Sentences with phrase «big planet discoveries»

The KELT North telescope in Arizona and its twin, KELT South in South Africa, are no more powerful than high - end digital cameras, but they've proven that small telescopes can make big planet discoveries.

Not exact matches

«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.

Boss has recently proposed a similar effect to explain the discovery of two gas giants and two so - called super-Earths, or big rocky planets, each orbiting a small red dwarf star.

Today «the discovery of planets around other stars has become blazing hot for administrators of big telescopes,» says Geoff Marcy of the University of California at Berkeley.

Hasegawa: Actually, we had a similar big discovery in the planet research in 1995.

The discovery and study of DeeDee (which has not yet officially been anointed a dwarf planet) shows that astronomers can probe the deep outer solar system and that similar techniques could potentially spot Planet Nine, the big world hypothesized to lurk out there undetected, researchersplanet) shows that astronomers can probe the deep outer solar system and that similar techniques could potentially spot Planet Nine, the big world hypothesized to lurk out there undetected, researchersPlanet Nine, the big world hypothesized to lurk out there undetected, researchers said.