Sentences with phrase «thing for astronomers»

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A while back, I wrote a column for Discover analyzing your place in space: astronomers» best look yet at where you fit into the big, crazy, cosmic scheme of things.

Although neither Webb nor WFIRST are yet off the ground, the decade - spanning timelines required for planning flagship - scale space telescopes is forcing forward - thinking astronomers to consider these futuristic projects as things of the past.

«The way to make astronomers look stupidest is to declare that Pluto, this thing that's been a planet for 75 years, isn't one,» he says.

Astronomer Brad Schaefer of Louisiana State University, a maverick who unmasked the scientific inspiration for Sherlock Holmes and calculated the time of Jesus» crucifixion, is stirring things up again.

Because a good spacecraft is a terrible thing to waste, astronomers are looking for new heavenly bodies for the spacecraft to observe.

There is some good news on the horizon for astronomers, astrophysicists, planetary geologists, and people who just like learning neat things about far - away worlds.

«It's an idea that actually unifies these things and can explain everything with one new particle,» says astronomer Douglas Finkbeiner of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Europa was one of the first things Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei saw in 1610 when he turned his telescope upward to examine the heavens for the first time, during a set of observations that would change the world forever.

You might think that such discoveries are rare, but as we'll see in the next section, astronomers continue to find new nebulae and find out new things about nebulae that have been studied for years.

For reasons to be explained in the next section and in the cosmology chapter, astronomers have figured out that the dark matter is a combination of all those things but the exotic particles must make up the vast majority of the dark matter.

«This thing is huge on the sky, about five times the size of the full moon, but it's mostly too dim for our eyes to see,» NASA astronomer Michelle Thaller told Gizmodo.

Well, Gary Hill, a senior research scientist and Chief Astronomer for McDonald Observatory, is all of these things and more.

Contributors to the catalogue include: Lawrence Weschler (author of creative nonfiction), Kay Redfield Jamison (clinical psychologist and author), Maria Popova (writer and blogger at brainpickings.org), Barbara Maria Stafford (art historian), Jill Tarter (astronomer and former director of the Center for SETI Research), Robin Ince (comedian and co-host of BBC radio's The Infinite Monkey Cage), Stefan Sagmeister (graphic designer), Mary Ruefle (poet), Sam Green (filmmaker of The Measure of All Things), Steve Holmes (curator), and the exhibition curators.