Sentences with phrase «dips in their brightnesses from»

Among them was Bill Borucki, a space scientist who persuaded nasa to launch a telescope that looks for a 0.01 percent dip in brightness from faraway stars when planets pass in front of them.

They monitored more than 34,000 stars, searching for slight dips in their brightnesses from the shadows of giant planets crossing in front.

They argue that some of the smaller dips of light attributed to Boyajian's star are actually deep dips in brightness from fainter adjacent stars in Kepler's field of view, possibly caused by swarms of tiny, dense clouds or comets in interstellar space.

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So a number of observational projects have taken a different tack, trying to identify small KBOs by monitoring background stars for sudden dips in brightness that might result from a distant object crossing the line of sight between the star and Earth.

Using additional observations from the 10 - meter Keck telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, and from the 5 - meter Hale Telescope on Palomar Mountain in California, Johnson and his team could also confirm that the observed brightness dips were indeed due to planets.

Speculation to account for KIC 8462852's dips in brightness has ranged from it having swallowed a nearby planet to an unusually large group of comets orbiting the star to an alien megastructure.

«By measuring the dip in brightness in that range, we can tell how much halo gas from Andromeda there is between us and that quasar.»

In 2015, a team of astronomers led by Yale's Tabetha Boyajian saw the light from the star KIC 8462852 suddenly and repeatedly dip in brightnesIn 2015, a team of astronomers led by Yale's Tabetha Boyajian saw the light from the star KIC 8462852 suddenly and repeatedly dip in brightnesin brightness.

Each vertical dip represents a holy - cow reduction in the star's brightness, more than 10 times the dimming that astronomers would expect from a planet even as big as Jupiter crossing in front of the star.

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.

Astronomers have been stuck with this nagging question ever since a team of citizen scientists from the Planet Hunters project first detected a series of very strange dips in the star's brightness back in 2011, while analysing data that had been gathered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft.

Over a two - year period, TESS will hunt for exoplanets with the help of a phenomenon known as transit — where a planet passes in front of its star (from an observer's point of view) causing a periodic and regular dip in brightness.

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