Sentences with phrase «generation of astronomers»

Inspire pupils to become the next generation of astronomers with Discovery Education and Lockheed Martin.

«We are particularly proud that this instrument, one of the world's premier facilities for astronomy, is being used by the next generation of astronomers,» said Miller Goss, NRAO's Director for VLA / VLBA Operations.

Universities, which will produce the next generation of astronomers and instrument builders, as well as other scientists and engineers, must be supported as a key part of the new system.

The next generation of astronomers is very active and shows great promise.

EACH NEW GENERATION of astronomers discovers that the universe is much bigger than their predecessors imagined.

«My generation of astronomers spent a huge effort building this dream, but it's really this next generation that will truly capitalize on this investment.»

This general purpose, long - lived facility would be the prime tool for generations of astronomers, producing transformational scientific advances in every area of astronomy and astrophysics from black hole physics to galaxy formation, from star and planet formation to the Solar System.

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.

Not exact matches

That's valuable information because astronomers are intensely interested in this first generation of stars, in an era often called cosmic dawn.

The generation of X-rays on bursters, astronomers have thought, is different.

To a generation of science readers, he is the oddball astronomer who reportedly called a colleague a Nazi, claimed credit for everything that happened in cosmology after Einstein, and assaulted his peers in print and in person.

As useful as Webb might be for studying Proxima b, most astronomers are far more optimistic about using a coming generation of ground - based Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs), behemoths with mirrors up to 40 meters wide, scheduled to debut in the mid-2020s.

A new generation of telescopes that embrace huge light - collecting mirrors and cunning optical technology promises a tremendous leap in astronomers» ability to explore the universe.

Sailors refer to calm seas as glass, and astronomers in turn have their own nautical metaphor for the smoothness of each of the newest generation telescope mirrors: imagine the entire Atlantic Ocean without a single wave higher than a few inches.

Astronomer Matt Mountain, director of the new Gemini Telescope in Hawaii, says this future generation of gargantuan earthbound telescopes would make it possible to study individual stars in some of the earliest galaxies or determine the atmospheric gases of distant planets.

«We're not sure whether these stars are holding onto reservoirs of gas much longer than expected, or whether there's a sort of «last gasp» of second - generation gas produced by collisions of comets or evaporation from the icy mantles of dust grains,» said Meredith Hughes, an astronomer at Wesleyan University and coauthor of the study.

To cite a recent example, speaking at an event organized by the pressure group Save British Science, Astronomer Royal Professor Sir Martin Rees this week voiced his concern that the lack of a long - term view from successive governments means there is a serious danger that the cohort of young academic researchers needed to replace the older generation will fail to materialize.

Astronomers thought that ionised gas created by the first generation of stars might be mimicking the imprint of inflation by scattering the microwaves on their way to us from distant parts of the universe.

Still, the burst puts scientists closer to the first generation than ever before: It is about 150 million years older than any other known astrophysical object, says astronomer Nial Tanvir of the University of Leicester in England, the lead author of one of the new Nature papers.

So it's very important to me that I've been able to help create the first generations of Mexican astronomers that will use the LMT — hopefully for their entire careers.

NSF support helps astronomers make fundamental discoveries about the universe — from new exoplanets to the origins of galaxies — to provide vital training for next - generation researchers.

«This is a very exciting discovery, found by scouring the new generation of wide - area, sensitive surveys astronomers are conducting using NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer in orbit and ground - based telescopes in Chile and Hawaii,» said Daniel Stern of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

The quasar dates from a time close to the end of an important cosmic event that astronomers referred to as the «epoch of reionization»: the cosmic dawn when light from the earliest generations of galaxies and quasars is thought to have ended the «cosmic dark ages» and transformed the universe into how we see it today.

Thanks to the new generation of digital sky surveys, astronomers have discovered more than 200,000 quasars, with ages ranging from 0.7 billion years after the Big Bang to today.

«Observations with the next generation of radio telescopes will tell us more about what actually happens when a star is eaten by a black hole — and how powerful jets form and evolve right next to black holes,» explains Stefanie Komossa, astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany.

Astronomers have never observed the first generation of stars in the universe, and new computer simulations have only deepened the mystery.

A new generation of optical interferometers is letting astronomers study stars in 100 times finer detail than is possible with the Hubble Space Telescope

Astronomers have yet to find one of these, but it should be possible to see up to 10 per year thanks to a new generation of telescopes capable of spotting small changes in bright galactic cores.

Fellow astronomers — and generations of Harvard undergraduates — have also long appreciated him as a raconteur of exceptional eloquence, so it is hard to imagine anyone better suited to give us the inside story on the new discoveries.

When the next generation of ground - and space - based telescopes go online, such as the ESO's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) and NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Ross 128 b will become a prime target for astronomers to look for the spectroscopic clues of chemicals that could be produced by an alien biosphere.

The superior sensitivity of the latest generation of ground - based instruments has allowed astronomers to discover a wealth of exoplanets (most of them in multi-planetary systems) around red dwarfs, while overturning our conventional notions and expectations regarding planetary formation and evolution processes around metal - poor stars.

But a team of astronomers is developing a new technique for use by the next generation of powerful telescopes, allowing them to precisely measure the chemicals in exoplanet atmospheres.

Upcoming next - generation radio telescopes, such as the Square Kilometer Array, slated to be the world's largest radio telescope, and a suite of smaller planned telescopes called «light buckets» should help astronomers sort out the possibilities.

It will help astronomers test their theories for how stars end their lives and how the heavier elements forged within these dying stars are recycled into the galactic environment to help create the next generation of stars.

And it was the beginning of a golden age for astronomers: a perfect trifecta of advances in electronic instrumentation, computing power, and engineering were assembling to produce a new generation of telescopes — one that would radically change the way we understood the cosmos and the forces that drive it.

By observing nebulae such as N55, astronomers hope to gain a deeper understanding of the processes that govern the creation of new generations of stars.

Astronomers across the globe are eagerly anticipating the next generation of powerful terrestrial and orbital observation platforms.

Given the large orbital eccentricities of these two objects (which move beyond 500 AUs of the Sun), some astronomers have argued that they were likely to have been strongly perturbed by a massive celestial object (which is unlikely to have been Neptune as they do not come close enough to feel its gravitational influence) such as the passing of a rogue planet (perturbed from its primordial orbit by the gas giants of the inner Solar Sylstem) or one or more passing stars, which could have dragged the two objects farther out after initial orbital perturbation by Neptune or as part of a «first - generation» Oort Cloud.

«This is the first exoplanet discovered with the Gemini Planet Imager, one of the new generation instruments designed specifically for discovering and analyzing faint, young planets orbiting bright stars,» said Franck Marchis, Senior Planetary Astronomer at the SETI Institute and member of the team that built the instrument and now conducts the survey.

Subtitled The Spaceship of the Imagination, this project is partly a loving homage to the radical innovation of astronomer Carl Sagan whose passion for dreaming continues to inspire generations of thinkers.