Sentences with phrase «interest for astronomers»
The great interest for astronomers in observing the infrared light of the Universe is due to its powers of penetration.
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By producing a photographic negative on glass rather than on paper, the resulting images were much sharper and could be made much larger, hence the great interest for astronomers.
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«This object has been of interest to Penn State astronomers for a long time,» Burrows said.
Although small and messy, galaxies like NGC 4861 provide astronomers with interesting opportunities for study.
«The claim is extremely interesting and the team is very credible,» says astronomer David Charbonneau of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., adding that he can not judge the validity of the claim until the team publishes its data.
Similarly - aged stars moving through space together in a group — described by astronomers as an association — are of great interest to researchers, because they are considered a prime target to hunt for brown dwarfs and free - floating planet - like objects.
Astronomers are interested in CCD cameras for their excellent sensitivity.
The astronomer's initial interest in the subject was sparked after a conversation with fellow physicist Gavin Schmidt, director of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York.
Because both the principal stars are fairly similar to the Sun (for example, in age and metallicity), astronomers have been especially interested in making detailed searches for planets in the Alpha Centauri system.
March 19 - 23, 2018, at Lorenz Center in Leiden, this workshop brings together experts and interested radio astronomers to learn how to produce high resolution images with the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) and to discuss and finalize the details for implementing a pipeline to do this on a large scale to post-process already existing observations.
For Diamond, a 35 - year radio astronomer, his key interest is not in the extraterrestrial but rather how our own galaxy has evolved.