Mazlan Othman, a Malaysian astrophysicist, is set to be tasked with co-ordinating humanity’s response if and when extraterrestrials make contact。
"We know of several dozen stellar black holes in our galaxy but don't know their ages," said Alex Filippenko, an astrophysicist at the University of California at Berkeley.
These new worlds imply that there's a "dramatic and exciting process of gravitational billiards" at work, agrees astrophysicist Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, D.C.
The images reveal blurry dots, "just a handful of pixels," says Garth Illingworth, a University of California, Santa Cruz, astrophysicist.
Scott Sandford, a research astrophysicist at the NASA Ames research Center in California who has experience conducting spectroscopy in meteorites, disagrees.
It's the first attempt to sort astronomical data on this scale, says Princeton astrophysicist Robert Lupton, who oversaw data processing for the SDSS and is helping design the LSST.
EarthSky spoke with astrophysicist David Helfand of Columbia University on the risk to people today from killer asteroids.
In a new Discovery Channel documentary to be aired in May, renowned astrophysicist Dr. Hawking suggests that with 100 billion galaxies in the universe it seems "perfectly rational" that aliens exist.
"It's going to happen," says astrophysicist Sara Seager of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Unlike gas giants in our solar system, hot Jupiters have orbits that swing tightly around their stars, says Sean Raymond, study co-author and astrophysicist at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
"In most cases, it's all kind of guesses because we don't have samples," says Scott Sandford, an astrophysicist at the NASA Ames Research Center.
The esteemed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has assured us that even the biggest and baddest black holes will just evaporate away.
Marshalled by an astrophysicist, Richard Muller, this group, which calls itself the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature, is notable in several ways.
In 1933, a Swiss astrophysicist by the name of Fritz Zwicky first proposed dark matter's existence.
When I grew up, I became a professional astrophysicist.
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