Sentences with phrase «atmosphere of a planet outside the solar system»

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

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.

Not exact matches

For the first time, water vapour has been detected in the atmosphere of a Neptune - sized planet outside the solar system.

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.

This marks the first detection of an atmosphere around an Earth - like planet other than Earth itself, and thus is a significant step on the path towards the detection of life outside our Solar System.

The first indications of life outside our solar system won't be like a sci - fi film — they'll be chemical traces of the elements of life in the atmosphere of a far - away planet.

At 21 light - years away, the planet is the closest outside of our solar system that can be seen crossing, or transiting, its star — a bonus for astronomers because transiting planets make ideal specimens for detailed studies of their atmospheres.

Scientists have conducted the first lab experiments on haze formation in simulated exoplanet atmospheres, an important step for understanding upcoming observations of planets outside the solar system with the James Webb Space Telescope.

Find out how Hubble is helping astronomers study the atmospheres of extrasolar planets in our new 25th anniversary science article: Are there habitable planets outside our solar system?

Researchers working with data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found the strongest evidence to date for the existence of a stratosphere — the layer of an atmosphere in which temperature increases with altitude — on an exoplanet (a planet outside of the Solar System).

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

CoRoT - 7 b, the first potential rocky planet detected outside the Solar system, may be the remnant core of a Saturn - mass gas giant that had its atmosphere and lower gas metal layers burned off (more)