Sentences with phrase «distant planets passing»

It's one of the tools JWST will use to capture sight of distant planets passing in front of stars, then analyze the data to be able to identify worlds where the signatures of life, like water and methane, are present.

Not exact matches

A distant planet has been weighed with light that passed through its atmosphere 63 years ago.

When this vibration passes Earth, it jostles our planet slightly, causing it to shift with respect to distant pulsars.

Robert Chancia of the University of Idaho in Moscow and colleagues calculated Cressida's density and mass using visible variations in an inner ring of Uranus as the planet passed in front of a distant star.

Robert Chancia of the University of Idaho in Moscow and colleagues calculated Cressida's density and mass using variations in an inner ring of the planet as Uranus passed in front of a distant star.

A device called a coronagraph can be built into a telescope to block most of the photons from a distant star's glow, allowing the dim light from a planet to pass into the telescope's sensors and create a glare - free image.

When Venus passes directly between earth and the sun, we see the distant planet as a small dot gliding slowly across the face of the sun.

Data gathered when the dwarf planet Makemake passed in front of a distant star last year are shedding new light on the icy orb's size, shape, and atmosphere — or, more precisely, its lack of one.

Then 75 more years passed before Brown located the distant dwarf planet Eris and showed that Pluto is not alone.

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.

But they quickly identified the source of the change: the darker mass of a planet passing between the distant star and our vantage point on Earth.

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.