other methods of filtering out the star's noisy signal, and found that the evidence for planet Bb was inconclusive.

For practical reasons this was extremely fortuitous, as most astronomers had assumed the black hole would be too big to get a good look at, he explains, «like putting your face right next to the wall and trying to describe it.»

3 Canadian astronomer and renowned eclipse chaser J. W. Campbell traveled the world for 50 years trying to see 12 different eclipses.

For nearly 100 years, astronomers have tried to understand how the Milky Way and other spiral galaxies formed these dramatic patterns — and now they think they finally have the answer.

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.

For decades, astronomers have tried to pin down why two of the most common types of active galaxies, known as Type I and Type II galaxies, appear different when observed from Earth.

Anyone with the nerve to explicitly hunt for exoplanets risked not only their reputation but also their funding, so few astronomers tried.

Ever since the discovery was declassified in 1973, astronomers have been trying to come up with an explanation for them.

For astronomers, attempting to understand the life cycles of planetary systems using existing examples is like trying to learn how people grow from babies to children to teenagers, by only studying adults.

Supernova 1987A is a unique target for supernovae research, and many astronomers have tried to detect the emission from dust.

«For NASA, this number — that every fifth star has a planet somewhat like Earth — is really important, because successor missions to Kepler will try to take an actual picture of a planet, and the size of the telescope they have to build depends on how close the nearest Earth - size planets are,» said Andrew Howard, astronomer with the Institute for Astronomy at the University of HawaFor NASA, this number — that every fifth star has a planet somewhat like Earth — is really important, because successor missions to Kepler will try to take an actual picture of a planet, and the size of the telescope they have to build depends on how close the nearest Earth - size planets are,» said Andrew Howard, astronomer with the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawafor Astronomy at the University of Hawaii.

In their search for the pervasive - yet - elusive particles of dark matter, astronomers have tried to find galaxies with much higher concentrations of the mysterious substance — it does not interact with visible matter at all, except through gravity, which is how scientists can theorize its existence.

However, astronomers without the burden of knowledge in chemistry wanted to try to hunt for molecules anyway.

If we surveyed multiple astronomers on planet alignment, they may concur that B&N is preparing itself not to try and save the Nook Media, but to spin - in off, sell it, prepare for crash landing, etc..

If you think «all» ideas for games have already been done, then you have not tried Astronomer on the Atari 2600.

And then I went to a Canadian dive bar called The Stuffed Beaver with my astronomer friend Orsola and tried poutine... chips with cheese curds and gravy... which turns out to not really be worth all the fuss I've been making about it for the last few months.