Sentences with phrase «add new solar systems»

Not exact matches

«The discovery is surprising,» adds astrophysicist Scott Tremaine at Princeton University in New Jersey, because stars are expected to come close to the outer Solar System only about once every 9 million years, yet this encounter occurred recently.

NASA's Kepler mission has added five new planets to a growing roster of more than 400 beyond our solar system — and none of the newbies is remotely hospitable to life.

What New Horizons finds should add significantly to our understanding of the early evolution of Earth and the other members of the solar system.

According to the Japan Renewable Energy Foundation, only China exceeded Japan over the last 12 months in adding new solar capacity, with much of the new generation coming from rooftop solar systems.

«If a new theory published last year is correct, then powerful hydrothermal activity could have been occurring since the formation of the moon, possibly as much as the age of the solar system,» he says, adding that which timescale they are working on — tens of millions or billions — could be determined with future research.

NASA added that it is also committed to designing «a new and powerful transportation» system involving solar electric propulsion, which will use the sun's energy to take spacecraft deeper into space.

This new set of observations adds key information to the models needed to track how material moves and changes throughout space in the solar system — crucial to understanding the medium through which our spacecraft travel, as we venture farther and farther from home.

The solar panels will provide 20 percent of the center's power and will be backed up with a new battery system for emergency power during a grid outage, officials said, adding the change is expected to save the city $ 3,000 annually in power costs.

Since the average home solar system uses 2.5 kilowatts to 4 kilowatts of panels, the additional 65,000 new systems would add as much as 260 megawatts of annual demand for panels in the state, which is about the size of one large solar farm.

For comparison, California added 858 megawatts of residential solar last year from 127,000 new residential solar systems, with an average size of 7 kilowatts.

The mean value of new rooftop solar to a house in California in 2015 was $ 3.76 per Watt in added value, meaning a 5 kiloWatt system should add an average $ 18,800 to the value of a home.

Add some renewable energy to your new security system with solar panels for the stick up cameras.

In 2017, current owner installed a new roof, replaced all windows, installed solar panels and added a salt water system and variable speed pump to the pool.