Sentences with phrase «provided by astronomers»

Geneticists and information scientists have built and are building models for the transition of organic molecules to self - replicating living organisms, based on theories of Earth's early development provided by astronomers, geologists, and oceanographers and on the evidence of fossilized microorganisms discovered by paleontologists.

Dramatic evidence of a strong linkage was provided by another astronomer, Walter Maunder, who at the age of 70, in 1922, linked the lack of sunspots between 1645 and 1715, to the bitter cold of that period.

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However, two astronomers — Gianluca Masi of The Virtual Telescope Project and Michael Schwartz of Tenagra Observatories, Ltd. — managed to track down the Tesla using orbit data provided by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Such a measurement allows astronomers to estimate a world's mass, which, paired with the size estimate provided by a transit, yields a density and composition estimate.

Dreamed up in 1961 by astronomer Frank Drake, the equation provides an estimate of the number of detectable alien civilisations in the Milky Way.

«Even though many of the astronomers assumed that this would be a fertile high - mass star forming region, we couldn't probe the kinematics of gas around high - mass protostars at the level of resolution provided by existing telescopes,» Higuchi said.

«Many astronomers, including our group, have already provided a great deal of evidence that long - duration gamma - ray bursts (those lasting more than two seconds) are produced by the collapse of extremely massive stars.

Now, a team led by astronomers at UC Santa Cruz has succeeded in obtaining an infrared spectrum of WISE 0855 using the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii, providing the first details of the object's composition and chemistry.

To unscramble the light from cells buried within organisms, the researchers turned to adaptive optics — the same technology used by astronomers to provide clear views of distant celestial objects through Earth's turbulent atmosphere.

By measuring the CMB polarization data provided by POLARBEAR, a collaboration of astronomers working on a telescope in the high - altitude desert of northern Chile designed specifically to detect «B - mode» polarization, the UC San Diego astrophysicists discovered weak gravitational lensing in their data that, they conclude, permit astronomers to make detailed maps of the structure of the universe, constrain estimates of neutrino mass and provide a firm test for general relativitBy measuring the CMB polarization data provided by POLARBEAR, a collaboration of astronomers working on a telescope in the high - altitude desert of northern Chile designed specifically to detect «B - mode» polarization, the UC San Diego astrophysicists discovered weak gravitational lensing in their data that, they conclude, permit astronomers to make detailed maps of the structure of the universe, constrain estimates of neutrino mass and provide a firm test for general relativitby POLARBEAR, a collaboration of astronomers working on a telescope in the high - altitude desert of northern Chile designed specifically to detect «B - mode» polarization, the UC San Diego astrophysicists discovered weak gravitational lensing in their data that, they conclude, permit astronomers to make detailed maps of the structure of the universe, constrain estimates of neutrino mass and provide a firm test for general relativity.

Maunakea, Hawaii — Astronomers have spotted a primitive galaxy being devoured by a gigantic neighboring galaxy — a discovery that could provide clues about the early universe.

The distortions are then removed by the AO system, providing astronomers unprecedented clarity of the cosmos.

Using this method, astronomers have confirmed that galactic clusters indeed have high masses exceeding those measured by luminous matter and, as a result, have provided additional evidence of dark matter.