Sentences with phrase «new field of astronomy»

And so Wright and others are developing a new field of astronomy.

Physicists anticipate that LIGO will spark an entirely new field of astronomy, in which scientists survey the universe by feeling for its tremors.

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In the hopes of seeing the gas clouds from which the first stars arose, Loeb has devoted much of the past decade to a new field called 21 - centimeter cosmology, a branch of radio astronomy that focuses on identifying electromagnetic radiation that started out with a wavelength of 21 centimeters.

The new field of 21 - centimeter cosmology is a branch of radio astronomy that focuses on identifying electromagnetic radiation that started out with a wavelength of 21 centimeters.

The idea behind the challenge is to spur scientists, including those from fields outside astronomy, to come up with new insight into the problems of measuring dark matter and dark energy.

But instead of the end of the story, scientists see the discovery as the birth of a new field: gravitational wave astronomy.

The key to Sky's success and its impact on the field of astronomy is the software's ability to provide an easy - to - use interface that satisfies Internet users» insatiable appetite for new information.

Chris Packham, associate professor of physics and astronomy at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), has collaborated on a new study that expands the scientific community's understanding of black holes in our galaxy and the magnetic fields that surround them.

Astrobiology is a relatively new field of study, where scientists from a variety of disciplines (astronomy, biology, geology, physics, etc.) work together to understand the potential for life to exist beyond Earth.

«This detection is the beginning of a new era: The field of gravitational wave astronomy is now a reality,» says Gabriela González, LSC spokesperson and professor of physics and astronomy at Louisiana State University.

He continued his research on quantum electronics and moved into the new field of infrared astronomy.

«As new centers of excellence in China's growing research enterprise, each will contribute in important ways to developments in the fields of astronomy and astrophysics and theoretical physics, both in China and worldwide through their linkages with other Kavli Institutes.»

But these instruments also open new windows in other fields of astronomy: For instance, on 17 August 2017, LIGO found gravitational waves from a rare neutron star merger.

«Every time a new observational paper about an FRB comes out there are a few new theory papers that rush in to describe it, which is kind of a fun place for the field to be because it's not often that observations jump so far ahead of theory in astronomy.»

«This detection is the beginning of a new era: The field of gravitational wave astronomy is now a reality,» says Gabriela González, LSC spokesperson and professor of physics and astronomy at Louisiana State University.

Dressler chaired the panel of the NRC's 2010 astronomy and astrophysics decadal survey, New Worlds, New Horizons (NWNH), that recommended a mission called the Wide - Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) as the top priority for a large space mission for the next decade of space - based astrophysics research.

«NIRES will be very useful in this new field of «multi-messenger» astronomy,» said Soifer.

A Wide Field Infra - Red Survey Telescope (WFIRST) was the top large space priority in the report of the ASTRO2010 Decadal Survey «New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics».

With that event, the field finally shed its label as a purely theoretical pursuit and opened up a brand - new way of doing astronomy.

When operational, TMT will provide new observational opportunities in essentially every field of astronomy and astrophysics.

It is the world's first color camera for radio astronomy, thanks to its new suite of receivers and a supercomputer than can process wide fields of spectral data simultaneously.