Sentences with phrase «dips in brightness lasting»

So Jenkins's software searches for dips in brightness lasting up to half a day.

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After analyzing data from the Kepler Space Telescope, scientists discovered huge dips in KIC 8462852's brightness that lasted between five and 80 days, with the star sometimes losing as much as 20 percent of its luminosity.

What's so spectacular about WTF's brightness is that there is a single, smooth dip in brightness followed 700 days later by irregular but large decreases that lasted for 100 days before the brightness returned back to normal levels.

It is being done by the people who launched the Kepler satellite to detect small dips in the brightness of distant stars in order to detect the presence of now ~ 1000 new planets in the last several years, completely re-writing the textbooks on the parameter space of planetary atmospheres, solar system formation, etc..