Sentences with phrase «for modern astronomy»
«The Hubble constant is crucial for modern astronomy as it can help to confirm or refute whether our picture of the universe — composed of dark energy, dark matter and normal matter — is actually correct, or if we are missing something fundamental,» Suyu said.
http://www.keckobservatory.org/ Not exact matches
By Kevin Wagner Searching for planets outside of our own solar system is one of the great challenges in modern astronomy.
This year astronomy was the focus of the Nobel Prize in Physics, as three astronomers two of whom are faculty members at one of our parent institutions, the California Institute of Technology were recognized for four decades of work leading to one of the great discoveries of modern astronomy, the detection of gravitational waves.
«The 140 - foot telescope set the stage for modern radio astronomy,» noted O'Neil.
The new discoveries have triggered a fresh world outlook that illuminates some dark corners of science and forces us to re-assess almost everything that we have so far taken for granted, including the apparent conflict between Genesis via astrophysics, astronomy and modern physics, and Genesis via the Bible.
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In fact, there's a wonderful variant of PDM based on the analysis of variance, developed for astronomy, which not only gives excellent results, it's also optimized for statistical efficiency and minimum computational workload (which really helps when analyzing terabyte databases such as come from modern satellite missions).
In 2008 John W. Farley, a professor in the department of physics and astronomy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, wrote an (almost) excellent paper «The Scientific Case for Modern Anthropogenic Global Warming» (http://monthlyreview.org/080728farley.php) which discussed the pros and cons of the AGW science.