Sentences with phrase «studying about astronomy»

Have fun studying about astronomy!

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(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archaeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archaeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

Give your kids the opportunity to discover fun facts about each planet with this Astronomy Unit Study: Planets — Every Star is Different

However, when he sensed that funding in his original field, X-ray astronomy, was drying up, he started thinking about new tools for studying planets around other stars.

But in a recent paper with co-authors Dorian Abbot and Eliza Kempton in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, Bean describes the need «to think about the techniques and approaches of astronomy in this game — not as planetary scientists studying exoplanets.»

In a new study in the journal Nature Astronomy, a team of researchers from Dublin City University, Columbia University, Georgia Tech, and the University of Helsinki, add evidence to one theory of how these ancient black holes, about a billion times heavier than our sun, may have formed and quickly put on weight.

The study of astronomy has often been lauded by ancient and modern theologians because it instills in almost every person a sense of wonder about an extravagant universe that seems indiscernible, yet dutifully ordered.

In Un Enfant des Etoiles, Southern European editor Elisabeth Pain chats with a third - year Ph.D. student about his lifelong fascination with astronomy and the path that led him to study the atmosphere of the solar system's largest moon.

Astronomers first spotted the explosion, which took place in a galaxy 2.4 billion light - years away, in 2010 and were able to study it for about three years, and they've published the results of that study in a new paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy.

«The kind of ignition you're talking about is rapid oxidation,» explained Drake Deming, an astronomy professor at the University of Maryland who has studied planetary atmospheres as a scientist for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Jeremy Lim of the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics in Taiwan; Chris Carilli, Anthony Beasley, and Ralph Marson of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro, NM; and Stephen White of the University of Maryland studied the red - supergiant star Betelgeuse, about 430 light - years away in the constellation Orion.

«This marvelous avalanche of information about the mini-Neptune planets is telling us about their core - envelope structure, not unlike a peach with its pit and fruit,» said Geoff Marcy, professor of astronomy at University of California, Berkeley who led the summary analysis of the high - precision Doppler study using the HIRES instrument installed on the 10 - meter, Keck I telescope.

Although many applications of the radio spectrum provide a clear benefit for society, concern is growing about protecting observing conditions for radio astronomy, a uniquely powerful tool for studying the universe.

The new study led by Rest in Nature Astronomy describes a supernova from data captured by Kepler's extended mission, called K2, that reaches its peak brightness in just a little over two days, about 10 times less than others take.

«We're accustomed to seeing how our Sun appears in visible light, but that can only tell us so much about the dynamic surface and energetic atmosphere of our nearest star,» said Tim Bastian, an astronomer with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Va. «To fully understand the Sun, we need to study it across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, including the millimeter and submillimeter portion that ALMA can observe.»

And good old Kat (Gish), soon to start studying astronomy at Yale, is about to have a bad case of babysitter blues.

For Grasso, the focus in the film, as in much of his work, is about how the study of astronomy was linked to the idea of power in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Study leader Jon Jureidini said it raised wider implications about the need for medical researchers to publish their underlying data — standard practice in genomics and astronomy, but rare in medicine.»