Sentences with phrase «in planetary discovery»

Don't cry for the crippled Kepler space telescope — it was always meant to be the first word in planetary discovery, not the last.

One of Borucki's most important goals was that Kepler should be the first word in planetary discovery, not the last.

Not exact matches

Clearly in face of so appalling a discovery the psychic mechanism of evolution would come to a stop, undermined and shattered in its very substance, despite all the violent tuggings of the chain of planetary in - folding.

In the same manner, the symbolism of the number 7 and, consequently, the image of the Cosmic Tree with seven branches did not appear before the discovery of the seven planets, which in Mesopotamia led to the conception of the seven planetary heavenIn the same manner, the symbolism of the number 7 and, consequently, the image of the Cosmic Tree with seven branches did not appear before the discovery of the seven planets, which in Mesopotamia led to the conception of the seven planetary heavenin Mesopotamia led to the conception of the seven planetary heavens.

Only a powerful polarization of human wills, after each fragment of humanity has been led to the discovery of his own particular form of freedom, can ensure the convergence and unified working of this plurality in a single, co-ordinated planetary system.

The discovery, also reported in a paper accepted to the Astronomical Journal, can also help astronomers better understand the planetary population of our galaxy.

A team of scientists using a state - of - the - art UCLA instrument reports the discovery of a planetary - scale «tug - of - war» of life, deep Earth and the upper atmosphere that is expressed in atmospheric nitrogen.

Amazingly, while the fundamental discoveries in science in the 17th century — gravity, light waves, planetary rotation around stars and the incredible abstraction of science in mathematics — spurred huge explosions of discoveries in physics and chemistry, fundamental discoveries in biology largely lagged behind and were important only as they related to human health.

Kepler in the 16th century justified his shattering empirical discovery that planetary motion was ellipitcal rather than circular by the essentially medieval and mystical belief that the circle represented the spiritual and the straight line the material, so the combination of the two in an ellipse showed the planets «striving to reach the divine ideal».

Researchers discovered the pattern when the NASA rover stopped at a set of dunes in Gale crater in late 2015 and early 2016, and they first reported the discovery in March at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.

The eastern part of Ligeia Mare averages from 20 to 40 meters in depth, says Alexander Hayes, a Cornell University planetary scientist who reported the discovery November 10 at the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciencesplanetary scientist who reported the discovery November 10 at the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary SciencesPlanetary Sciences meeting.

The discovery still doesn't provide direct evidence of the exocomets» existence, but it could pave the way for a better understanding of comets in distant planetary systems and our own solar system.

The discovery that the debris disks around some larger stars retain carbon monoxide longer than their Sun - like counterparts may provide insights into the role this gas plays in the development of planetary systems.

They were just trying to do their science as best they knew how before announcing a fascinating (at least to planetary geochemists) discovery that they've found a class of chemicals called perchlorates in the martian soil.

The discovery shows for the first time that hot Jupiters can appear at a very early stage in the formation of planetary systems, and therefore have a major impact on their architecture.

Following up on that discovery, planetary scientists Caitlin Griffith and Joseph Hall of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff and astronomer Thomas Geballe of the Gemini Observatory in Hilo, Hawaii, took a closer look.

A total of 188 have been confirmed so far, and 340 are still awaiting discovery according to the results of a probability calculation presented by the two researchers in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

«If you're important enough to have acquired five satellites, you're a planet,» insists Kevin Baines, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who was not involved in the discovery.

Writing in the current edition (Sept. 9, 2013) of the journal Icarus, a team led by UW - Madison Space Science and Engineering Center planetary scientists Lawrence Sromovsky, and including Kevin Baines and Patrick Fry, reports the discovery of the icy forms of water and ammonia.

Coming hot off the heels of discoveries made by other observatories, including NASA's Kepler and CoRot (the Convection, Rotation, and Planetary Transits mission, led by France's CNES with contributions from the ESA), this spacecraft is intended to build significantly on our knowledge of the universe, the Solar System, and the formation of life in general.

u «The discovery of spin - orbit misalignment in close - in exoplanetary systems in the past few years was a major surprise in planetary astrophysics.»

The discovery was made by Simon Kattenhorn, a geologist previously at the University of Idaho in Moscow, and Louise Prockter, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., after looking through photographs from the Galileo spacecraft, which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003.

Both Voyager 1 and 2 changed our perspective of our solar system, revealing never - before - seen details in planetary atmospheres and revealing new discoveries about interplanetary space.

Due in part to the discovery of planetary companions, Upsilon Andromedae A was identified as one of the top 100 target stars for NASA's proposed Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF).

«The discovery of spin - orbit misalignment in close - in exoplanetary systems in the past few years was a major surprise in planetary astrophysics.»

Last year's historic close flyby of Pluto by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft put the outer Solar System firmly back in the spotlight, providing both scientists and the general public with ground - breaking and revolutionary discoveries about the far - off little world in the outer reaches of the Sun's planetary family.

On January 16, 2002, a team of astronomers (including (Debra A. Fischer, Geoffrey W. Marcy, R. Paul Butler, Steven S. Vogt, and Gregory W. Henry) announced the discovery of a planetary companion «b,» whose mass has been estimated at a minimum of 20 percent that of Jupiter (exoplanets.org; and Fischer et al, 2003, in pdf) with a similar diameter.

This discovery shows the type of planetary system that astronomers expect to find around many nearby stars in the coming years.

Combined with an estimate of the stellar den... ▽ More We present the discovery of the Kepler - 20 planetary system, which we initially identified through the detection of five distinct periodic transit signals in the Kepler light curve of the host star 2MASSJ19104752 +4220194.

Two telescopes used in the discovery — one in Slovenia, and one in Italy — received funding from The Planetary Society's Shoemaker Near Earth Object (NEO) Grant program, which helps amateur astronomers find, track and characterize near - Earth asteroids.

Abstract: We present the discovery of the Kepler - 20 planetary system, which we initially identified through the detection of five distinct periodic transit signals in the Kepler light curve of the host star 2MASSJ19104752 +4220194.

We combine the estimate of Teff and [Fe / H] with an estimate o... ▽ More We present the discovery of the Kepler - 19 planetary system, which we first identified from a 9.3 - day periodic transit signal in the Kepler photometry.

Abstract: We present the discovery of the Kepler - 19 planetary system, which we first identified from a 9.3 - day periodic transit signal in the Kepler photometry.

Herzberg continued to add to his major scientific discoveries: he was the first to detect the hydrogen molecule in planetary atmospheres, the first to uncover the presence of water in comets, and the first to identify dozens of free radicals (including methylene CH2 and methyl CH3) in the laboratory and interstellar clouds.

Second, together with our international partners, NSF provides the tools that astronomers need to make precision measurements of planetary systems; the newly inaugurated Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) can study planets in the act of formation, while the Gemini Observatory is poised for new exoplanet discoveries with the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) that will be commissioned in the next year.

These discoveries will continue to change our understanding of how planetary systems like our own form and evolve, and of humanity's place in the universe.

The discovery adds to the ever - increasing variety of planetary systems in the Milky Way.

Due in part of discoveries of planetary companions around this Sun - like star, 47 Ursae Majoris became one of the top 100 target stars for NASA's proposed Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), which is now indefinitely delayed.

Kepler EPO infused Kepler science and discoveries in the newly revised FOSS Planetary Science course.

«We've been able to open the bottleneck to access the mother lode and deliver to you more than 20 times as many planets as have ever been found and announced at once,» said Jack Lissauer, a planetary scientist at NASA Ames Research Center who led one of two papers on the discovery set to be published in the Astrophysical Journal.

On the other hand, the discovery of a brown dwarf companion in a wide orbit that could perturb dormant comets in an Oort Cloud around Epsilon Indi inwards towards the star's inner planetary regions may periodically shower an Earth - type, inner planet with catastrophic impacts.

The dilution of the host star's light by the nearly equal magnitude stellar companion (~ 0.5 magnitudes fainter) significantly affects the derived planetary parameters, and if left uncorrected, leads to an underestimate of the radius and mass of the planet by 10 %... ▽ More We present the discovery of a hot Jupiter transiting an F star in a close visual (0.3» sky projected angular separation) binary system.

On December 16, 2009, a team of astronomers (including David Charbonneau, Zachory K. Berta, Jonathan Irwin, Christopher J. Burke, Philip Nutzman, Lars A. Buchhave, Christophe Lovis, Xavier Bonfils, David W. Latham, Stéphane Udry, Ruth A. Murray - Clay, Matthew J. Holman, Emilio E. Falco, Joshua N. Winn, Didier Queloz, Francesco Pepe, Michel Mayor, Xavier Delfosse, and Thierry Forveille) announced the discovery of a planet «b» of 6.55 ± 0.98 Earth - masses in a tight inner orbit using the «transit method» of planetary detection using «a fleet of ground - based telescopes no larger than those many amateur astronomers have in their backyards» as part of the MEarth Project (CfA news release).

Such discoveries will not only place detected exoEarths in context within their own planetary systems, but are also interesting in their own right.

As a City of Astronomy partner, GMTO participated in several events throughout the week, with booths at the Carnegie Observatories Open House, Division for Planetary Sciences meeting and Pasadena Astronomy Festival, where team members shared the latest project updates and offered previews of expected discoveries to come from the Giant Magellan Telescope.

Since then there has been tremendous progress both in the discovery of new planetary systems and their characterisation which belies the difficulty in their detection.

In addition to providing a new perspective into the history of Earth, the discovery is also expected to provide significant insights into the study of planetary habitability.

On December 16, 2009, a team of astronomers announced the discovery of a super-Earth in an inner orbit using the «transit method» of planetary detection using «a fleet of ground - based telescopes no larger than those many amateur astronomers have in their backyards» as part of the MEarth Project (CfA news release).

On July 21, 2003, some astronomers provided evidence from recent discoveries of giant extrasolar planets in mostly inner orbits around host stars that planetary systems may be more common around stars whose spectra show an enriched abundance of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium — also called high «metallicity» (exoplanets.org press release; and Gonzalez, 1999).

Despite the fact that this rover and MER mission have produced success the likes of which has never before been seen in planetary exploration and that Opportunity is continuing to boldly go where no rover has gone before, still making discoveries and setting new records, the impact of the additional cuts likely will reduce MER's ops staff.