Not exact matches
This artist's impression shows how the newly discovered belts of dust
around the closest star to the
Solar System, Proxima Centauri, may
look.
While scientists find ever more planets
around other stars and contemplate missions to probe the far reaches of our own
solar system, researchers are
looking to the extremes of the Earth for clues about what kind of organisms could exist in the brutal conditions elsewhere.
We're
looking at extrasolar planets [ones
around other stars], but there are also a bunch of places in our
solar system that
look promising — the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and back again to Mars.
Scientists believe that by
looking at Mercury, they will learn not only about planets in our
solar system, but also about the increasing number of rocky planets being found
around other stars.
A barrier - breaking mission for engineers and astronomers, Webb will solve mysteries of our
solar system,
look beyond to distant worlds
around other stars, and probe the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it.
«If we know how our
solar system was formed, then when we
look at other stars and other
solar systems, we can sort of guess how they are evolving with time, and it can help us locate perhaps other stars that can have habitable planets
around them.»
Astronomers may have discovered almost 4,000 planets beyond our
Solar System so far, but trying to image these worlds is a bit like trying to get a good
look at a fly buzzing
around the Sun.
Webb will help humanity solve the mysteries of our
solar system,
look beyond to distant worlds
around other stars, and probe the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it.
«If you
look around the entire
solar system, the only things that change by that amount are Earth and Mars,» he said.
Simplified greatly, an atom
looks a bit like our
solar system, which has the Sun at its center and planets orbiting
around it.
If you've noodled
around on the Web
looking for information on residential
solar energy systems, you may have come across something called a «Solar Renewable Energy Credit» — or SREC (pronounced «S wreck») for s
solar energy
systems, you may have come across something called a «
Solar Renewable Energy Credit» — or SREC (pronounced «S wreck») for s
Solar Renewable Energy Credit» — or SREC (pronounced «S wreck») for short.
Second, I read one of Carl Sagan's books when a teenager which made many predictions about the structure of other
solar systems: none so far discovered
look anything like them; they all have supermassive (far larger than Jupiter, itself larger than the rest of the
solar system) in very close orbits
around their primary.
«made many predictions about the structure of other
solar systems: none so far discovered
look anything like them; they all have supermassive (far larger than Jupiter, itself larger than the rest of the
solar system) in very close orbits
around their primary.»
Everyone
around me will see that what
looks like the
solar system is in actuality a big bowl of apples.