Sentences with phrase «from exoplanets»

Alex Teachey and David Kipping of Columbia University analyzed the dips in light from exoplanets passing, or transiting, in front of their stars.

Eight years ago French astronomers observed what they thought was a weak radio signal from exoplanet HAT - P - 11b, a «mini-Neptune» five times bigger than Earth.

With exciting new results coming from both exoplanet observations and solar system exploration missions, it sometimes seems that the two fields of «planetary studies» aren't talking to each other.

High - precision observations from space - based observatories like Kepler or the Hubble Space Telescope can detect emission from the exoplanet as its dayside rotates in and out of view during its orbit, which astronomers can use to construct rotational brightness maps and study how energy is redistributed across the exoplanet.

Alex Teachey and David Kipping of Columbia University analyzed the dips in light from exoplanets passing, or transiting, in front of their...

From exoplanet atmospheres to the dynamics of galaxies to the stretch marks left by the big bang, the three finalists in a $ 250 million astrophysics mission competition would tackle questions spanning all of space and time.

«It would be great to have another independent confirmation from exoplanets.»

Now, ground - based telescopes are gathering light directly from exoplanets, rather than detecting their presence indirectly as Kepler does, and they, too, are turning up anomalies.

This artist's impression shows the view from the exoplanet Gliese 667Cd looking towards the planet's parent star (Gliese 667C).

Crucially, Kepler also detected a slight dip in luminosity, much less dramatic than the dimming associated with the planet passing in front of the star, when HAT - P - 7 b passed behind its star — the spacecraft was seeing only the star's light, without the reflection and glow from the exoplanet.

«Immense cloud of hydrogen discovered escaping from exoplanet the size of Neptune.»

Johnson and his colleagues used data from the exoplanet - hunting Kepler spacecraft to analyse the composition of stars known to have planets.

This process could cause severe atmospheric losses that would prevent the water that evaporates from exoplanets from raining back onto them, leaving the surface of the planet to dry up.

With news from the exoplanet search coming thick and fast, a lot of energy is currently devoted simply to collecting and storing new worlds, readying them for long - term analysis that will likely play out over the course of decades.

Now, each new dispatch from exoplanet hunters sends ne tiptoeing closer to an answer, as its next - door factor «fp» — the fraction of stars with planets — has already done.

This artist's concept depicts the burst as seen from an exoplanet about 10,000 light - years away.

But the new method should allow us to see light echoes from exoplanets in any configuration, says Sparks.

Once we've reduced the glare from the host star, we can isolate and record the light we receive from the exoplanet.

The study builds on input from the exoplanet community to identify the most interesting science questions that we may be able to study in the future with direct imaging missions — that is, space telescopes that can directly image exoplanets (separating their light from that of their host stars).

This was tested using spectra from exoplanet 189733b, located 63 light - years away, and found that the results tracked with the mass figures derived from conventional methods.

He runs the light through a noise filter that attempts to simulate the interference expected from an exoplanet mission.

You've suggested in the past that, with some of the new ways we're looking for electromagnetic signals from exoplanets and evaluating the data, we'll probably find extraterrestrial life in the next few decades.

It's difficult work to distinguish which signals are actually coming from exoplanets.

As a lonely exoplanet passes by, the telescope will capture only the light from the exoplanet and not the star.

Instead of feeding NASA's neural network cat photos, however, the researchers fed it «15,000 signals» taken from the Kepler data that scientists confirmed were from exoplanets.

And furthermore, what if that «exomoon's» atmosphere contains large amounts of a gas that would typically react with one from the exoplanet's atmosphere if given a chance?

In 2009, French astronomers observed what was thought to be a weak radio signal from an exoplanet five times bigger than the Earth.

Exo comes from Exoplanet The music group Exo derived its name from the exoplanet.