Sentences with phrase «for distant planets»

Though many die in the botched kidnapping, the gang gets away with Patricia and jumps aboard their spaceship, destined for a distant planet and a healthy ransom.

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Whether it was answers to the body and movement of water, the mechanics of the human heart and body, the motion of the planets or to discover why birds fly, or how the human eye perceives light and distant images, or why fossils are found on mountains, his quest for knowledge was extraordinary.

The chances that your spirit for want of a better word will live on, is more likely going to be your the form of energy either in another dimension or with another life form from a distant planet who by most accounts from so many writings and drawings all across our earth has a higher probablity than some guy named jesus or his never caring ignorant father or a holly ghost (remember when that was the real name).

In romance occurs a quest for the most desirable object — the distant planet in science fiction, the beloved in gothic novels, the lawful community in westerns.

New telescopes will search for signs of life on distant planets.

Co-authored by David Catling, an atmospheric chemist at the University of Washington in Seattle, the study peers deep into our planet's history to devise a novel recipe for finding single - celled life on faraway worlds in the not - too - distant future.

A far - flung star's extra wink, spotted in data from the Kepler space telescope and further probed by the Hubble Space Telescope, may be the first evidence for an exomoon — a moon orbiting a planet orbiting a distant star.

So, for example, for every four orbits Planet Nine makes, a distant Kuiper Belt object might complete nine orbits.

In a paper posted to arXiv on 16 June and soon to be published in The Astronomical Journal, the OSSOS team describes eight of its most distant discoveries, including four of the type used to make the initial case for Planet Nine.

Optimism for an unseen Neptune - like planet in our solar system may be dimmed by the discovery of a new batch of distant worlds.

Now, far beyond the eight planets and a billion miles beyond Pluto — the most distant object ever explored — this little prince of a planet is ready for its close - up.

Kingston University London experts will explore how an artificial vision system inspired by the human eye could be used by robots of the future — opening up new possibilities for securing footage from deep forests, war zones and even distant planets.

In England, the gifted young mathematician John Couch Adams meticulously calculated where a more distant planet must be orbiting to exert gravitational effects responsible for the oddities in Uranus» orbit.

The first evidence for an exomoon — a moon orbiting a planet orbiting a distant star — may have been spotted in data from the Kepler space telescope.

Emitted in a distant galaxy when multicellular life was just beginning to populate Earth, the waves traveled at the speed of light for more than a billion years to at last wash over our planet last September, taking just seven milliseconds to traverse the distance between LIGO's twin listening stations in Louisiana and Washington State.

Comets, meteorites, planets, moons, stars and even exploding stars can be seen without a telescope, and hence, when they are brought closer for inspection with such an instrument as the telescope, these distant objects are not so mysterious, just somewhat so.

«These signals would have begun their journey before our planet even existed, and after five billion years of travelling through space without hitting anything, they've fallen into the telescope and allowed us to see this distant galaxy for the very first time.»

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Simulations indicate that, given Rhea's size and distant orbit around Saturn, this moon could potentially hang on to a ring for millions of years or more before the planet's pull overcomes Rhea's hold.

The social robots were more efficient and effective than single robots, Laurent Keller's team reports, suggesting that setting loose swarms of robots might be a robust and flexible strategy for exploring distant planets.

Scheduled for launch in early 2017, the roughly $ 1 - million mission could pave the way for a new class of instrument that can peer through the sun's glare or at distant alien planets, without requiring a massive single scope.

For the first time, astronomers have detected visible starlight reflecting off a planet orbiting a distant star.

Its specialty will be time - domain spectroscopy — useful for observing accretion by galactic black holes, surveys of distant supernovae and even searches for extrasolar planets.

The Planet Factory: Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth By Elizabeth Tasker Want to understand how scientists find these distant worlds and what they might mean for our future?

The more distant planets and their squadrons of satellites remained as tantalising dots of light even with a telescope, allowing plenty of scope for imagination about conditions on those alien worlds.

If space scientists hoping to send manned missions to distant planets were given one wish, many would ask for a convenient source of water outside the tug of Earth's gravity.

But Batygin says that residual gas in the protoplanetary disk might have exerted enough drag to slow the planet just enough for it to settle into a distant orbit and remain in the solar system.

Brown first achieved notoriety for the discovery of Eris, a distant object nearly the size of Pluto, which led to the dwarf planet's demotion.

The smaller team makes the case for at least one, and possibly three, planets orbiting the sunlike star HD 1461, some 76 light - years distant.

If further research confirms the model's accuracy, it could also open new avenues for exploring the origin of life on Earth, and for understanding the role hydrogen gas might play in supporting life in a wide range of extreme environments, from the sunless deep - sea floor to distant planets.

The question of how planets acquire water is interesting for a number of reasons, Dauphas said, including the search for distant exoplanets that might have water — and thus a similar kind of life.

The astronomers carefully measured how long it takes for each planet in the system to complete one orbit around TRAPPIST - 1 — known as the revolution period — and then calculated the ratio of each planet's period and that of its next more distant neighbour.

Bruce Dorminey is a science journalist and author of «Distant Wanderers: The Search for Planets beyond the Solar System.»

Planets around other stars are too distant for us to spot their short - term weather.

Yale researchers have found a data - driven way to detect distant planets and refine the search for worlds similar to Earth.

«Hunt for ninth planet reveals new extremely distant solar system objects.»

Their findings are in the new paper «Evidence for a Distant Giant Planet in the Solar System,» which is in the current issue of the Astronomical Journal.

New telescopes will search for signs of life on distant planets Science News Magazine

The ACS, which sees visible light, was installed to help map the distribution of dark matter, detect the universe's most distant objects, search for massive planets and examine the evolution of clusters of galaxies.

«The ability to see very close to stars also allows us to search for planets around more distant stars, where the planets and stars would appear closer together.

The early and mid 2000s were really the gold rush for distant icy dwarf planet discovery.

Autonomous telescope joins hunt for alien planets and has already found new planets around distant stars.

And as a nifty bonus, the telescope will be able to spot distant exoplanets in the heart of the Milky Way, and its second instrument will be able to gather data about their atmospheres, which can tell scientists whether a planet is more like Neptune or Jupiter, for instance.

Scientists estimate that by 2020 or so, we should be able to directly image distant planets, analyze their atmospheres, and look for telltale signs of biological life more easily than ever before.

If selected for development, the spacecraft will investigate at least 500 exoplanet atmospheres, providing detailed information about climate processes on distant alien planets.

NASA's search for planets outside of our solar system has mostly involved very distant, faint stars.

With less than four weeks remaining before NASA's New Horizons spacecraft speeds through the Pluto system for humanity's first - ever close - up reconnaissance of the distant planet and its assortage of moons, speculation runs rampant among scientists and the general public alike about what these mysterious worlds at the outer reaches of the Solar System might look like up close.

The discovery of a powerful aurora surrounding a distant failed star may in future aid astronomers in their hunt for habitable planets.

Due to Pluto's eccentric orbit, Neptune at times becomes the most distant planet from the Sun for a few years.

While we only discovered an exoplanet (that is, a planet not supported by our solar system) for the first time in 1992, scientists were pretty darn quick to figure out ways to determine the composition of some of Earth's far - distant cousins [source: Encyclopedia Brittanica].