Sentences with phrase «lot of astronomers»
A lot of astronomers disagreed, and Plutophiles howled.
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A deviation from the predictions of general relativity would be welcomed by a lot of astronomers and physicists.
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Normally, a picture like this would show lots of stars as well as dust lit up by those stars, but astronomers used an image taken in visible light to subtract off the stars in the IR image, leaving just the dust behind.
«There's a lot of invoking of Population III sources for various observations that people make,» says astronomer Michael Hauser of the Space Telescope Science Institute.
«Finding systems like this that have lots of planets is a really neat way to test theories of planet formation and evolution,» says Jeff Coughlin, an astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., and NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif..
As for the possibility of the sea freezing completely, it is true that Enceladus is losing a lot of heat to space, but astronomers suspect that this is an unusual episode.
So astronomers were surprised when three probes in 2009 showed that a lot of water is locked up in minerals in the soil.
«Astronomers have found a lot of planets whose sizes can not be explained by standard theory,» says Laurent Ibgui of Princeton University.
«In the 19th century and before, amateur astronomers did a lot of the observation.»
«That we detected galaxies as faint as we did supports the idea that a lot of little galaxies reionized the early universe and that these galaxies may have played a bigger role in reionization than we thought,» says Rachael Livermore, an astronomer at the University of Texas at Austin.
«Ancient Greek astronomers used a lot of geometrical techniques, but the geometrical figures that they use are always situated in a real space, with either two - or three - spatial dimensions,» Ossendrijver explains.
«There are a lot of detailed theories about how planets form,» says astronomer George Rieke of the University of Arizona, the lead researcher on one of Spitzer's three primary instruments.
Astronomers have been finding exoplanets out in the cosmos for 25 years, and if we've learned anything about all those planets, it's that a lot of different, weird kinds exist.
«We've come to recognize that Ceres has a lot of characteristics that are intriguing for those looking at how life starts,» says Andy Rivkin, a planetary astronomer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., who was not involved in the study.
Indeed, astronomers are almost certainly still missing a lot of the action in their own neighborhood.
«If it really mattered to another committee that someone had a lot of offers,» says Joanne Cohn, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley, responsible for the astrophysics job wiki, «I'd expect them to check — committees do talk to each other and to people writing reference letters.»
«A lot of radio astronomers are very excited.»
«The question of whether you can detect a signal has nothing to do with whether it's artificial or natural, and astronomers routinely detect lots of kinds of signals,» he says.
A lot of research projects were disrupted as radio astronomers around the world commandeered anything suitable.
«That idea really hit in 1992,» says astronomer Jane Luu of Leiden University in the Netherlands, «There could be lots and lots of undiscovered material out there.»
Tim Roberts, an astronomer at the University of Leicester, UK, is also positive, saying the scenario «has got a lot of people excited».
Welcome to The Countdown, the Scientific American show that counts down the five coolest things happening now in space news.Episode 1: July 26, 2012 Story 5 Galaxies from the early universe usually look kind of lumpy or blobby, but scientists have spotted one with a spiral structure, making it look a lot like our own Milky Way galaxy.See Primordial Pinwheel: Astronomers Spot Oldest Prominent Spiral Galaxy Yet.
At nearly 14,000 feet, the mountain offers an untainted view of the heavens that is increasingly rare in a lit - up world, a view that makes an astronomer's work a lot easier.
Astronomers have found that galaxy clusters have a lot of very hot gas (i.e., gas made of very fast moving particles) in them with about two - thirds of it in between the galaxy members of the cluster.
Astronomers learn a lot about stars from the colors of light that they emit.
For example, the Spitzer infrared astronomers favour a two major arm model because red giant stars (which emit a lot of infrared) are largely confined to the Perseus and Centaurus arms, whereas radio astronomers tend to favour a four major arm model because radio telescopes can detect atomic hydrogen in all four arms.
It depends a lot on the country: in countries like France and Spain, about 50 % of the astronomers are women.
There are a lot of fun asides about historical mysteries that perplexed astronomers and physicists through time, and how they were eventually solved.
That's obviously a lot, so suffice it to say, these cool, compact stars are important objects of inquiry among both astronomers and astrobiologists.
Just this year it captured the most distant single star yet, learned more about a strange stellar ring, watched two galaxies merge, and created lots of new images of the Messier objects, the distant smudges first described by astronomer Charles Messier in the 18th century.
I helped Jennifer Lotz select the six Frontier Fields clusters — with a lot of input from other astronomers.
At Saville Elementary School in Dayton, Ohio, third graders are learning quite a lot about the Italian astronomer and father of modern science as they kick off a module on Outer Space in Wit & Wisdom's new ELA curriculum by reading Peter Sis's Caldecott Medal winning book Starry Messenger.
Oh, and I know quite a lot of infrared astronomers who — I think — would regard what your friend (who, if I remember correctly, was either choosing to be anonymous or had never published a scientific paper) as mildly ludicrous.
Suppose an astronomer discovered an asteroid heading for an impact with the Earth — how would the argument «On geological timescales Earth has been struck by lots of objects, including some much larger than this one» be taken?