Sentences with phrase «brighter planet by»

We're dedicated to providing a cleaner, brighter planet by using the power of the sun to power our lives.

Not exact matches

I just realized that an eternal being creating the universe in 7 days and 8000 years of total existence defies the logic of what has been proven by some of the brightest minds ever to live on this planet.

On Earth, the brightest auroras (the high - altitude glows often called the northern and southern lights) are generated when electrons in outer space near Earth are accelerated by large electrical potentials, or voltages, along the lines in our planet's magnetic field and slam into gas molecules in the upper atmosphere above polar regions.

Even from the bright city, a small instrument reveals the planet's oval disk surrounded by broad and breathtaking rings.

Color and black - and - white images of Earth taken by two NASA interplanetary spacecraft on July 19 show our planet and its moon as bright beacons from millions of miles away in space.

But a model of Ceres presented at the LPSC has added a wrinkle by suggesting comet - like behaviour is only possible at the poles of the dwarf planet, not the lower - latitude areas where the bright spot has been seen.

To date, most coronagraph development has focused on imaging worlds around bright sunlike stars, where the star — planet contrast is far higher but offset by wider star — planet separations.

Images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft show that a mysterious bright spot on dwarf planet Ceres could be a plume of water spurting from a deep, icy crater

Imaging the planets themselves is extremely difficult, because their faint light is all but swamped by the glare from their star, which can be a billion times brighter.

Fomalhaut, a bright star 7.7 parsecs (25 light - years) from Earth, harbors a belt of cold dust with a structure consistent with gravitational sculpting by an orbiting planet.

SS: TESS will do an all - sky survey to find rocky worlds around the bright, closest M - stars [red dwarfs that are common and smaller than the sun — and therefore more likely to reveal the shadows cast by planets], about 500,000 stars.

The percentage of light reflected from a planet, or how bright it appears in the sky, is determined in part by the composition of its atmosphere.

They orbit very close to their stars, making their surface hot, and the planets tricky to study in detail without being overwhelmed by bright starlight.

This discovery was made by monitoring the light being reflected from the atmosphere of HAT - P - 7b, and identifying changes in this light, showing that the brightest point of the planet shifts its position.

Astronomers are puzzled by the scalloped band of low - lying clouds (left of the planet's center) and the small storms (bright blotches at right) dotting the northern polar region.

If these supercharged wakes were 10 times brighter and lasted 10 days instead of 10 minutes, they would cover 5.5 % of the world's oceans and cool the planet by 0.5 °C by the year 2069, the researchers write in a 28 January publication of the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

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.

The debris field of very fine dust was likely created from collisions among developing infant planets near the star, evidenced by a bright ring of dusty debris seen 7 billion miles from the star.

All the stars I mentioned are relatively close by and pretty bright, and some of them are already known to have planets.

All of our knowledge of planets beyond our solar system is therefore somewhat indirect; it comes from analyzing the much brighter light from a planet's host star, influenced by the planet in some way.

TESS, by contrast, is targeting the brightest stars specifically to make it easier to discover Earth - sized planets.

According to Shvartzvald, Yee and their colleagues, OGLE -2016-BLG-1195Lb is the lowest mass world ever discovered through microlensing, a technique in which light from a star that passes in front of a bright background object causes the latter to appear brighter, thus allowing scientists to detect anomalies created by a planet orbiting in the foreground.

It is the first planet detected by the Gemini Planet Imager, or GPI, which was designed to discover and analyze faint, young planets orbiting bright, nearby planet detected by the Gemini Planet Imager, or GPI, which was designed to discover and analyze faint, young planets orbiting bright, nearby Planet Imager, or GPI, which was designed to discover and analyze faint, young planets orbiting bright, nearby stars.

It was a process he had already worked through for KELT, the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope: a pair of small, land - based telescopes built and operated by Vanderbilt and Ohio State University that are designed specifically for identifying bright stars with planets.

Kiang found that «plants» on Earth - like planets orbiting stars somewhat brighter and bluer than the Sun might look yellow or orange, and even look bluish by reflecting a dangerous overabundance of more energetic blue light.

The brightest spots on the dwarf planet Ceres gleam with mystery in new views delivered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft.

KELT - 3b is the third transiting exoplanet discovered by the KELT survey, and is orbiting one of the 20 brightest known transiting planet host stars, making it a promising candidate for detailed characterization studies.

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.

Abstract: The ability to characterize exoplanets by spectroscopy of their atmospheres requires direct imaging techniques to isolate planet signal from the bright stellar glare.

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.

It turns out that OGLE -2007-BLG-349 was caused by a planet orbiting two stars, both tiny red dwarfs, drifting in front of a more distant bright star.

In the past few days, however, astronomers were surprised by a multitude of bright storms on the planet, including one monstrous feature.

Its well known and attractive, visual binary pair of a bright yellow star and a reddish - violet to pink companion was discovered in 1780 by Sir William Herschel (1738 - 1822), who was born Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel and subsequently discovered the planet Uranus in 1781 — which led to his appointment in 1782 as private astronomer to the King of England.

While NASA's Kepler space observatory has discovered thousands of planets, it does so indirectly by detecting a loss of starlight as a planet passes in front of its star, the Gemini Planet Imager was designed specifically for discovering and analyzing faint, young planets orbiting bright planet passes in front of its star, the Gemini Planet Imager was designed specifically for discovering and analyzing faint, young planets orbiting bright Planet Imager was designed specifically for discovering and analyzing faint, young planets orbiting bright stars.

This is the first direct evidence of a sustained weather system generated by polar aurorae on any planet, and this is the first time a weather feature in Jupiter's upper atmosphere has been observed away from the planet's bright aurorae.

The two bright stars of the system were discovered on May 2, 1780, by Sir William Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel (1738 - 1822, portrait), who was born Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel and who discovered the planet Uranus in 1781 — which led to his appointment in 1782 as private astronomer to the King of England.

This is one of the brightest (V = 9.4) Kepler exoplanet host stars, containing a small (2.8 Rearth) transiting planet in a long orbit (17.8 days), and one or more additional non-transiting planets as indicated by transit timing variations.

Using the bright light generated by these stars, researchers will be able to use spectroscopy — a technique that measures the absorption and emission of light — to determine a planet's mass, density and atmospheric composition, which could provide insights into whether or not it harbors life.

2) By definition, each planet must orbit a star — and because stars are very distant, the planets appear to be extremely close to their host stars, which are always much brighter.

In addition, Ceres» light spectrum suggests that it may have ammonium - rich clay at the surface, which would fit the expected ammonia - rich composition of large, differentiated substellar objects in the outer Solar System, including the «plutoids» defined on June 11, 2008 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) as a new class of bright «dwarf planets beyond the orbit of Neptune (IAU press release).

Bright and close by red dwarf stars, and the planets around them, are a prime target for TESS.

By surveying the whole sky, we will find systems that orbit stars 10 times closer and 100 times brighter than those found by Kepler — opening up new possibilities for measuring planet masses and densities, studying their atmospheres, characterizing their host stars, and establishing the full nature of the systems in which the planets residBy surveying the whole sky, we will find systems that orbit stars 10 times closer and 100 times brighter than those found by Kepler — opening up new possibilities for measuring planet masses and densities, studying their atmospheres, characterizing their host stars, and establishing the full nature of the systems in which the planets residby Kepler — opening up new possibilities for measuring planet masses and densities, studying their atmospheres, characterizing their host stars, and establishing the full nature of the systems in which the planets reside.

The interstellar superheroics of the original «Guardians of the Galaxy» become even brighter and zippier in the sequel, which puts Chris Pratt's Peter «Star - Lord» Quill in touch with his long - lost father, a planet - sized immortal named Ego (perfectly personified by Kurt Russell).

Jupiter Ascending, 2015 Written and directed by The Wachowskis Starring Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum, Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, Douglas Booth, Tuppence Middleton SYNOPSIS: In a bright and colorful future, a young destitute caretaker gets targeted by a ruthless son of a powerful family that live on a planet in need of a new heir, so she -LSB-...]

In response to the needs of senior dogs, Amanda O'Brien, director of marketing for Planet Dog, says the company developed its Old Soul Ball and Old Soul Bone by combining its recyclable, non-toxic Orbee - Tuff material with bright colors and increasing the natural mint mineral oil aroma for easy location by older canines.

How many locations on the planet can you crawl into bright blue glacial ice caves, fly over an erupting volcano bubbling with lava, AND stay up all night transfixed by magical Northern Lights?

Third, most of our top rank experts and the people in many places, the ones who refer to each other as «the brightest and the best» -LCB- and point to each other as the «smartest guy in the room» -RCB-, appear not to rejected adequate ways of communicating to the family of humanity about what people somehow need to hear, see and understand: the rapacious dissipation of Earth's limited resources, the relentless degradation of the planet's environment, and the approaching destruction of the Earth as a fit place for human habitation by the human species, when taken together, appear to be proceeding at breakneck speed toward the precipitation of a catastrophic ecological wreckage of some sort unless, of course, the world's colossal, ever expanding, artificially designed, manmade global political economy continues to speed headlong toward the monolithic «wall» called «unsustainability» at which point the runaway economy crashes before Earth's ecology is collapsed.

I asked the winner, Steve Dempsey (who gets a $ 3,000 Brighter Planet Visa card), a few questions by email: Q. Have you done filmmaking / videography before?

How can scientists help the political process by ensuring that the testimony is from the best representative (s) in that field, the person or persons who indeed possess the «full confidence» of the group to give the politicians and the public the facts and truth as it is currently known; and NOT a bunch of «personal views» or «bright ideas» about using pure gold slabs to cover every city and village on the planet and protecting everyone from harmful intergalactic Z - rays?

Years of work by (supposedly) the brightest guys on the planet amd nobody did a simple thing like that.