Sentences with phrase «other astronomers started»
Late on Thursday night, Johnson, Murray - Clay, and other astronomers started an online petition to «support the people who were targets of Geoff Marcy's inappropriate behavior.»
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When astronomers started finding planets around other stars in the 1990s, they fully expected to see the general structure of our own solar system repeated throughout the cosmos.
Having the mass and radii of a planet allows the astronomers to calculate other features such as a planet's average density, «and once you know the average density of a planet, then you can start to say whether it's rocky or not,» Kane explained.
Schaefer and a group of other astronomers will start out near Casper, Wyo., but they're ready to jump in the car and drive anywhere else along the eclipse path if it looks like it might be cloudy.
Like other teams positioned in a 1500 - kilometer - wide swath across South America, the astronomers had started out the night with one mission: They intended to measure the size of Chariklo, an icy body that circles the sun between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus.
The road to progress is typically strewn with false starts, wrong turns and other miscues — as a group of astronomers and physicists known as the BICEP2 collaboration recently found out.