Sentences with phrase «know about exoplanets»

Reflecting this our group started with a huge list of questions — close to a hundred of them, everything we wanted to know about exoplanets.

While scientists can calculate their size and mass, not much is currently known about exoplanets» atmosphere.

Not exact matches

With about 4,000 exoplanets known to exist so far, and with increasing technological capabilities, an exomoon discovery is now looming on the horizon.

The travel destinations they depict are further afield: exoplanets in other solar systems, about which we know very little.

Basri: We've learned that we really don't know what we're talking about with respect to exoplanets: how they form, what their distributions are, anything!

NESSI will focus on about 100 exoplanets, ranging from massive versions of Earth, called super-Earths, to scorching gas giants known as «hot Jupiters.»

An unsuccessful attempt to catch the Earth - like exoplanet passing between its star and us means we still know little about its atmosphere and surface

That measurement was surprising because it doesn't match what astronomers know about other Neptune - mass exoplanets.

Known brown dwarfs have temperatures between 250 K to about 2,500 K — completely overlapping with the temperatures of giant exoplanets; the compositions of many brown dwarfs are likely very similar or identical to many of the giant exoplanets.

These transiting exoplanets are astronomical gold mines in the sense that we can learn a lot more about them than other known exoplanets.

If you want to know more about how the atmospheres of exoplanets are detected by absorption or emission spectroscopy, visit Sara Seager's website.

The University of Exeter said today (May 15, 2017) that its researchers have taken their first, tentative steps to explore the potential climate of the nearest known exoplanet, Proxima b. We've known about this planet for less than a year, since August, 2016..