Sentences with phrase «other astronomers believed»

G2 makes an unusual, 300 - year elliptical orbit around the black hole and Ghez's group calculated its closest approach occurred this summer — later than other astronomers believed — and they were in place at Keck Observatory to gather the data.

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On the other hand, perhaps Newton's law of gravity no longer applied at great distances from Earth, as the British astronomer George Biddell Airy believed.

There wasn't any good reason to believe in the reality of other universes — at least not until near the beginning of the new millennium, when astronomers made one of the most remarkable discoveries in the history of science.

Some astronomers believed that those cosmic fuzzballs resided within the Milky Way, the galaxy containing the sun and billions of other stars.

Astronomers believe this region, called the Oort cloud, contains a vast collection of icy debris left over from material that came together to form the sun, Earth, and the other major planets 4.6 billion years ago.

The astronomers believe that AzTEC - 3 and the other nearby galaxies appear to be part of the same system, but are not yet gravitationally bound into a clearly defined cluster.

Most astronomers now believe that the sun was born in a cloud of gas and dust full of other young stars.

Astronomers believe it formed after a giant planet between 1 and 20 times the mass of Jupiter was scattered out of the main disc by gravitational interactions with other bodies there.

Astronomers have already identified over 600 planets around other stars, some of them roughly the size of Earth, and believe many billions more exist within our galaxy.

Astronomers believe the bullets, which are about 10 times the size of our solar system, are clumps of iron atoms (bright blue tips) and other gas ejected from within the nebula after an unknown violent event.

Other astronomers, not initially believing Tifft's results, did similar work and reached the same conclusion — one that undermines the foundations of cosmology.

Before 1987, astronomers believed that only red supergiants would explode as supernovae, but this observation proved that other types of evolved stars can produce these explosions too.

Also, some massive black holes (MBHs) orbit each other inside a single galaxy, and four galaxies contain triple MBHs.38 Astronomers believe galaxy mergings produced these systems, but as already stated, galaxies rarely merge today, because they are so far apart.

Water on other worlds may be harder to find than astronomers believed, according to a study of three hot Jupiters circling other worlds.

Astronomers believe that the chemical elements in the Earth and even in our own bodies, such as carbon, oxygen, and iron, were made in other exploding stars billions of years ago.

Astronomers believe that the gas giants in our solar system formed by building up a large core over a few million years and then pulling in a huge amount of hydrogen and other gases to form an atmosphere.

Astronomers believe that many of these objects have collided and merged with each other over time to grow into the giant and luminous galaxies seen today (more on 18 galaxies about 11 billion ly away).

But sunspots were recorded by several astronomers, and Rottman and others believe there is a correlation between the climate of the time and the lack of sunspots.