Sentences with phrase «leading astronomers»

A tiny deviation in the brightness of exploding stars led astronomers to conclude that they had no idea what 70 percent of the cosmos consists of.

Earlier this year, The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology heard testimony from leading astronomers on the threat of near - Earth objects to our planet.

In 2009, he co-authored a book «Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe» with leading astronomer Bob Berman.

In Beyond Biocentrism, acclaimed biologist Robert Lanza, one of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in 2014, and leading astronomer Bob Berman, take the reader on an intellectual thrill - ride as they re-examine everything we thought we knew about life, death, the universe and the nature of reality itself.

Wolfgang Tillmans invited leading astronomer Dimitar Sasselov to discuss his involvement in the NASA Kepler mission to find other Earth - like planets, and to explore some of his unanswered questions about light, the beginning of infinity, the edge of visibility and our perception of colour.

Wolfgang Tillmans invited leading astronomer Dimitar Sasselov to discuss his involvement in the NASA Kepler mission to find other Earth - like planets, and to explore some of his unanswered questions about light, the beginning of infinity, the edge of

With funding from her L'Oreal Women in Science Fellowship and the support of UCL, she brought leading astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Janet Drew, and Ruth Gregory for a day of presentations and breakout sessions last September.

According to Mather and other leading astronomers now working on a report to be released this summer by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), that quest and others require an even bigger space telescope that would observe, as Hubble does, at optical, ultraviolet and near - infrared wavelengths.

All three existing NASA observatories bear the names of leading astronomers whose research contributed to the work the observatories do — Edwin Powell Hubble, Arthur Holly Compton and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.

DISCOVER asked leading astronomers for their reactions.

As a teenager, I saw Pale Blue Dot, a photo of Earth taken by Voyager I that led astronomer Carl Sagan to reflect on the insignificance of man in the universe.

The success of the search for Neptune based on its perturbations of Uranus» orbit led astronomers to place great faith in this explanation, and the hypothetical planet was even named Vulcan.

On April 20 and 21, 2017, Breakthrough Initiatives held the second of what it says will be an annual conference — called Breakthrough Discuss — aimed at bringing together leading astronomers, engineers, astrobiologists and astrophysicists.

That failure led some astronomers to doubt the existence of the planet in the Hubble image.

Working with leading astronomers, and hearing presentations by some of the foremost experts on supernovae, opened the students» eyes to the depth of astronomical research opportunities available.

The Pope relied on the leading astronomers of the day, and they opposed the new science of Galileo.

If confirmed, the result could lead astronomers to reconsider the role dark matter played in early galaxy evolution and might also offer clues to how nearby elliptical galaxies evolved.

This led astronomers to suspect that Vesta was the source of so - called HED meteorites found on Earth, which are also made of basalt.

The star's first dazzling outburst turned heads in 2009, leading astronomers to label it a supernova.

The results indicate that crucial elements in people formed later in the history of the universe than many had expected, says David Jones, the lead astronomer on the Hubble study.

Earth - based observations revealed that Mercury is peculiarly dense in composition, leading astronomers to ask: Are we missing something fundamental about the formation of the solar system?

This star - making frenzy gives rise to galactic wind that pushes out more gas than the system keeps in, leading astronomers to estimate that M82 will run out of fuel in just 8 million years.

Observing this «blow - off» effect has led astronomers to propose a whole new category of planets: solid remnant cores of former gas giants.

First up: In conjunction with the National Science Foundation, Caltech, and the Thirty Meter Telescope, DISCOVER brought together four leading astronomers to describe their studies of wayward comets, alien worlds, black holes, and the expanding universe.

However, the interstellar particles found in this filament were 100 to 1,000 times larger than particles typically found in star - forming regions, leading astronomers to theorize the larger - than - expected particles could help spur planet formation.

Such chemical compounds have only ever been studied in laboratories on Earth, leading astronomers to assume the right conditions simply do not occur in space.

This suspicion grew stronger still in 1997 when pictures of the disk showed a warp, leading astronomers to predict from modeling that a giant planet or a low - mass companion star was hiding somewhere within the disk.

It is these large structures, says Harrison, that could mask the true value of the Hubble constant, leading astronomers to overestimate its value.

The observations that led astronomers to deduce its existence could have another explanation: our galaxy lies at the center of a giant cosmic void

New observations have led astronomers to suggest that Copernicus may have been wrong and Earth does have a special place in the universe: at the center of a gigantic cosmic void.

«We want to know where we were born,» Ivan Ramirez, the lead astronomer of the study, said in a statement.

«We expect a large number of old white dwarfs to be around,» Kaplan, the lead astronomer, said.

A new proposal published by a team of America's leading astronomers has outlined plans for what would be the largest telescope ever created.

The massive star is located 110 light years away in the constellation Hercules and has the same chemical configuration as the sun, leading astronomers to conclude it most likely came from the same cosmic womb as the star at the center of our solar system.

Mauna Kea, Hawaii — Three massive volcanic eruptions occurred on Jupiter's moon Io within a two - week period, leading astronomers to speculate that these presumed rare «outbursts,» which can send... Read more»

Stellar motions are especially useful because these can lead astronomers to something they can not see: dark matter, an invisible component that is vastly more abundant than ordinary matter across the cosmos.

Mauna Kea, Hawaii — Three massive volcanic eruptions occurred on Jupiter's moon Io within a two - week period, leading astronomers to speculate that these presumed rare «outbursts,» which can send material hundreds of miles above the surface, might be much more common than previously thought.

In 2000, Chandra observed a gigantic cloud of hot gas enveloping the galaxy cluster Abell 2029, leading astronomers to estimate that the cluster must hold an amount of dark matter equivalent to more than a hundred trillion suns!

But recent observations have led astronomers to speculate exactly that.

Pulsars, those spinning, superdense neutron stars that send powerful «lighthouse beams» of radio waves and light flashing through the Universe, have been «lying about their ages,» leading astronomers, and possibly particle physicists, to erroneous conclusions for the past 30 years, according to researchers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope.

It does this through the perspective and viewpoints of an acclaimed biologist and leading astronomer.

The close timing of the eruptions has led astronomers to the conclusion that such events are in fact much more common than previously thought.

In 1800, William Herschel, a leading astronomer, established that the price of wheat was linked to the number of sunspots.

A logical way to choose these authors would be to find scientists who bring a different scientific perspective — maybe a leading astronomer who studies the sun, maybe someone who studies hurricanes, or perhaps even, gasp, a skeptic or two.