Sentences with phrase «extrasolar planet discovery»

A nearby star roughly three quarters the mass of our Sun, tau Ceti has a complicated history when it comes to extrasolar planet discovery.

Currently the team is concentrating on extrasolar planet discovery and characterization, precision measurement of stellar chemical abundances, and precise mapping of the Milky Way and of large - scale cosmological structure.

Not exact matches

A decade ago, stimulated by this discrepancy and the discoveries of the first extrasolar planets, astronomer Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution resurrected an alternative idea.

The discovery of extrasolar planets raises the question of whether some might support extraterrestrial life.

New discoveries are making chlorophyll - d and a cyanobacterium named Acaryochloris marina interesting for scientists trying to find life on extrasolar planets

Since the discovery of planets outside our solar system in the 1990s, astronomers have tallied more than 400 extrasolar worlds, many unlike anything known before.

Leading planet hunters from around the world announced the discovery of some 75 extrasolar planets, and hints of many more

The discoveries fill in details about how planets form and bring researchers even closer to the ultimate prize: «We're on our way to finding an extrasolar earth,» says Barbara McArthur of the University of Texas at Austin.

This was decades before the discoveries of thousands of extrasolar planets began in the 1990s, and years before astronomer Frank Drake presented his probabilistic argument for the rarity of communicating civilizations in the cosmos in 1961.

Astronomers have announced the discovery of an extrasolar planet not much larger than Earth — the smallest exoplanet yet found.

Following the discovery of the first extrasolar planet beyond our solar system in 1992, the number of samples has now reached hundreds.

The catalogue of planets orbiting other stars grew to more than 400 entries in October, but the goal that drives much of the research into extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, is the discovery of a habitable world, and that goal remains unmet.

«Since the discovery of the first gravitational lens, the phenomenon has been exploited to map the distribution of mass around galaxies and clusters, and to search for dark matter, dark energy, compact objects, and extrasolar planets,» physicist Clifford Will notes in a recent paper.

The Kepler space telescope is famous for its discoveries of extrasolar planets, some that may have the right conditions to harbor life.

The IAU symposium 293 will bring together scientists from around the world to present new discoveries, and discuss ideas on the formation, detection, and characterization of extrasolar habitable planets.

Hasegawa: It was a discovery of an «extrasolar planet».

On the theoretical front, these discoveries have triggered extensive research on the formation, dynamical evolution, interior dynamics, and atmospheric characteristics of extrasolar habitable planets.

The smallest exoplanet hitherto discovered has... ▽ More Since the discovery of the first extrasolar giant planets around Sun - like stars, evolving observational capabilities have brought us closer to the detection of true Earth analogues.

Abstract: Since the discovery of the first extrasolar giant planets around Sun - like stars, evolving observational capabilities have brought us closer to the detection of true Earth analogues.

The discovery of thousands of extrasolar planets by ground - and space - based observatories has shown that planetary systems exhibit an astonishing diversity of architectures.

About 20 years have passed now since the discovery of the first extrasolar planet orbiting a solar type star in 1995.

An additional impetus has been the discovery since 1995 of hundreds of extrasolar planets around other normal stars.

Cool Star meetings have a long tradition of presenting cutting - edge science, as shown by outstanding results such as the discovery of the first Extrasolar Planet and the first confirmed Brown Dwarf, which were both first announced in the Cool Stars 9 meeting celebrated in Florence, Italy in 1995.

Although no compelling evidence of extraterrestrial life has yet been found, the possibility that biota might be a common feature of the universe has been strengthened by the discovery of extrasolar planets (planets around other stars), by the strong suspicion that several moons of Jupiter and Saturn might have vast reserves of liquid water, and by the existence of microorganisms called extremophiles that are tolerant of environmental extremes.

Read here about the Internet, microbursts, Web browsers, extrasolar planets, and more... a panoply of discoveries and innovations that began with NSF support.

The discovery since 1995 of extrasolar planets means that other stars must possess their own interplanetary media.

The book includes great interviews with many of the prominent scientists in the field and provides a great introduction to the initial discoveries of extrasolar planets.

On July 21, 2003, some astronomers provided evidence from recent discoveries of giant extrasolar planets in mostly inner orbits around host stars that planetary systems may be more common around stars whose spectra show an enriched abundance of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium — also called high «metallicity» (exoplanets.org press release; and Gonzalez, 1999).

In graduate school at the University of Florida, Andrew earned his master's degree in astrophysics and continued making celestial discoveries, including the new extrasolar planet, HD 102195b.

Professor Sara Seager previews a new era of discovery as a leader of the TESS mission, which is expected to find some 20,000 extrasolar planets.