Sentences with phrase «first planet discovery»

Lorna continued: «This is the first planet discovery where two teams have collaborated, pooling all of the data to produce the best possible characterization of the system.»

Not exact matches

All were discovered in the first decade of the nineteenth century, and all were considered planets until the 1860s, when a tide of discoveries of ever - smaller objects in similar orbits demoted them to the rank of mere asteroids.

The sea is just 5 ° north of the Martian equator and would be the first discovery of a large body of water beyond the planet's polar ice caps.

The lead author of the new study, Guillem Anglada [1], from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC), Granada, Spain, explains the significance of this find: «The dust around Proxima is important because, following the discovery of the terrestrial planet Proxima b, it's the first indication of the presence of an elaborate planetary system, and not just a single planet, around the star closest to our Sun.»

In January Kepler astronomers announced the discovery of the first definitively rocky planet outside our solar system, Kepler - 10 b.

«You build bigger, you go fainter, you go deeper, and you'll have a shot at a major discovery,» explains Pudritz, «So building these larger machines will no doubt allow us to study the birth of the first galaxies and even planet formation around distant stars.

«This discovery of the first ever quintuple planetary system has me jumping out of my socks,» says group member and veteran planet hunter Geoffrey Marcy, an astronomer at the University of California at Berkeley.

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.

Kepler 10b: Kepler's Calling Card Announced in January 2011, Kepler 10b was the mission's first discovery of a small, rocky planet, proof of the Kepler telescope's planet - hunting prowess.

By next spring, the planet - hunting space telescope known as Kepler — rejected by NASA three times but then approved after those initial detections of exoplanets in the 1990s — will most likely report the discovery of the first known Earth - like planet in an Earth - like orbit.

But in September, a truly exceptional find punctuated this steady drumbeat of discovery: the first alien planet that could host life on its surface.

The quarrel is juicy enough in itself, but it also carries major scientific importance: The discoveries provide contrasting insights into the identity of Earth's first organisms, as well as what life might look like beyond our planet.

Astronomers may have found the first exomoon around a distant planet, and have asked to use Hubble to confirm whether the tantalising hints are a real discovery

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

Since the first confirmed discovery in 1993, astronomers have found more than 3,000 planets in orbit around stars other than our Sun.

Brown first achieved notoriety for the discovery of Eris, a distant object nearly the size of Pluto, which led to the dwarf planet's demotion.

Since the discovery of the first planets outside our solar system roughly two decades ago, verification has been a laborious planet - by - planet process.

In a series of five papers covering the rover's top discoveries during its first three months on Mars that appear today in the journal Science, Los Alamos researchers using the rover's ChemCam instrument team up with an international cadre of scientists affiliated with the CheMin, APXS, and SAM instruments to describe the planet's seemingly once - volcanic and aquatic history.

To predict when astronomers might find the first planet similar in size to Earth that also orbits far enough from its star to boast liquid water, the team scoured the discovery records of 370 exoplanets.

«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.

NASA announces the discovery of the first near - Earth - size planet in the habitable zone of a sun - like star.

It provides the first opportunity to investigate the chemical composition and climatology of a representative sample of exoplanets, going beyond planet discovery for an extended range of masses and temperatures from hot to habitable.

As I understand it, the first four objects to be discovered between Mars and Jupiter in the early part of the nineteenth century were widely regarded as full planets, until the discovery of the fifth such body, Astraea, in 1845.

The list of accomplishments is far too large to fit within one article, but they include: the first search for extraterrestrial intelligence; creation of the Drake equation; discovery of flat galactic rotation curves; first pulsar discovered in a supernova remnant; first organic polyatomic molecule detected in interstellar space; black hole detected at the center of the Milky Way; determination of the Tully - Fisher relationship; detection of the first interstellar anion; measurement of the most massive neutron star known; first high angular resolution image of the Sunyaev - Zel» Dovich Effect; discovery of only known millisecond pulsar in a stellar triple system; discovery of pebble - sized proto - planets in Orion, and the first detection of a chiral molecule in space.

The agency presented the discovery of the first planet roughly the size of Earth orbiting a G2 - type star, which is similar to our sun.

On 6 October 1995, astronomers started a revolution with the discovery of 51 Pegasi b — the first planet found orbiting a Sun - like star beyond our solar system.

Here, we report the discovery of the first transiting planet in the intermediate - age (800 Myr) Beehive cluster (Praesepe).

I will present an overview of our current direct imaging search for planets in the nearby binary - rich Scorpius - Centaurus association, as well as our discovery of one of the first directly imaged planets, Scorpion - 1b, in a hierarchical triple system.

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.

They claimed, and the excited media announced, the discovery of the first planet outside our solar system.

The discovery provides the first confirmation of general relativity in very strong gravitational fields (as opposed to the weak fields of Earth and other planets).

«This is the first time anyone has seen anything like this, and it means that the process of forming planets from such disks is more complex than we previously expected,» said Anthony Remijan, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, who with his colleague Jan M. Hollis, of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, used the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array radio telescope to make the discovery.

In 1995, University of Geneva astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz announced the discovery of the first planet outside our solar system, a Jupiterlike giant orbiting around a «main sequence» star similar to our sun, 51 Pegasi [source: Mayor and Queloz].

Technological developments beginning in the 1980s finally made it possible for astronomers to actually detect planets outside our solar system, and the first discoveries of such exoplanets were made in the 1990's by NSF - funded astronomers.

For the first time since Pluto's discovery in 1930, astronomers at last see directly see details on the surface of the solar system's farthest known planet...

Whether or not carbonate formation is a local phenomenon, the discovery is significant because it marks the first time ever that carbonates have been detected directly on the Red Planet.

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

Here we apply the light - curve modeling tech... ▽ More The Kepler Mission has recently announced the discovery of Kepler - 10 b, the smallest exoplanet discovered to date and the first rocky planet found by the spacecraft.

The mission reached a milestone toward meeting that goal: the discovery of its first rocky planet, Kepler - 10b.

By studying carbon dioxide in planet's atmosphere via spectroscopy and measuring its orbit and mass more precisely for the first time since its discovery some 15 years ago, the team found that the planet's atmosphere appears to be cooler higher up, contrary to what was expected.

It won't be able to tell directly how it reaches planets, but the first step in that discovery is pinpointing where the components of water are originally located, and what brings them to a planet.

Overall, the committee found that «to optimize the science return for the decade 2012 - 2021 within the anticipated resources, [the United States should] focus on three science objectives» — searching for the first stars, galaxies and black holes; seeking nearby, habitable planets; and understanding scientific principles — «while also considering the discovery potential of a much broader research program.»

By then, 31 separate observations of the comet had been collected to determine an orbit, and the first announcement of Lovejoy's discovery was made this past Friday (Dec. 2) by the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union.

On 12 July 2011, Planet Neptune celebrated its first birthday since its discovery on 24 Sept 1846.

(Updated June 2014) The number of planets around other stars has increased dramatically since the first discoveries of HD 1144762 b in 1989 and gamma Cephei b in 1988 (confirmed in 2003).

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.

The first discovery of a planet revolving around a star more like the Sun came in 1995 with the announcement of the...

Stern said the spate of discoveries from NASA's Kepler mission, including the first known gas dwarf planets, illustrates the «amazing diversity» of planets in the universe.

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.