Sentences with phrase «distant planets by»

19 Today general relativity is so well understood that it is used to weigh galaxies and locate distant planets by the way they bend light.

* Astronomers detect a distant planet by measuring how its gravity bends light.

A Wrinkle in Time revolves around teenager Meg Murray, who teams up with her younger brother, her classmate and three astral travelers to save her father, who is being held prisoner on a distant planet by a universe - spanning evil.

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The chances that your spirit for want of a better word will live on, is more likely going to be your the form of energy either in another dimension or with another life form from a distant planet who by most accounts from so many writings and drawings all across our earth has a higher probablity than some guy named jesus or his never caring ignorant father or a holly ghost (remember when that was the real name).

One reads of Israeli leftists being surprised and disappointed by Arafat's manifest unwillingness to seek peace and one wonders: from what distant planet have they recently returned?

So would you prefer this: an unknown source says something in the media produced by someone apparently living on this planet may have caused some strong feelings among some yet to be identified crowds of unknown sizes to be engaged in possibly some distrubances which may have occured in some distant land...

Co-authored by David Catling, an atmospheric chemist at the University of Washington in Seattle, the study peers deep into our planet's history to devise a novel recipe for finding single - celled life on faraway worlds in the not - too - distant future.

A far - flung star's extra wink, spotted in data from the Kepler space telescope and further probed by the Hubble Space Telescope, may be the first evidence for an exomoon — a moon orbiting a planet orbiting a distant star.

The group of five planets, all smaller than Neptune, was found by citizen scientists scouring data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, which measures light from distant stars.

Then, effectively by accident, Batygin and Brown noticed that if they ran their simulations with a massive planet in an anti-aligned orbit — an orbit in which the planet's closest approach to the sun, or perihelion, is 180 degrees across from the perihelion of all the other objects and known planets — the distant Kuiper Belt objects in the simulation assumed the alignment that is actually observed.

Here, tugged and flexed by the planet's huge gravitational pull, as well as that of the more distant moons Europa and Ganymede, friction keeps Io piping hot.

Optimism for an unseen Neptune - like planet in our solar system may be dimmed by the discovery of a new batch of distant worlds.

By coincidence, this conjunction happened when both the Moon and Venus were in the same phase; the distant planet mimicking the far closer Moon.

Kingston University London experts will explore how an artificial vision system inspired by the human eye could be used by robots of the future — opening up new possibilities for securing footage from deep forests, war zones and even distant planets.

Uranus, discovered by William Herschel in 1781, was the most distant known planet in the solar system.

As instruments improved, astronomers detected smaller wobbles caused by smaller planets, until in 2004 a team using the Hobby - Eberly Telescope was arguably the first to find a super-Earth, 55 Cancri e. Others were revealed when their gravity briefly magnified the light of a distant star, a process known as gravitational lensing.

The Life of Super-Earths by Dimitar Sasselov Of the 700 planets astronomers have found so far in distant solar systems, most are places that are extremely hostile to life as we know it: searing - hot gas giants where iron could fall as rain and winds might blow in excess of 1,000 miles per hour.

Such distant giants lend support to the most radical challenge to standard theory, in which some planets form not by core accretion, but by a process called gravitational instability.

Yet another instrument, an imager that could spot planets orbiting distant stars, is due by the end of the year.

Previously, some teams have proposed that these floods resulted when immense subterranean reservoirs of ice were suddenly melted by the rise of molten material from deep within the Red Planet, and others have suggested that the water was carried from distant regions via aquifers and then somehow abruptly released.

Its specialty will be time - domain spectroscopy — useful for observing accretion by galactic black holes, surveys of distant supernovae and even searches for extrasolar planets.

The Planet Factory: Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth By Elizabeth Tasker Want to understand how scientists find these distant worlds and what they might mean for our future?

Researchers looked at seven of these worlds — distant planets whose mass lies between one and 10 times ours — including 55 Cancri e (at right, compared to Earth) and GJ1214b, evaluating how the x-ray and extreme ultraviolet radiation emitted by their parent stars might affect their atmospheres over their remaining lifetimes.

The space telescope infers their existence by the amount of starlight blocked when the orbiting planet passes in front of a distant star from the vantage point of the observer.

Barring the appearance of flying saucers, there are two broad possibilities: either we have a close encounter with our neighbours by visiting the planets and moons next door; or we make an interstellar phone call to creatures inhabiting much more distant planets that circle alien suns.

The clustering of most of their orbits indicates that they are likely be influenced by something massive and very distant, the proposed Planet X.

The planets discovered by EDEN are the closest worlds to us — these will be the planets humankind may send probes or perhaps even visit in the distant future.

The recent flyby of Pluto by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft revealed the distant planet to be a surprisingly active world, replete with geologically recent flows of nitrogen ice that may be r...

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.

When heated by the distant sun, the materials are converted directly into vapors, which then fall back to the dwarf planet in the form of precipitation.

Combining the greenhouse warming effect from hydrogen, water and carbon dioxide on planets sprinkled throughout the cosmos, distant stars could expand their habitable zones by 30 to 60 percent, according to this new research.

Scientists estimate that by 2020 or so, we should be able to directly image distant planets, analyze their atmospheres, and look for telltale signs of biological life more easily than ever before.

It turns out that OGLE -2007-BLG-349 was caused by a planet orbiting two stars, both tiny red dwarfs, drifting in front of a more distant bright star.

The beams that would have to be regularly targeted at the craft could, the theory goes, move far beyond and reach Earth intermittently as FRBs, disrupted by the movement of distant galaxies and planets.

By observing slight dips in the light from distant stars — which correspond to planets «transiting» between their host stars and the telescope's lens — Kepler has discovered 135 confirmed planets and 3,548 planet candidates.

While we only discovered an exoplanet (that is, a planet not supported by our solar system) for the first time in 1992, scientists were pretty darn quick to figure out ways to determine the composition of some of Earth's far - distant cousins [source: Encyclopedia Brittanica].

Microlensing relies upon measurements of the gravitational bending of light (predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity) from a more distant source by an intervening star and its planets.

In March 2014, a Nature article by astronomers Chad Trujillo and Scott Sheppard noted that some of the most distant Kuiper Belt objects had unusual orbital alignments and suggested that effect was caused by gravity from a small planet.

«Many of these systems may have formed similarly to Kepler - 223, but then later became destabilized, perhaps by a more distant massive planet or perhaps by the cumulative effect of the scattering of many smaller planetesimals left over from the planet - building process.»

Scientists can take advantage of the warping effect by measuring the light of distant stars, looking for a brightening that might be caused by a massive object, such as a planet, that passes between a telescope and a distant background star.

Sheppard and Trujillo suggest a super Earth or an even larger object at hundreds of AU could create the shepherding effect seen in the orbits of these objects, which are too distant to be perturbed significantly by any of the known planets.

2) By definition, each planet must orbit a star — and because stars are very distant, the planets appear to be extremely close to their host stars, which are always much brighter.

A wide - angle view of the star HD 106906 taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and a close - up view from the Gemini Planet Imager reveal a dynamically disturbed system of comets, suggesting a link between this and the unusually distant planet (upper right), 11 times the mass of JuPlanet Imager reveal a dynamically disturbed system of comets, suggesting a link between this and the unusually distant planet (upper right), 11 times the mass of Juplanet (upper right), 11 times the mass of Jupiter.

That fact, combined with computer simulations, led the scientists to conclude that the dust particles in the disk are kept within the disk by the gravitational effect of two planets — one closer to the star than the disk and one more distant.

Two heroic forces save us from this fate: a warm, zingy script (by Alan J. Schoolcraft and Brent Simons) and a characteristically wacko voice performance by Will Ferrell as Megamind, a cobalt blue, bulbous - headed freak from a distant planet who defeats his longtime nemesis for control of Metro City but doesn't cope well with success.

And yet another, the Soul Stone, is on a distant planet where it's guarded by... but that would be too revealing.

The screenplay, credited to Eric Pearson, Craig Kyler and Christopher L. Yost, really finds its footing after Thor is expelled from Asgard, his home planet, to a distant world, where he is quickly captured by indie warrior Scrapper (Tessa Thompson) and sold to Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum).

Antal's main strength is his versatility, from an astonishingly durable slasher like Vacancy to Armored, an urban western / neo-noir revolving around a stolen armored car, to Predators, a sci - fi actioner about a group of human killers and soldiers that are hunted for sport by the titular aliens on a distant planet.

But he is stranded on a distant planet ruled by an omnipotent dandy known as The Grandmaster.

Relying on assumptions and prejudices brought into the film by the audience as much as anything shown on screen, The Loneliest Planet is something of a distant cousin to Roman Polanski's 1962 drama Knife in the Water, where a relationship is threatened and the presence of a mysterious other man is used to unsettle.