Sentences with phrase «known edge of our solar system»

Other solar system bodies that are possibly dwarf planets include Sedna and Quaoar, small worlds far beyond Pluto's orbit, and 2012 VP113, an object that is thought to have one of the most distant orbits found beyond the known edge of our solar system.

New work from Carnegie's Scott Sheppard and Chadwick Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory reports the discovery of a distant dwarf planet, called 2012 VP113, which was found beyond the known edge of the solar system.

Not exact matches

Journey up from the smallest particles, past the moons and planets of the Solar System, out through the Oort Cloud to the Milky Way, past our Local Stars and out to distant galaxies before arriving, finally, at the edge of the known Universe.

Journey up from the smallest particles, past the moons and planets of the Solar System, out through the Milky Way, past our Local Stars and then to distant galaxies before arriving, finally, at the edge of the known Universe.

Part of the problem is that we do not know exactly where the boundary of the solar system is — only that it is marked by the edge of a magnetic bubble known as the heliopause, at which the influence of other stars starts to dominate that of the sun.

The new planet haul is the biggest yet, bringing the number of confirmed worlds outside our solar system over 3200 - and edges us closer to knowing how many stars host other Earths

We have known since the 1970s that our solar system is moving through a cloud of interstellar gas out on the edge of the Milky Way.

This is the inaugural meeting for TESS, which is a first of its kind: uniting the various research groups that study the sun - Earth connection from explosions on the sun to their effects near our home planet and all the way out to the edges of the solar system - a research field collectively known as heliophysics.

Instead, the solar wind is surprisingly steady and placid at the edge of the solar system, and no one knows why.

We now know that comets begin in the Oort Cloud, which is a vast cloud of ice and dust objects at the outer edge of our solar system.

NASA has selected a team to build a new, cutting - edge instrument that will detect planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, by measuring the miniscule «wobbling» of stars.