Chatterjee and
other astronomers presented their findings to the American Astronomical Society's meeting in Grapevine, Texas, in the scientific journal Nature, and in companion papers in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Not exact matches
Law, team leader Shami Chatterjee of Cornell University and
other astronomers on the team will
present their findings today at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Grapevine, Texas, in the scientific journal Nature, and in two companion papers to appear in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
The
other side of darkness In April's Sky Lights [«A Lighter Shade of Black»] Bob Berman
presents the paradox suggested by
astronomer Heinrich Olbers: «If we live in an infinite universe containing an infinite number of stars, then... every point of the sky, no matter how small, should be filled with starlight....
Among
other things, the new map will help
astronomers to understand and explain the motion of the Milky Way, which is apparently being tugged by the gravity of neighboring groups and clusters of galaxies, says 2MASS team member Karen Masters of the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom, who
presented the it here at the summer meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
Although
astronomers have detected
other EKOs whose orbits lie mostly 50 AUs, these objects have very eccentric orbits, and almost all eventually move inward to within 38 AUs of the Sun, which place them within Neptune's gravitational reach and so these EKOs are generally thought to have been scattered out to their
present orbits by a gravitational slingshot with Neptune to become part of the «Scattered Disk.»
Paglen's MATRIX exhibition looks to the night sky as a place of covert activity: working with data compiled by amateur
astronomers and hobbyist «satellite observers,» cross-referenced across many sources of information, he tracks and
presents what he calls «the
other night sky.»
I have had it reviewed by several of my fellow
astronomers with expertise in celestial mechanics (i.e. true peers), and I have
presented it in research colloquia to
others with broad astronomical expertise.