Sentences with phrase «about exoplanet candidates»

Although this is very exciting, the key thing to remember is that we are talking about exoplanet candidates, which means Kepler has detected 1,235 exoplanet signals, but more work needs to be done (i.e. more observing time) to refine their orbits, masses and, critically, to find out whether they actually exist.

Not exact matches

Here, we present optical observations of an exoplanet candidate, Fomalhaut b. Fomalhaut b lies about 119 astronomical units (AU) from the star and 18 AU of the dust belt, matching predictions of its location.

Since first observing a planet orbiting a star other than our sun in 1992, astronomers have made definitive sightings of about 1000 «exoplanets» and have identified a further 3000 to 4000 candidate exoplanets.

Preferred Hosts for Short - Period Exoplanets In an effort to learn more about how planets form around their host stars, a team of scientists has analyzed the population of Kepler - discovered exoplanet candidates, looking for trends in where they're found.

In a recent presentation, Kepler co-investigator Dimitar Sasselov preempted the official announcement that the exoplanet - hunting Kepler Space Telescope has discovered about 140 candidate worlds orbiting other stars that are «like Earth.»

This specialist discussion meeting about the EChO (Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory) M3 mission candidate will be held in London on the 11th of October 2013.

Although he refers to these exoplanets as «candidate» Earth - like worlds, Sasselov goes on to talk about the statistical prevalence of small planets throughout the Milky Way.

What life - hunting space scientists need is more data about candidate exoplanets.

We kindly invite you to attend EChO2013, an open workshop about the EChO (Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory) M3 mission candidate to be held at ESA - ESTEC in Noordwijk (the Netherlands) on July 1 - 3, 2013.