Sentences with phrase «large field of astronomy»
The search for these planets is now a large field of astronomy.
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These facilities, most notably the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) set to debut in 2020, promise to revolutionize the field of «transient» astronomy — the study not of steady - shining stars and galaxies, but of the things that rapidly move and change: exploding stars, whirling asteroids and comets, and anything else that goes «bump!»
He wrote more than 100 books on physics, mathematics and astronomy, among other fields, and is believed to be the first to explain how our brains create the illusion of the moon appearing larger near the horizon.
Fourteen articles, making up the largest ever set of scientific results in this field, are published on April 9, 2018 in a special issue of the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
And many fields that process large compendia of data — from astronomy to high - energy physics to genomics — have made attempts to open their databases.
Dressler chaired the panel of the NRC's 2010 astronomy and astrophysics decadal survey, New Worlds, New Horizons (NWNH), that recommended a mission called the Wide - Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) as the top priority for a large space mission for the next decade of space - based astrophysics research.
A Wide Field Infra - Red Survey Telescope (WFIRST) was the top large space priority in the report of the ASTRO2010 Decadal Survey «New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics».