Sentences with phrase «around distant stars»

Since then, many hundreds of planets big and small have been detected around distant stars.

WITH the discovery of planets around distant stars in the Milky Way now almost routine, it takes evidence of planets beyond our own galaxy to turn heads — and that's what Erin Mentuch at the University of Toronto in Canada has produced.

NGST will be powerful enough to zoom in on the light of Jupiter - size planets in orbit around distant stars and look for molecules associated with life — water, oxygen, and carbon dioxide.

Alien - yet - familiar worlds are discovered around distant stars, extreme weather batters the Earth, stimulus spending energizes renewables, and the stem - cell debate reignites.

«You build bigger, you go fainter, you go deeper, and you'll have a shot at a major discovery,» explains Pudritz, «So building these larger machines will no doubt allow us to study the birth of the first galaxies and even planet formation around distant stars.

In «Astronomers Make a Map of a Super Saturn's Rings,» from the January issue of Scientific American, the Leiden University astronomer Matthew Kenworthy tells the story of discovering a ring system some 200 times larger than Saturn's around the distant star J1407.

It has been used to detect planets around distant stars within the Milky Way galaxy, and was among the first methods used to confirm Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.

Such a mélange could help explain observations suggesting the presence of PAHs and other organic molecules around distant stars.

Nesvold and her colleague Marc Kuchner, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., presented the findings Thursday during the «In the Spirit of Lyot 2015» conference in Montreal, which focuses on the direct detection of planets and disks around distant stars.

The day may soon come when astrophysicists announce our planet's twin around a distant star.

The sight of a snowfall can thrill children, but the first - ever snow line seen around a distant star gives astronomers an even greater thrill because of what i...

With over 70 planets identified around distant stars, astronomers are now looking for ways to classify which ones are most like Earth — that is to say, the ones most likely with biological potential.

Though it's a long way from a few simple molecules to even the most basic proteins, detecting chemistry similar to Earth's around distant stars suggests that the pathway to life may be possible on other worlds.

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In late 2008 two teams made waves with the simultaneous announcement that they had managed to directly photograph planets in orbit around distant stars, also known as exoplanets.

Alien - yet - familiar worlds are discovered around distant stars, extreme weather batters the Earth, stimulus spending energizes renewables, and the stem - cell debate reignites.

Its discovery proved that the Kepler spacecraft, which was launched in March 2009, could indeed do what its designers had boldly promised: find small, Earth - size planets around distant stars, a task that once seemed so difficult as to border on the absurd.

Discoveries of planets around distant stars have become almost routine.

After surveying nearly 50 stars from 2008 to 2011, scientists have been able to determine with remarkable precision how much dust is around distant stars — a big step closer into finding planets than might harbor life.

This conception illustration depicts how solar pressure can be used to balance NASA's Kepler spacecraft, keeping the telescope stable enough to continue searching for transiting planets around distant stars.

Autonomous telescope joins hunt for alien planets and has already found new planets around distant stars.

The Kepler Mission has detected the possible transits of several hundred potential super-Earth - and Earth - sized planets around distant stars (more).