SETI efforts to date have only garnered a small, scattered amount of time on large radio telescopes, and they typically «piggyback» on other scientific observations, passively listening to whatever
target other astronomers are investigating.
Not exact matches
Next, they would reach out to
astronomers around the world who could
target the object with
other radio telescopes.
So thirsty are theorists for new insights into black holes and relativistic processes that, with each LIGO detection, observational
astronomers have leapt into action to
target those enormous patches of sky, hoping to see some afterglow or
other emission of electromagnetic radiation — even though by definition the resulting larger black hole should emit no light.
Late on Thursday night, Johnson, Murray - Clay, and
other astronomers started an online petition to «support the people who were
targets of Geoff Marcy's inappropriate behavior.»