Sentences with phrase «around nearby stars»

They hope these bigger projects might be able to directly image Earth - like planets around nearby stars in search of signs of life.

It offers dramatically better performance than existing instruments and has produced impressive views of dust discs around nearby stars and other targets during the very first days of observations.

It will scour the sky for small rocky worlds around nearby stars, and is expected to find hundreds.

These include one of the best images so far of the ring of dust around the nearby star HR 4796A.

A new NASA supercomputer simulation of the planet and debris disk around the nearby star Beta Pictoris reveals that the planet's motion drives spiral waves throughout the disk, a phenomenon that causes collisions among the orbiting debris.

This infrared image shows the dust ring around the nearby star HR 4796A in the southern constellation of Centaurus.

«It suggests that many potentially habitable worlds will be found in the next years around nearby stars by ground - based and space - based observatories, such as PLATO.

An Earth - like exoplanet is forming in the habitable zone around a nearby star, TW Hydrae.

One or more unseen planets have sculpted this striking belt of dust around the nearby star Fomalhaut, astronomers believe.

This artist's view from an imagined planet around a nearby star shows the brilliant glow of exozodiacal light extending up into the sky and swamping the Milky Way.

Humanity possesses the means to place probes into orbit around nearby stars.

While this exozodiacal light — zodiacal light around other star systems — had been previously detected, this is the first large systematic study of this phenomenon around nearby stars.

Spitzer was launched the previous summer, and my colleagues and I were witnessing some of its earliest results: evidence of planets being born around nearby stars.

PASADENA, CALIFORNIA — Asteroids are probably kicking up a surprisingly small cloud of swirling dust observed around a nearby star, astronomers reported at the American Astronomical Society meeting here on 4 June.

«Icy giant planet growing around a nearby star.»

His calculations were the first to demonstrate that debris disks around the nearby stars Vega and β Pictoris are newly - formed planetary systems containing planets at least as large as Pluto and Mars.

Closer to home, pictures of the dust around nearby stars provide tell - tale evidence for new planets around suns other than our own.

According to the space agency, astronomers exploring a disk of gas and dust around a nearby star uncovered a compact cloud of poisonous gas formed by constant collisions among the comet - like bodies.

The keen vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a mysterious gap in a vast protoplanetary disk of gas and dust swirling around the nearby star TW Hydrae, located 176 light - years away in the constellation Hydra (the Sea Serpent).

Many of the planets discovered by EDEN around nearby stars will be suitable for in - depth atmospheric characterization, mass, radius, and bulk density measurements through follow - up observations with large ground - and space - based telescopes, such as NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

When unusually warm dust was first discovered around a nearby star, called zeta Leporis, infrared astronomers began hunting in detail for the heat source.

To find life around nearby stars, the ESA's Darwin mission will look for traces of water, oxygen, and carbon dioxide in the atmospheres of Earth - type planets found in stellar habitable zones (more).

These were identified primarily from a dedicated common proper motion search around nearby stars, along with a few as serendipitous discoveries from our Pan-STARRS1 brown dwarf search.

«We are slowly paving the way toward the detection of bio-signatures in Earth - like planets around nearby stars.»

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is undergoing final preparations in Florida for its April 16 launch to find undiscovered worlds around nearby stars, providing targets where future studies will assess their capacity to harbor life.

The MIPS instrument team has documented the incidence, properties, and evolution of planetary debris disks around nearby stars.

Former astronaut John Grunsfeld added, «I think we're one generation away in our solar system, whether it's on an icy moon or on Mars, and one generation [away] on a planet around a nearby star»...

TESS is expected to perform an all - sky survey focused on finding transiting rocky planets around nearby stars, planets that could then be studied in further detail by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which would launch no sooner than 2018.

The present rush to study it is a sign of things to come, a preview of the 2020s and 2030s when astronomers will strive to image tens if not hundreds of other promising worlds around nearby stars.

It relies on eight identical 16 - inch telescopes in Arizona to look for planets around nearby stars that are smaller and cooler than our sun.

Swain is principal investigator of the Fast Infrared Exoplanet Spectroscopy Survey Explorer (Finesse), a proposed 30 - inch space telescope that would probe more than 200 planets around nearby stars to learn about their atmospheres and how they formed.

The question is, if there is a transiting «Earth» around a nearby star, how would we find it?

Among the top casualties is the Space Interferometry Mission PlanetQuest, a space observatory geared toward searching for Earth - like planets around nearby stars.

The GMT aims to discover Earth - like planets around nearby stars and the tiny distortions that black holes cause in the light from distant stars and galaxies.

EChO is a mission dedicated to studying the atmospheres of extrasolar planets around nearby stars.

At the UA, astronomers and planetary scientists were awarded a $ 5.7 million, five - year grant to identify the optimum conditions for extraterrestrial life and the planets around nearby stars that are capable of hosting it.

He added: «It would open an enormous new window on the Universe, allowing you to detect the presence of oxygen if there is any on Earth - like planets around nearby stars.

For example, while still in its scientific checkout phase, scientists using ALMA have found evidence for Earth - mass planets around nearby stars; as it nears its full complement of 66 antennas, ALMA will deduce the presence of many more exoplanets and study the chemical composition of the planetary nurseries.

Our goal was to take some of the first images in the EDEN survey, starting our search for habitable zone planets around nearby stars.

«A number of scientific instruments, ground - based and space - based, are being developed and enhanced, which will soon identify and characterize planets around nearby stars.»

EChO is a mission dedicated to the observation of atmospheres of planets around nearby stars.

In the EDEN / RV component we are utilizing stellar reflex motion (radial velocity measurements) to search for extrasolar planets around nearby stars.

Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is undergoing final preparations for its April 16 launch to find undiscovered worlds around nearby stars, providing targets where future studies will assess their capacity to harbor life.

WASHINGTON — NASA has signed a Space Act Agreement with a private organization currently raising funds for studies of a space telescope designed to look for habitable planets around a nearby star.