Sentences with phrase «majority of astronomers»

I am not an astronomer, yet I believe that I can say I know that stars are made up mostly of hydrogen, because I have read that in many places and it is accepted by the great majority of astronomers.

Don't forget the amateurs, they make up the majority of astronomers and do much serious and useful work.

Not exact matches

That evidence leaves astronomers in an uncomfortable place, with the vast majority of the cosmos missing.

The fact that astronomers now see that a majority of these little systems in fact contrive to map out an immensely large — approximately one million light years across — but extremely flattened structure, implies that this understanding is grossly incorrect.

Astronomers have identified a population of stars in NGC 3344 that are moving in an irregular way relative to the majority of the stellar bodies that make up the galaxy.

For reasons to be explained in the next section and in the cosmology chapter, astronomers have figured out that the dark matter is a combination of all those things but the exotic particles must make up the vast majority of the dark matter.

What's even more impressive is that the majority of these comets have been found by amateur astronomers and enthusiasts from all over the world, scouring the SOHO images for likely comet candidates from the comfort of their own homes.

Typically, astronomers rely on extremely indirect and imprecise techniques for estimating oxygen abundance for the vast majority of distant galaxies.