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.