Sentences with phrase «other astronomers showed»

Ten years later, other astronomers showed that the telescope wobbled, not the star.

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For more clues to the nature of dark matter, astronomers have looked out beyond our neighboring galaxies, into deep stretches of space where the influence of the unseen material shows up in other, more dramatic ways.
Einstein wasn't happy with the idea of a big bang — until astronomer Edwin Hubble showed that galaxies are speeding away from each other
Astronomers are back in the dark about what dark matter might be, after new observations showed the mysterious substance may not be interacting with forces other than gravity after all.
Also that year, other astronomers produced a «movie» showing motions in the jet of material ejected from the disk around Scorpius X-1's neutron star.
A new study by astronomers at University of California at Berkeley shows when it comes to planets, smaller means more, a finding that has strong implications for the prospects of relatively puny planets like Earth appearing in other solar systems.like So far, the smallest extrasolar planets found to date are about two to three times Earth's mass, but a random survey of 166 nearby stars shows the extended family of planets is fairly robust.
That first quasar and others identified later puzzled astronomers because, when their light was analyzed to find the characteristic «signature» of emission at specific wavelengths shown by particular atoms, the pattern was at first indecipherable.
We will show you around the two websites we will be using, and the forum where you will post homework, and have discussions with each other and the PSC astronomers.
However, they are also qualified to work in planetariums running science shows, to assist astronomers doing research, and to operate space - based and ground - based telescopes and other astronomical instrumentation.
Astronomers have used the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array radio telescope to make the first - ever time - lapse movie showing details of gas motions around a star other than our Sun.
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