Sentences with phrase «only for astronomers»

Another important aspect is that ALMA is designed not only for astronomers but also for planetary scientists, physicists and other scientists whose studies are associated with astronomy.

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Please, any Christian, honestly answer the following: The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.

Bishop Jezierski has decided that a fitting sarcophagus will now be designed for the remains of Copernicus that have been discovered, not only to honour this renowned astronomer, but as a testimony to the unity of deep faith and meticulous science which his life's work represented.

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Astronomers have been able to determine the surface and atmospheric composition of only a few exoplanets, so for most planets the data are incomplete.

This data set has allowed astronomers not only to measure distances for far more of these galaxies than before — a total of 1600 — but also to find out much more about each of them.

But for that, astronomers need to know their mass — individual transit studies reveal only size.

As they are opaque to visible light it is difficult for astronomers to observe their inner workings, and so other tools are needed to unveil their secrets — observations in the infrared or in the submillimetre parts of the spectrum, for example, where the dust clouds, only a few degrees over absolute zero, appear bright.

«Ours isn't the only group looking for planets around young stars, and my hope is that astronomers can find enough of them to shed light on some of the nagging questions about planet formation,» Johns - Krull said.

But in 20 years of searching, astronomers had discovered a mere five candidates for black holes — only one of them a really strong contender.

In an interview with National Geographic in October 2017, Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said he only expects a few small pieces of the Chinese station to reach the surface.

«Twenty years ago, light pollution could be considered only a problem for astronomers,» says lead author Fabio Falchi, a high school physics teacher in Thiene, Italy, who became concerned about the growing threat of light pollution in the 1990s after it began interfering with his hobby of amateur astronomy.

Despite their name, MACHOs need not occur only in the galactic halo, so astronomers can search for them by looking for microlensing effects anywhere where there are large numbers of stars.

The «DNA» collected traces the ancestry of stars, showing astronomers how the Universe went from having only hydrogen and helium — just after the Big Bang — to being filled today with all the elements we have here on Earth that are necessary for life.

Only when the rocket is again cleared for launch can astronomers start to look for a new target comet, he says.

The only way to make the quasars so bright, astronomers believe, is for supermassive black holes to devour gas at the hearts of large galaxies.

Although astronomers only slowly came to realize dark matter's importance in the universe, for me personally it happened in an instant.

Astronomers had calculated that our home galaxy possesses only enough fuel to forge new stars for just a few billion more years.

In 1983, astronomers discovered dust orbiting the star, suggesting it had a solar system, and Carl Sagan (pictured) chose to make Vega the source of a SETI signal in his 1985 novel Contact, though the responsible aliens weren't native to the star: At the time, Vega was thought to be only about a couple hundred million years old, probably too young for any planets to have spawned life.

In the U.K., where only 20 % of U.K. Ph.D. recipients are still practicing astronomy in a university or observatory by age 40, the outlook is similarly bleak, but many U.K. astronomers are holding out hope for a fulfilling career.

Astronomers have measured Eddington ratios for only about 20 supermassive black holes in the early universe.

Anyone with the nerve to explicitly hunt for exoplanets risked not only their reputation but also their funding, so few astronomers tried.

Voyager 2 gave astronomers a closer look, but only for a few days in August 1989.

The shock breakout itself lasts only about 20 minutes, so catching the flash of energy is an investigative milestone for astronomers.

The astronomers not only detected the X-ray source, he adds, but for the first time can describe its shape, which is elongated.

For astronomers, attempting to understand the life cycles of planetary systems using existing examples is like trying to learn how people grow from babies to children to teenagers, by only studying adults.

Amateur astronomers may contribute more observations, but the asteroid will be very difficult for backyard astronomers to see, as current estimates are that it will reach a visual magnitude of only about 17 at its brightest, and it will be moving very fast across the sky.

Astronomers jumped on the chance to check Oumuamua for radio signals that would indicate it was communicating with aliens, but the search has so far found only quiet.

This makes it harder for astronomers to classify it, as most of the characteristics of a galaxy's morphology — the arms of a spiral or the bar across the centre — are only visible on its face.

For these most recent observations, the astronomers used only a portion of ALMA's 66 antennas when the telescope was in its lower - resolution configuration.

Although only a few candidates for such a system have ever been detected, astronomers at the University of Maryland, College Park, now believe that they have discovered incontrovertible evidence of such black - hole twins.

Astronomers found the river of particles was significantly affected by Pluto, but only for short distances from the icy sphere.

Add to this the «dark matter» that astronomers are still searching for without success, and we think we live in a Universe where only two percent of it is the familiar atoms that make up you and I, stars and planets.

For the last two years, the star's bizarre behavior has confounded astronomers, who have invoked several ideas — a hypothesis involving a gigantic «alien megastructure» being proffered only half in jest — in their attempt at an explanation.

Although this protects us, it makes life difficult for astronomers: only a tiny fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum is observable from the ground, and often in these cases, the quality of the observations strongly depends on the geographical site.

Although bad weather limited the astronomers to observing for only 4 hours, the data they collected with the LRIS instrument was completely unprecedented.

Only when all astronomers feel welcome and supported in the profession can our discipline realize its full potential for excellence.

Although they did not find any dark GRBs that originated in the early universe (such as the subsequently discovered GRB 090423), the astronomers were able to estimate that ancient GRBs probably account for only around 0.2 to 0.7 per cent of all gamma - ray bursts detected since their initial discovery.

Having only limited amounts of phosphorus available may not be a total dealbreaker for life, even life as we know it, according to Avi Loeb, an astronomer at Harvard University in Massachusetts who wasn't involved with the new research.

Although the spiral is tilted away from us, with only a thin slither on view, such a perspective can be advantageous for astronomers because the regions above and below the galaxy's disc can be seen much more clearly (Credit: ESA / Hubble & NASA)

Not only will Webb's observations of the stars and other components of our galaxy help astronomers clarify our understanding of its inner workings, it will help to define what's normal for our cosmic neighborhood — so that when we detect something out of the ordinary, we'll know it.

Found through the analysis of data from radio telescopes by astronomers at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), this tiny cluster of baby stars occupy a small volume only 10,000 AU across — meaning that they'd all easily fit within the confines of the boundaries of our solar system (yes, the Oort Cloud is the solar system's outermost boundary).

«As a result, the black hole is fed generously only for a short period of time,» Avi Loeb, an astronomer at Harvard University and director of its interdisciplinary Black Hole Initiative, who was not involved in the new paper, told Newsweek in an email.

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).

By taking this technique into space for the first time, astronomers will approximately triple the resolving power previously available with only ground - based telescopes.

So far astronomers have only been able to account for about 450 to 500 kilometers per second of the Local Group's motion.

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I have a story in the Sunday Week in Review section on the astronomers and activists seeking to get more sustained investment not only in looking for asteroids and comets that could someday slam into Earth, but also seriously pursuing and testing ways to nudge them off a collision course.

A few token VCs for the poor bloody squaddies, while Lord Stern and the Astronomer Royal sit well behind the front line, planning the campaign against us, our way of life, and the hopes of the 90 percent of the world's population who can only dream of a decent carbon footprint.

The astronomer Sporer reported only 50 sunspots during a 30 - year period, compared to 40,000 to 50,000 typical for that length of time.