Sentences with phrase «terrestrial planet finder»

JPL, CalTech, NASA Larger illustration Astronomers have identified 18 Scorpii as a prime target for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), planned for launch between 2014 and 2020.

As 18 Scorpii has become one of the top 100 target stars for NASA's planned Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), images of this star and its position relative to the Milky Way in Earth's night sky are now available from the TPF - C team.

Astronomers are hoping to use NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) and the ESA's Darwin planned groups of observatories to search for a rocky inner planet in the so - called «habitable zone» (HZ) around 18 Scorpii.

Astronomers are hoping to use NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) and the ESA's Darwin planned groups of observatories to search for a rocky inner planet in the so - called «habitable zone» (HZ) around Alpha Mensae.

JPL, CalTech, NASA Larger illustration Astronomers have identified Alpha Mensae as a prime target for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), now planned for launch between 2014 and 2020.

As Alpha Mensae has become one of the top 100 target stars for NASA's planned Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), images of this star and its position relative to the Milky Way in Earth's night sky are now available from the TPF - C team.

Astronomers are hoping to use NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) and the ESA's Darwin planned groups of observatories to search for a rocky inner planet in the so - called «habitable zone» (HZ) around Gamma Leporis A.

As 61 Ursae Majoris has become one of the top 100 target stars for NASA's planned Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), images of this star and its position relative to the Milky Way in Earth's night sky are now available from the TPF - C team.

Astronomers are hoping to use NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) and the ESA's Darwin planned groups of observatories to search for a rocky inner planet in the so - called «habitable zone» (HZ) around 61 Ursae Majoris.

Eta Cassiopeiae became one of the top 100 target stars for NASA's proposed Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), but the project has been postponed indefinitely.

JPL, CalTech, NASA Larger illustration Astronomers have identified HD 147513 A as a prime target for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), now planned for launch between 2014 and 2020.

In late September 2003, astrobiologist Maggie Turnbull from the University of Arizona in Tucson identified 37 Geminorum as one of the best candidates for hosting Earth - type life from a shortlist of 30 stars (screened from the 5,000 or so stars that are estimated to be located within 100 ly of Earth) that were presented to a group of scientists from NASA's space - telescope project, the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), which will search for habitable planets by using visible light with the «signature» of water and / or oxygen from an Earth - type planet after its scheduled launch around 2013, and the ESA's Darwin project involving six space telescopes (Astrobiology Magazine).

The NASA Terrestrial Planet Finder was one such program, but as of February 2006 this program had been put on indefinite hold.

JPL, CalTech, NASA Larger illustration Astronomers have identified Beta Comae as a prime target for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), now planned for launch between 2014 and 2020.

As HD 147513 A has become one of the top 100 target stars for NASA's planned Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), images of this star and its position relative to the Milky Way in Earth's night sky are now available from the TPF - C team.

The star was identified one of the top 10 target stars for NASA's indefinitely postponed Terrestrial Planet Finder (James Kasting, 2010, page 352).

Astronomers are hoping to use NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) and the ESA's Darwin planned groups of observatories to search for a rocky inner planet in the so - called «habitable zone» (HZ) around Pi3 Orionis.

Astronomers are hoping to use NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) and the ESA's Darwin planned groups of observatories to search for a rocky inner planet in the so - called «habitable zone» (HZ) around Kappa Ceti.

Due in part of discoveries of planetary companions around this Sun - like star, 47 Ursae Majoris became one of the top 100 target stars for NASA's proposed Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), which is now indefinitely delayed.

The Keck Interferometer will be able to detect planets farther from their parent stars, which means their reflected light would be dimmer and harder to detect.The unique pairing process will help pave the way for future interferometers in space, such as the Terrestrial Planet Finder, which will look for Earthlike planets.

As Zeta Tucanae has become one of the top 100 target stars for NASA's planned Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), images of this star and its position relative to the Milky Way in Earth's night sky are now available from the TPF - C team.

JPL, CalTech, NASA Larger illustration Astronomers have identified 47 Ursae Majoris as a prime target for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), now indefinitely delayed.

JPL, CalTech, NASA Larger illustration Astronomers have identified Zeta1 Reticuli as a prime target for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), now postponed indefinitely.

Astronomers are that NASA's indefinitely delayed Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) and the ESA's Darwin proposed groups of observatories will eventually be funded so that they can search for a rocky inner planet in the so - called «habitable zone» (HZ) around 47 Ursae Majoris.

As Gamma Pavonis has become one of the top 100 target stars for NASA's planned Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), images of this star and its position relative to the Milky Way in Earth's night sky are now available from the TPF - C team.

Kepler's findings will support two planned missions — the Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) and the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF)-- by determining which types of nearby stars are likely to possess planets.

Zeta1 Reticuli became one of the top 100 target stars for NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), but this project was indefinitely postponed after NASA budget cutbacks.

Astronomers are hoping to use NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) and the ESA's Darwin planned groups of observatories to search for a rocky inner planet in the so - called «habitable zone» (HZ) around Gamma Pavonis.

JPL, CalTech, NASA Larger illustration Astronomers have identified Gamma Pavonis as a prime target for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), now planned for launch between 2014 and 2020.

As Beta Hydri has become one of the top 100 target stars for NASA's planned Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), images of this star and its position relative to the Milky Way in Earth's night sky are now available from the TPF - C team.

61 Virginis has become one of the top 100 target stars for NASA's planned Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF).

Astronomers are hoping to use NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) and the ESA's Darwin planned groups of observatories to search for rocky inner planets in the so - called «habitable zone» (HZ) around both Stars A and B.

JPL, CalTech, NASA Larger illustration Astronomers have identified Iota Persei as a prime target for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), now planned for launch between 2014 and 2020.

JPL, CalTech, NASA Larger illustration Astronomers have identified Upsilon Andromedae A as a prime target for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), now indefinitely delayed.

Due in part to the discovery of planetary companions, Upsilon Andromedae A was identified as one of the top 100 target stars for NASA's proposed Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF).

Astronomers are hoping to use NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) and the ESA's Darwin planned groups of observatories to search for a rocky inner planet in the so - called «habitable zone» (HZ) around Iota Persei.

Stars A and B were selected as two of the top 100 target stars for NASA's indefinitely postponed Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) to directly image small rocky planets in Earth - type habitable orbits.

The star was chosen from a shortlist of 30 stars (screened from the 5,000 or so stars that are estimated to be located within 100 ly of Earth) that were presented to a group of scientists from NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) and the ESA's Darwin planned groups of observatories (Astrobiology Magazine).

As Iota Persei has become one of the top 100 target stars for NASA's planned Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), images of this star and its position relative to the Milky Way in Earth's night sky are now available from the TPF - C team.

If they can, then the Terrestrial Planet Finder will look very different from what NASA envisioned only a few years ago.

He adds that the search could be optimised by visiting only those stars that harbour habitable planets, which could be identified by planet - finding missions such as NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder.

Princeton's Terrestrial Planet Finder project site: www.princeton.edu/~jkasdin/ EngAnniv/sld023.htm.

One downside is that a dust cloud that extends beyond Mars interferes with infrared transmissions, so the array of space telescopes that NASA envisioned launching to create the Terrestrial Planet Finder would still have to be sent out toward Jupiter.

Still, NASA decided several years ago that the prize was worthy of the challenge and began working on a mission known as the Terrestrial Planet Finder.

I got started doing CubeSats when the Terrestrial Planet Finder mission, which was supposed to directly image Earth - like planets, lost funding in 2005.

If finding life on other planets is really NASA's most important goal, then the Terrestrial Planet Finder is the big enchilada of the entire spaced - based telescope effort.

The bounty of potentially habitable planets has astronomers scrambling for ways to revive the spirit of the Terrestrial Planet Finder, but on a shoestring budget.

So you are forced to go back to a specialized space telescope, and that puts you back into the terrestrial planet finder category.

Within just a few years we may have such an interesting planet catalog of Earth - like possibilities that we won't be able to resist putting the Terrestrial Planet Finder, now in development, out there.

The first Terrestrial Planet Finder mission will take optical images of nearby stars and essentially put a thumb over the star itself to block the light and see the dim planet.