Sentences with phrase «detected around distant stars»

Since then, many hundreds of planets big and small have been detected around distant stars.

Not exact matches

In a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.

On the face of it, detecting a moon around a planet orbiting a distant star seems like a spectacularly difficult task, but with a bit of luck today's technology may be able to do it.

It has been used to detect planets around distant stars within the Milky Way galaxy, and was among the first methods used to confirm Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.

Capable of observing the Universe by detecting light that is invisible to the human eye, ALMA will show us never - before - seen details of the birth of stars, infant galaxies in the early Universe, and planets coalescing around distant suns.

Though it's a long way from a few simple molecules to even the most basic proteins, detecting chemistry similar to Earth's around distant stars suggests that the pathway to life may be possible on other worlds.

The Kepler Mission has detected the possible transits of several hundred potential super-Earth - and Earth - sized planets around distant stars (more).