Sentences with phrase «years of observations made»

By tracking the motion of stars orbiting close to Sgr A *, a team of German and Czech astronomers have analyzed 20 years of observations made by the VLT and other telescopes using a new technique that pinpoints the positions of these stars.

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I was kind of like I said interested in gambling or at least speculating or figuring things out and then taking a calculated gamble and what they were telling me was don't try, there were saying that no one can beat the market and the stock prices are efficient and just through simple observation looking at the newspaper and they used to have the 52 - week high low prices in the newspaper, it seemed unreasonable that you know the fair price was 51 day and eight months later, it was 120, and that was pretty much every stock had that kind of range every year and it didn't make sense to me that the fundamentals of the underlying businesses were actually changing that much.

A third observation from this analysis is that the ten - year forward real returns of investments made at PEs between 12 and 17 had the biggest spread between minimum and maximum returns and were therefore more volatile and less predictable.

«After years of first hand observation, I am convinced beyond a shadow of doubt of the counterintuitive notion that one astute individual has five times the investment decision - making capacity of a committee of five persons who, individually, are equally endowed intellectually» Frank Martin

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Less than a hundred years later, Italian Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642) using the telescope, made observations that convinced him that the Copernician hypothesis of an earth revolving around the sun was true.

This is an accurate cartoon of an observation I made in a Christian bookstore many years ago.

In the several centuries that we have been making detailed biological observations, and in thousands of years of selectively breeding plants and animals, we have not seen any Darwinian evolution in the lab, farm or field.

As I said before, these are just general observations I've made about humor and satire through the years, and some principles I worked really hard to incorporate into A Year of Biblical Womanhood, which included quite a bit of both.

I left because of observations I had made over many years, both in my life and in the lives of the Christians around me.

A year ago I heard Michael Cornfield make a similar observation, saying that consultants will resist shifting spending to online marketing until they can figure out a business model that lets them make money off of it.

State lawmakers earlier this year agreed to a package of education policy changes that linked test scores to evaluations as well as in - classroom observation and made it more difficult for teachers to obtain tenure.

The Central Regional Director of the NCCE, Nicolas Ofori Boateng who made the observation, said the situation had influenced voter turnout at district level elections over the past years, as the electorates had lost confidence or felt betrayed by the assembly members.

At the outset of the contest Jon Cruddas made the wise observation that even though he had known all the candidates personally for 20 years, he didn't really -LSB-...]

Charles Darwin famously derived his theory of evolution from observations he made of species and their geographic distributions during his five - year voyage around the world on the H.M.S. Beagle.

For more than 1500 years, observations had been made about the ability of fungi to inhibit the growth of bacteria [5].

Observations made by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory reveal gas diving into four small black holes within a few light - years of the galaxy's core, where thousands of other hidden holes may also orbit.

Many physicists are hopeful that LIGO will make the first direct observation of gravitational waves in the next few years.

«Laser mapping project shows effects of physical changes in Antarctica's Dry Valleys: Maps can be compared to similar observations made 13 years ago to observe changes.»

Observations made between 2002 and 2009 show that the time between transits is shortening by 60 milliseconds per Earth year, say Elisabeth Adams of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and colleagues (Astrophysical Journal, vol 721, p 1829).

But observations made this year, in the final months of NASA's Cassini spacecraft, and reported here at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) show they are surprisingly youthful: Until a few hundred million years ago, they did not exist.

The new VLBA observations, made in 2014 and 2015, measured a distance of more than 66,000 light - years to a star - forming region called G007.47 +00.05 on the opposite side of the Milky Way from the Sun, well past the Galaxy's center, some 27,000 light - years distant.

Finally, such observations might help to envisage the distant future of our planet, when, in 3 or 4 billion years, the Sun will become a red giant and will circulate in our atmosphere making life impossible on Earth.

After a year of observations, scientists waited with bated breath on Nov. 28, 2013, as Comet ISON made its closest approach to the sun, known as perihelion.

Although many of those observations were made a hundred years or more ago, it was only in the 1990s that mathematicians and scientists were finally able to figure out what is going on.

For years, researchers have made countless observations relating to these opposite ends of the spectrum.

Observations of atmospheric carbon dioxide made by aircraft at altitudes between 3 and 6 kilometers (10,000 - 20,000 feet) show that seasonal carbon dioxide variations have substantially changed during the last 50 years.

«In the course of a year, we took the CAO aircraft and team to northern Borneo, mapped its habitats in 3 - D, combined the data with Marc's orangutan observations, and made a critically important scientific discovery that directly bears on the conservation of one of the world's most iconic ape species,» said Asner, the project's leader.

By making observations for a second Mars year and during different parts of the solar cycle, the scientists will be better able to distinguish among these effects.

Australian astronomers have combined all observations of supernovae ever made to determine that the strength of gravity has remained unchanged over the last nine billion years.

When Feng Ma of the University of Texas, Austin, studied the radiation streaming from a quasar known as TEX 1726 +344, located 11.5 billion light - years away in the constellation Hercules, he noticed features that weren't present in observations of the quasar made in 1988 and 1990.

Sure, every year we can see smaller; sure, every year we can see farther, but the real breakthroughs are coming in our ability to make more of these observations and do it faster.

«I've been making infrared observations of star - forming regions for more than 25 years,» says Stephen Strom of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, Arizona, «and the images coming back are utterly incredible.»

Writing in a linked Comment, Professor Philip Cowen, MRC Clinical Scientist, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, says: «The key observation that might eventually justify the use of a drug like psilocybin in treatment - resistant depression is demonstration of sustained benefit in patients who previously have experienced years of symptoms despite conventional treatments, which makes longer - term outcomes particularly important.

Observations made by Peter van de Kamp of the Sproul Observatory at Swarthmore College over a period of 40 years suggest that Barnard's star is accompanied by at least two dark companions, each with about the mass of Jupiter.

William Borucki, of the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, has captured the astronomy prize for two achievements: conceiving the observational technique of transit photometry that raised the tantalizing prospect of sighting Earth - like planets orbiting other stars, and leading the 25 - year - long development of the Kepler mission, which in 2009 placed a telescope in space to make those observations.

With it, they made the most detailed observations yet of six massive galactic discs during the era of peak galaxy formation, 10 billion years ago.

The North Pole and Its Seekers October 28, 1868 New Expeditions to the Arctic Regions June 24, 1871 The Latest Arctic Explorations — The Remarkable Escape of the Polaris Party June 7, 1873 Rescue of the Remaining Survivors of the Polaris October 4, 1873 The Latest Polar Expedition December 26, 1874 Work for Arctic Explorers July 17, 1875 The British Arctic Expedition The Coming Arctic Expeditions May 22, 1875 The British Arctic Expedition August 28, 1975 July 3, 1876 The Search for the Pole The British Arctic Expedition December 23 and 30, 1876 The Recent Arctic Expedition January 20, 1877 Another Approach: Balloons and Airships Some Suggestions for Future Polar Expeditions February 13, 1877 Proposed New British Polar Expedition September 20, 1879 To the North Pole by Balloon July 13, 1895 Wellman's Airship for His North Polar Expedition By the Paris Correspondent of the Scientific American July 7, 1906 The Wellman Polar Airship Expedition By the Paris Correspondent of the Scientific American June 22, 1907 Farther North The American Arctic Expedition September 14, 1878 The Peary Arctic Expedition July 15, 1893 Nansen's Polar Expedition March 14, 1896 The Recent Failures of Arctic Expeditions August 29, 1896 The Return of Lieut. Peary September 27, 1902 The Polar Regions June 11, 1904 Peary's New Ship for Work in Arctic Seas October 8, 1904 Peary and the North Pole July 15, 1905 Peary's Arctic Ship, The «Roosevelt» July 15, 1905 Peary's «Farthest North» November 17, 1906 Race to the Finish: Peary and Cook Peary's Quest of the North Pole July 18, 1908 Peary and the North Pole August 21, 1909 Dr. Cook and the North Pole September 11, 1909 Dr. Cook's Discovery of the North Pole September 11, 1909 Honor to Whom Honor is Due September 18, 1909 Commander Peary's Discovery of the North Pole September 18, 1909 Retrospect of the Year 1909: Exploration January 1, 1910 «Investigating» Peary April 22, 1911 THE SOUTH POLE Exploring Antarctica Antarctic Exploration January 23, 1897 To South Polar Lands February 13, 1897 The Voyage of the «Discovery» February 3, 1906 Antarctic Expeditions, Past and Present Some Heroes of Exploration November 11, 1911 Dr. Charcot's Antarctic Expedition November 30, 1907 Motoring Toward the Pole By Motor Car to the South Pole By J. S. Dunnet October 19, 1907 The Shackleton Antarctic Expedition By John Plummer August 29, 1908 Lieut. Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition April 3, 1909 Lieut. Shackleton April 9, 1910 Two Novel Motor Sleds By Walter Langford May 14, 1910 Race to the Finish: Amundsen and Scott The Antarctic Expeditions January 13, 1912 The Discovery of the South Pole March 16, 1912 Amundsen's Attainment of the South Pole Progress of Antarctic Exploration By G. W. Littlehales, Hydrographic Office, United States Navy March 23, 1912 Capt. Scott at the South Pole April 13, 1912 Shadows at the South Pole June 15, 1912 The Scott Expedition and its Tragic End A Sacrifice Made for Scientific Ideals February 22, 1913 Achievements and Lessons of the Scott Expedition March 1, 1913 To the South Pole with the Cinematograph Film Records of Scott's Ill - Fated Expedition June 21, 1913 Science in the Heroic Age The Height of the Antarctic Continent By Walter Langford June 4, 1910 The Renewed Siege of the Antarctic January 17, 1914 Shackleton's South Polar Expedition The Value of His Scientific Observations By Henryk Arctowski June 17, 1916 Thawing Scott's Legacy A pioneer in atmosphere ozone studies, Susan Solomon rewrites the history of a fatal polar expedition By Sarah Simpson December 2001 Greater Glory In the race to the South Pole, explorer Robert F. Scott refused to sacrifice his ambitious science agenda By Edward J. Larson June 2011

This comet is making its first visit this close to the sun from the outer solar system's Oort Cloud, so the concerted campaign of observations may yield fresh clues to our solar system's earliest days more than 4 billion years ago.

The Jupiter icy moons explorer (JUICE) plans to launch in 2022 and will spend at least three years making observations of Jupiter and three of the Galilean moons, Ganymede, Callisto and Europa.

The extra data spanning many thousands of years that this study uncovers will go a long way to matching model projections with past observations, helping scientists identify the most accurate models for making predictions of future climate change.

The new RSS v4 TLT record makes a number of changes to the time of observation correction, as well as corrections for the change in instruments that measure temperature from microwave sounding units (MSU) to advanced microwave sounding units (AMSU) sensors, which occurred around the year 2000.

I hope maintaining these two custom - built transporters properly will make it possible to continue ALMA observations on the land of Atacama for 25 years, 35 years, or for a longer period of time.

The period where ARGO data makes up the bulk of data (2004 - 2008 in red) has a greater uncertainty only because their period of observation is much shorter (5 years), versus 11 years for the interval where XBT data predominates (1993 - 2003 in blue).

We've seen evolution via real - time observations and ordered series of fossils; evolution could be falsified by finding fossils out of place, such as that of a rabbit in 400 million - year - old sediments; and evolution certainly makes predictions (Darwin predicted, correctly, that human ancestors evolved in Africa).

«TESS should discover thousands of new exoplanets within two hundred light years of Earth,» said TESS Principal Investigator George Rickerof the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. «Most of these will be orbiting bright stars, making them ideal targets for characterization observations with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.»

David Jewitt of the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, and Jane Luu of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, spent six years making observations of the outer solar system.

So, during a five - year campaign, they used the Keck observatory to make extremely detailed observations of Kepler's stars.

«TESS should discover thousands of new exoplanets within two hundred light years of Earth,» said TESS Principal Investigator George Ricker of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. «Most of these will be orbiting bright stars, making them ideal targets for characterization observations with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.»

Researchers collected more than 55,000 observations of social interactions of spotted hyenas over a 20 year period in Kenya, making this one of the largest to date of social network dynamics in any non-human species.