Sentences with phrase «learn about exoplanets»

Join us as we remember how Hubble has contributed to this important mission and explore the ways in which the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope will expand upon exoplanet discoveries in our new Hubble 25th anniversary science article, «What will we learn about exoplanets when the James Webb Space Telescope is launched?»

«What we believe about Saturn's moons history might still change in the coming years with the finale of the Cassini mission,» said Lainey, who suggested, «The more we learn about Saturn, the more we learn about exoplanets.»

The more we can learn about exoplanets, the more we can understand how our own solar system came to be the way it is.

Use this two page printable sheet to learn about the exoplanet science the GMT will do — including detecting rocky planets, looking for signs of life and taking images.

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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!

Astronomers have been finding exoplanets out in the cosmos for 25 years, and if we've learned anything about all those planets, it's that a lot of different, weird kinds exist.

Swain is principal investigator of the Fast Infrared Exoplanet Spectroscopy Survey Explorer (Finesse), a proposed 30 - inch space telescope that would probe more than 200 planets around nearby stars to learn about their atmospheres and how they formed.

«When I learned about how the Earth's spin axis moved over geological timescales, I wondered whether it should be the same for exoplanets,» Jérémy Leconte, researcher at the University of Bordeaux, told Gizmodo

Learn about the formation and origin of the Solar System and go beyond our neighborhood to investigate exoplanets (planets around other stars) in this video of class 11 of Bruce Betts» Introduction to Planetary Science and Astronomy class.

But most excitingly, the physical and chemical processes in brown dwarf and exoplanet atmospheres are the same; the identical processes, combined with the fact that brown dwarfs are much easier to study is the reason why we learn so much about exoplanets from brown dwarfs.

This is crucial as this is all we are going to get for exo - earths: we will not be able to build large enough telescopes to take detailed images of the surfaces of exoplanets — but we will still be able to learn about their atmospheres (and surfaces) from time - resolved observations!

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

Leslie Sage, an authority on exoplanets (planets outside our Solar System), was perplexed when he learned about hot Jupiters — Jupiter - size planets orbiting so close to their stars that they complete an orbit every few days.

Preferred Hosts for Short - Period Exoplanets In an effort to learn more about how planets form around their host stars, a team of scientists has analyzed the population of Kepler - discovered exoplanet candidates, looking for trends in where they're found.

Although Kepler and other telescopes have discovered over 3,500 exoplanets so far, most of them are very distant, making it difficult to learn more about their compositions, atmospheres, etc..

There will soon be one thousand confirmed exoplanets, but how do we learn more about such distant worlds?

Learn about the discovery of exoplanets in the TRAPPIST - 1 system in this 2017 video from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Students learn about the transit method for finding planets and they use Kepler's 3rd law to determine whether the exoplanet Kepler - 22b is habitable.