You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work.

Tombaugh (1906–1997)".

Although he is best known for discovering the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930 the first object to be discovered in what would later be identified as the Kuiper belt Tombaugh also discovered many asteroids; he also called for the serious scientific research of unidentified flying objects.