Sentences with phrase «new era in astronomy»

A Caltech Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus, Co-founder of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO), and a recipient of the Nobel Prize for his instrumental role in the first direct detection of ripples in spacetime known as gravitational waves, Dr. Thorne's work is making history and ushering in an exciting new era in astronomy.

The first direct detection of gravitational waves will open a new window on black holes and introduce a new era in astronomy.

With the fleet of current detectors, and detectors that are still to come, a new era in astronomy is set to begin.

It's the opening of a new era in astronomy in which we're now going to begin to view the universe with a new set of waves — not light waves, but gravitational waves.»

Their long - awaited discovery, our No. 1 story of the year, touched off celebration of a new era in astronomy.

«GMT will herald the beginning of a new era in astronomy,» said Wendy Freedman of the University of Chicago in Illinois and chair of the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization board of directors in a statement.

These events have launched a new era in astronomy: using gravitational waves to learn about the universe.

Now one has, it opens up a new era in astronomy and raises fundamental questions about how planetary systems, including our own, are made.

It signaled a new era in astronomy, providing astronomers a tool for probing the depths of the universe that are obscured from view with Maxwell's «other radiations, if any.»

«The GMT will herald the beginning of a new era in astronomy,» said Wendy Freedman, chair of the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization board of directors and professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago.

However the method used to study this star is leading the way to a new era in astronomy.