Sentences with phrase «recognized by astronomers»
Venus transits were recognized by astronomers as early as the 17th century as offering a means to approximate the scale of Earth's solar system.
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It is like asking a bunch of astronomers whether they all study the same sun when they are all using different equipment and without recognizing that they all think about what is meant by the words «study», «same» and «sun in different ways.
Astronomers recognize that the densest gas cloud seen in the universe today would have to be thousands of times more compact to form stars by gravitational collapse.
It was first recognized as a globular cluster by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop in 1826, who described it as a «beautiful globe of stars very gradually and moderately compressed to the centre».
The binary nature of Alpha Centauri AB was first recognized in December 1689 by astronomer and Jesuit priest Jean Richaud.
MAUNA KEA, HAWAII — UC Santa Cruz astronomers who used the W. M. Keck Observatory to capture the first image of a filament of the «cosmic web» have been recognized by the editors of Physics World for one of the «Top Ten Breakthroughs of 2014».
[17] A survey conducted by amateur astronomers discovered that 54 % of consumers would still want to «name a star» with a non-scientific star - naming company even though they have been warned or informed such naming is not recognized by the astronomical community.