However, there were a few astronomers in Greece and other places who didn't agree with the geocentric view, for example, a Greek astronomer who lived in the third century B.C.E.
然而，在希腊和其他地方有一些天文学家不同意地心说的观点，例如，一位生活在公元前三世纪的希腊天文学家。
A telescope is an important tool to an astronomer, and a computer is an important tool for a computer scientist-but each is merely a tool, not the focus of study.
望远镜对于天文学家来说是一个重要的工具，同样计算机对于计算机科学家来说是一个重要工具——但是它仅仅只是一个工具，并不是研究的重点。
The last time a lunar eclipse occurred on the winter solstice, astronomer Galileo Galilei was languishing under house arrest for suggesting the Earth circled the sun.
上次月全食发生在冬至期间的时候，天文学家伽利略正因为自己提出“日心说”理论而被软禁着。
Banking has a long history of borrowing ideas from science - astronomer Edmund Halley was constructing mortality tables for the life assurance industry back in the 17th Century.
银行业从科学中借鉴经验的历史由来已久，例如天文学家埃德蒙·哈维在17世纪就为人寿保险业编制了死亡率表格。
The new study "is a nice piece of work," says Mauricio Cisternas, an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany.
德国海德尔堡市马普学会天文研究所的天文学家莫里西奥·西斯特纳斯说，这项新研究“很精致”。
ROME - Italian and British scientists want to exhume the body of 16th century astronomer Galileo for DNA tests to determine if his severe vision problems may have affected some of his findings.
意大利和英国的科学家计划把16世纪天文学家伽利略的尸体挖掘出来并进行DNA测试，以决定他晚年严重的视力问题是否影响了他的一些天文发现。
For centuries, scientists thought comets traveled in the Earth's atmosphere, but in 1577, observations made by Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe revealed they actually traveled far beyond the moon.
几个世纪以来，科学家一直认为彗星是在地球大气层内运行。但是在1577年，由丹麦天文学家第谷·布拉赫进行的观测揭示出，彗星实际上运行在比月亮还远的地方。
For a time, it was the residence of important 13th century Persian scholar and astronomer Nasir al-Din al-Tusi.
13世纪波斯学者和天文学家纳西尔·艾德丁·图西曾在此居住。
Kuiper crater is named for Gerard Kuiper, a Dutch-American astronomer who was also a member of the Mariner 10 team.
柯伊伯陨石坑是用荷兰-美国天文学家柯伊伯(GerardKuiper)命名的，他同时也是“水手10号”的成员。
Radio astronomer Melanie Johnston-Hollitt at Victoria University, Wellington , NZ, has collaborated with IBM for developing the system.
来自新西兰惠灵顿维多利亚大学的射电天文学家Melanie Johnston-Hollitt与IBM合作开发了该系统。
Explanation: Scanning the skies for galaxies, Canadian astronomer Paul Hickson and colleagues identified some 100 compact groups of galaxies, now appropriately called Hickson compact groups.
说明：加拿大天文学家PaulHickson和他的同事通过巡天观测夜空中的星系后识别了大约100个紧密的星系群，这些星系群现在被恰当地称为希克森致密星系群。
This works fine during everyday life, but for an astronomer looking at a faint object, this is a problem.
这种现象有利于我们日常的生活。但是对于天文学家而言，对细微物质的察觉就成为一个难题。
Giovanni Cassini, an Italian astronomer, described a sunspot that appeared in 1671 as the first he had seen for many years.
在1671年，一位意大利天文学家乔凡尼•卡西尼，描述了他多年以来首次观测到的一个太阳黑子。
An astronomer makes the case that the best place to search for habitable planets may be very close to White Dwarf stars.
一位天文学家提出了一种新想法，在靠近白矮星的地方找最寻适合生命居住的行星。
Martin Rees, the astronomer royal, calls the search for extraterrestrial life the most important scientific endeavour of our time.
皇家天文学家，马丁·里斯认为：搜寻外星生命，这是我们这个时代最重要的科学探索。
I got two letters from the Astronomer Royal thanking me for writing about meteors.
皇家天文家学会给我写过两封信，感谢我写去关于流星的信。
You’re listening to Jill Tarter, astronomer and director of the Center for SETI Research.
今天节目组采访了SETI研究中心总监、天文学家吉尔•塔特。
In the case of Galaxy Zoo, for example, each image was viewed by over 30 volunteers, who proved just as accurate as checking by a professional astronomer.
我们拿星系园做比方，该站点中的每张图像都由30多位志愿者核查，他们所证实的精确度与由一位专业天文学家审核的精确度是一致的。
Take, for example, Comet Lexell, named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Lexell.
就拿扫帚星雷客什尔来说吧，它是以瑞典天文学安德斯·雷客什尔命名的。
Galileo, the 17th Century astronomer and mathematician, also found himself in hot water with the Church for claiming that the Earth revolved around the sun.
伽利略，一位17世纪的天文学家和数学家，他因宣称地球绕太阳运动而同样被教堂浸在热水中烫死。
The red circle in the upper left part of this image is SN 1572, often called "Tycho’s Supernova" for Renaissance astronomer Tycho Brahe.
照片左上方的红圈部分是SN 1572，它通常也被称为“第谷超新星（Tycho’s Supernova）”，以纪念文艺复兴时期的天文学家第谷·布拉赫（Tycho Brahe）。
Also on display for the first time is a section of the radio telescope which radio astronomer Jocelyn Bell used to discover pulsars - small, fast-rotating stars - in the 1960s.
展览还首次展出了20世纪六十年代射电天文学家Jocelyn Bell发现高速运转的小恒星-脉冲星时所使用的射电望远镜。
FIFTY years ago, an American astronomer called Frank Drake started to search for signals coming from alien civilisations.
早在50年前，美国天文学家FrankDrake(弗兰克·德瑞克)就已开始搜寻来自外星文明的信号。
Nicolaus Copernicus, the Polish astronomer noted for his revolutionary theory about the earth revolving around the sun, is often credited with a gastronomic achievement.
波兰天文学家尼古劳斯．哥白尼除了以其革新的「地球环绕太阳旋转」 论著称，据说在美食上也有成就。
The study “can be used to guide our searches for other life-bearing planets” as well, says astronomer Moira Jardine of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
这项研究也“能够被用于我们寻找其他有生命的行星，” 位于斯科特兰（Scotland）的圣安德鲁斯大学（University of St. Andrews）的天文学家莫伊拉·贾丁（Moira Jardine）说。
For instance, Galileo, a 17th century astronomer and scientist, was arguably the greatest contributor to science of our time.
以17世纪的天文学家和科学家伽利略为例，他或许是历史上对科学贡献最大的人之一。
Edmond Halley, English astronomer and mathematician, renowned for studies of comets, was born in London.
以研究彗星称著的英国天文学家、数学家埃德蒙·哈雷生于伦敦。
Edmond Halley, English astronomer and mathematician, renowned for studies of comets, was born in London.
以研究彗星称著的英国天文学家、数学家埃德蒙·哈雷生于伦敦。
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