Sentences with phrase «like planet in the solar system»

Optimism for an unseen Neptune - like planet in our solar system may be dimmed by the discovery of a new batch of distant worlds.

If the planet orbits in the plane of the star's equator, like the planets in our solar system do, then gravity - darkening could have no effect at all.

«Instead it's the most Earth - like planet in the solar system.»

Astronomers have detected more than 3000 planets beyond our solar system, and just a couple weeks ago they discovered an Earth - like planet in the solar system next door.

In size, density, and composition, Venus is the most Earth - like planet in the solar system, but it is a hellish domain: Ground temperatures settle around 860 degrees Fahrenheit beneath a crushingly dense atmosphere laced with a sulfuric acid haze.

However, most of these planets are nothing like the planets in the solar system.

Found cool drinking glasses on Think Geek that look like every planet in the solar system, might get them for a wedding gift.

Not exact matches

Since then, NASA has explored other alien surfaces like, Mars and Saturn's moon Titan, as well as flown by every planet in our solar system.

The newly discovered exoplanets, or planets outside of the earth's solar system, were found after researchers applied the same AI techniques that help computers recognize images like cats in photos to data gathered from the Kepler space telescope.

zeif said — Believing in Jesus Christ is not like believing there is a 10th planet in the Solar System.

Believing in Jesus Christ is not like believing there is a 10th planet in the Solar System.

Future probes like NASA»S James Webb Space Telescope will scrutinise the atmospheres of planets in other solar systems for possible signs of biological activity.

Says Thomas Henning, director of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany: «Imagine a solar system with seven planets like our own, it's just amazing.»

Well, three of them are in this habitable zone, and that's kind of like Venus, Earth, and Mars are in the habitable zone here in our solar system, of course only one of those planets is habitable, ours.

A similarly widespread «polar wind» is strongly suspected to exist both on Mars and Venus — the two planets in the Solar System which are most Earth - like.

Several other super-Earths have been identified in systems much like our solar system, with small planets closer to the star and giants in the outer orbits.

This class of planet — loosely defined as any world with up to 10 times Earth's mass — is like nothing in our solar system.

Without a direct analog in the solar system, no one could guess if these newfangled planets were predominantly rocky (Earth - like), gassy (Neptune - like), something in between (water worlds?)

That would be big enough to fulfill several high - priority items on astronomers» wish lists, revolutionizing studies of faraway galaxies, observations of planets in the outer solar system and searches for life on Earth - like exoplanets.

«With a long, intricate dance around the Saturn system, Cassini aims to study the Saturn system from as many angles as possible,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Beyond showing us the beauty of the Ringed Planet, data like these also improve our understanding of the history of the faint rings around Saturn and the way disks around planets form — clues to how our own solar system formed around the sun.»

These are large gas giants that look a little like the planet Jupiter in our solar system, although they are much hotter as they circle their star in a very tight orbit: about a hundred times closer than our Jupiter is to the sun.

Measuring the water abundance of that gas could tell researchers where the planet formed and what the environment was like in the solar system's early days.

Meanwhile, on hazy Titan, Huygens and Cassini found an Earth - like landscape of rivers and lakes filled with liquid methane — the only liquid bodies found on the surface of moon or planet in the solar system, except Earth.

Microscopic analyses of chondrites, the oldest rocks in the solar system, are filling in details of what our neighborhood in space was like shortly before the planets formed

Fridlund helped design COROT (for convection, rotation, and planetary transits), ESA's early entry in the race to find rocky, Earth - like planets outside our solar system.

That means that the remaining 61 % is available to form future solar systems that may include Earth - like planets in their habitable zones, the researchers report online today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Until then, all the known exoplanets (planets circling other stars) were big and gaseous, but this one is probably made of rocky materials — the first world like ours found in an alien solar system.

It works spectacularly well at describing smaller - scale interactions, like planets» orbits in the solar system, but on sprawling cosmological scales, gravity might act differently — the idea behind so - called modified gravity theories.

While the solar system may seem like a relatively simple place, with moons orbiting planets, and planets orbiting the sun like clockwork, the mathematics that describes this system makes up one of the most famous unsolved problems in the field.

Ceres is a dwarf planet, and like its more famous cousin in the outer solar system, Pluto, Ceres harbors a lot of ice.

He hypothesizes that the spheres are examples of the fundamental units of ice and dust that were sintered together in the infant solar system to form asteroids, planets and comets like 67P.

The ex-ninth planet travels in a steeply inclined orbit, rising above and diving below the solar plane — a clear indication that it's merely an escapee from the vast belt of comet - like objects that circle the solar system.

In a decade, NASA hopes to launch a network of space - based telescopes that will be able to pinpoint Earth - like planets in other solar systems and see whether life has altered their atmosphere in the same way it has here on Earth — flooding it with oxygen, for examplIn a decade, NASA hopes to launch a network of space - based telescopes that will be able to pinpoint Earth - like planets in other solar systems and see whether life has altered their atmosphere in the same way it has here on Earth — flooding it with oxygen, for examplin other solar systems and see whether life has altered their atmosphere in the same way it has here on Earth — flooding it with oxygen, for examplin the same way it has here on Earth — flooding it with oxygen, for example.

Astrobiologist Michael Mumma of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, adds that «the research demonstrates that bodies like Murchison likely delivered DNA precursors to planets in the solar system when they were young.

Astronomers who recently discovered the so - called 10th planet have also found what may be the weirdest object in the solar system: a Pluto - size orbiter shaped like a squashed football.

«We have no planets like this in our own solar system.»

The point at which a planet's atmosphere would experience runaway greenhouse - gas effects like those seen on Venus — a point located just inside Earth's orbit in our solar system — forms the outer boundary.

Of the alien solar systems we've spotted, many seem to have one intriguing thing in common: giant gas planets like Jupiter and Saturn orbiting very close to their parent star.

«Astronomers spot faraway Uranus - like planet: First «ice giant» planet found in another solar system.»

In the Solar System, small rocky planets such as the Earth orbit near the Sun, whereas gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn are found much further out.

Object: Mercury - like planets Composition: Large, iron - rich cores Position in solar system: Closest to their stars

Detecting a solar system like our own (in which the most massive planet, Jupiter, takes a full 12 years to complete one orbit) would require at least another decade or two of high - precision Doppler observations.

While multiple - planet systems tend to have circular orbits that all lie in the same plane — like our solar system — the orbits of singletons tend to be more elliptical and are often misaligned with the spins of their stars.

Like the waistband of a couch potato in midlife, the orbits of planets in our solar system are expanding.

«That these new planets and solar systems look somewhat like our own, portends a great future when we have the James Webb Space Telescope in space to characterize the new worlds.»

Suzanne Smrekar of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the first author of the Science paper, says that as we begin to find Earth - like planets in other solar systems, some of which may turn out to be similar to Venus, it's becoming urgent to understand why the planet took such a different path from the Earth in its evolution.

In a field where small is good — small meaning less like Jupiter and more like Earth — the latest batch of planets netted by the space observatory includes five of the eight smallest worlds now known outside the solar system.

That technique most readily picks up Jupiter - size planets in fast, Mercury - like orbits, objects unlike anything in our solar system.

The Earth - a unique planet like no other in our solar system, with thriving flora and fauna.

In their simulations, two sun - like stars orbit one another at between 250 and 1000 times the Earth - sun distance in our solar system, with one or both stars having its own set of planetIn their simulations, two sun - like stars orbit one another at between 250 and 1000 times the Earth - sun distance in our solar system, with one or both stars having its own set of planetin our solar system, with one or both stars having its own set of planets.