Sentences with phrase «years for astronomers»

It will take more than 100 years for astronomers to determine the fate of the 1987 supernova's dust, Indebetouw said.

It took three years for astronomers to test this theory by measuring, during an eclipse, how the sun shifted light from a star.

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Astronomers can forecast them out for the next 10,000 years and back in time for the last 10,000 years with a few strokes on their laptops.

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While peering through one of the clusters, Abell 2744, astronomers recently found a candidate for one of the most distant galaxies known, a toddler growing up about 500 million years after the Big Bang.

Sunspots have been observed for more than two thousand years, but in the seventeenth century, astronomers devised new ways to view them, including a telescope - based projection device known as a helioscope.

Levan concludes: «Now, astronomers won't just look at the light from an object, as we've done for hundreds of years, but also listen to it.

Now all that's left for astronomers is to actually find and tally these estranged stars, something that could be just a few years away, Krumholz says.

Moreover, the academic job situation for astronomers in Canada has improved in the last few years, owing to the retirements of the large cohort of astronomers hired in the late 1960s and the fact that university enrolments have swelled as a result of population growth, the baby boom echo, and increased participation rate.

Two years ago, astronomers Lisa Randall and Matthew Reece of Harvard University fingered dark matter for a 35 million - year cycle — which they later revised to 32 million years — based on the birth dates of large craters from comet crashes.

He joined the local Black Hills Astronomical Society while still in high school in 1957 and became its president a few years later, before seizing on the chance to work with professional astronomers when he took a job at the University of Arizona as a research technician developing imaging devices for telescopes in 1968.

Astronomer Donald Lynden Bell of Cambridge University, for instance, believes that his wife Ruth, now a professor in the atomistic - simulation group at Queen's University in Belfast, remained in a job below her capabilities for 30 years until she accepted her chair in Belfast in 1995.

Radio astronomers have used a similar approach for many years, with great success, but light waves are more than a million times smaller than radio waves, meaning optical interferometry requires a million times greater accuracy.

The few astronomers who even attempted to look for them languished in obscurity, spending years in fruitless searching.

«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.

This year, astronomers found they are also responsible for some of the most powerful explosions — short gamma - ray bursts.

In the past few years, astronomers have solidified the case for cosmic acceleration by studying ever more remote supernovae.

«This is a beautiful observation,» says astronomer Peredur Williams of the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, who has studied WR140 for nearly 30 years.

Astronomers can watch neutron stars orbit each other for many years using more traditional observatories, and all the while, energy leaks away from the system in the form of invisible gravitational waves.

After 100 years of theory and decades of experiments, astronomers have detected gravitational waves directly for the first time.

For years, astronomers expected to see elsewhere what they saw in our own orderly solar system: rocky planets close to a star and gas giants farther away, all in neat, nearly circular orbits.

But in 20 years of searching, astronomers had discovered a mere five candidates for black holes — only one of them a really strong contender.

Astronomers used a radio telescope called the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) to look for organic molecules in the Large Magellanic Cloud, located about 160,000 light - years from Earth.

Zielona Gora, Poland — The great German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571 — 1630) arrived in this forested region to serve his last employer exactly 380 years ago — reason enough for some two dozen science historians to gather here and celebrate with a conference.

After years of scrutinizing the closest star to Earth, a red dwarf known as Proxima Centauri, astronomers have finally found evidence for a planet, slightly bigger than Earth and well within the star's habitable zone — the range of orbits in which liquid water could exist on its surface.

Astronomers think that B's period of revolution about that center is simply too long (possibly 900 years) for us to have yet detected its snail's - pace motion.

After searching through images obtained from the Hubble Space Telescope's brand - new Advanced Camera for Surveys and the 10 - meter Keck Telescope in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, astronomer Michael West of the University of Hawaii, Hilo, and his colleagues in the United States and United Kingdom found what may be more than 300 intergalactic globular clusters, the farthest ones roughly 400 million light - years away.

Astronomers think they have migrated deep into the Milky Way for billions of years, forming a knot of black holes that occasionally collide.

Kepler's SNR (1604): Johannes Kepler, a German - born mathematician and astronomer, tracked this supernova for a year, lending it his name.

The team of astronomers has now shown that the comet's orbit is stable for more than three hundred years.

China's astronomers rallied around the idea of leapfrogging to a 12 - meter telescope that, if completed quickly before other giants like the TMT, would for some years be the largest telescope on Earth.

This exploding star, named iPTF14hls, has erupted continuously for the last three years, and it may have had two other outbursts in the past, astronomers report in the Nov. 9 Nature.

A SCIENCE - FICTION scene could be playing out for real about 4900 light years from Earth, where astronomers have spotted the first known pair of planets jointly orbiting a binary star system (Science, doi.org/h8h).

Later this year, astronomers will begin a new sky survey to look for signs of the stuff among exploding stars and ancient galaxy clusters.

As early as the 2000 decadal survey, U.S. astronomers ranked Webb as their highest priority for the first 10 years of the new millennium.

For more than 30 years, astronomers have known that Vega has a massive belt of cold dust far from the star, analogous to our solar system's Kuiper Belt.

«Twenty years ago, light pollution could be considered only a problem for astronomers,» says lead author Fabio Falchi, a high school physics teacher in Thiene, Italy, who became concerned about the growing threat of light pollution in the 1990s after it began interfering with his hobby of amateur astronomy.

«This dust - formation process can occur continuously for years, with the dust slowly building up over time, which aligns with astronomer's observations of varying amounts of dust surrounding the sites of stellar explosions,» added lead author Liu.

The planet — Proxima b — was discovered by astronomers who spent years looking for signs of the tiny gravitational tug exerted by a planet on its star, after spotting hints of such disruption in 2013.

Fast radio bursts have baffled astronomers for nearly 10 years.

For the past two years, a group calling itself the MACHO collaboration, which includes astronomers in the US, Australia and Britain, has monitored the brightness of stars in the central «bulge» of our Galaxy and in a satellite galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Astronomers weren't looking for these phenomena when they discovered them; they were looking instead, as they had been for many years, for confirmation of their theory that stars were indeed born from infalling gas.

While waiting for the show to start, you can watch a «Victorian» astronomer give a magic lantern show of findings in astronomy in the year 1880 and, if there is time, take a stroll into the adjoining Space and Time galleries.

Astronomers have been finding exoplanets out in the cosmos for 25 years, and if we've learned anything about all those planets, it's that a lot of different, weird kinds exist.

An international team of astronomers led by Dr. Andrea Kunder of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) in Germany has discovered that the central 2000 light years within the Milky Way Galaxy hosts an ancient population of stars.

A huge explosion at the centre of our Galaxy 15 million years ago may be responsible for many features astronomers see there today.

«The one - year proprietary period effectively means this hidden, unavailable data can not be seen in time for follow - up by the community of astronomers until more than three years into [Webb's] mission.»

Astronomers will be searching for direct evidence of a ninth planet in the far reaches of the solar system; its existence was inferred this year from its gravitational effects on icy objects beyond Pluto.

This delay «is an incredibly anachronistic concept, in the days of «big data,» for an $ 8 - billion mission funded with public resources with a five - year life,» says Garth Illingworth, an astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who also chaired an influential advisory committee for Webb.