Sentences with phrase «distant star systems»

A parallel stuff is to work on propulsion systems capable of carrying large payloads to distant star systems.

By working with your friends, you can reroute power, warp into distant star systems and take on hostile ships as you explore the iconic Star Trek setting.

I think these were all attempts at making Mass Effect 2 more like Star Control 2 — a wonderful, 20 years old space exploration RPG where you needed to manage resources like fuel and your ship's upgrades to reach out to ever distant star systems in a search for valuable materials.

The fact that we see gravity perform the same in our Solar System as it does in a distant star system helps to confirm that the gravitational constant truly is universal.»

The data taken throughout this experiment are consistent with an unchanging gravitational constant in a distant star system.

[Easy] The Sagan Extraterrestrial Telescopic Instrument has intercepted a mysterious numerical message from an alien civilization in a distant star system.

They also dismissed the possibility of interference from Alpha Centauri A, the other star in the binary system, or from an unrelated, more distant star system that could have just been passing behind.

Astronomers have discovered a newly born «hot Jupiter» in a distant star system that's locked in a slow death spiral.

Not exact matches

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.

Among other expected insights, a more detailed study of the chaotic Pluto - Charon system could reveal how planets orbiting a distant binary star might behave.

The system's two sunlike stars, Alpha Centauri A and B, orbit each other closely while Proxima Centauri, a tempestuous red dwarf, hangs onto the system tenuously in a much more distant orbit.

A chance to get a close look is coming soon: Kervella's team mapped out the system's trajectory and found that in a decade, Alpha Centauri A will pass in front of a more distant star and act as a gravitational lens, distorting the light of the star behind it.

The two sunlike stars, Alpha Centauri A and B, orbit each other closely while Proxima Centauri, a tempestuous red dwarf, hangs onto the system tenuously in a much more distant orbit.

In «Astronomers Make a Map of a Super Saturn's Rings,» from the January issue of Scientific American, the Leiden University astronomer Matthew Kenworthy tells the story of discovering a ring system some 200 times larger than Saturn's around the distant star J1407.

Working with UW astronomer Eric Agol, doctoral student Ethan Kruse has confirmed the first «self - lensing» binary star system — one in which the mass of the closer star can be measured by how powerfully it magnifies light from its more distant companion star.

Eruptions on distant stars hold clues about the number of planetary systems there are in the Universe

It will have many other applications, ranging all the way from studies of the planets and satellites in the Solar System, through the properties of star - forming regions in the Milky Way and out to the distant Universe.

The astronomers spotted the solar system due to a phenomenon called gravitational microlensing — when the gravity of a star focuses the light from a more distant star and magnifies it like a lens.

1991: Nascent Solar Systems Data showing pancake - shaped objects within a distant cloud of gas and dust provided the first views of protoplanetary disks — the birthplace of stars and orbiting planets, including our solar system.

This image shows the closest stellar system to the Sun, the bright double star Alpha Centauri AB and its distant and faint companion Proxima Centauri.

Astronomers also use NIRC2 to map surface features of solar system bodies, detect planets orbiting other stars, and study detailed morphology of distant galaxies.

The hottest point on a gaseous planet near a distant star isn't where astrophysicists expected it to be — a discovery that challenges scientists» understanding of the many planets of this type found in solar systems outside our own.

The new discovery shows the same water delivery system could have occurred in this distant, dying star's solar system — as latest evidence points to it containing a similar type of water - rich asteroid that would have first brought water to Earth.

But to fully understand the architecture of distant planetary systems, astronomers must map the entire distribution of planets around a star.

The goal of the ARIEL mission is to investigate the atmospheres of several hundreds planets orbiting distant stars in order to address the fundamental questions on how planetary systems form and evolve.

The reseachers also examined combinations of those two scenarios for multiple star systems — for example, where two tightly orbiting stars are gravitationally bound to a more distant star.

(McGill University) The hottest point on a gaseous planet near a distant star isn't where astrophysicists expected it to be — a discovery that challenges scientists» understanding of the many planets of this type found in solar systems outside our own.

Because stars and planets beyond our solar system are too distant and unreachable, a team of scientists created a technique that could determine which exoplanets have the potential to accommodate human life.

When researchers observed star systems containing debris disks with giant exoplanets in distant orbits, they noted that the star systems had similar dual dust disks analogous to the Solar System's two zones — the asteroid belt (between Mars and Jupiter) and the Kuiper Belt (beyond the orbit of Neptune).

Some astronomical observations indicate that a principal source of cosmic rays is Cygnus X-3, a distant binary star system near the edge of our galaxy.

A barrier - breaking mission for engineers and astronomers, Webb will solve mysteries of our solar system, look beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probe the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it.

Astronomers have combined data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope and the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to conclude that a peculiar source of radio waves thought to be a distant galaxy is actually a nearby binary star system containing a low - mass star and a black hole.

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

[116] Such ideas also apply to the close approach of Alpha Centauri or other stars to the Solar System, when in the distant future of our Oort Cloud may be disrupted enough to see increased numbers of active comets.

NASA's search for planets outside of our solar system has mostly involved very distant, faint stars.

How much metal is in the system and whether the correlation between the metal content and star formation activity exists provide important clues how galaxy evolve in a distant Universe.

Webb will help humanity solve the mysteries of our solar system, look beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probe the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it.

The 51 Eri system also contains two distant companion stars — the compact binary M - dwarf system GJ 3305AB orbiting 2000 astronomical units away from 51 Eri A and b.

Detection of Jupiter's twin orbiting a distant Sun - like star represents the closest replication of our own solar system to date, and may have profound implications for creating conditions favorable to the development of a habitable Earth - like planet in HIP 11915's inner solar system.

GSC 02620 - 00648 is a binary star in Hercules, approximately 1,400 light years distant from the solar system.

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 Jupiter.

Spinwards, over the city center and the still more distant mountains, the clouds were parting, revealing a few of the brighter stars as the weather system cleared.

Cy - Tech CyTech provided the Software and AI systems both that operated the LeapGates and helped their delivery to the correct location around distant stars.

The game also includes two flight modes: Supercruise which is used to travel between distant objects in a star system, and a sub-supercruise flight mode which is used to fly towards nearby objects like a space station or cargo canister.

With a narrative set between STAR OCEAN: The Second Story and STAR OCEAN: Till the End of Time, this installment welcomes fans and newcomers alike, taking place centuries after humans have left Earth for the distant Faykreed star system.

Assemble and lead your team aboard the SSV Normandy, the most advanced ship in the galaxy, and travel to distant and unexplored star systems.

Titles that took us to explore and fight in distant alien star systems were all the rage in the late «90's, and although the last ten or so years have seen a drought of space sims, the genre is coming back in a big way.

It is being done by the people who launched the Kepler satellite to detect small dips in the brightness of distant stars in order to detect the presence of now ~ 1000 new planets in the last several years, completely re-writing the textbooks on the parameter space of planetary atmospheres, solar system formation, etc..

Experts at GISS are turning their sights away from our home planet once again as part of the Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS), and will provide key insights into the atmospheres and climates of planets that orbit distant stars.