Sentences with phrase «data on the new planets»

Now, data on the new planets, combined with previous information, provide two important clues that suggest stars are prolific planet factories.

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Global warming has replaced the China Syndrome as the number one energy worry in the United States, and Cassini is delivering a whole world of new data on Saturn: rubble - pile moons, record - groove gaps in the planet's famous rings, complex weather systems churning through the pastel cloud cover, and possible explanations for the unrelenting 900 - mile - an - hour winds.

An avalanche of data released from NASA's New Horizons probe, which flew past Pluto on 14 July, show the dwarf planet has a pair of potentially volcanic mountains near its south pole.

But thanks to a host of ingenious analytic techniques and observation methods developed on the fly, with each new pass through Kepler's data mission scientists have managed to wring out ever - smaller planets.

The New Horizons spacecraft, which buzzed the dwarf planet on July 14, has so far sent back only about 20 percent of the data it acquired from the Pluto system.

Simulating the loneliness of the real Red Planet, we removed the SIM cards from our phones and were issued new email addresses to communicate with mission support, with a 20 - minute delay on either end — the time it would take for the data packets to span the gap between Earth and Mars when Mars is at its farthest.

Data gathered when the dwarf planet Makemake passed in front of a distant star last year are shedding new light on the icy orb's size, shape, and atmosphere — or, more precisely, its lack of one.

«This new ability to explore matter at atomic scale pressures, where extrapolations of earlier shock and static data become unreliable, provides new constraints for dense matter theories and planet evolution models,» said Rip Collins, another Lawrence Livermore physicist on the team.

The data on the numerous candidates are somewhat preliminary and require validation, but a new analysis by a pair of astrophysicists at the California Institute of Technology suggests that the percentage of false positives among Kepler's candidate planets may be less than 10 percent.

Kepler project scientist Nick Gautier of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory presented new data at the meeting on three of the larger planets in the Kepler - 20 system, now officially known as Kepler - 20b, -20 c and -20 d. From the star's wobbles, observed with ground - based telescopes, Gautier and his colleagues were able to deduce the masses of Kepler - 20b and -20 c: 8.7 and 16.1 Earth masses, respectively.

Every time NASA lands a robot on the Red Planet, its operations team must adapt to that long Martian day for the first period of roving, to take full advantage of the hours between the data transmission at the end of the rover's day and the upload of new commands the following Mars morning.

In November, researchers announced there were 40 billion potentially habitable planets based on an analysis of the Kepler data, reports the New York Times.

New Horizons is currently so far from Earth that transmitting data to or from the spacecraft that radio signals racing through space at over 186,000 miles a second, take nearly five hours to travel between the interplanetary observatory and mission engineers on our home planet.

«The data confirms that on New Year's Day 2019, New Horizons will be looking at one of the ancient building blocks of the planets.»

According to Sascha Quanz, this new data «significantly increases the number of planetary nurseries studied at high - resolution enabling us to eventually get a statistical grasp on planet formation.»

Planets having atmospheres rich in helium may be common in our galaxy, according to a new theory based on data from N...

At the meeting of the American Astronomical Society in early January, a team led by University of Illinois researcher Dominique Segura - Cox used data from the VANDAM survey to shed new light on the nature of dusty disks and the process by which they form and eventually become planets.

Planets having atmospheres rich in helium may be common in our galaxy, according to a new theory based on data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

Ground - based observations that followed up on data from Kepler confirm the existence of five new rocky planets.

On March 4, 2014, a team of astronomers announced that analysis of new and older radial - velocity data from nearby red dwarf stars revealed two super-Earths «b» and «c.» Planet b has around 4.4 (+3.7 / -2.4) Earth - masses and an average orbital distance of 0.080 (+0.014 / -0.004) AU from host star Gl 682.

On January 6, 2015, at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, a team of scientists (analyzing data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope) announced the discovery of eight new planets orbiting in or near the habitable zone of their host stars in Constellation Lyra.

On March 4, 2014, a team of astronomers announced that analysis of new and older radial - velocity data from nearby red dwarf stars revealed a planet with a minimum of 32 (max 49) Earth - masses at an average orbital distance of 0.97 AU from host star Gl 229, with an orbital period around 471 days (UH news release; and Tuomi et al, 2014).

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Then, in 2009, the exposure of emails between the «scientists» responsible for the data the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was putting out to scare the pants off of everyone about «global warming» — since dubbed Climategate — revealed they were not only rigging the computer models, but were increasingly worried that the planet had entered a new, perfectly natural, cooling cycle.

Bellona: The upcoming fifth climate change report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is believed to reveal new, and gruesome, scientific data: Natural and anthropogenic factors contributing to global climate change will escalate in the 2040s, causing ever more devastating effects on the planet.

and one more confirming the data Paul points out above: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2093264/Forget-global-warming–Cycle-25-need-worry-NASA-scientists-right-Thames-freezing-again.html... The supposed «consensus» on man - made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years...

From a unique gravitational dimple called «L1», the spacecraft would continuously monitor the entire sunlit disc of our planet, providing an entirely new way of collecting data on the Earth's energy budget.

Blockstream, the leader in blockchain and financial cryptography, today announced the availability of Blockstream Satellite, a new service that broadcasts real - time Bitcoin blockchain data from a group of communication satellites in space to almost everyone on the planet.

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