Sentences with phrase «hard for astronomers»
These discoveries represent strong evidence that, although hard for astronomers to detect, faint brown dwarfs which have had billions of years to cool may represent a significant population of the universe.
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Being so far out in space — 110 times the distance between Earth and the Sun — it's hard for astronomers to be sure if what they picked up was the same event, but a sudden change in particles in late March 2016 does seem to correlate with the expected arrival time of the CME.
This makes it harder for astronomers to classify it, as most of the characteristics of a galaxy's morphology — the arms of a spiral or the bar across the centre — are only visible on its face.
Not exact matches
Although astronomers would prefer a single explanation for both, each phenomenon is difficult to explain on its own and even harder to explain when considered in tandem with the other.
Thanks to Rich Bradley for working hard in 1987 to make the 40 foot functional for the first groups of teachers, and the telescope mechanics for keeping it that way, Carl Heiles for inspiring us to observe neutral hydrogen, a true staple of our educational programs for teachers and youth, Bill Radcliffe (do you remember the time you single - handedly took the front end off the telescope???), Nathan Sharp, and Dave Woody for coming to the rescue when the 40 Foot needed a technical swift kick, Skip Crilly for updating the telescope and getting rid of pesky RFI, and all of the astronomers who have enlightened teachers and students over the years.
«The discovery of planets around this star are the hard - won fruit of many years of patient, careful acquisition of high precision data from the very stable HIRES instrument on Keck,» said Paul Butler, astronomer with Carnegie Institution for Science that works with Vogt.
«We really pushed hard to capture this terabyte - per - hour datastream reliably and set up a real - time platform for extracting these very faint fast bursts from that massive datastream,» Casey Law, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley, who created the analysis software to search for rapid, one - off bursts, said in a statement.