Sentences with phrase «like planets around»

Intense radiation could strip away the ozone layer of Earth - like planets around other stars and render them uninhabitable, according to a new study led by Dr. Eike Guenther of the Thueringer...

Last week, NASA reported finding seven Earth - like planets around the star Trappist - 1.

He added: «It would open an enormous new window on the Universe, allowing you to detect the presence of oxygen if there is any on Earth - like planets around nearby stars.

That is the magnitude of the task facing astronomers as they search for small, rocky Earth - like planets around other stars - planets that might harbor life

Picture the solar system's largest telescope, a telescope as long as the island of Manhattan, incorporating a lens the size of a football field: an instrument possessing the resolution to examine earth - like planets around neighboring stars light - years away.

The GMT aims to discover Earth - like planets around nearby stars and the tiny distortions that black holes cause in the light from distant stars and galaxies.

Although it probably won't happen here, the same process might make Earth - like planets around other stars uninhabitable.

«New Horizons is the latest in a long line of scientific accomplishments at NASA, including multiple missions orbiting and exploring the surface of Mars in advance of human visits still to come; the remarkable Kepler mission to identify Earth - like planets around stars other than our own; and the DSCOVR satellite that soon will be beaming back images of the whole Earth in near real - time from a vantage point a million miles away.

This new generation of telescopes will allow huge advances in studies of the early universe, of Earth - like planets around other stars, and of the mysterious dark matter and dark energy that influence the structure and expansion of the universe.

Intense radiation could strip away the ozone layer of Earth - like planets around other stars and render them uninhabitable, according to a new study led by Dr Eike Guenther of the Thueringer Observatory in Germany.

The odds of an alien invasion got a boost from the discovery of vaguely Earth - like planets around other stars, but we still have no idea if alien civilizations exist.

They hope these bigger projects might be able to directly image Earth - like planets around nearby stars in search of signs of life.

A privately funded small space telescope could soon seek Earth - like planets around the sun's nearest neighboring stars

Project Blue's proposed telescope would have a light - gathering mirror just half a meter wide — so small that it could only look for Earth - like planets around two stars: the Sun - like Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B, which along with the red dwarf Proxima Centauri form the nearest star system to our own at just over four light - years away.

Looking ahead, NASA has no plans for a next - generation mission to study Earth - like planets around other stars, the most exciting astronomical discovery of the past decade if not the past half - century.

The scope's light - collecting capacity — made possible with almost 800 mirror segments just 50 millimeters thick — will allowastronomers to detect Earth - like planets around other stars, measure the properties of the universe's first stars and galaxies, and probe the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

«There are plenty of reasons to be optimistic that we will find hints of extraterrestrial life within the next few decades, just maybe not on an Earth - like planet around a Sun - like star.»

You would not be able to see an Earth - like planet around it.»

«TPF will look at each of the nearest few hundred stars for a few hours, and we'll know for sure whether or not there's an Earth - like planet around it,» says jpl scientist and senior project overseer Charles Beichman.

Astronomers have discovered an Earth - like planet around Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the sun.

Spotting an Earth - like planet around a sunlike star remains beyond current technology, but it suddenly seems much closer.

Abstract: The recent discovery of an earth - like planet around Proxima Centauri has drawn much attention to this star and its environment.

No planet was directly detected but we set upper limits on the mass up to 7... ▽ More The recent discovery of an earth - like planet around Proxima Centauri has drawn much attention to this star and its environment.

In 1996, astronomers announced the discovery of a Jupiter - like planet around this Sun - like star (Butler and Marcy, 1996 — details below), and there were indications of an even larger planet in an outer orbit.

In 1996, astronomers announced the discovery of a Jupiter - like planet around this Sun - like star (Marcy and Butler, 1996 — details below), with indications of an even larger planet in an outer orbit.

The orbit of an Earth - like planet around the tight binary system that star Ba forms with its brown dwarf companion in the liquid water zone would have to be centered around 1.1 AU — a little farther than Earth's orbital distance around Sol — with an orbital period exceeding one Earth year.

Artist's impression of 51 Pegasi b, discovered via radial velocity to be a hot, Jupiter - like planet around a Sun - like star.

Not exact matches

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There's no scientific consensus as to how many of those stars might be like our own Sun, and how many may have Earth - like planets orbiting around them.

He can acquire companies around the planet, overpay by as much as he likes, and there is effectively nothing that his shareholders or his board can do to stop him.

I see us all like planets orbiting around Jesus.

I like that the end of the world is going to work its way around the planet starting at the international date line.

Indeed, this is what seems to be happening around the planet — garment workers in places like Mexico or Guatemala or Honduras find themselves having somehow to match the wages of Chinese or Vietnamese or Laotian employees, not to mention the demand of Wal - Mart executives for ever - cheaper prices.

In a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.

Somehow, when he sees everyone start throwing around words like «average» and «not as good as Blake Bortles» it flips a switch in his brain and he turns into the best football player on the planet.

First we matched our marbles to the planets they looked like the most and then arranged the «planets» around a yellow marble which was the sun.

The Fisher - Price Precious Planet Bath Kneeler provides a large surface, which is important if you have an older child that likes to move around the tub because re-positioning is something of a necessity.

About 4.6 billion years ago planets like our Earth formed out of the ever - growing clumps of debris that were in the accretion disk around it.

Brain and his colleagues started to think about applying these insights to a hypothetical Mars - like planet in orbit around some type of M - star, or red dwarf, the most common class of stars in our galaxy.

According to the data obtained from the stellar occultation, the ring lies on the equatorial plane of the dwarf planet, just like its biggest satellite, Hi'iaka, and it displays a 3:1 resonance with respect to the rotation of Haumea, which means that the frozen particles which compose the ring rotate three times slower around the planet than it rotates around its own axis.

Meanwhile, enormous ground - based observatories like the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile and the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii, both scheduled to open their eyes around 2020, will perform the more time - consuming work of measuring the masses and densities of the planets found by TESS to determine whether they are rocky objects, gassy ones, or something else entirely.

«Astronomers find giant planet around very young star: Jupiter - like «CI Tau b» orbits 2 million - year - old star in constellation Taurus.»

As the comet traveled across the system, it was deflected by the planets, like a ball bouncing around in a pinball machine, until Jupiter's gravity set its current orbit, Jewitt said.

Spacecraft orbiting other planets won't be any help this time around for the same reason, but another set of instruments will step up: solar observatories like SOHO, STEREO and the Solar Dynamics Observatory, all of which are designed to stare straight at the sun's surface.

Upcoming missions, like the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite due to launch in 2018, will fill in the details of the exoplanet landscape with more observations of planets around bright stars.

The process will demand at least three years to find a completely Earth - like planet: one that is in a yearlong, Earth - like orbit around a star just like the sun.

Prior to 1992, keeping track of all the known planets around other stars like the sun was easy — the tally stood at an even zero.

The area within is like the space around Earth and the other planets: a region flooded by the solar wind, a fast - moving outward stream of particles from the sun.

The starlight that streams around the planet as it passes conveys valuable information — like the planet's size and the chemical makeup of its atmosphere — to the telescopes and spectrometers of Earth - bound stargazers.

After a decade of searching for planets orbiting stars like our sun, astronomers had found nothing but giant planets, most of them gas balls like Jupiter, around other stars.