Sentences with phrase «in solar»

«We'd like to find 500 planets and go, oh my God, 75 percent of them show some weird gas, so we can say, statistically, we believe there is life in our solar neighborhood,» Seager says.

The bill would also set aside $ 100 million for a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa, whose underground ocean is considered one of the most hospitable places for life in the Solar System.

Seeing Red Astronomers think MU69 is part of this cold classical population because of its location in the solar system and because its reddish hue matches the Hubble Space Telescope's catalog of thousands of other such objects.

That realisation has all but extinguished hopes of finding a twin for any earthly environment in our solar system.

It is, at present, the most promising, most accessible place in the solar system to search for life.

They feature watercolor portraits of all the planets in our solar system.

The remnants of a circumplanetary disk could also give birth to moons, such as those seen around Jupiter in our solar system.

The International Astronomical Union defines «planet» as a celestial body that, within the Solar System that is in orbit around the Sun; has sufficient mass for its self - gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape; and has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit; or within another system, it is in orbit around a star or stellar remnants; has a mass below the limiting mass for thermonuclear fusion of deuterium; and is above the minimum mass / size requirement for planetary status in the Solar System.

Meteorites suggest that a proto - Jupiter separated two sets of asteroids in the solar system's disk of dust.

Many of the places elsewhere in the solar system where we're looking for life, like Mars, are intensely cold.

The rare spectacle of a total solar eclipse has given scientists throughout history fleeting opportunities to delve into everything from the sun's chemistry to Einsteinian relativity to Earth's place in the solar system.

This asteroid — about the size of Ceres, one of the largest asteroids in the Solar System — smashed into Mars, ripped off a chunk of the northern hemisphere and left behind a legacy of metallic elements in the planet's interior.

This barrage is called the solar wind, and it has had a direct role in shaping life in the solar system.

Whatever you call may call it, Ceres is one of the most geologically interesting and strange objects in the solar system.

Most of the planets in the Solar System have smaller bodies, or satellites, that orbit a planet.

The object may be the lowest - mass free - floating planet found to date in the solar neighborhood.

Beginning readers and budding astronomers are launched on a wild trip to visit the eight planets in our solar system, along with the Cat in the Hat.

A set of eight melamine plates featuring detailed watercolor portraits of the planets in our solar system!

«My findings indicate that a supernova shock wave is still the most - plausible origin story for explaining the short lived radioactive isotopes in our Solar System,» Boss said.

Crepp says that until the mid-1990s, scientists believed that gas giants like Jupiter would be found far from the stars they orbit, much like Jupiter in our solar system.

We now must confront the goose - bump - raising questions: Did this small icy world host a second genesis of life in our solar system?

Justin R. Crepp, Freimann Assistant Professor of Physics, was part of the team that discovered KELT - 4Ab, a so - called «hot Jupiter» because it is a gas giant that orbits extremely close to one of the stars in its solar system.

Eighth Place: Skyler Jones, 17, of Ossining, N.Y., received a $ 60,000 award for her study of perovskite crystals used in solar cells.

But despite all its appeal, Venus is one of the hardest places in the solar system to get to know.

The meteorites belong to a class called ureilites, which have compositions different from those in any of the known stony planets in the solar system.

In our solar system, the Earth's orbital plane is known as the ecliptic, and so the Earth's axial tilt is officially called the obliquity of the ecliptic.

«Oumuamua's spectrum is similar to those of other objects in the solar system suspected of concealing such icy interiors.

In our solar system alone, there are striking differences between Earth and Venus.

Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn, has an albedo of 1.4, the highest known albedo of any celestial body in the Solar System.

You can see it in our historic investments in GLOBALFOUNDRIES, IBM or ON Semiconductor, world - class research facilities like CNSE, Rensselaer University, Cornell University, RIT, Clarkson University, University of Buffalo and Stony Brook, and in our newest leading - edge investments in Solar City, Soraa, 1366 Technologies and amsAG.

That announcement came after the utility had already called for 50 MW in solar projects in 2008, while it was calling for its next 100 MW — the request that resulted in the 76 solar arrays currently in the works — and before a request for another 280 MW of solar power last fall.

Buffalo sees glimmers of glory in solar power.

These funds will allow LIPA to re-open its solar rebate program and serve as supplemental funds to support LIPA's continued investment in solar energy thereby helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, helping customers to lower their bills, and stimulating the economy through the creation of new clean energy jobs.»

LIPA Chief Operating Officer Michael Hervey said: «I commend Governor Paterson and all of our partners in making Long Island a leader in solar energy.

The funding will assist LIPA in satisfying the significant demand it has experienced in its solar programs.

Speaking in the House, Caroline Flint described the government's plan as «yet another example of a government which is out of touch», she called the move one that «threatens to strangle at birth the solar industry», and «a kick in the teeth for all those families who want to do the right thing by investing in solar».

A lot more jobs are created in retrofitting in solar and renewables per million dollars than in nuclear energy.»

Not everyone has $ 20k to $ 40k lying around to put in solar to save $ 100 a month on electricity.

At a minimum, the PACB should have made representatives from the Cuomo administration publicly answer basic questions about how the SUNY Research Foundation secretly negotiated and approved a huge reduction in Solar City / RiverBend job targets with zero public notice or input — and no public announcement.

Then came the announcement late last year that Panasonic was investing $ 250 million into Tesla's Buffalo operations, forging a partnership in solar energy component production.

«We need to do enormous and aggressive investment in solar and wind infrastructure that is going to create jobs all across our district,» Beals said.

«Let's do what we can to make sure we have the energy available for people right now but invest in forward thinking: in renewable technologies, in wind turbines, in solar panels, in geothermal, to help us transition off so we have the ability to use energy and electricity in future years to come not with fossil fuels.»

Bullock said divestiture is «only one of the tools» that the state can use to combat the worst effects of climate change, and called Monday for more investment in solar energy and electric vehicle infrastructure in Albany County.

«If there was a vote put up for, «should we spend $ 750 million investing in Solar City?»

Tesla had remained largely quiet in the solar panel tariff debate, although it did indicate its opposition to the duties last summer.

He's affable and as a businessman in the solar energy industry could attack the governor on the economic issues.

Cuomo should invest in our future through community programs to train people in the solar, wind, geo - thermal heating and cooling industries as well as helping farmers raise food and bio fuels such as switch grass based bio fuels and algae based bio fuels.

For example, if climate change is being caused by an increase in solar output, then there doesn't seem to be anything we can do to reduce that.

The electronics giant would produce photovoltaic (PV) cells in the Buffalo factory for use in solar power home installations.

For example, we can anchor our tourism economy while also attracting new residents by promoting jobs in the solar industry and empowering contractors to construct fuel - saving retrofits.