Sentences with phrase «atmosphere of a planet»

There is an entire universe beyond the atmosphere of this planet but a heaven?

«Webb can achieve the required precision to detect the molecules in the atmospheres of planets like those in the TRAPPIST - 1 system,» Lewis says.

According to Nikole Lewis, Webb's project scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, the telescope could perform the simultaneous detection of methane, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in the atmospheres of some planets around red dwarf stars.

Future probes like NASA»S James Webb Space Telescope will scrutinise the atmospheres of planets in other solar systems for possible signs of biological activity.

And that's completely changed — I think now there's this huge sense that we are really going to make this work, and we're going to figure out how to actually study the atmospheres of these planets that we're detecting and look for the chemical signatures of biological activity.

Later, telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope, also scheduled to launch in 2018, will be able to check the atmospheres of those planets for signs of life.

Astronomers have gotten the most detailed look yet at the atmosphere of a planet outside the solar system.

If you have the technology, the next step is to try to say something about the atmosphere of the planet.

The results were compared to observations carried out using the powerful Spitzer Space Telescope, probing our understanding of the conditions within the atmospheres of these planets.

Fascinating new light could be shed on the complex atmospheres of planets which orbit stars outside our own solar system, thanks to pioneering new research.

While lower - energy ultraviolet radiation breaks up water molecules — a process called photodissociation — ultraviolet rays with more energy (XUV radiation) and X-rays heat the upper atmosphere of a planet, which allows the products of photodissociation, hydrogen and oxygen, to escape.

Such a fierce stellar wind would batter the atmosphere of any planet in the habitable zone, unless that planet was shielded by a magnetic field.

«Before we know much more about the atmosphere of the planet and its physical properties, I would be very wary,» says Brice - Olivier Demory at the University of Cambridge.

«If a transit is found, we can use Hubble to look for features in the atmosphere of the planet,» says Brice - Olivier Demory at the University of Cambridge.

Professor Arjun Berera, from the University of Edinburgh's School of Physics and Astronomy, who led the study, said: «The proposition that space dust collisions could propel organisms over enormous distances between planets raises some exciting prospects of how life and the atmospheres of planets originated.

Other observations, made with the Hubble Space Telescope and published yesterday in Nature Astronomy, found no signs of hydrogen in the atmospheres of planets d, e, and f, but were inconclusive for TRAPPIST - 1g.

Participating in the conversation were Russlynn Ali, assistant secretary for civil rights at the Department of Education; Joan Steitz, a molecular biophysicist at Yale University who studies RNA; Shirley Malcom, head of the directorate for education and human resources at AAAS; and Sara Seager, a planetary scientist and physicist at MIT who studies the atmospheres of planets beyond the solar system.

Modelling the flow of air within the atmospheres of these planets, Carone and her colleagues found that this unusual day - night divide can have a marked effect on the distribution of ozone across the atmosphere: at least for these planets, the major air flow may lead from the poles to the equator, systematically trapping the ozone in the equatorial region.

«A magnetic field protects the atmosphere of a planet or moon, and the atmosphere protects the surface,» says study coauthor Sonia Tikoo, a planetary scientist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. Together, the two protect the potential habitability of the planet or moon, possibly those far beyond our solar system.

«We can look at the light from the star that gets reflected on the atmosphere of the planet or we can look at the light in the infrared coming directly from the planet,» Lopez - Morales says.

«Understanding more about the atmospheres of these planets and how they work will help us when we study smaller planets that are harder to see and have more complicated features in their atmospheres.»

The result is important, Fortney says, because «we would like to be able to understand the atmospheres of all planets around other stars.

I'm confident that we'll detect signs of life on exoplanets (planets around other stars) by observing the atmospheres of the planets that we're detecting now — especially those similar to Earth in mass and orbit — and finding oxygen and other chemical signatures there.

Vasili Kharchenko at the University of Connecticut says this work adds to knowledge about how the solar wind interacts around the atmospheres of planets and comets.

«By measuring the extended upper atmosphere of the planet, MAVEN directly probes how these atoms escape to space.

«In addition, its extreme temperature should tell us a lot about the atmospheres of planets, which often have similarly cold temperatures.»

In the Air That is what happened with Mars in 2003 and 2004, when three independent groups of scientists announced the discovery of methane in the atmosphere of that planet.

It would answer scientific questions that have been considered high priorities for many years, such as whether there are volcanoes active today on the surface of Venus and how the surface interacts with the atmosphere of the planet.

On March 19, 2008, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope announced confirmation of the presence of water and the detection of more methane in the atmosphere of the planet than would be predicted by conventional atmospheric models for «hot Jupiters» (Hubble news release and videos; ESA news release and videos; and Swain et al, 2008 — more below).

New research has calculated the densities and atmospheres of the planets, giving us a better understanding of how they might look and how much water might be there.

MOST was actually designed to study vibrations of stars for stellar seismology, but more recently we pointed it at stars that have mysterious exo - planets (extra-solar planets) around them, and it is giving us clues about the atmospheres of these planets that no one else can obtain.

However, a significant portion of the population of extrasolar planets does not fit either of these criteria and there wasn't really a way to find information about the atmospheres of these planets.

«This allows for detection of molecules in the atmosphere of planets that are extremely difficult to image.

The spacecraft has 8 instruments designed to characterize the upper atmosphere of the planet and the processes controlling the atmosphere, including how atoms and molecules can escape the gravitational attraction of the planet and escape to space.

An international team of astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made an unparalleled observation, detecting significant changes in the atmosphere of a planet located beyond our solar system.

Equipped with a 12 - meter mirror, it would also be about 100 times more powerful, giving it the capability to observe the atmospheres of planets orbiting around distant suns.

Another example of a biomarker is ozone in the atmospheres of planets.

With Hubble and its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers can develop cloud maps to better understand the atmosphere of planets outside the solar system.

Only 7 percent of the heat being trapped by greenhouse gases is sticking around in the surface and atmosphere of the planet.

In the vastness of the universe, it's very likely that other life forms have also evolved to an extent that they altered the atmosphere of their planets.

According to NASA, clouds are important for understanding the «planet's energy balance and water vapor inventory» and will shed insight into the daily and seasonal behavior of the atmosphere of the planet.

«The atmospheres of planets orbiting close to their host stars are susceptible to being blowtorched away by the extreme radiation from the star,» said Fulton during the briefing.

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

On this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Sara Seager, who started out as a painfully shy, friendless child and grew up to become a MacArthur Foundation genius grant winner for her pioneering work studying the atmospheres of planets orbiting stars lightyears from Earth.

The findings, which appear in the Dec. 1 edition of the journal Nature, are the first direct evidence of what the ancient atmosphere of the planet was like soon after its formation and directly challenge years of research on the type of atmosphere out of which life arose on the planet.

Astronomers have made the first direct detection and chemical analysis of an atmosphere of a planet that exists outside our solar system.

The team are the first to definitively characterized the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a distant star.

A small but talented UK team is building Twinkle, a small spacecraft with a big mission — exploring the atmospheres of planets orbiting other stars.

Each section has a distinct look that creates a clear picture of the unique and alien atmosphere of the planet.

Composed by industry icon Hirokazu «Hip» Tanaka, it perfectly encapsulates the atmosphere of the planet Zebes, with its immersive and creepy sci - fi stylings perfectly suiting the alien - infested caverns that Samus must venture through to defeat...