Sentences with phrase «dipping in brightness at»

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Now he has the sensitive equipment he needs: NASA's Kepler space telescope, which stares at stars and looks for subtle dips in brightness caused by planets crossing in front of the stars and blocking some of their light.

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.

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.

So we will measure a smooth dip in the brightness of the star at regular intervals as the planet passes in front.