Sentences with phrase «locate distant planets»

19 Today general relativity is so well understood that it is used to weigh galaxies and locate distant planets by the way they bend light.

Not exact matches

Then 75 more years passed before Brown located the distant dwarf planet Eris and showed that Pluto is not alone.

Good news for them: a new study suggests that the dwarf planet club could get another member, in the form of a very small, distant object located roughly 92 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun.