Sentences with phrase «of planetary astronomy»
«It's such a deep - rooted mystery and so difficult to explain that people just don't talk about it,» says Brown, the Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of Planetary Astronomy.
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The surface changes on Pluto are due to extreme temperature variations between seasons, said Mike Brown, professor of planetary astronomy at Caltech.
He is now the Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of Planetary Astronomy at Caltech.
«We now have evidence that Europa's ocean is not isolated — that the ocean and the surface talk to each other and exchange chemicals,» says Brown, the Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor and professor of planetary astronomy at Caltech.
Margot, a professor of planetary astronomy, wanted to ensure that the new system would be easy to follow.
«It's such a deep - rooted mystery and so difficult to explain that people just don't talk about it,» says Brown, the Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of Planetary Astronomy.
Not exact matches
Ptolemaic astronomy went on adding planetary epicycles to remove discrepancies; defenders of the phlogiston theory were driven to postulate negative chemical weights in order to maintain their paradigm.
«To do this,» explains Antonio Cabrera Lavers, head of astronomy at the GTC and one of the authors of the paper, «we have used for the first time the blue tunable filter of OSIRIS to take a deep image centred on the emission from the recombination lines of one of the oxygen ions in the planetary nebula 6778.»
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.
As director of the Planetary Exploration and Space Astronomy directorate of the Space Science branch, I lead the group that has sponsored this project.
«It's frustrating because it should be a golden age of planetary exploration because there's so much data that's coming in, but what's missing is the commitment of funding to interpret the measurements,» says Jim Bell, associate professor of astronomy at Cornell University and a science team member on the twin Mars rover mission.
«Finding a new dwarf planet beyond Neptune sheds light on the early phases of planet formation,» said Brett Gladman, the Canada Research Chair in planetary astronomy at UBC.
«This is the first time we have seen atmospheric bands and waves in brown dwarfs,» said lead author Daniel Apai, associate professor of astronomy and planetary sciences at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
But in a recent paper with co-authors Dorian Abbot and Eliza Kempton in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, Bean describes the need «to think about the techniques and approaches of astronomy in this game — not as planetary scientists studying exoplanets.»
Cruz's scientific savvy and coordination skills will come in handy in the next phase of her career: Starting in October, Cruz will take a position at Science as an associate editor in astrophysics, astronomy, and planetary science.
Keith T. Smith Associate Editor Education: M.Sci., Ph.D., University of Nottingham Areas of responsibility: Astronomy, planetary science E-Mail: [email protected]
In the universe of planetary science, most researchers have geophysics or astronomy degrees.
Knowledge of astronomy, astrobiology, and planetary science is also key.
That daunting challenge has now been attempted by a team of three astronomers: Inwoo Han of the Korea Astronomy Observatory, David Black of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas, and George Gatewood of the Allegheny Observatory of the University of Pittsburgh.
Mattia Galiazzo, a postdoctoral fellow in Western's Department of Physics & Astronomy, presented his findings at the joint 48th annual meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) and 11th annual European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) in Pasadena, California.
«To be able to directly image planetary birth environments around other stars at orbital distances comparable to the solar system is a major advancement,» said Dr Nikku Madhusudhan of Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy, one of the paper's co-authors.
CARL SAGAN and FRANK DRAKE are professors of astronomy at Cornell University, where Sagan is director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies and Drake is director of the National Astronomy and Ionospheriastronomy at Cornell University, where Sagan is director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies and Drake is director of the National Astronomy and IonospheriAstronomy and Ionospheric Center.
Along with Harrison and Walton, additional Caltech authors on the paper, «An Ultraluminous X-ray Source Powered by An Accreting Neutron Star,» are postdoctoral scholars Felix Fürst, and Shriharsh Tendulkar; research scientists Brian W. Grefenstette and Vikram Rana; and Shri Kulkarni, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science and director of the Caltech Optical Observatories.
«Magnetic fields provide crucial information about the interiors and evolution of planets, so it is gratifying that our experiments can test — and in fact, support — the thin - dynamo idea that had been proposed for explaining the truly strange magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune,» said Raymond Jeanloz, co-author on the paper and professor in Earth & Planetary Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley.
Mars will be targeted as part of a Guaranteed Time Observation (GTO) project led by Heidi Hammel, a planetary astronomer and executive vice president of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) in Washington, D.C..
She is a Principal Investigator in NASA's «Origins of Solar Systems», «Planetary Geology and Geophysics», «Outer Planets Fundamental Research», and LASER programs and NSF's «Planetary Astronomy» program.
In all likelihood, entire careers and even subdisciplines of astronomy and planetary science will emerge from studying all the data we can remotely gather from a handful of promising worlds scattered among the nearest stars.
The spacecraft initially identified 175 possible planetary systems for follow - up observation from the ground, says Kepler co-investigator Natalie Batalha, a professor of physics and astronomy at San Jose State University.
Bruce Betts has completed the lectures for his online 2014 Introduction to Planetary Science and Astronomy Course at CSUDH: all are online and you can earn a Certificate of Achievement for watching them.
I have completed the lectures for my online 2014 Introduction to Planetary Science and Astronomy Course at California State University Dominguez Hills (CSUDH): All lectures are free and online at http://planetary.org/bettsclass and you can earn a Certificate of Achievement for watching them.
Learn about the formation and origin of the Solar System and go beyond our neighborhood to investigate exoplanets (planets around other stars) in this video of class 11 of Bruce Betts» Introduction to Planetary Science and Astronomy class.
Lecture 7 of Dr. Bruce Betts» 2015 online Introductory Planetary Science and Astronomy course covers asteroid Ceres, the near Earth asteroid threat to Earth (including statistics, past impacts, and information on the Chelyabinsk fireball), and introduces the Jupiter system.
The UA - led team includes researchers from Tucson - based Planetary Science Institute, geophysicists from the University of Chicago, the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson and Catholic University of Chile.
I am an Associate Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences at The University of Arizona «s Steward Observatory and Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.
Explore the physical characteristics and inner workings of the Sun and then learn all about Stars and Stellar Evolution in this video of class 12 of Bruce Betts» Introduction to Planetary Science and Astronomy class.
The mass and orbit of planetary candidate «b» is similar to 79 Ceti b, depicted at left with rings and two moons, as imagined by Bacon (more from NASA and Astronomy Picture of the Day).
The Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University will carry out fundamental research on the origin and evolution of astrophysical structures, from planetary systems to the universe as a whole.
Lecture 9 of Dr. Bruce Betts» 2015 online Introductory Planetary Science and Astronomy course covers Saturn's moon Titan and the Uranian and Neptunian systems including atmospheres, interiors, rings, and moons including Triton.
Lecture 8 of Dr. Bruce Betts» 2015 online Introductory Planetary Science and Astronomy course covers the Galilean Satellites (Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto) of Jupiter, and the Saturnian System including atmosphere, interior, rings, and moons including Iapetus and Enceladus.
Explore the icy moons of the Jupiter System and tour the Saturnian system in this video of class 8 of Bruce Betts» Introduction to Planetary Science and Astronomy class.
The Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors project is aimed to measurably enhance student STEM engagement and achievement in selected school districts via professional development for teachers consisting of: (1) STEM Professional Development in astrophysics and planetary science delivered via webinars & in - person workshops; (2) a week - long STEM immersion experience at NASA's science research aircraft facility in Palmdale, California, including participation in research flights on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA); (3) follow - through involving continuing webinars fostering reflection and connections with astrophysics & planetary science subject matter experts.
The team is composed of Catherine Walsh (Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands), Ryan A. Loomis (Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA), Karin I. Öberg (Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA), Mihkel Kama (Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands), Merel L. R. van't Hoff (Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands), Tom J. Millar (School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK), Yuri Aikawa (Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan), Eric Herbst (Departments of Chemistry and Astronomy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA), Susanna L. Widicus Weaver (Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA) and Hideko Nomura (Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan).
Take a tour of the Solar System in the video of class 1 of Bruce Betts» Introduction to Planetary Science and Astronomy class.
As the Academies notes in their recent decadal survey,» [t] he search for exoplanets is one of the most exciting subjects in all of astronomy...» The report went on to recommend «a program to explore the diversity and properties of planetary systems around other stars, and to prepare for the long - term goal of discovering and investigating nearby, habitable planets.»
The TRAPPIST - 1 system has been of great interest to observers and planetary scientists because it seems to contain seven planets that are all roughly Earth - sized, Barr and co-authors Vera Dobos and Laszlo L. Kiss said in «Interior Structures and Tidal Heating in the TRAPPIST - 1 Planets» that appears in Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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«The kind of ignition you're talking about is rapid oxidation,» explained Drake Deming, an astronomy professor at the University of Maryland who has studied planetary atmospheres as a scientist for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
As a student at Cornell University, he was introduced to the wonders of astronomy in a class taught by Professor Carl Sagan, cofounder of The Planetary Society, which Nye now leads.
We're live at the Pacific Astronomy and Telescope Show, with JPL astrodynamicist Steve Chesley and Planetary Society Director of Projects Bruce Betts.
While astronomy enjoyed a true revolution in understanding the remote and energetic bodies of the universe, geosciences moved beyond just the earth and morphed into a truly comparative planetary science.