Sentences with phrase «first planetary system»

The team confirmed more than 100 planets, including the first planetary system comprising four planets potentially similar to Earth.

This was the first planetary system around a small red dwarf star.

Not exact matches

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.

Conley is joking, but Rummel confirms that when he first got the position, he thought he was going to be working on life support systems until the person who'd hired him left a week later, leaving him in charge of astrobiology and planetary protection.

First seen in October 2017, the space rock «Oumuamua looks like a skyscraper tumbling through space — and challenges our ideas of how planetary systems form

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.»

The present result, taken together with previous results on L1527, clearly demonstrates for the first time that the materials delivered to a planetary system differ from star to star.

«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.

Johnson: We could be in the same situation as when we were first looking for planetary systems.

In Richard Kerr's News Focus article, «Pluto, the Last Planetary First,» Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and principal investigator of the New Horizons mission, called the arrival of the New Horizons probe at Pluto — expected in July 2015 — «an epochal milestone in the exploration of the solar system.»

This was the first «mean motion resonance» in an extrasolar planetary system.

«That's what we're going for — not just the first Earth but the first terrestrial planetary system,» she says.

He gained research experience at the UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and also acted as a project manager and system engineer on the first UA student team charged with building a miniaturized satellite for space research.

This first - ever evidence that hot Jupiters can appear at such an early stage represents a major step forward in our understanding of how planetary systems form and evolve.

The discovery shows for the first time that hot Jupiters can appear at a very early stage in the formation of planetary systems, and therefore have a major impact on their architecture.

«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.

Just one month before Voyager's arrival, a research team had published the first serious model laying out how a liquid ocean could exist within a planetary body in the chilly outskirts of the solar system.

According to Rummel, this is the first time since the Viking missions to Mars in 1975 that a full - system sterilization — meaning every component of the spacecraft — is planned for a planetary lander.

«NASA first mission to distant Pluto will also be humankind's first close up view of this cold, unexplored world in our solar system,» said Jim Green, director of NASA's Planetary Science Division at the agency's Headquarters in Washington.

His calculations were the first to demonstrate that debris disks around the nearby stars Vega and β Pictoris are newly - formed planetary systems containing planets at least as large as Pluto and Mars.

It was recommended by the 2003 National Academy of Sciences» Planetary Decadal Survey («New Frontiers in the Solar System») that this first mission to the Kuiper Belt should include flybys of both Pluto and other KBOs in order to maximize the science return.

Astronomers at the Universities of Cambridge and Warwick say this is the first «reliable evidence» for water - rich, rocky planetary material in any extrasolar planetary system.

Astronomers have long wondered whether other planetary systems have bodies with properties similar to those in the Kuiper belt, and the new study appears to confirm for the first time that one such body exists.

This new finding is important because it's one of the first exoplanets in this mass range that lies beyond the «snow line» — the distance during formation of a planetary system beyond which ice can form from water, ammonia, and methane.

These discs, first seen with Hubble, are seeds of future planetary systems like our own Solar System (figure 4).

2014 MU69 is believed to be one of the first building blocks of the Solar System and may shed light on planetary accretion.

We combine the estimate of Teff and [Fe / H] with an estimate o... ▽ More We present the discovery of the Kepler - 19 planetary system, which we first identified from a 9.3 - day periodic transit signal in the Kepler photometry.

Abstract: We present the discovery of the Kepler - 19 planetary system, which we first identified from a 9.3 - day periodic transit signal in the Kepler photometry.

When New Horizons sent back pictures of Pluto earlier in 2016, it was the first time scientists got a close - up look at the dwarf planet, once considered the ninth planet in our planetary system.

That will enable JWST to «look much closer to the beginning of time and to hunt for the unobserved formation of the first galaxies, as well as to look inside dust clouds where stars and planetary systems are forming today,» according to its website.

Before the discovery of the first exoplanets, astronomers thought they understood the architecture of planetary systems.

The volu... ▽ More Owing to the remarkable photometric precision of space observatories like Kepler, stellar and planetary systems beyond our own are now being characterized en masse for the first time.

Abstract: Owing to the remarkable photometric precision of space observatories like Kepler, stellar and planetary systems beyond our own are now being characterized en masse for the first time.

On Jan. 14, 2005, the Huygens entry probe became the first spacecraft to land on a planetary surface in the outer solar system, carrying out various physical and chemical measurements of Titan's atmosphere and transmitting high - resolution images as it descended by parachute.

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.

Some 706 stars from this target list were found to have planetary candidates after the first 43 days of observations, but only the identity and some characteristics of 306 stars with at least one planetary candidate were released, including those of five possible multi-planet systems.

The Planetary Society's experts look forward to a great year of firsts in the solar system and beyond.

When completed in 2013, it will provide the first detailed images of the gaseous component of high - redshift galaxies; in addition, it will map the structure of the discs of material that surround newly formed stars in which planetary systems are known to form.

Thanks to the double electric rear axle's planetary gears, torque vectoring features for the first time, separating the power from each of the electric rear motors to drive the car through corners, rather than convention traction control systems that brake the inner rear wheel, slowing the car in bends.

Due to the first direct control system in a planetary automatic transmission with nine gears, it has also been possible to significantly increase hydraulic efficiency within the transmission.

Orbital factories also provide your first method of accessing Planetary Annihilation's final secret: you aren't just fighting on a single planet most of the time, you're waging war across a solar system, jumping from floating rock to floating rock.

On top of that, the assets developed for planetary creation (including the creation of the planets themselves) are «using the proper scientific processes, from first principles, in terms of how the solar system was formed... You get rocks forming first, when planetesimals stick together, then liquid forming on the surface.»

Although these climate forcings may not alter the global mean surface temperture, they are first order climate forcings in terms of their substantial role in influencing the climate system including the planetary atmospheric circulation.

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.