Sentences with phrase «found new planets»

Autonomous telescope joins hunt for alien planets and has already found new planets around distant stars.
Exoplanet hunters are moving beyond simply finding new planets into trying to know what they look like and whether there's surface or subsurface activity.
Vogt and Butler's team found the new planet by combining 119 star velocity measurements from HARPS with 122 measurements taken with a similar instrument called HIRES, which is mounted on the 10 - metre Keck 1 telescope in Hawaii.
Co-written with his daughter Lucy, who conceived of the idea, and a second physicist, George's Secret Key to the Universe tells of kids faced with the choice of saving Earth from global warming or finding a new planet for humans to inhabit.
Astronomers at the Berlin Observatory found the new planet, Neptune, where it was supposed to be, sparking a media sensation.
Each of the 3 rooms at Key Quest has a different theme and mission: Save the President and prevent an unauthorized nuclear launch; recover a priceless stolen artifact from the high security facility where the thieves are keeping it; or help find a new planet for humankind before Earth's resources are completely depleted.
A widowed engineer (McConaughey) volunteers to lead a space mission to find new planets to inhabit.
They discover a race of evil aliens looking to take over the bodies of the dead spacemen and find a new planet to inhabit.
Director: Christopher Nolan Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, David Gyasi, John Lithgow, Wes Bentley, Casey Affleck, Mackenzie Foy, and Michael Caine Plot: Earth is dying and the remains of NASA send a reluctant father into a wormhole to find a new planet for humanity.
Tasked with finding a new planet to harvest food for their starving planet, the trio of explorers crash land on the planet PNF - 404.
Set in a whole new part of the galaxy, in a completely different time, the crew of Mass Effect Andromeda embarks on a massive journey to find a new planet to call home.
The game puts you in the shoes of a man - or woman depending on your choice of character - who is tasked with finding a new planet suitable to sustain human life.
You are trying to find a new planet for your civilization to survive and so you have found your way onto Planet X. There's one small problem, there seems to be robotic inhabitants that keep attacking you at every turn as you try to carve out a place to live, and of course build defenses to protect those who came with you.

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In talking about the two new planets, NASA focused less on Kepler - 80g and more on Kepler - 90i because it was found to be the eighth planet orbiting the only star in its solar system.
Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living
An astronomer does not «see God» in science by finding some new and rare piece of data that proves God exists as if God were like an alien visiting from another planet, which would be a childish and materialistic understanding of what God is.
The things I find most appalling about religion reach a new zenith in Islam --(i) a dulling down of individual thought and a dogmatic requirement to conform to the views of the masses; (ii) a stultifying ignorant education system in which anything inconsistent with the Qur» an is not just discouraged, but censored; (iii) the subjugation of women to the point of educating them to be nothing but mindless f * king, breeding machines for their insecure husbands; (iv) a political class that feeds off the religious - based ignorance it imposes on its populations; and (v) a general back - sliding against the rest of the planet because heads are buried in Dark Ages mythology.
If the church's theology were informed more by biblical expectations of a redeemed creation and less by general religious longings for ecstatic experience and timeless truth, Christians would find themselves at the very least congenial toward those who, with a passionate «loyalty to things» and a «cosmic act of allegiance,» struggle to unpack the secrets of life on this planet and to work with it toward a new day.
Then, we found out that our new home planet would take four lightyears to reach.
While Interstellar seeks to find a new home planet, Wall - E wonders if we would not be better served staying on Earth, reversing the current habits of destruction and fulfilling our call as «maintainers.»
It is found in the message of some sermons that seem to imply the belief that we can bomb people into freedom, justice, and liberty, that we can use and abuse this planet, because it will all burn in the end, and we're going to get a new earth anyway.
After being diagnosed with celiac disease, beer lover Pedro Gonzalez founded Colorado's New Planet.
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Join us as we invoke the Pope's encyclical Ladauto Si and pray for Governor Cuomo to find the courage to save New Yorkers and the planet by stopping the dangerous AIM Pipleine and CPV Power Plant and that he shuts down Indian Point without any increased gas dependency in our state.
He did, but even if you don't know what that means, and simply put he found that a planet's orbital period and distance are related, very soon you can gaze through the new observatory here at the same stars and planets that Kepler observed 400 years ago.
We have researched dozens of new products to find the absolute best cheap gaming mice on the planet.
So how can the new findings be reconciled with the undeniable existence of the planet's magnetic field?
This week scientists reported new findings of water on the Red Planet that bring us closer than ever to finally answering the question.
New calculations of the composition of TRAPPIST - 1f, the fifth planet from the star, suggest a relatively thin layer of water (still far deeper than anything found on Earth) gives way to ice VI and ice VII, two different forms of ice that can form under high pressures.
As well as medical imaging and airport security scanning, masers could play a pivotal role in improving sensors to remotely detect bombs, new technology for quantum computers, and might even improve space communication methods to potentially find life on other planets.
But this new study buttresses recent findings by another Los Alamos scientist who found boron on Mars for the first time, which also indicates the potential for long - term habitable groundwater in the planet's past.
The new findings may help scientists better understand the rest of the Jupiter system, where about half the sulfur dioxide spewed from Io's volcanoes eventually drifts to circulate around the planet.
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.»
We've been looking and looking for solid rocky planets like Earth ever since, and we've found a lot of them but there's a new announcement that is probably the most exciting one we've heard yet.
The oceans near Antarctica that absorb carbon and protect our planet from climate change have been working robustly in the past decade, finds a new study published yesterday in Science.
Le Verrier communicated to the German astronomer Johann Galle, who immediately searched for, and found, the new planet, on September 23, 1846.
The first published scientific findings from NASA's New Horizons mission, which flew past Pluto in July, confirm that the dwarf planet does not resemble any other single world in the Solar System.
Finding Life Beyond Earth PBS As manned space programs face an uncertain future, powerful telescopes are uncovering a wealth of new planets across the galaxy — some of which could harbor life.
A new analysis of data from NASA's planet - hunting Kepler mission suggests one of the telescope's prized finds, Kepler 452 b, might be a statistical mirage
Such «transits» are how Kepler found the vast majority of its planets; but many things besides planets can cause stars to slightly dim, leading to far more false alarms than discoveries of new worlds.
Although the atmosphere of this type of planet was expected to have water, the discovery showcased astronomers» new ability to detect it, a necessary step in finding extraterrestrial life.
First published findings from NASA's New Horizons mission lay out the dwarf planet's wildly varying terrain
SEATTLE — Astronomers have found so many planets outside our solar system that new ones must break records to get noticed.
But according to Takeshi Oka of the University of Chicago, «if the findings are confirmed, Brittain and Rettig have discovered a new astronomical object, opening up a new avenue for the study of the formation of giant planets
RR245 is the largest discovery and the only dwarf planet found by OSSOS, which has discovered more than five hundred new trans - Neptunian objects.
«Finding a new dwarf planet beyond Neptune sheds light on the early phases of planet formation,» said Brett Gladman, the Canada Research Chair in planetary astronomy at UBC.
Orosz found the new worlds while looking at data from the planet - hunting Kepler space telescope, which searches for stars with planets that cross in front of them, or transit, as seen from Earth.
If you handed me $ 1 trillion, I would build three of these new instruments and use them to find the closest, most interesting planets.
If confirmed by other researchers, the planet would not just be an astronomical novelty; Its detection, reported on the e-print server at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (see astro - ph / 9908038), would also be a triumph for a new and potentially powerful technique for finding planets around other stars.
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