Sentences with phrase «of modern astronomers»

Mark Giampapa, deputy director at NSO, said Harvey «exemplifies the characteristics of a modern astronomer, from designing and building new instruments, to making innovative observations with them to gain new insight on the mysteries of our nearest star.»

Not exact matches

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.

As astronomers poke around for galaxies so far away (and so far back in time), they hope to find the seeds of what eventually became modern galaxies.

Now, astronomers have identified a galaxy that had already begun to resemble the modern Milky Way when the universe was only 3 billion years old, one - fifth of its current age.

«It really is excellent work — I believe this is the smallest parallax ever obtained, and it is certainly a milestone in modern observational astronomy,» says Mareki Honma, an astronomer at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.

In the middle of the large Chilean Atacama desert, a team of Polish astronomers are patiently monitoring millions of celestial bodies night after night with the help of a modern robotic telescope.

Astronomer Michael Shara of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and colleagues used digitized photographic plates dating from as early as 1923 to trace a modern star back to the nova.

They cite as inspiration Galileo Galilei, the 17th century astronomer and father of modern science, who challenged the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church to report the Earth orbited around the sun.

1960 Astronomer Frank Drake performs the first modern SETI experiment, called Project Ozma (after a Wizard of Oz character).

Many of the major advances in modern astrophysics and cosmology came about through the skill and expertise of the world's radio astronomers.

Wickramasinghe and well known astronomer, writer, and populariser of science Sir Fred Hoyle, now an associate of the centre, pioneered a forerunner to modern astrobiology with their theory of «panspermia» in the 1970s.

With modern telescopes, astronomers observing Saturn's rings from Earth can pick out four distinct broad bands, which have been labelled A, B, C and D in order of decreasing radius.

Previously rendered only in artists» conceptions, the first asteroid collision known in modern times revealed itself in a tail of debris streaming from what astronomers at first assumed was a comet.

Astronomers have for the first time recorded the full force of the shock wave hurled from supernova 1987A, the brightest stellar explosion witnessed from Earth since the invention of the modern telescope.

This year astronomy was the focus of the Nobel Prize in Physics, as three astronomers two of whom are faculty members at one of our parent institutions, the California Institute of Technology were recognized for four decades of work leading to one of the great discoveries of modern astronomy, the detection of gravitational waves.

For comparison, this pulsar's radio emission is some 250 times weaker than that from the famous pulsar in the Crab Nebula (the remnant of an explosion in the year 1054 recorded by Chinese astronomers and possibly also by Native Americans of the Anasazi tribe in modern - day Arizona and New Mexico).

Modern images of the rings of Saturn have helped astronomers understand how unique the individual rings are.

At Saville Elementary School in Dayton, Ohio, third graders are learning quite a lot about the Italian astronomer and father of modern science as they kick off a module on Outer Space in Wit & Wisdom's new ELA curriculum by reading Peter Sis's Caldecott Medal winning book Starry Messenger.