Sentences with phrase «front of a distant star»

Data gathered when the dwarf planet Makemake passed in front of a distant star last year are shedding new light on the icy orb's size, shape, and atmosphere — or, more precisely, its lack of one.

Fortunately, they sometimes happen to slide in front of a distant star as they slowly orbit the sun.

The space telescope infers their existence by the amount of starlight blocked when the orbiting planet passes in front of a distant star from the vantage point of the observer.

The space rock is just 154 miles wide, yet when it passed in front of a distant star, two delicate, icy rings clearly stood out.

But when the time came, five telescopes watched as 2014 MU69 passed in front of a distant star.

Robert Chancia of the University of Idaho in Moscow and colleagues calculated Cressida's density and mass using visible variations in an inner ring of Uranus as the planet passed in front of a distant star.

Robert Chancia of the University of Idaho in Moscow and colleagues calculated Cressida's density and mass using variations in an inner ring of the planet as Uranus passed in front of a distant star.

These glitches are apparent from astronomical observations of occultations of stars by the moon — miniature eclipses that occur when the moon passes in front of the distant star.

Astronomers can easily predict eclipses, and they can foretell to a fraction of a second when the moon passes in front of a distant star.

An international team of astronomers found Haumea's ring by watching it from observatories across Europe as it crossed in front of the distant star, URAT1 533 − 182543, on January 21st, 2017.

A team of scientists recently traveled to rural Argentina in the hopes of catching New Horizons» next target — Kuiper Belt object MU 69 — crossing in front of a distant star.