Sentences with phrase «analyzing distant planets»
ANTI-GLARE GOGGLES FOR PLANET HUNTERS The search for alien life requires analyzing distant planets» light to determine the makeup of their atmospheres.
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«We analyzed the data of these most distant Kuiper Belt objects,» Malhotra said, «and noticed something peculiar, suggesting they were in some kind of resonances with an unseen planet.»
When Sigurdsson and colleagues analyzed images of the white dwarf from the Hubble Space Telescope, they concluded that the distant, unseen companion is not a low - mass star, as many researchers had thought, but a planet with about 2.5 times the mass of Jupiter.
As they find and confirm extremely distant objects, they analyze whether their discoveries fit into the larger theories about how interactions with a massive distant planet could have shaped the outer Solar System.
It's one of the tools JWST will use to capture sight of distant planets passing in front of stars, then analyze the data to be able to identify worlds where the signatures of life, like water and methane, are present.
Scientists estimate that by 2020 or so, we should be able to directly image distant planets, analyze their atmospheres, and look for telltale signs of biological life more easily than ever before.