Sentences with phrase «what most astronomers»

Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, says the new results confirm what most astronomers had predicted: Pluto's thin atmosphere is cooling as the planet moves away from the Sun and will eventually disappear as the gas freezes.

The team has also found evidence to silence a minority of sceptics who argue that what most astronomers take to be microlensing events are actually caused by natural variations in the intrinsic brightness of the stars being observed.

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Some astronomers are questioning the existence of what might be the most Earth - like planet yet found outside the solar system, based on a reexamination of archival data.

What's most surprising is that we've never seen interstellar objects pass through before,» said Karen Meech, an astronomer at UH's Institute for Astronomy in Honolulu specializing in small bodies and their connection to solar system formation.

Looking at random parts of the sky with Hubble, astronomers have found what appears to be the most distant protocluster ever seen: five galaxies in the process of growth, forming a cosmic collection that may grow into a massive cluster.

Most of what astronomers know about Ceres comes from indirect measurements of its mass and density, based on the way it subtly tugs on Mars and vice versa.

Using statistical analysis and scientific computing, astronomers at Western University have charted a path that most likely pinpoints the very origins of comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, which is vital information in discovering what kind of material it is made from and just how long it has been present in our solar system.

Visible light can't pierce Venus's thick shroud of clouds, so most of what astronomers know about the planet's surface comes from observations in radar and other wavelengths.

What is most remarkable, the astronomers say, is that the segment may extend from the outermost part of Scutum — Centaurus, making this arm even longer.

Sci - News reports Australian astronomers have discovered what may be the most Earthlike planet among those known to humans.

In what is being hailed as «a significant step on the path towards the detection of life outside our Solar System,» astronomers have detected an atmosphere around the exoplanet GJ 1132b, which makes it the most Earth - like world around which such a layer of gasses has ever been found.

Working with fellow Carnegie astronomer George Preston, Shectman conducted an objective - prism survey for the oldest and most «metal - poor» stars in the halo of the Milky Way galaxy, and helped to provide the foundation for the study of what is now called near - field cosmology.

Pasadena, CA — With the combined power of NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes, as well as a cosmic magnification effect, a team of astronomers, including Carnegie's Daniel Kelson, have spotted what could be the most distant galaxy ever seen.

As well as keeping an eye out for solar flares, it will also be looking well past the Sun to gain a better grasp of the earliest, most distant galaxies we have ever observed to give astronomers a better idea of what happened in the very early days of our Universe, and perhaps shed light on how the relationship between gravity and dark matter evolved.

Most of what astronomers have learned about the large - scale structure and motions of the Galaxy has been derived from the radio waves of interstellar neutral hydrogen.

In what is being hailed as «a significant step on the path towards the detection of life outside our Solar System,» astronomers have detected an atmosphere around the exoplanet GJ 1132b, which makes it the most Earth - like world around which...

The «most mysterious star in the universe» has been acting up, and astronomers are excited at the prospect of finally discovering what exactly is going on.

Hajj Ali, the most learned man in our village, traveled to Isfahan to fetch a copy of the chief astronomer's almanac so we would know what calamities to expect.