Sentences with phrase «problem for astronomers»

The atmosphere is a problem for astronomers for two big reasons: it's turbulent, so it smears out the light from cosmic objects, and it blocks out huge swathes of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Its importance lies in its effect on calculations of the age of the Universe, a major problem for astronomers.

«Twenty years ago, light pollution could be considered only a problem for astronomers,» says lead author Fabio Falchi, a high school physics teacher in Thiene, Italy, who became concerned about the growing threat of light pollution in the 1990s after it began interfering with his hobby of amateur astronomy.

Not exact matches

For a long time the apparent discrepancy between the age of earth and the age of the cosmos posed a great problem to geologists and astronomers alike.

SOFIA, an infrared telescope that rides in the back of a modified jumbo jet, holds appeal to both astronomers and planetary scientists, but its large operating expenses and long history of problems and delays had made it prime target for budget cutters.

This limits competition among members who may be applying for the same fellowships, grants, and jobs — a problem we struggled with, since two group members and a spouse were astronomers on the job market at the same time.

Clara Moskowitz: Yeah, and like you said, «big data» is a term you hear a lot from astronomers these days, which is basically they've created this problem for themselves; their instruments are now bringing them back way more data than they can basically process or know what to do with.

Astronomers regularly check the archive to determine whether data in it can be used for a new problem they are working on.

«We are still very uncertain as to the modes of black - hole formation and growth in the early Universe... so we do not have a leading model for this observation to pose problems to,» Chris Willott, an astronomer at the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre in Victoria, reportedly said.