Sentences with phrase «to find exoplanets»

The company has so far used it to design blink - detection algorithms for its upcoming Glass headset and NASA is exploring its potential for finding exoplanets.

WE COULD use light echoes to find exoplanets in a similar way to how killer whales «see» through pitch - black water by bouncing sound waves off objects.

He is a member of the survey team for the low - cost Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) system that consists of a pair of robotic telescopes designed to find exoplanets around bright stars operated by astronomers at Ohio State University, Vanderbilt University, Lehigh University and the South African Astronomical Observatory.

Following the unexpected discovery of its dust ring, we have now found an exoplanet at a location suggested by analysis of the dust ring's shape.

While today's planet - hunting techniques have favored finding exoplanets near their sun, the outer regions of a planetary system have gone largely unexplored.

The researchers looked at data collected for WASP - 18b, located 325 light - years from Earth, as part of a survey to find exoplanets with stratospheres.

I personally have a pretty single - minded focus: finding exoplanets where we can use telescopes to analyse their atmospheres and see if they're inhabited.

Astronomers find an exoplanet that could be habitable — and it's as close to us as it could possibly be

Apai said finding exoplanets has become relatively easy.

We're finding exoplanets light years away, and simultaneously still figuring out more about what is in our own solar system.

We only have limited resources and technology available to us and currently looking at nearby red dwarfs is a good opportunity to find exoplanets which we can hopefully start to characterise in the near future.

A night - time long - exposure view of the Next - Generation Transit Survey, which is tasked with finding exoplanets via the transit method.

Plus, Webb will take us a step further — not only finding exoplanets, but helping to reveal what these worlds are like.

«The standard methods for finding exoplanets are very difficult to apply in globular clusters because these are very dense fields and it is hard to resolve the stars,» says Di Stefano.

If the feeding process into the inner disc now seen with ALMA occurs in other multiple - star systems the findings introduce a vast number of new potential locations to find exoplanets in the future.

But then, 15 years ago nobody thought we could find any exoplanets at all.

For a man obsessed with entities long - since expired, it seems cruelly fitting that Still, whom I sat with on that flight two years ago, may soon see the death of his own NASA program: managing the Kepler space telescope, which orbits the sun with a mission to find exoplanets near other stars.

Corot A space telescope launched in 2006 that detects small variations in light, allowing researchers to study star structure and find exoplanets.

To find an exoplanet's atmosphere, a telescope would record the spectral signature when the planet transits in front of its host star and again when it's behind.

Kepler's chief aim was to find exoplanets, the worlds orbiting distant stars (SN Online: 10/31/17).

«Given the concerns about our own environment and climate change, finding an exoplanet that might experience the runaway greenhouse much sooner than we will made us reflect on the Earth's near - and long - term prospects for habitability,» Jenkins says.

Astronomers have been finding exoplanets out in the cosmos for 25 years, and if we've learned anything about all those planets, it's that a lot of different, weird kinds exist.

WFIRST is intended to hunt for the effects of dark matter and dark energy, and would also have instruments to find exoplanets.

This so - called radial velocity variation is what astronomers often measure to find exoplanets.

One way to find an exoplanet is to measure changes in its star's velocity as the orbiting planet makes the star «wobble» back and forth.

Among the most puzzling finds of NASA's Kepler space mission to find exoplanets, which launched in 2009, are bodies too heavy for their size.

«Searching a sea of «noise» to find exoplanets, using only data as a guide.»

Joel Hartman, who led the Princeton team that found this exoplanet, called it a «puffy Neptune,» because its large radius hinted at a small core supporting a gaseous globe.

It certainly helps if astronomers can find exoplanets that transit quite frequently, providing multiple opportunities to take measurements in a short space of time.

To find these exoplanets, TESS sports four wide - angle cameras and will ultimately orbit Earth in a 2:1 lunar resonance orbit, meaning for every time the Moon orbits Earth once, TESS will orbit Earth twice.

Like Hubble, JWST is looking not only to find exoplanets (those planets not in our solar system), but also to detect their compositions and atmospheres.

Drake Equation aside, there's one big obstacle to finding exoplanets that may support life: our own lack of imagination.

Ever since we found an exoplanet around the nearest star from Earth, there's been intense interest in whether it could host life.

' Through creative engineering, Kepler has had a second life in finding both exoplanets and other astrophysical phenomena

It's terribly hard to find exoplanets that look like our homeworld.

' The Kepler space telescope, famous for finding exoplanets, has also been valuable in tracking exploding stars known as supernovae