Sentences with phrase «on astronomy for»

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After a two week hiatus (we had our usual modulo (10) outtakes reel, then a week off for Thanksgiving), Crash Course Astronomy is back on the air!

I could repeat the above exercise for the following disciplines, all of which would have to be turned on their heads to accommodate creation science — paleontology, archeology, geology, botany, marine biology, astronomy, medicine, cosmology and historical linguistics.

Lindsell, in his book The Battle for the Bible, contends that the Bible itself and the history of the Christian church support a view of inspiration that insists on the inerrancy of the autographs of Scripture in every detail of chronology, geography, astronomy, measurement, and the like, even when such details are incidental to the central intent of the passage.»

On 4 January, the American Astronomical Society awarded its George Van Biesbroeck Prize to the Jesuit priest Fr George Coyne, for his work in the field of astronomy.

The growth of astronomy was influenced by astrology and navigation; work on the properties of gases was stimulated by the need for better pumps; and more recently electronics and atomic physics have been developed in large measure for military purposes.

Cochranes — This site has a range of hands - on science kits and teaching apparatus for chemistry and DNA structure (molecular modelling kits), physics, astronomy and mathematics.

Furthermore, neither Webb nor WFIRST is designed to directly address one of the most broadly appealing and fastest growing research areas in all of astronomy, the search for life on Earth - like exoplanets.

«Open Skies Policies in Astronomy: The Growing Need for Diplomacy on the Final Frontier.»

Co-authors on the paper included UW astronomy professor Ben Williams, Albert Kong at the National Tsing Hua University, Terry Gaetz and Paul Plucinsky at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Evan Skillman at the University of Minnesota and Andrew Dolphin at Raytheon.

«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.»

The results were surprising, explains lead author Taylor Bell, a Master's student in astronomy at McGill University who is affiliated with the Institute for Research on Exoplanets: «The measured albedo of WASP - 12b is 0.064 at most.

According to Mather and other leading astronomers now working on a report to be released this summer by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), that quest and others require an even bigger space telescope that would observe, as Hubble does, at optical, ultraviolet and near - infrared wavelengths.

Hunting the Right Light Cash got hooked on astronomy as an 8 - year - old, casting aside his earlier interests in dinosaurs and medieval history after hearing a lecture about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

Gary Greenberg, a research affiliate at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, took this 3 - D stereo image (cross your eyes slightly until there are three images, then focus on the center) of a single grain of moon sand (magnified here about 300 times).

It's a center for research on everything from particle physics and astronomy to atmospheric chemistry.

One big winner at NASA is the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a telescope mounted on a Boeing 747 jet.

Alberto Sanna of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, and his colleagues used the Very Long Baseline Array of radio telescopes in New Mexico to track a star - forming region in the outer Scutum - Centaurus spiral arm, which is on the opposite side of the Milky Way from the local arm where the sun resides.

Nemaungani sold the SKA committee on South Africa's clear skies (necessary for precision radio astronomy), the promised political support of its president and cabinet — who have passed legislation to strictly limit the amount of radio noise in the remote site area — and its expertise in engineering and infrastructure.

He is also responsible for science missions that explore the planets (including Mars), Mars - analog sites on Earth, and astronomy missions.

The research team was led by graduate student Yi Peng and associate professor of physics Yilong Han, both of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, as well as Arjun Yodh, director of the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter and professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in Penn's School of Arts & Sciences.

Although some of my research focuses on the development of nanoelectronic devices for life science applications (as well as for telecommunications and radio astronomy), most of my research efforts are based on the use of microfluidic chips (MFCs) with molecular biology.

Around the same time, at Georgia State University's Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA), astronomer Harold McAlister championed an interferometry machine combining the light from six separate telescopes on California's Mount Wilson.

Will Saunders of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and his colleagues wanted to find the best sites for astronomy on the Antarctic plateau.

This is achieved for the first time on a chip,» said Semere Tadesse, a graduate student in the University of Minnesota's School of Physics and Astronomy and the first author of the paper.

Kepler's followers here in Zielona Gora nursed considerable resentment toward Galileo for stealing popular attention — especially now, on the brink of the International Year of Astronomy 2009, which will commemorate four centuries of Galileo - inspired telescopic discoveries.

«The evidence that these new gravitational waves are from merging neutron stars has been captured, for the first time, by observatories on Earth and in orbit that detect electromagnetic radiation, including visible light and other wavelengths,» said Chad Hanna, assistant professor of physics and of astronomy & astrophysics and Freed Early Career Professor at Penn State.

• Bill Andrews, associate editor: Andrews moved over to Discover after serving for several years on the staff of Kalmbach's Astronomy magazine.

In this slim but absorbing introduction to the epic search for life on extrasolar planets, Sasselov explores how astronomy, geology, and biology are conspiring to give us a radical new vision of a universe in which our living Earth is «just another planet.»

According to lead author Alberto Sanna, a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Germany, the VLBA's measurement is «equivalent to seeing a baseball on the surface of the moon.»

This is why the Bernese scientist chose an alternative approach for his study, which is published in the journal «Astronomy & Astrophysics»: Based on the mass and radius of a planet Yann Alibert was able to determine criteria that exclude the possibility of life as we know it.

For instance, radar on driverless cars could affect radio astronomy operations up to 100 kilometers away, said Harvey Liszt, a radio astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesviastronomy operations up to 100 kilometers away, said Harvey Liszt, a radio astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in CharlottesviAstronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Va..

For all its promise, though, big data also poses a real danger to academic science, warns Jake VanderPlas, a postdoc in astronomy and computer science at the University of Washington, in an illuminating essay on his Pythonic Perambulations blog.

The team, led by Andreas Brunthaler at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, measured the gas around two star - forming regions on opposite sides of the M33 galaxy.

Bob Knight's kid - reviewed, kid - targeted online journal, Frontiers for Young Minds, now focuses on neuroscience but will expand to include medicine, astronomy and other areas of research.

Or the survey for astronomy might continue on schedule without knowing whether Webb will be successful, particularly if it treats the troubled telescopes as first and foremost a cautionary tale against similarly ambitious future missions.

Collaborating with Nurkiewicz on this project are Vince Castranova, Ph.D., at the National Institute for Occupational Health; Diandra Leslie - Pelecky, Ph.D., in the WVU Department of Physics and Astronomy; and John Hollander, Ph.D., in the WVU Department of Exercise Physiology.

It dawned on me during my astronomy Ph.D. that I probably wasn't cut out for a life in research, but I was way too far in to give up, so I persevered.

I also was bemused by a sentence in a section commenting on the masculine dominance of astronomy: «A particular problem in observational astronomy is the need to make regular trips to remote facilities for those with small children.»

Davidson, along with Arjun Yodh, director of the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter and the James M. Skinner Professor of Science in the Department of Physics & Astronomy in the School of Arts & Sciences at Penn, and Peter Collings of Swarthmore, an adjunct professor at Penn, then decided to investigate this in a more controlled fashion.

«The band has not faded significantly since September, indicating that this ejecta may take years to settle out of the upper atmosphere,» says Tom Herbst of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, who used a 3.5 - metre telescope to study Jupiter in the near infrared on 19 December.

But the direct whack still raises the issue of when — and even whether — to repair the observatory: Funding for it has repeatedly been on the chopping block despite its historic contributions to astronomy.

The report also urges refurbishing the Australia Telescope, the 64 - metre radio telescope at Parkes in NSW, so that it can be used for infrared astronomy and the support of site testing for a possible international observatory on the Antarctic plateau.

Known as FRB 121102, its location on the sky has now been monitored for many tens of hours by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) in Socorro, New Mexico (an array of 27 radio dishes), and the European VLBI Network (EVN)-- a continent - wide collaboration of radio telescopes.

With a new lease on life, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) also continues to be funded, with $ 85 million for operations.

As for me, I enjoy the fact that I can combine my scientific training with my English skills, and I'm happy that, even though I chose not to carry on with astronomy research, I'm still involved in some small way with a subject that has fascinated me since childhood.

And on 15 August, a midterm assessment of the National Academy of Sciences's (NAS) 2010 Decadal Report, which reviews U.S. priorities for astronomy and astrophysics, strongly recommended NASA to restore support to the space observatory this decade, and to help restore the mission to its original full capacity.

«These data were originally taken for a completely different purpose — to study the bluish arcs on larger scales in the cluster,» said Chris O'Dea, professor in RIT's School of Physics and Astronomy and a co-author on the paper.

To find out more about how the harassment came to light and what could be changed going forward to improve how these cases are handled, Clery spoke with «Joan Schmelz, chair of the American Astronomical Society's... Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy for 6 years until she finished her second term in August, [who] played a key role in identifying victims of Marcy's activities and letting them know they were not alone.»

That makes LCO ideal for «time domain astronomy,» the study of phenomena that change rapidly and have to be caught on the fly.

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.