Astrophysicist George Jordan and his colleagues have uncovered a new class of supernova explosion.
Marshalled by an astrophysicist, Richard Muller, this group, which calls itself the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature, is notable in several ways.
"Habitability zones are a nightmarishly complicated concept, " said astrophysicist Patrick Young at Arizona State University, who studies planets' suitability for life.
"I thought it would be a Buck Rogers thing, " the astrophysicist recalls.
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The volume of data produced doubles every year, according to Alexander Szalay, another astrophysicist, who works at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
But as British astrophysicist Sir Martin Rees told the Insider, the Pontifical Academy seems to have lost its edge in recent years.
To put all this in perspective, even an astrophysicist, attempting to measure galaxies, would never need more than 10 or 15 digits of precision.
The astrophysicist calculates that his method could save airlines hundreds of millions of dollars per year, not to mention a bushel of time for passengers.
This latter point was emphasised by Leicester University astrophysicist Duncan Law-Green, who believes the UK is well placed to exploit the new private ventures opening up in human spaceflight.
Joss Bland-Hawthorn, an astrophysicist at the University of Sydney, New South Wales, is counting on a new scanner, called HERMES to give his research a boost.
"Inside stars it's a very noisy environment, and that noise sets up sound waves that travel all the way through the star, " said Birmingham astrophysicist Prof Yvonne Elsworth.
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The work was reported in mid-October by Jay Norris, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, at the Fifth Huntsville (Alabama) Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium.
"We are now facing the idea that planets are all over the place, " said astrophysicist John Southworth at the U.K.'s Keele University, who wasn't part of these research projects.
Trained as an astrophysicist, he translated the impenetrable equations of the universe for all the rest of us, and knowledge previously available only to professional scientists became common knowledge.
"The great thing about ALMA is that it will open up a genuinely new window on the universe, " said Dr. John Richer, an astrophysicist at Cambridge University and ALMA project scientist.
At the same meeting, related findings emphasizing the same principles but coming from a slightly different approach were reported by Edward Fenimore, an astrophysicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and fellow researcher Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz.
Well, it seems that astrophysicist Ralph Neuhauser has the unexciting answer -- most of the radiation would have been caught by the atmosphere, meaning that it's highly unlikely anyone succumbed to an accidental overdose.
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"Some theories say that small black holes in globular clusters should sink down to the center and form a medium-sized one, but our discovery suggests this isn't true, " said Daniel Stern, an astrophysicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
Switchback after switchback finally leads to the telescope itself, where Annis, a Fermilab astrophysicist and colleagues, have been fine-tuning the attached digital camera that offers the next best hope in answering questions about the true nature of dark energy responsible for the inexplicable accelerating expansion of the observable universe.
The action, loosely based on a true story and filmed on location at and near a Utah university (and, briefly, in China), concerns Liu Xing (Liu Ye), a brilliant young astrophysicist from Beijing who travels to the United States for graduate study under Professor Jacob Reiser (Aidan Quinn), a scientist whose work he admires but whose best years and ideas are behind him.
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