Sentences with phrase «by a planet passing»

The fluctuations looked nothing like those caused by a planet passing between the star and the telescope.

A team led by Alfred Vidal - Madjar and Roger Ferlet of the Institute of Astrophysics in Paris has reanalysed old observations of the star β Pictoris and uncovered a mysterious fluctuation in the star's brightness that could be caused by a planet passing across its surface.

Trailing Earth in an orbit around the sun, Kepler monitors the brightness of about 150,000 stars, looking for periodic dimming that might be caused by a planet passing in front of its star.

And the latest dip, observed the week before last, can be explained by the planet passing behind the star.

Both Kepler and its K2 mission discover new planets by measuring the subtle dip in a star's brightness caused by a planet passing in front of its star.

Not exact matches

As told by Helen Thomas Those group were able to pass on their agenda and propaganda by enforcing the belief that their nation is the only victemized nation on this planet earth and all through history old and new, and she added that they like it this way acting as victimized as it makes it easier for them to cross the boarders, blackmailing all those nations.

Forest Ray Moulton and Thomas C. Chamberlin in the United States supposed that the sun, under the gravitational pull of some passing star, erupted gigantic globs of matter which in time formed planets, and a comparable theory was proposed by Sir James Jeans and H. Jeffreys.

How were the firstborns to die — tangible murder, or a disease brought about by poor birthing conditions engineered by the medical community of the time, or by a pulse from the Anananunki planet that could be attributed to a weak, ineffectual god assigned to this sector of the universe and passed off as omnipotent because He thought he was, or knew he had to pretend to be, to give humans Any Hope AT ALL?

God ended our conversation by telling me that God will continue to let human beings to be as good or bad as they choose to be and that each of us knows innately where we will end up when we pass on from this planet based on our actions.

«No one has before made measurements when a comet passes so close by a planet,» says Associate Professor Mats Holmström at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in Kiruna, Sweden.

Astronomers have identified over 2,300 new planets in Kepler data by searching for tiny dips in a star's brightness when a planet passes in front of it.

Because the planets are bunched, they exert a small gravitational pull when they pass by each other.

And they have also observed Jupiter's gravity deflecting radio waves passing by the planet.

It was totally different from a blurry planet made clearer and more detailed by a passing probe.

Planets give themselves away by the length of time it takes them to pass across the face of a star — typically a few hours.

If the orbits of these bodies are disturbed — by a passing star, for example — they return to paths close to the planets of the solar system and can become active comets.

The resulting disk has a series of vibrational «modes,» rather like resonances in a tuning fork, that might be excited by small disturbances — think of a planet - forming stellar disk nudged by a passing star or of a black hole accretion disk in which material is falling into the center unevenly.

Astronomers detected the planets using the Kepler telescope, which measures the slight dimming of a star's light caused by orbiting planets passing in front of it.

The Kepler telescope, launched in March 2009, detects exoplanets by looking for a periodic dimming in stellar brightness, caused by a planet transiting (passing in front of) a star.

Using the Hubble telescope, Jeffrey Linsky and his team at the University of Colorado in Boulder calculated the tail's composition, direction and speed by studying changes in the ultraviolet spectra of the planet's host star as the planet passed in front of it (The Astrophysical Journal, DOI: 10.1088 / 0004 - 637X / 717 / 2/1291).

As a transiting planet passes in front of its star, some starlight passes through the planet's atmosphere and continues on toward Earth — minus certain spectral frequencies that have been absorbed by molecules in the atmosphere.

The two main methods — measuring the wobble of stars caused by the gravitational tug of an orbiting planet and measuring the periodic dimming of a star as a planet passes in front — both favor big planets in close orbits.

Cocconi and Morrison argued that the best way to communicate across interstellar space would be by radio because it is practical to transmit and receive and can easily pass through Earth's (and presumably the alien planet's) atmosphere.

«That gives us more time to build the system, and would pass by two planets, Mars and Venus, rather than one,» Tito said in a press conference on 20 November.

Astronomers detect planets too far away for direct observation by the dimming in light when a world passes in front of, or transits, its host star.

By seeing which wavelengths are absorbed as the starlight passes through the planet's atmosphere, astronomers could determine whether the atmosphere contains water, carbon monoxide, methane, and carbon dioxide.

The dimming that takes place when a planet moves in front of a star is not quite so dramatic when it passes over a portion of the surface marred by a sunspot.

These after - death planets can be detected because their gravitational pull alters the times of arrival of radio pulses from the neutron star, or «pulsar», that otherwise pass us by extremely regularly.

The telescopes also were key parts of an international program to look for planets around other stars by means of gravitational microlensing, in which the gravity of a small object passing in front of a star briefly amplifies the star's light.

Churchill assumes that planets are formed from the gas that is torn off a star when another star passes close to it — a model suggested by astrophysicist James Jeans in 1917, which has since been ruled out.

Kane and his colleagues were able to confirm its extreme eccentricity and the rest of its orbital parameters as part of the Transit Ephemeris Refinement and Monitoring Survey (TERMS), a project led by Kane to detect extrasolar planets as they pass in front of their stars.

As the dwarf planet's shadow passed across eight telescopes at five sites in central South America, it blocked light for intervals ranging from 59 seconds to 66 seconds, suggesting that Makemake is a 1500 - by -1430-km ellipsoid, researchers report online today in Nature.

The two methods of detecting extrasolar planets, nicknamed «wobble and blink,» involve plotting tiny shifts in a star's motion caused by the gravitational tug of its orbiting planets, and catching the slight dimming in a star's light that occurs whenever a planet passes between the star and an observer's telescope.

In 1979, when Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 passed by Jupiter, Krimigis's detectors picked up sulfur and oxygen ions whipped up by the giant planet's powerful magnetic fields.

Owing to a 2008 law passed by Congress, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has until October 15 to decide which agency will be responsible for protecting the planet from an asteroid strike.

The Kepler spacecraft detects planets such as Kepler 19 b by watching them dim the light of their host star as the planets pass in front, or «transit.»

So, these three latest events may force some recalculations about how many objects are passing by the big planet at any given time.

The giveaway that the faint star had a planet circling it was a dip in its brightness caused as the planet passed in front of the star, observed by small robotic telescopes including telescopes at the ANU Siding Spring Observatory.

Video: The small planet Exo - 7b, which is no more than twice as wide as Earth, was discovered by the way it dimmed its host star's light when it passed between the star and Earth (Illustrated animation courtesy of COROT / Tautenburg Observatory / Klaudia Einhorn)

WASP - 33b's stratosphere was detected by measuring the drop in light as the planet passed behind its star (top).

A team led by Michaël Gillon from the University of Liège, Belgium, found the trio by using the Chilean - based TRAPPIST telescope to monitor the drop in brightness as the planets transited, or passed in front of, their star.

A meteor shower occurs when a planet passes through a swath of debris shed by a comet, or sometimes an asteroid.

Tentatively slated for a 2022 launch, the probe will orbit Jupiter and make about 45 passes by the giant planet's moon Europa, which has a global ocean just beneath its ice - covered surface.

Kepler identifies exoplanets by staring at a large number of stars for extended periods and waiting for their brightness to dip periodically when a planet passes in front of them.

The French astronomers say that the sudden drop in brightness could be caused by a large planet passing in front of β Pictoris.

Most of those were found by observing temporary small decreases in the light coming from those stars due to a planet passing.

His team detected KELT - 9b by observing the dip in light as the planet passed between us and its star, which is about 650 light years away (Nature, doi.org/b73g).

The space telescope infers their existence by the amount of starlight blocked when the orbiting planet passes in front of a distant star from the vantage point of the observer.

Of the more than 300 other known exoplanets, all have been detected indirectly by their effects on their parent stars — either a wobble in induced by the object's orbit or a decrease in detected light from the star as the planet passes in front of it.

The team previously determined Kepler 78b's orbit and size by analyzing the light given off by the star as the planet passes in front of it, or transits.