Sentences with phrase «about exoplanets»

Join us as we remember how Hubble has contributed to this important mission and explore the ways in which the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope will expand upon exoplanet discoveries in our new Hubble 25th anniversary science article, «What will we learn about exoplanets when the James Webb Space Telescope is launched?»

We often discuss and talk about exoplanets as isolated entities, but this discovery is a poster child for how important interactions between a planet and its host star can be, and a good reminder that planets are being found in large and dynamic solar systems.

Astronomers have gleaned some information about exoplanet atmospheres by observing how the atmosphere absorbs starlight when an exoplanet's orbit carries it between the star and Earth.

So it's a natural question to ask about exoplanets, but a hard one.

Astrobiologist Nancy Kiang was the motivating force behind gathering GISS scientists to explore theories about exoplanet atmospheres, climates and habitability.

While scientists can calculate their size and mass, not much is currently known about exoplanets» atmosphere.

«The power of the habitability index will grow as we learn more about exoplanets from both observations and theory,» said study co-author Victoria Meadows.

On May 1, science writer Bruce Lieberman asked your questions about exoplanets and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) project in an interviiew with George Ricker, Sara Seager and Joshua Winn.

«We're watching the next generation of scientists and engineers get excited about exoplanets,» said Creech - Eakman.

That's my favourite thing about exoplanets, there's always something else about to happen.

At this point, we have more questions than answers about these exoplanets.

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.

But most excitingly, the physical and chemical processes in brown dwarf and exoplanet atmospheres are the same; the identical processes, combined with the fact that brown dwarfs are much easier to study is the reason why we learn so much about exoplanets from brown dwarfs.

Even though we have learned a lot about exoplanets in the past decade, it is clear that we are just scratching the surface of the universe of amazing, exotic, and surprising worlds.

I would like to thank our witnesses for being here today to testify about exoplanet research and to share information with us about the recent discoveries made by NASA's Kepler mission.

As a follow up to the Cosmology Resource Guide, here is a resource guide about exoplanets (at the beginning...

The Webb telescope will help expose telling details about exoplanets, which are often quite different than the planets in our own solar system.

Use this two page printable sheet to learn about the exoplanet science the GMT will do — including detecting rocky planets, looking for signs of life and taking images.

If you have been reading about exoplanets, you know that they all have boring names, such as GJ 876b, 51 Peg b, or WASP - 19b (not to speak about the likes of KOI - 762.02).

You can determine this, given enough data about the exoplanet, based on how much energy it receives from its parent star and how far away it is in orbit, and then by comparing that with what life needs to flourish.

The Astronomical Journal recently published the findings about exoplanet GJ 1132b, which is about 1.4 times the size of the Earth and exists 39 light years away, close enough to be studied using telescopes.

So it's a natural question to ask about exoplanets — although a hard one.

Reflecting this our group started with a huge list of questions — close to a hundred of them, everything we wanted to know about exoplanets.

On Wednesday May 1, science writer Bruce Lieberman asked your questions about exoplanets and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) project in an interviiew with George Ricker, Sara Seager and Joshua Winn.

And we're here to talk about exoplanets, one of our favorite subjects.

The more we can learn about exoplanets, the more we can understand how our own solar system came to be the way it is.

«Twenty - first century astronomy will be about exoplanets,» he says.

Astronomers must gather information about an exoplanet's atmosphere, often through observing how the planet scatters or absorbs light from its parent star.

«What we believe about Saturn's moons history might still change in the coming years with the finale of the Cassini mission,» said Lainey, who suggested, «The more we learn about Saturn, the more we learn about exoplanets.»

What does this tell us about exoplanets?