Sentences with phrase «news for astronomers»

The discovery is good news for astronomers searching for molecules in space, according to Christine Joblin, an astrophysicist at the University of Toulouse.

That's good news for astronomers, who are counting on volunteers to help classify the condition of those craters, from «it's perfect» for those pockmarks with pristine edges to «that's a crater?»

The turnaround is good news for astronomers of Gemini's seven member nations: the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, Chile, Australia, Brazil and Argentina.

This is great news for astronomers hoping to detect the gravity waves that ought to be produced by these titanic events.

This is good news for astronomers.

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Visit exploratorium.edu/mars for a schedule and videos, or get the latest Mars news from NASA or Discover's own Bad Astronomer.

There is some good news on the horizon for astronomers, astrophysicists, planetary geologists, and people who just like learning neat things about far - away worlds.

«The Milky Way grew up by growing out,» Melissa Ness, an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, said at a news conference.

Last October news broke of allegations that University of California, Berkeley, astronomer Geoff Marcy had for years harassed female students.

Sister scopes If SALT succeeds, it's good news for more than the astronomers who get observing time there.

«Astronomers have thought for a while that conditions within these outflows could be right for star formation, but no one has seen it actually happening as it's a very difficult observation,» study leader Roberto Maiolino, from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, said in a news release.

Mildly encouraging news for Earthlings hoping to escape the scorched ruins of our own planet: A team of astronomers has found evidence for four Earth - sized (ish) worlds orbiting tau Ceti, a Sun - like star located just 12 light years away.

On March 19, 2008, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope announced confirmation of the presence of water and the detection of more methane in the atmosphere of the planet than would be predicted by conventional atmospheric models for «hot Jupiters» (Hubble news release and videos; ESA news release and videos; and Swain et al, 2008 — more below).

For the astronomers, the discovery of Kepler - 10c is good news as it broadens the search for extraterrestrial liFor the astronomers, the discovery of Kepler - 10c is good news as it broadens the search for extraterrestrial lifor extraterrestrial life.

In 1960, astronomer Frank Drake (father of Science News writer Nadia Drake) was among the first to listen for extraterrestrial radio signals.

«It opens a new window for SETI,» Luc Arnold, an astronomer with France's Observatoire de Haute - Provence, told Discovery News.

Previously discussed in a November 24, 2011 pre-print, the astronomers «surveyed a carefully chosen sample of 102 red dwarf stars in the southern skies over a six - year period» and found a «total of nine super-Earths (planets with masses between one and ten times that of Earth),» of which two orbiting within the habitable zones of Gliese 581 and Gliese 667 C. By combining all the radial - velocity data of red dwarf stars (including those without undetected planets) and examining the fraction of confirmed planets that was found, the astronomers were able to estimate the probable distribution of different types of planets around red dwarfs: for example, only 12 percent of such stars within 30 light - years may have giant planets with masses between 100 and 1,000 times that of the Earth (ESO news release; Bonfils et al, 2011; and Delfosse et al, 2011).