Sentences with phrase «most astronomers of»

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.

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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 SagaOf 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 Sagaof 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 Sagaof 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.

Arguably one of the most important and influential physicists, astronomers, inventors and scientists to ever live, Galileo took a non-literal approach to Scriptures that the Catholic Church of the 1600s interpreted to mean that the Earth was the center of the universe.

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 have long felt that this mysterious, luminous train must constitute one of the most important structural features of the Universe.

«most people still somehow think we humans are the culmination of the evolutionary tree - and that hardly seems credible to an astronomer.

Astronomers have been able to determine the surface and atmospheric composition of only a few exoplanets, so for most planets the data are incomplete.

While peering through one of the clusters, Abell 2744, astronomers recently found a candidate for one of the most distant galaxies known, a toddler growing up about 500 million years after the Big Bang.

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.

Astronomers have discovered the most luminous galaxy ever found, shining with the equivalence of 300 trillion suns from the far side of the visible universe.

Astronomers have traditionally assumed that most of the black holes powering the first quasars formed this way, too.

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.

So far, astronomers have found only a dozen of the most distant probes of Planet Nine's supposed sphere of influence.

«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.

Most of the comets that astronomers study have made previous journeys into the torrid inner reaches of the solar system, often multiple times, as they orbit the sun.

Furthermore, astronomers can locate and project the orbits of most asteroids, but comets are not easy to spot until they get inside Jupiter's orbit, where the sun heats them enough to create a visible tail.

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.

After eight decades, most of the universe is still missing from view, forcing astronomers to abandon the notion that seeing is believing.

As the German astronomer Johann Encke wrote to Le Verrier, «Your name will be forever linked with the most outstanding conceivable proof of the validity of universal gravitation.»

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.

This year, astronomers found they are also responsible for some of the most powerful explosions — short gamma - ray bursts.

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.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Astronomers have for the first time traced gamma rays, the most energetic form of light, to galaxies undergoing a frenzy of star birth.

Some astronomers are questioning the existence of what might be the most Earth - like planet yet found outside the solar system, based on a reexamination of archival data.

When Chandra becomes fully operational, it will be the most powerful x-ray observatory available to astronomers, exceeding the resolving capability of its predecessor, ROSAT, by as much as 50 times.

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 houof 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 houOf 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 houof 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.

Astronomers have gotten the most detailed look yet at the atmosphere of a planet outside the solar system.

«Water is one of the most ubiquitous molecules there is,» says Greg Laughlin, an astronomer at the University of California at Santa Cruz who develops theoretical models of extrasolar planets.

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 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.

After a decade of searching for planets orbiting stars like our sun, astronomers had found nothing but giant planets, most of them gas balls like Jupiter, around other stars.

Astronomers tracked the interplanetary shocks caused by two powerful bursts of solar wind traveling from the sun to Uranus, then used Hubble to capture their effect on Uranus» auroras — and found themselves observing the most intense auroras ever seen on the planet.

By utilizing a full spectrum of colour from ultraviolet to near infared, NASA astronomers have created the most colourful deep space images to date.

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.

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.

An astronomer by training but a photographer at heart, Zoltan Levay creates images of the cosmos with one of humankind's most advanced optical instruments: the Hubble Space Telescope.

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.

Last year British astronomers identified the most massive star ever seen: a behemoth weighing 265 times as much as our sun, so huge that it challenges astronomers» models of how stars are born.

You won't hear them say it, but some of the world's most acclaimed astronomers have been frustrated for the better part of two decades.

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.

«Zwicky began referring to Baade as «the Nazi»... He regarded most of the other Palomar astronomers as fools, and Walter Baade as a cretin... He would swear torrentially at night assistants, using scientific terms laced with obscenities... He referred to Baade and the others as spherical bastards — «They are spherical,» he said, «because they are bastards every way I look at them.»

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.