Sentences with phrase «first planetary object»
It is the first planetary object to be seen transiting a white dwarf.
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It is the first time a ring has been discovered around a trans - neptunian object, and it shows that the presence of rings could be much more common than was previously thought, in our Solar System as well as in other planetary systems.
The European Space Agency is contemplating a mission to test ways to push such an object off a threatening trajectory, the first serious attempt at developing a planetary defense.
The new object, dubbed OGLE - TR - 56b, marks the first time a transit led to a planetary discovery.
As well as this black hole, Messier 15 is known to house a planetary nebula, Pease 1 [4]-- and it was the first globular known to contain one of these objects [5].
«WISE 0855 is our first opportunity to study an extrasolar planetary - mass object that is nearly as cold as our own gas giants,» Skemer said.
Now, planetary scientists have conducted the first computer simulations that bolster a controversial alternative idea: The satellites formed as our own moon did, after a big object smashed into the planet and kicked up debris.
«It's remarkable that we've now seen for the first time a physical object from outside our Solar System,» says lead author Dr Alan Jackson, a postdoc at the Centre for Planetary Sciences at the University of Toronto Scarborough in Ontario, Canada.
This is the first known example of a gravitationally bound pair of planetary mass objects, and astronomers can't agree on a name for them.
The first of these are planetary nebulae, so called because they're round objects that resemble planets.
«This would have been the first ever planetary - mass binary, making our object even more of an oddity,» said Étiene Artigau, co-supervisor of Naud's thesis and astrophysicist at the Université de Montréal.
First off, it treats your search terms and associated terms as planetary objects in a solar system, letting you choose which of the terms will be the centre around which the others rotate.