Sentences with phrase «discovered nearby exoplanets»
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SPHERE's primary task is to discover and study giant exoplanets orbiting nearby stars using direct imaging.
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Astronomers currently know of roughly 200 planets circling nearby stars, and more and more of these so - called exoplanets are discovered every year.
Launching in 2017, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and ESA's Characterizing Exoplanets Satellite (CHEOPS) should collectively discover and study many more worlds like 55 Cancri e circling nearby stars.
Astronomers have discovered three exoplanets in orbit around a nearby dwarf star, making them good targets for atmospheric analysis
At the same time, many exoplanets that have been discovered around nearby and distant stars have similar mass and size to the ice giants, Uranus and Neptune.
As the Academies notes in their recent decadal survey,» [t] he search for exoplanets is one of the most exciting subjects in all of astronomy...» The report went on to recommend «a program to explore the diversity and properties of planetary systems around other stars, and to prepare for the long - term goal of discovering and investigating nearby, habitable planets.»
Its ultimate purpose is to learn if some sort of life exists on planets circling nearby stars; Hawking and other scientists postulate that many of the hundreds of newly discovered exoplanets must harbor some forms of life.