Sentences with phrase «around bright stars»

Unfortunately most of those planets and planet candidates are around stars that are too faint for these observations, so we need a plethora of close - in planets around bright stars.

This new planet sample demonstrates the capability of K2 to discover numerous planetary systems around bright stars.

There's also a practical reason for prioritizing planets located around these bright stars.

The project, led by principal investigator George Ricker, a senior research scientist at MKI, will use an array of wide - field cameras to perform an all - sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets, ranging from Earth - sized planets to gas giants, in orbit around the brightest stars in the sun's neighborhood.

If everything goes according to plan, the observatory will conduct a two - year mission to survey more than 85 percent of the sky, searching for exoplanets around bright stars in the 300 - light - year distance range.

The project, led by principal investigator George Ricker, a senior research scientist at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (MKI) will use an array of wide - field cameras to perform an all - sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets, ranging from Earth - sized planets to gas giants, in orbit around the brightest stars in the sun's neighborhood.

A ring of dust around the bright star Fomalhaut looks uncannily like the Great Eye of Sauron in this image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope a few years ago.

Scientists using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii have discovered a «super-Jupiter» orbiting around the bright star Kappa Andromedae.

He is a member of the survey team for the low - cost Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) system that consists of a pair of robotic telescopes designed to find exoplanets around bright stars operated by astronomers at Ohio State University, Vanderbilt University, Lehigh University and the South African Astronomical Observatory.

This wide - field view of the sky around the bright star Alpha Centauri was created from photographic images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2.

What asteroseismology can do for exoplanets: Kepler - 410A b is a Small Neptune around a bright star, in an eccentric orbit consistent with low obliquity

Standing for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS is a NASA mission to look for planets around bright stars less than 300 light years from Earth.

He continues, «This is especially important because upcoming space missions such as TESS and PLATO should find many small planets around bright stars and we will want to follow up the discoveries with ground - based instruments.»

By May, two of the four reaction wheels that precisely point the telescope had failed, leaving it too unstable to detect exoplanets around bright stars.

Plants on planets orbiting dim stars or in distant orbits around brighter stars may appear dark because they need to capture more of the visual and even of the nearer parts of the infrared and UV spectrum (more).

The current and next - generation space - based transit surveys, K2 and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), are focused on finding large planets on short orbits (less than 75 days) around the brightest stars in the sky.

So where Kepler went narrow and deep, its successor goes shallow and wide, seeking out only nearby planets around bright stars.

Upcoming missions, like the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite due to launch in 2018, will fill in the details of the exoplanet landscape with more observations of planets around bright stars.

Planets around bright stars are important because astronomers can learn a lot about them from ground - based observatories,» said Mayo.

The evaluation by the combined TESS team, involving sophisticated orbit - determination tools, confirmed that the orbit offered a relatively clear view of the cosmos, good visibility of ground stations, little contamination from straylight, and a benign, low - radiation environment — all important ingredients for a productive all - sky survey cataloguing extrasolar planets around bright stars.

Here NGTS has a key advantage: Kepler's focus on Earth - like planets makes many of its candidates too small or their stars too dim to get a mass measurement, but NGTS's wider field of view allows it to detect a larger number of more massive planets around brighter stars.

«Upcoming space missions should reveal many more small planets around bright stars that will make great targets for detailed studies,» said co-author Ray Jayawardhana of York University.

«This is especially important because upcoming space missions such as TESS and PLATO should find many small planets around bright stars and we will want to follow up the discoveries with ground - based instruments,» de Mooij said.

The DARK - speckle Near - infrared Energy - resolved Superconducting Spectrophotometer (DARKNESS) is designed to take images with much higher contrast ratios, allowing astronomers to spot extremely faint planets around bright stars.