Sentences with phrase «outer solar system astronomers»

Not exact matches

Astronomers who studied these images eventually realized that the nascent solar system had twisted inner and outer disks, not just one flat disk, and the moving material was causing the shadows, much like a bird flying in front of a lighthouse's lamp.

«We find no evidence of the orbit clustering needed for the Planet Nine hypothesis in our fully independent survey,» says Cory Shankman, an astronomer at the University of Victoria in Canada and a member of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS), which since 2013 has found more than 800 objects out near Neptune using the Canada - France - Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii.

«When you see something red in the outer solar system, generally that's an indication the object is covered in complex organic molecules,» says Northern Arizona University astronomer Stephen Tegler.

That would be big enough to fulfill several high - priority items on astronomers» wish lists, revolutionizing studies of faraway galaxies, observations of planets in the outer solar system and searches for life on Earth - like exoplanets.

Astronomers have detected a surprisingly irregular object in the dark reaches of the outer solar system.

Meanwhile, astronomers will get close - up views of the outer solar system in July 2015, when the New Horizons spacecraft flies past Pluto and sends back detailed images of the once most - distant planet and its three moons.

Astronomers have further constrained the likely whereabouts of Planet Nine: the planet that, if it exists, is more massive than the Earth and roams the outer reaches of the solar system.

According to the latest thinking, Uranus and Neptune moved around as they formed, and smaller but still substantial bodies may have further stirred up the outer solar system in ways astronomers are still struggling to understand.

Since then, astronomers have cataloged more than 1,000 sizable objects in that same zone, orbiting in the dim outer reaches of the solar system.

Astronomers believe the small moons, temporarily designated S / 2005 P1 and S / 2005 P2, may be rubble from the same primordial collision that gave birth to Charon and could shed new light on the early history of the outer solar system.

Mercedes Lopez - Morales, an astronomer at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, has modeled the possibilities of magnetic fields around red dwarf planets, and a picture is gradually emerging: The planets likely form in the outer parts of their solar systems and migrate in.

«It's almost like looking at the outer solar system when it was a toddler,» said principal investigator Thayne Currie, an astronomer at the Subaru Observatory in Hawaii.

The discovery and study of DeeDee (which has not yet officially been anointed a dwarf planet) shows that astronomers can probe the deep outer solar system and that similar techniques could potentially spot Planet Nine, the big world hypothesized to lurk out there undetected, researchers said.

In 1988, however, numerical calculations of the outer planets showed Pluto's orbit to be «chaotic» and the idea of a chaotic solar system was proposed in 1989 by astronomer Jacques Laskar, now at the Paris Observatory.

When astronomers first discovered «Oumuamua on October 19, the asteroid had already made its closest approach to the Sun, and was racing towards the outer reaches of the Solar System.

But over a 17 - month period from October 2014 to March 2016, astronomers watched a CME travel from the Sun to the outer reaches of the Solar System with the help of 10 different NASA and ESA spacecraft.

Astronomers are searching for a possible Earth - size world in the outer solar system that they sometimes call «Planet X» or «Planet Nine,» but this is not the same Planet X described by conspiracy theorists.

The powerful 1,400 megapixel Pan-STARRS will give astronomers the chance to spot small, faint bodies in the outer solar system that were previously unavailable in sky surveys.