Sentences with phrase «distant planets known»

Astronomers have discovered one of the most distant planets known, a gas giant about 13,000 light - years from Earth, c...

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has teamed up with a telescope on the ground to find a remote gas planet about 13,000 light - years away, making it one of the most distant planets known.

Borderlands is first person shooter that takes place distant planet know as Pandora and puts players in the role of four playable characters each with their own skills and story.

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No, that's not the name of the newest muppet, nor is it a distant relative of the cutest, funniest little birds on the planet.

Journey up from the smallest particles, past the moons and planets of the Solar System, out through the Oort Cloud to the Milky Way, past our Local Stars and out to distant galaxies before arriving, finally, at the edge of the known Universe.

Journey up from the smallest particles, past the moons and planets of the Solar System, out through the Milky Way, past our Local Stars and then to distant galaxies before arriving, finally, at the edge of the known Universe.

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.

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.

«You build bigger, you go fainter, you go deeper, and you'll have a shot at a major discovery,» explains Pudritz, «So building these larger machines will no doubt allow us to study the birth of the first galaxies and even planet formation around distant stars.

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.

If climate change gets catastrophic — and the world sees more than 6 degrees Celsius warming of average temperatures — the planet will have left the current geologic period, known as the Quaternary and a distant successor to the Ordovician, and have returned to temperatures last seen in the Paleogene period more than 30 million years ago.

On Earth, this relationship between distant events in a planet's climate system is known as teleconnection.

Formed a billion years after the Big Bang, the universe's oldest and most distant known planet circles a collapsed star, or pulsar (green circle), in the globular cluster M4, which is 5,000 light - years away from Earth.

The most distant of Saturn's 34 known satellites, Phoebe swoops around the planet in a tilted orbit, opposite to the direction of Saturn's spin.

In late 2008 two teams made waves with the simultaneous announcement that they had managed to directly photograph planets in orbit around distant stars, also known as exoplanets.

The astronomers carefully measured how long it takes for each planet in the system to complete one orbit around TRAPPIST - 1 — known as the revolution period — and then calculated the ratio of each planet's period and that of its next more distant neighbour.

A moon orbiting a distant planet around an alien world may have been detected, marking the first known exomoon.

Other solar system bodies that are possibly dwarf planets include Sedna and Quaoar, small worlds far beyond Pluto's orbit, and 2012 VP113, an object that is thought to have one of the most distant orbits found beyond the known edge of our solar system.

We know that there are at least 75 planets outside our own solar system, orbiting their distant stars.

Overall, the number of planets known to orbit distant stars grew from under 100 to more than 2,000 in the past 10 years, Steffen said, with another 2,000 likely planets awaiting confirmation.

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.

New work from Carnegie's Scott Sheppard and Chadwick Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory reports the discovery of a distant dwarf planet, called 2012 VP113, which was found beyond the known edge of the solar system.

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

The premise of the show centered around human civilization on distant planets being wiped out by machines known as Cylons.

It's the distant planet from which a New York mental patient known only as Prot (Kevin Spacey) claims to be visiting.

While we don't know if Sakaar will feature in «Thor: Ragnarok,» Hulk and Thor are confirmed to be taking a trip to some kind of distant planet in the film.

Unsure if he has been beamed to a distant planet or the far future or trapped in an elaborate computer simulation, Trace begins his quest to defeat the ominous being known as Athetos and uncover the secrets of Sudra.

Although our ability to observe and simulate the atmospheres of other planets is limited, explaining what we do know about these atmospheres provides an intellectual adventure into distant worlds, testing our understanding of atmospheric dynamics.