Sentences with phrase «first planets beyond our solar system»
He discovered the first planets beyond our solar system but gets little recognition.
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The year before, a Swiss team had found 51 Pegasi b, a remarkable planet beyond our own solar system — the first ever discovered around another sunlike star.
Astronomers craving their first image of a planet beyond our solar system now have fresh targets to explore: newly identified siblings of Beta Pictoris, the most famous dust - shrouded star in the sky.
With them it will peer through the creaking, dusty cosmic eons to study much that astronomers using Hubble and other telescopes have barely begun to glimpse: the universe's very first galaxies, nascent stars and planets in mid-creation in nebulous wombs, the atmospheres of worlds both within and beyond our solar system.
He knew his results would be scrutinized closely: These would be the first confirmed planets beyond our solar system, found in a place where most people thought planets could not exist.
The idea of finding planets beyond the solar system was considered borderline crazy just a few decades ago, until Didier Queloz ran headlong into the first one
Following the discovery of the first extrasolar planet beyond our solar system in 1992, the number of samples has now reached hundreds.
Observations verify that at least two planets with Earth - like masses — the first confirmed beyond our solar system — orbit a whirling neutron star that spits out fierce pulses of radiation, according to a report here 29 May at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
Kepler - 10b was the first «iron - clad proof of a rocky planet beyond our solar system» back in 2001.
The first planets identified beyond the solar system were shockingly unlike the nine worlds long - known within it.
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.
When Dawn enters orbit around Ceres, it will be the first spacecraft to see a dwarf planet up - close and the first spacecraft to orbit two solar system destinations beyond Earth.