Sentences with phrase «find giant exoplanets»

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SPHERE's main goal is to find and characterise giant exoplanets orbiting nearby stars by direct imaging [1].

«It is likely the banded structure and large atmospheric waves we found in brown dwarfs will also be common in giant exoplanets,» Apai said.

Researchers expect to find water on many planets outside the solar system, called exoplanets, including Jupiter - size gas giants such as HD 189733 b and HD 209458 b, which orbits a different star.

The first exoplanets found were gas giants orbiting close to their stars — a study suggests they could be built from collisions of several smaller planets

Most of the first exoplanets found were hot Jupiters: gas giants that orbit close to their stars.

Until these findings by Dr Southworth's team, the only previous detections of exoplanet atmospheres all involved gas giants reminiscent of a high - temperature Jupiter.

Water is not only a key ingredient in supporting life, it's also a major clue as to how planets form, and NASA has found a lot of the stuff in the atmosphere of a giant exoplanet called Wasp - 39b.

I'm still holding out for the news that reads: «Second Earth Found» -[this exoplanet] will have all the right ingredients: orbit its star inside the habitable zone, spectroscopic analysis will reveal a nitrogen - rich atmosphere, evidence of water, roughly the same mass as our planet and it will belong in a system with a couple of gas giants shepherding the outer system.

Before Kepler, plenty of Jupiter - sized worlds could be seen, but with its precision eye for spotting the tiniest of fluctuations of star brightness (as a small exoplanet passes between Kepler and the star), the space telescope has found that smaller exoplanets outnumber the larger gas giants.

This is the first time titanium oxide has been detected in the atmosphere of a gas giant exoplanet, and the finding should help astronomers develop a better understanding of the composition and processes going on in the atmospheres of these distant worlds.

An international team1 led by Alexandre Santerne from Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA2), made a 5 - year radial velocity3 campaign of Kepler's giant exoplanet candidates, using the SOPHIE4 spectrograph (Observatory of Haute - Provence, France), and found that 52,3 % were actually eclipsing binaries5, while 2,3 % were brown dwarfs6.