Sentences with phrase «find other planetary systems»

«We imagined we were going to find other planetary systems in our own image,» says Andrew Howard, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii.

Not exact matches

The new findings are observational evidence supporting the idea that icy bodies are also present in other planetary systems, and have survived throughout the history of the star's evolution.

Julia Fang and Jean - Luc Margot at the University of California, Los Angeles, wanted to find out whether other planetary systems are full, or if they also have unoccupied but stable orbital slots in between their planets.

It's too early to tell what other surprises GPI and SPHERE may find in the outer reaches of planetary systems.

The findings offer additional insight into the unusual and active geology on Pluto and, perhaps, other bodies like it on the planetary outskirts of the solar system.

Wolszczan and others have already found more than 40 planetary systems around red giants, allowing them to sketch out how the same process will play out here at home.

«These findings may have implications for how planetary systems around other stars could form and where and how big the planets would be.»

In contrast to the carbon - rich icy material found in other double star systems, the planetary material identified in the SDSS 1557 system has a high metal content, including silicon and magnesium.

Other astronomers find the detections convincing, although most reserve the name «planet» for bodies that form within a planetary system and orbit stars, says theorist Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, D.C. «They should call them «planetary - mass brown dwarfs,»» Boss says.

Some of them are orbiting extremely close to their parent star like the 51 Peg planetary system, while others are found to be at distances comparable to where Mars and Jupiter lie in our solar system.

Almost all the extrasolar planetary systems known appear very different from the solar system, but planets like those within the solar system would with current technology be very difficult to find around other stars.

The high precision of the Kepler space telescope has allowed us to detect planets that are the size of Earth and somewhat smaller, but no previous planets have been found that ar... ▽ More Since the discovery of the first exoplanet we have known that other planetary systems can look quite unlike our own.

A new study led by Western University's all - star cosmochemist Audrey Bouvier proves that the Earth and other planetary objects formed in the early years of the Solar System share similar chemical origins — a finding at odds with accepted wisdom held by scientists for decades.

The new findings support the notion that belts of icy bodies are also in other planetary systems, and have persisted throughout their star's development.