Sentences with phrase «like planet detections»

This begs the question of whether all the Jupiter - like planet detections from the different methods are really consistent with each other.

Not exact matches

By next spring, the planet - hunting space telescope known as Kepler — rejected by NASA three times but then approved after those initial detections of exoplanets in the 1990s — will most likely report the discovery of the first known Earth - like planet in an Earth - like orbit.

A solid detection of an Earth - size planet in a place called the «Goldilocks zone» because it's neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist — even if the researchers do use the word candidate to describe a detection with Kepler - catalog - like certainty.

This marks the first detection of an atmosphere around an Earth - like planet other than Earth itself, and thus is a significant step on the path towards the detection of life outside our Solar System.

Short - periodic Neptune - like planets are close or below this limit, and consequently transform into smaller and denser planets, whose transit detection still eludes us in most cases, CoRoT - 7b being the first possible member of the remaining population of nuclei of gas - planets that have undergone significant evaporation.

In addition, she is working on the development of new observational techniques for the detection and characterization of the atmospheres of Earth - like planets to be discovered by the upcoming NASA TESS mission.

«While this is not the detection of life on another planet,» lead author Dr. John Southworth, an astrophysicist from Keele University in the UK, said in a statement, «it's an important step in the right direction: the detection of an atmosphere around the super-Earth GJ 1132b marks the first time that an atmosphere has been detected around an Earth - like planet other than Earth itself.»

The smallest exoplanet hitherto discovered has... ▽ More Since the discovery of the first extrasolar giant planets around Sun - like stars, evolving observational capabilities have brought us closer to the detection of true Earth analogues.

Abstract: Since the discovery of the first extrasolar giant planets around Sun - like stars, evolving observational capabilities have brought us closer to the detection of true Earth analogues.

This instrument, referred to as GENIE (Ground based European Nulling Interferometer Experiment), is a proof - of - concept for the proposed ESA's InfraRed Space Interferometer — Darwin — devoted to the detection of Earth - like planets.

Follow - up observations of planetary candidates identified by detection of transit - like events are needed both for identification of astrophysical phenomena that mimic planetary transits and for characterization of the... ▽ More The Kepler Mission was launched on March 6, 2009 to perform a photometric survey of more than 100,000 dwarf stars to search for terrestrial - size planets with the transit technique.

Follow - up observations of planetary candidates identified by detection of transit - like events are needed both for identification of astrophysical phenomena that mimic planetary transits and for characterization of the true planets and planetary systems found by Kepler.

«There's a tantalizing incentive: it's possible that some potentially habitable planets like Earth, which are relatively small and orbit around relatively dim stars, might be hiding just below the traditional detection threshold — there might be hidden gems still undiscovered in the Kepler data!»

Furthermore, gravitational microlensing can complement other exoplanet detection techniques like radial velocity and the transit method, which are limited in discovering mostly massive planets in relatively close orbits around their host stars.

Detection of Jupiter's twin orbiting a distant Sun - like star represents the closest replication of our own solar system to date, and may have profound implications for creating conditions favorable to the development of a habitable Earth - like planet in HIP 11915's inner solar system.