Sentences with phrase «study object»

Though designed principally to observe remarkably faint objects throughout the universe — such as distant galaxies and planet - forming disks around young stars — ALMA is also capable of studying objects in our own solar system, including planets, comets, and now the Sun.

He has been working on comparative genomics using domestic animals as study objects the last 30 years.

If so, Phoebe has given astronomers their first opportunity to study an object from distant space at close range.

XMM - Newton studies objects such as black holes, quasars, and neutron stars.

Mordehai Milgrom began his career studying objects called ultracompact neutron stars in binary star systems.

Astronomers study objects called blitzars and magnetars, while citizen scientists with the Galaxy Zoo project have found objects that they've affectionately dubbed «green peas» and «voorwerps.»

In March 2015, NASA's Dawn spacecraft is expected to enter orbit around Ceres to study the object like never before.

Thus, when astronomers study objects that lie a light - year away or more, they are seeing it as existed at the time that light left it, not as it would appear if they stood near its surface today.

The FOS examined fainter objects than the High Resolution Spectrograph (HRS), and could study these objects across a much wider spectral range — from the UV (1150 Angstroms) through the visible red and the near - IR (8000 Angstroms).

As it departs the inner solar system, scientists are racing to study the object before it fades from view

Renowned materials scientist Mark Miodownik studies objects as ordinary as an envelope and as unexpected as concrete cloth, uncovering the fascinating secrets that hold together our physical world.

Studying the objects gives astrophysicists a chance to investigate particle physics in conditions that would be impossible to replicate in a particle accelerator on earth.

Sometime next year astronomers hope to start using the MCAO system to study objects ranging from just - born stars to distant galaxies.

Chlorarachniophytes are particularly interesting study objects, because these microbes still retain some of the green alga's nucleus, suggesting that the process of secondary endosymbiosis is still ongoing.

The group's most recent study object is spider silk: spiders use the so - called safety thread to prevent them from falling, to lower themselves and to build the web's framework.

One of the great scientific benefits of this image is that Hubble has a long history studying the object, Levay says.

Other discoveries in the Milky Way detailed in the special edition include the sharpest image yet of a gamma ray source — a nearby supernova remnant — which will enable researchers to study this object at finer scale than before — and three new «gamma ray shells» that are possibly examples of a new type of supernova remnant.

The survey is an ongoing collaboration between dozens of scientists at institutions from eight countries, studying the objects orbiting beyond Neptune to help piece together our solar system's turbulent past.

The scientists studied the object, known as G2, during its closest approach to the black hole this summer, and found the black hole did not dine on it.

MAUNA KEA, HAWAII — A team of researchers led by Justin R. Crepp, the Freimann Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame, has directly imaged a very rare type of brown dwarf that can serve as a benchmark for studying objects with masses that lie between stars and planets.

If you are studying any objects near the magnitude limit of the survey, you should mention that SDSS uses asinh magnitudes, and reference the paper defining this magnitude system:

Jian - Yang Li of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz., used images from the Hubble Space Telescope to study the object in April.

Science, for the most part, studies objects such as pendulums, steel balls on inclined planes, planets and stars.

Studying objects like the new nebula around W26 will help astronomers to understand the mass loss processes around these massive stars, which eventually lead to their explosive demise.

The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) can study these objects across a spectral range from the UV (115 nanometers) through the visible red and the near - IR (1000 nanometers).

In 1873 Dr. George Comfort, first dean of the College of Fine Arts at Syracuse University, obtained a series of plaster casts to be utilized as study objects.

One sees that by the latter half of the nineteenth century the method of generalized forms is beginning to blossom, both as a means to unify mathematics and as a means to isolate the key properties of well - studied objects.

So, either MANA doesn't believe MW's self reported data is accurate and so their results can't be trusted, or their results are similar or worse than the study they object to, or both of the above.

Why spend all this time, money, and thought to study objects that astronomers often describe as little more than «dirty snowballs»?

By placing a specially designed metamaterial under the studied object in an MRI scanner it is possible to increase the signal - to - noise ratio in the scanned area.

They studied the object, which lies in the Circinus spiral galaxy 13 million light - years away, not only with NuSTAR but also with the European Space Agency's XMM - Newton satellite.

«We can learn a lot from studying these objects,» concludes Zijlstra.

«Detecting gravitational waves will open a new window for observation and allow us to study objects in the universe in a way that can't be achieved using traditional astronomy techniques.»

Lucy would be the first mission to study these objects, which are thought to be left - overs from the early formation of the Solar System.

The one Israeli winner, for example, is the Weizmann Institute's Prof. Yoseph Imry, considered the «founding father» of mesoscopic physics — a branch of physics that studies objects that are smaller than macroscopic (visible to the naked eye) objects but bigger than atoms.

In recent years, astronomers have achieved great progress, peering farther out in space to study objects that existed when the universe was still very young.

Our next step is to study these objects in greater detail and figure out exactly how and why they are forming stars at such prodigious rates.»

Successfully installing AO systems on both Keck telescopes has made it possible for Keck astronomers to study objects in far greater detail than ever before.

Because the telescope can also be pointed toward the sun, others have suggested shifting its field of view and using it to study objects in the inner solar system, such as asteroids that might be heading toward Earth.

Place your feel on a study object a foot or two off the ground.

A case study is meant to provide a deep view or explanation of why the study object is the way it is.

This very analysis is made in thorough and academic manner, which helps to study the object under consideration in a very detailed way.

Unlike traditional museums, we do not aim to collect, conserve and study objects — the centre is a specialised institution for communicating the importance of heritage.

Engaging with a rich collection of social, cultural and political associations, these artists consider the body as a performative object, study objects to explore the construction of identity, and negotiate the tension and translation between material and immaterial experience.

The psychological triad of feeling, acting and thinking is a study object of the most diverse theories; within the research field of romantic relationships, to identify differences and similarities between men and women in vertexes of that triad makes it possible to understand sociocultural and evolutionary elements of the dynamics of romantic relationships in the human species.