Sentences with phrase «says space physicist»

«This is a nice first observation» of electrojets, says space physicist Margaret Kivelson of the University of California, Los Angeles.

Cluster's observations provide «the first look at the future of auroral research,» says space physicist Patrick Newell of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.

Not exact matches

Along with partners Dr. Robert Richards, a physicist and founder of International Space University, a nonprofit organization that offers space training programs, and Dr. Barney Pell, Silicon Valley technology pioneer and a former NASA manager, Jain says Moon Express can offer more «democratic» access to the Space University, a nonprofit organization that offers space training programs, and Dr. Barney Pell, Silicon Valley technology pioneer and a former NASA manager, Jain says Moon Express can offer more «democratic» access to the space training programs, and Dr. Barney Pell, Silicon Valley technology pioneer and a former NASA manager, Jain says Moon Express can offer more «democratic» access to the moon.

The physicist says, «You know these stones are mostly empty space?

«There's been no other report like this for space weather,» says lead study author Daniel Baker, a space physicist at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (Lspace weather,» says lead study author Daniel Baker, a space physicist at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (Lspace physicist at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LSpace Physics (LASP).

«I've certainly been pitching this for 20 years, really from the beginning of BECs, when doing something like this in space seemed crazy,» says Robert Thompson, a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and CAL's project scientist.

The data may be quite important for another reason, says Philippe Escoubet, a plasma physicist at the European Space Agency (ESA) in Noordwijk, Netherlands.

«All you need,» Carroll says, with a physicist's penchant for understatement, «is to start with some empty space, a shard of dark energy, and some patience.»

«eLISA will allow us to test fundamental concepts of black hole theory, since these signals can last very long and will allow us to sample the space - time around a black hole with unprecedented precision,» says Benjamin Knispel, a physicist and spokesman for the Albert Einstein Institute in Hanover, Germany.

«A space physicist usually thinks in terms of this tilted dipole that the earth has,» Love says, «whereas a navigator would probably be more interested in the magnetic dip poles.»

«These are two distinct phenomena but they are obviously related,» says Len Culhane, a solar physicist at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London.

But protecting humans in space may be the greatest benefit, says solar physicist William Wagner of NASA, especially with astronauts due to spend thousands of hours on space walks during the next decade to assemble the international space station.

The observation leaves space scientists wondering where the torrent of particles originates, says Tom Hill, a space physicist at Rice University in Houston.

«You can get to the point where you've produced in the lab the same molecule that's occurring in space, but you don't necessarily know what the molecule is,» says Michael McCarthy, a physicist at the Harvard — Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

But Alex Dessler, a space physicist at the University of Arizona, Tucson, says the same area of the planet also produces unusual radio signals, flares of ultraviolet light, and high levels of infrared radiation and even seems to be correlated with a patch in Jupiter's magnetosphere that pumps out high - energy electrons.

«The study very definitively shows that we're in the interstellar medium,» says Gary Zank, a space physicist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville who was not involved in the research.

Storms on the sun catapult charged particles into space at tremendous speeds, says plasma physicist Ruth Bamford of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Didcot, England.

«The prodigal son was going up against his mentor, and he had a whole team of us young guys,» says Louis Lanzerotti, a space physicist at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, who joined Krimigis on his winning Low Energy Charged Particle (LECP) experiment, designed to detect nuclei of elements heavier than hydrogen or helium.

The process could be driving vast amounts of gas and dust toward the coalescing black hole, in turn causing intense energy to billow out from the object, says Neil Gehrels, a physicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and a member of the research team.

The PAMELA findings, along with others from experiments flown on balloons as a cheaper alternative to the space shuttle, «are a demonstration of the rich science that is likely to be forthcoming from the AMS,» says AMS team member Eun - Suk Seo, a cosmic ray physicist at the University of Maryland in College Park.

«Right now it's too early in the season to say anything definitive about how [the 2001] hole will come out,» atmospheric physicist Paul Newman of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center observes.

Physicists will deploy 400 more loosely spaced detectors to stretch TA's area to about 2500 square kilometers — twice the area of New York City — says Yoshiki Tsunesada, a physicist and TA team member at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

«Incredibly streamlined,» says Jim Rohr, a physicist with the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in San Diego.

«The observation is a puzzle,» says Michael Briggs, a physicist at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, who was not involved in the report.

Extra dimensions of space, for instance, which are predicted in many forms of string theory (a variant called M theory requires 10 spatial dimensions rather than the familiar three), could be accessible at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), said Barnard College physicist Janna Levin.

Here's a recent example from The New York Times: «Samuel Ting, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Nobel laureate particle physicist, said Wednesday that his $ 1.6 billion cosmic ray experiment on the International Space Station had found evidence of «new physical phenomena» that could represent dark matter, the mysterious stuff that serves as the gravitational foundation for galaxies and whose identification would rewrite some of the laws of physics.»

Atmospheric physicist James A. Peden, formerly of the Space Research and Coordination Center in Pittsburgh, said, «Many (scientists) are now searching for a way to back out quietly (from promoting warming fears), without having their professional careers ruined.»

«Ninety - nine percent of physicists convinced that space and time were fixed until Einstein working in a patent office wrote a paper in which he showed that they are not,» he says.

Solar cycle 24, due to peak in 2010 or 2011 «looks like its going to be one of the most intense cycles since record - keeping began almost 400 years ago,» says solar physicist David Hathaway of the Marshall Space Flight Center. . .