Sentences with phrase «impact on astronomy»

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The key to Sky's success and its impact on the field of astronomy is the software's ability to provide an easy - to - use interface that satisfies Internet users» insatiable appetite for new information.

Beebe is not only a professor of astronomy at New Mexico State University, she also served on NASA's Voyager team between 1977 and 1990 and used the Hubble Space Telescope to observe Shoemaker - Levy 9's impact last July.

The committee asked its parent organization to do likewise after IAU said it was «profoundly concerned by the impact the recent U.S. executive order, and possible reactions to it from other countries, could have on international collaboration in astronomy and the mobility of scientists.»

Lecture 7 of Dr. Bruce Betts» 2015 online Introductory Planetary Science and Astronomy course covers asteroid Ceres, the near Earth asteroid threat to Earth (including statistics, past impacts, and information on the Chelyabinsk fireball), and introduces the Jupiter system.

«There is no doubt that Sue Ann Heatherly has left an indelible mark on students and teachers she has mentored through her 31 years of dedication to impact the approach teachers have toward understanding astronomy.»

HPR's Molly Solomon has more on how this will impact the astronomy community.

Research by University of Maryland astronomy professor Douglas Hamilton and New Horizons colleagues, published in the journal Nature, shows that this nitrogen ice cap could have formed early on, when Pluto was still spinning quickly, and did not necessarily require an impact basin.

These workshops have reached over 2500 astronomy educators and had a dramatic impact on the teaching of astronomy in the US and worldwide.

The VLA has had a major impact on nearly every branch of astronomy, and the results of its research are abundant in the pages of scientific journals and textbooks.

This issue of the TWAS Newsletter has a special focus on science diplomacy in the developing world, and describes the impact in health, climate change, astronomy, education and other fields.

While a large impact on Uranus when it was still surrounded by a protoplanetary disk would have eventually produced moons in retrograde orbit around the planet, two or more smaller collisions had a much higher probability of generating the moons with the orbital direction observed today (Europlanet press release; and Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy Blog, Discover, October 7, 2011).