Sentences with phrase «step for astronomers»
The next step for astronomers is to find out if the diamond planet has rings.
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This new finding fills in a long - missing piece in the puzzle representing our galaxy's chemical evolution, and is a big step forward for astronomers trying to understand the amounts of different chemical elements in stars in the Milky Way.
Though astronomers still do not know what kinds of events or objects produce FRBs, the discovery is a stepping stone for astronomers to understand the diffuse, faint web of material that exists between galaxies, called the cosmic web.
«Looking around the very nearest Sun - like stars is the next logical step in the search for another Earth,» says Supriya Chakrabarti, an astronomer at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, who is developing planet - imaging technologies for Project Blue.
Now Matthew Holman and Matthew Payne, two astronomers from the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, have taken the idea a step further by analysing the Cassini data for multiple possible orbits instead of just one.
«In 1972 the leap second was considered a step forward,» says astronomer Dennis McCarthy, who runs the Washington - based time directorate for the International Earth Rotation Service.
The eminent astronomer from the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton stepped up to the podium, announced that he and two collaborators had taken high - resolution Hubble images of 15 quasars, and proclaimed the result: We have taken a giant leap backward in our understanding of quasars.
Achieving this goal required a huge step up from the 1950s - era Palomar Sky Survey, whose photographic plates have guided astronomers to celestial curiosities for decades.
The study is «an important step forward» in understanding the evolution of early galaxies, says astronomer Giovanni Fazio of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The astronomers prepare the computer systems for their night's observations, and then step out onto the platform to enjoy the Chilean sunset.
The next step will be for astronomers to figure out how to detect these types of planets.