Sentences with phrase «subject for astronomers»

Black holes have always been a favorite subject for astronomers.

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The question had been a subject of raging debate among astronomers for more than a quarter of a century.

The astronomer's initial interest in the subject was sparked after a conversation with fellow physicist Gavin Schmidt, director of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York.

«So this is the second show [at David Zwirner London]-- and I've always been fascinated by Britain for several reasons, for example it is one of the last «class societies» — although I don't know how long it will still go on — but I once tackled that subject in a small show, the first white cube show that I did called «Spelndid Isolation», and one of the portraits in that show was also based on Henry Draper [American doctor, amateur astronomer, and pioneer of astrophotography]-- these three works in front of you [portraits: «William Robertson», 2014, «John Robison», 2014, and «John Playfair», 2014] are derived from the paintings in the professors room at University of Edinburgh.

Months ago, Rory Barnes, an astronomer at the University of Washington with a talent for finding planets, agreed to give a plenary talk at the northwest sectional meeting of the American Physical Society on the subject of «The Hunt for Habitable Exoplanets.»