Sentences with phrase «first planet outside our solar system»

The first planets outside the solar system were discovered 25 years ago — not around a normal star like our Sun, but instead orbiting a tiny, super-dense «neutron star».

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

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

In 1984, major radio and television networks reported that astronomers at Kitt Peak National Observatory had discovered the first planet outside the solar system.

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].

«Before discovering the first planet outside the Solar System, we were limited by our anthropocentric preconceptions and were searching for systems like ours», argues Barrado.

Not exact matches

Although crude, the weather maps may be the first to identify clouds on a planet outside the solar system.

For the first time, water vapour has been detected in the atmosphere of a Neptune - sized planet outside the solar system.

Van de Kamp pointed out that although Barnard's star and its companion are the third known «solar system» outside our own, they constitute the first such pair in which the companion is small enough to be classified confidently as a planet.»

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

Dawn is the first mission to visit a dwarf planet, and the first mission outside the Earth - moon system to orbit two distinct solar system targets.

Those theories got a jolt 10 years ago, when astronomers first began discovering planets outside our solar system orbiting other stars.

Using infrared images recorded by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have created the first weather map of a planet outside our solar system.

That's why, ever since astronomers confirmed the first planet outside of our solar system in 1995, they have been looking for signs of water on the 200 - plus exoplanets now known.

Lawrence Livermore scientists for the first time have experimentally re-created the conditions that exist deep inside giant planets, such as Jupiter, Uranus and many of the planets recently discovered outside our solar system.

Instead Terebey, an astronomer at the Extrasolar Research Corporation in Pasadena, found what might be the first planet ever directly observed outside our solar system.

You have been studying exoplanets — planets outside the solar system that orbit Sun - like stars — almost since they were first discovered.

Such information may be used to measure the planet's mass, which could make Kepler 78b the first Earth - sized planet outside our own solar system whose mass is known.

This marks the first detection of an atmosphere around an Earth - like planet other than Earth itself, and thus is a significant step on the path towards the detection of life outside our Solar System.

When Marcy first decided to look for planets outside the solar system, the powers that be were as skeptical as they have always been.

The first indications of life outside our solar system won't be like a sci - fi film — they'll be chemical traces of the elements of life in the atmosphere of a far - away planet.

Extrasolar planets (planets outside our solar system) were found in 1995 for the first time, and since then many planets have been found around stars other than the Sun.

Astronomers have measured and mapped a weather system on a planet outside our solar system for the first time ever, and discovered a world where raging winds blow at nearly 5,400 miles per hour — nearly 20 times greater than the fastest ever recorded on Earth.

Scientists have conducted the first lab experiments on haze formation in simulated exoplanet atmospheres, an important step for understanding upcoming observations of planets outside the solar system with the James Webb Space Telescope.

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.

An artist's conception of Kepler - 22b, a planet 600 light years away from Earth, and the first confirmed planet outside our solar system that could conceivably harbor life as we know it.

The search for exoplanets (planets outside our solar system) became more significant in the late 90s - the first exoplanet was discovered in 1996.

Astronomers have confirmed that an object that recently passed by our planet is from outside our Solar System — the first interstellar asteroid that's ever been observed.

Astronomers have made the first direct detection and chemical analysis of an atmosphere of a planet that exists outside our solar system.

CoRoT - 7 b, the first potential rocky planet detected outside the Solar system, may be the remnant core of a Saturn - mass gas giant that had its atmosphere and lower gas metal layers burned off (more)

Fellow astronomers were quite surprised in 1990 when Alex Wolszczan and «Dale Frail announced the discovery of the first three planets outside the Solar System around PSR B1257 +12 during a pulsars survey (Wolszczan and Frail, 1992.

To help in that exploratory effort, Hubble recently took the first visible - light photograph of a planet outside our solar system.

As the Governor of humanity's first colony outside the solar system, you are tasked with successfully creating a thriving colony of settlers in various different locations on the planet Aven Prime.