Sentences with phrase «other astronomers until»
Although he was correct, his research was ignored by other astronomers until the 1970's when astronomers began to realise that most of the matter in the universe must be of a dark, unseen type.
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As instruments improved, astronomers detected smaller wobbles caused by smaller planets, until in 2004 a team using the Hobby - Eberly Telescope was arguably the first to find a super-Earth, 55 Cancri e. Others were revealed when their gravity briefly magnified the light of a distant star, a process known as gravitational lensing.
Until then the planet's true status will remain uncertain — and astronomers will likely continue second - guessing a handful of other Kepler finds.
But until astronomers began finding planets around other stars, no one calculated how swallowing nearby objects would affect a star, says theoretical astrophysicist Mario Livio of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.
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.
Einstein wasn't happy with the idea of a big bang — until astronomer Edwin Hubble showed that galaxies are speeding away from each other
Until now, the prevailing hypothesis has said that as stars evolve, metals (astronomers» term for any chemical elements heavier than hydrogen and helium) in the swirling disk around them form tiny «seeds» that attract other matter and slowly grow into planets.