Sentences with phrase «around the brightest stars in»

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

On a visit to the DreamWorks studio, which produced animated films such as Shrek, Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda, Mr Obama said Hollywood was a «bright spot» in the US economy and that movies such as Star Wars were a tool for American diplomacy around the world.

Exersaucers are made to entertain and with that in mind, we only chose the best for you and came up with the Bright Stars Around We Go Activity Center as our primary pick.

A small group of children practices the English alphabet, sounding out the vowels and consonants in high - pitched voices around a table at Bright Star Kids University in Buffalo Grove.

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.

Some research has been done to deduce the chemical makeup of very early galaxies, based on observations of very bright, distant galaxies, or of very old stars that formed in the early universe and are still around today, Hewitt said.

You can easily spot this bright, steady, yellowish «star» almost directly overhead, in Gemini, around 9 p.m.

Alternatively, an MIT - led group of astronomers is developing the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, a spacecraft containing an array of telescopes that would survey the entire sky, looking for exoplanets in the habitable zone around the nearest and brightest stars.

Because stars like TRAPPIST - 1 are brightest right after they form and gradually dim thereafter, the ice line tends to move in over time, like the boundary between dry ground and snow - covered ground around a dying campfire on a snowy night.

This visible - light image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a pancake - shaped disk of gas around an extremely bright star in our Milky Way galaxy.

Thus, as the scientists will announce in a future issue of The Astronomical Journal, the dim red sun probably revolves around the bright white star, even though the two are separated by a whopping 2.5 light - years of space, which is more than half the distance between the sun and Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to our own.

Heinz and his colleagues quickly mounted a series of follow - up observations with the space - based Chandra and XMM - Newton telescopes to discover four bright rings of X-rays, like ripples in a cosmic pond, all around the neutron star at the heart of Circinus X-1.

The theory goes that before exploding, the progenitor star has its hydrogen outer coat stolen by a companion star in orbit around it, but astronomers have never before been able to spot the thieving companion because the supernova is so bright.

Try to spot the comet low in the southeast around 5 a.m. local time on Nov. 17 or 18, when it passes near the bright star Spica.

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.

Cygnus X-1 was found as part of a binary star system in which an extremely hot and bright star called a blue supergiant formed an accretion disk around an invisible object.

In 1971, astronomers discovered that the x-rays came from the direction of a bright blue star whirling around a mysterious dark object.

Using the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) at the Gemini South telescope in Chile, the researchers identified a disc - shaped bright ring of dust around a star only slightly more massive than the sun, located 360 light years away in the Centaurus constellation.

The Milky Way, the galaxy we live in, consists of a prominent, relatively flat disc with closely spaced bright stars, and a halo, a sphere of stars with a much lower density around it.

TESS is a NASA mission scheduled for launch in 2017, while PLATO is to be launched in 2024 by the European Space Agency; both will search for transiting terrestrial planets around nearby bright stars.

Starting at the brightest and hottest (a surface temperature of around 30,000 Kelvin) are «O» class stars, then «B», «A», «F», «G», «K» to «M» in descending order of temperature.

According to a NASA announcement on Friday, «TESS will use an array of telescopes to perform an all - sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets ranging from Earth - sized to gas giants, in orbit around the nearest and brightest stars in the sky.

In the latter half of 2008, two teams of astronomers began technically difficult searches for small terrestrial planets around the two brightest stars of the Alpha Centauri triple system.

Like other spiral galaxies, the Milky Way Galaxy, has a bright disk of stars with sweeping arms of conspicously younger, brighter, and bluer stars enveloped in gas and dust that curve around its center like the arms of a huge pinwheel.

In 1992, Hubble observations measured a bright peak, or «cusp» of starlight that independently suggested that the stars were concentrated around a black hole.

The beautiful bright blue stars of NGC 206 betray its youth - but close, systematic studies of variable stars in and around NGC 206 will also accurately reveal its distance.

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.

Several established planet - hunting teams have used various radial velocity or star transit methods in their searches around these two bright stars.

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

We focus on planets and moons orbiting stars bright enough for future atmosphere follow - up, especially Mini - to Super-Earths (rocky terrestrial planets of 0.5 - 10 Earth masses) orbiting in the «Habitable Zones» around their host stars.

At these wavelengths, astronomers can peer at the disks of gas and dust around newborn stars, see into star - forming clouds, and observe early galaxies that are bright in submillimetre wavelengths but obscured by dust in optical light.

We provide a map of these risky areas around the ACS / WFC detectors — users should avoid positioning bright stars in these regions when designing ACS / WFC imaging observations.

The halos around quasars — the brightest and the most active objects in the universe, they are galaxies formed less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang; they have supermassive black holes in their centers and consume stars, gas, interstellar dust and other material at a very fast rate — are made of gas known as the intergalactic medium and extend for up to 300,000 light - years from the centers of the quasars.

The TESS satellite, which will launch in 2017, will use four cameras to search for exoplanets around bright nearby stars.

The center of mass of these stars is located 135 + / - 15 pc away from the Sun, whereas the distance of the Gould or Gould's Belt of young bright stars in this direction is around 160 pc, whose origins may be 30 to 60 million years old.

As a result, some accretion disks around supermassive black holes are incredibly bright, and can outshine all the billions of stars in their host galaxy put together.

The film features around 6,500 frames all hand - painted on canvas in the style of the iconic artist and Booth stars as Armand Roulin, who was famously painted by Van Gogh who wore a bright yellow jacket, as he attempts to deliver the artist's final letter to his brother following his suicide.

Bright had months of hype around it, not to mention a legit movie star like Will Smith in the lead.

Beckinsale was an especially bright spot in the all - around delightful Love & Friendship, which is exactly the kind of urbane comedy the Globes love to reward, and Collins... well, her movie flopped, but she's an ingenue in a movie with a big - name star (Warren Beatty) drawing attention.

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It will allow you to go get the kids from school even after more than a little snowfall, and when Friday night rolls around it will get you and your date to the nicest place in town whether it's the movies or that secluded wooded place where the stars are so bright.

The stars at night are big and bright deep in the heart of Texas, and when it comes to economic prosperity, education, and all - around livability, the Lone Star State outshines the competition.

Situated in the Montaña Roja residential area in Playa Blanca this family - friendly 4 Star retreat has 120 bright and clean guestrooms dotted around an exclusive compound that overlooks the islands Lobos and Fuerteventura.

Something worth noting is that the address for this new page in Bungie's site is Alpha Lupi, which is the name of the brightest star in the constellation Lupus, being around 25,000 x more luminous than our own sun.

All Stars is more than capable of holding it's own in this world of bleak, realistic games that are currently dominating the market, instead this game offers bright visuals and large selection of weapons and Sega characters to go nuts with as you racer around the fantastic tracks.