Sentences with phrase «most astronomers in»

«As we have talked about our work over the last years, most astronomers in the audience reminded us that they had never seen such an event,» said Bildsten.

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After this point, most astronomers agree that the universe will continue to expand, cooling and losing energy in the process.

Of an estimated 100 million television viewers — 10 times the number of people who tuned in for The Voice's season 1 finale — most stay up past the «main event» to watch former secretaries of the U.S. government debate nuclear policy with astronomer Carl Sagan.

In short, and not surprisingly, the World's most gifted evolutionary biologists, astronomers, cosmologists, geologists, archeologists, paleontologists, historians, modern medical researchers and linguists (and about 2,000 years of accu.mulated knowledge) are right and a handful of Iron Age Middle Eastern goat herders were wrong.

In short, and not surprisingly, the World's most gifted evolutionary biologists, astronomers, cosmologists, geologists, archeologists, paleontologists, historians, modern medical researchers and linguists (and about 2,000 years of acc.umulated knowledge) are right and a handful of Iron Age Middle Eastern goat herders were wrong.

Astronomers conducting a galactic census of planets in the Milky Way now suspect most of the universe's habitable real estate exists on worlds orbiting red dwarf stars, which are smaller but far more numerous than stars like our Sun.

This boatload had gone unnoticed because astronomers previously assumed luminous traces of the galaxies in Coma indicated small, insignificant bodies, and not just the most visible central regions of otherwise very dim objects — the tips of galactic icebergs, as it were.

«Massive fails» like this one in a nearby galaxy could explain why astronomers rarely see supernovae from the most massive stars, said Christopher Kochanek, professor of astronomy at The Ohio State University and the Ohio Eminent Scholar in Observational Cosmology.

So with access to these and other facilities, Canadian astronomers can now work in most of the subfields of astronomy, although planetary science is still underrepresented.

A computer simulation of two black holes violently merging into one will help direct astronomers in their search for gravitational waves — one of the most fundamental, yet elusive, phenomena in the Universe.

HD 85512b In September European astronomers announced the discovery of 50 new planets, including one of the most Earthlike ones yet: HD 85512b, a rocky world just 3.6 times as massive as our own and mild enough to have liquid water.

Astronomers craving their first image of a planet beyond our solar system now have fresh targets to explore: newly identified siblings of Beta Pictoris, the most famous dust - shrouded star in the sky.

Theories predict that most stars arise in groups, so astronomers expected the apparently juvenile Beta Pic to have nearby companions hatched from the same gaseous nursery.

The Life of Super-Earths by Dimitar Sasselov Of the 700 planets astronomers have found so far in distant solar systems, most are places that are extremely hostile to life as we know it: searing - hot gas giants where iron could fall as rain and winds might blow in excess of 1,000 miles per hour.

1 Astronomers Margaret Turnbull and Jill Tarter of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C., have compiled a list of 17,129 nearby stars most likely to have planets that could support complex life.

This high - resolution image of Jupiter's moon Io was snapped last November 6 by the Galileo spacecraft, and it has given astronomers their best look at the most volcanically active object in the solar system since the Voyager flyby in 1979.

In January 2014, astronomers watched a rare supernova light up and began filling in one of the most embarrassing gaps in their understanding of the universIn January 2014, astronomers watched a rare supernova light up and began filling in one of the most embarrassing gaps in their understanding of the universin one of the most embarrassing gaps in their understanding of the universin their understanding of the universe.

It's a challenging task, but astronomers have made progress on one front: the study of dark matter and dark energy, two of the most mysterious substances in our cosmos.

Most SETI projects tune in to the 1.42 to 1.72 - gigahertz range, reasoning that alien astronomers might expect earthly scientists to be looking there anyway as this is the frequency of radiation emitted by interstellar hydrogen and hydroxyl clouds.

It is further complicated by the fact that the brightest and easiest galaxies to observe — the most massive galaxies in the Universe — are rarer the further astronomers peer into the Universe's past, whilst the more numerous less bright galaxies are even more difficult to find.

Astronomers generally agree that enormous black holes lurk at the centre of most galaxies, and have identified plausible candidates in many galaxies, including the neighbouring dwarf galaxy M32 — and our own Milky Way.

So far it hasn't identified a source for cosmic neutrinos, but astronomers believe the project and its successors will soon capture particles from some of the most exotic powerhouses in the universe.

As useful as Webb might be for studying Proxima b, most astronomers are far more optimistic about using a coming generation of ground - based Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs), behemoths with mirrors up to 40 meters wide, scheduled to debut in the mid-2020s.

What's most surprising is that we've never seen interstellar objects pass through before,» said Karen Meech, an astronomer at UH's Institute for Astronomy in Honolulu specializing in small bodies and their connection to solar system formation.

Most astronomers believe that a quasar is a massive black hole at the centre of a galaxy, greedily sucking in stars and gas, which become so hot that they give off tremendous amounts of energy.

Ultimately, the most ambitious gravitational wave observatories astronomers can presently conceive might someday record the hiss of waves emitted in the first fractions of a trillionth of a second after the big bang.

FRED HOYLE is one of the most famous living astronomers in Britain.

There wasn't any good reason to believe in the reality of other universes — at least not until near the beginning of the new millennium, when astronomers made one of the most remarkable discoveries in the history of science.

Using the most powerful radio telescope in the world, an international team of astronomers has set out to look for answers in the star L2 Puppis.

Meanwhile, astronomers will get close - up views of the outer solar system in July 2015, when the New Horizons spacecraft flies past Pluto and sends back detailed images of the once most - distant planet and its three moons.

The astronomers are most excited by the microlensing events associated with stars in the LMC, and described the first three of these events in the 10 April issue of Physical Review Letters (vol 74, p 2867).

As the most abundant element in the Universe and the raw fuel for creating stars, hydrogen is used by radio astronomers to detect and understand the makeup of other galaxies.

To take a better galactic census, a team led by astronomer Rodrigo Ibata of the Strasbourg Observatory in France took the most detailed images yet of the space around Andromeda, exposing swarms of faint stars distributed near the galaxy.

Yesterday's inauguration of the first element of an international telescope array in Namibia provides astronomers with the most sensitive high - energy gamma ray observatory ever — a powerful new tool for studying the most violent processes in the universe.

The team has also found evidence to silence a minority of sceptics who argue that what most astronomers take to be microlensing events are actually caused by natural variations in the intrinsic brightness of the stars being observed.

In fact, Kepler described astronomers as «the priests of God, called to interpret the Book of Nature»; Newton acclaimed «this most beautiful [solar] system» as self - evidently the work of «an intelligent and powerful Being»; Galileo, for all his spats with Jesuit theologians, hungered for the approval of the Pope; Francis Bacon wanted a new age of Christianity in a new technological Eden; and Einstein famously said «the aspiration towards truth and understanding... springs from the sphere of religion»In fact, Kepler described astronomers as «the priests of God, called to interpret the Book of Nature»; Newton acclaimed «this most beautiful [solar] system» as self - evidently the work of «an intelligent and powerful Being»; Galileo, for all his spats with Jesuit theologians, hungered for the approval of the Pope; Francis Bacon wanted a new age of Christianity in a new technological Eden; and Einstein famously said «the aspiration towards truth and understanding... springs from the sphere of religion»in a new technological Eden; and Einstein famously said «the aspiration towards truth and understanding... springs from the sphere of religion».

By pushing the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope to its limits astronomers have shattered the cosmic distance record by measuring the distance to the most remote galaxy ever seen in the Universe.

Westerlund 1 is a unique natural laboratory for the study of extreme stellar physics, helping astronomers to find out how the most massive stars in the Milky Way live and die.

A few decades before a close encounter, at most, astronomers would observe a strange perturbation in the orbits of the outer planets.

But Young - Wook Lee of Yonsei University Observatory in Seoul, South Korea, says most astronomers have been looking in the wrong place.

BABY FACE Saturn's rings (shown in an image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on August 12, 2017) are relatively young, a few hundred million years old at most, astronomers say.

Looking at random parts of the sky with Hubble, astronomers have found what appears to be the most distant protocluster ever seen: five galaxies in the process of growth, forming a cosmic collection that may grow into a massive cluster.

Although a second team of astronomers failed to find signs of Gliese 581 g in their data, if its existence is confirmed, it will be the most habitable exoplanet yet found.

Soon, astronomers may be able to directly observe the improbable era when black holes were among the most important objects in the universe, helping to bring order to the Big Bang's formlessness.

Ask most astronomers where to find the oldest stars in the galaxy and they'll tell you to look at globular clusters, dense knots of stars that hover above and below the plane of the Milky Way.

«I got the feeling that most of the Berkeley astronomers thought my idea was a little wild,» Townes, a Nobel laureate who died in 2015, recalled in a 2006 account for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

BeppoSAX, launched 5 years ago, hit the headlines in 1997 when its wide - field x-ray cameras enabled astronomers to pin down gamma ray bursts, the most violent explosions in the universe (Science, 23 May 1997, p. 1194).

The professional astronomers of the IAU Commission in charge of exoplanets would then review the suggestions and ratify the most appropriate or best - sounding.

An Asteroid with a Secret Inside When McCord and his colleagues picked apart the geochemistry of the Vesta fragments, starting in the early 1970s, they confirmed a startling implication of Vesta observations: The asteroid couldn't have the simple, uniform structure that most astronomers of the time expected.

Most astronomers now believe that the sun was born in a cloud of gas and dust full of other young stars.