Sentences with phrase «many distant planets»

Figuring out the exact makeup of distant planets could help determine where in the solar system they first formed — and how far they migrated away from the sun afterward.

The chances that your spirit for want of a better word will live on, is more likely going to be your the form of energy either in another dimension or with another life form from a distant planet who by most accounts from so many writings and drawings all across our earth has a higher probablity than some guy named jesus or his never caring ignorant father or a holly ghost (remember when that was the real name).

One reads of Israeli leftists being surprised and disappointed by Arafat's manifest unwillingness to seek peace and one wonders: from what distant planet have they recently returned?

In romance occurs a quest for the most desirable object — the distant planet in science fiction, the beloved in gothic novels, the lawful community in westerns.

I don't wish to kill (all of) them, but if the entire Muslim culture disappeared overnight to a distant planet, I would not be eager to open communications with them.

If you just landed on a distant planet and had to learn your way around, what would be most helpful?

A distant planet has been weighed with light that passed through its atmosphere 63 years ago.

New telescopes will search for signs of life on distant planets.

This new mass - measuring technique should allow researchers to determine which distant planets could support life.

«Mars mission sheds light on habitability of distant planets.»

The space - warping quirks of relativity that lead to deviations from Newton's earlier theory of gravity only become obvious on very large scales, but our passive observations of distant planets, stars and galaxies have yet to deliver anything...

In their paper, «Corralling a Distant Planet with Extreme Resonant Kuiper Belt Objects,» Malhotra and her co-authors, Kathryn Volk and Xianyu Wang, point out peculiarities of the orbits of the extreme KBOs that went unnoticed until now: they found that the orbital period ratios of these objects are close to ratios of small whole numbers.

What are we learning about our own lives on Earth as we look at these distant planets?

Discoveries of distant planets are challenging theorists to think deeply about extraterrestrial life

By coincidence, this conjunction happened when both the Moon and Venus were in the same phase; the distant planet mimicking the far closer Moon.

«It's not fair to take the close - in planets and assume that the more distant planets are just like them,» says exoplanet astronomer Courtney Dressing of the University of California, Berkeley.

Taking an optical image of distant planets is tough because the bright light from their stars drowns them out.

Kingston University London experts will explore how an artificial vision system inspired by the human eye could be used by robots of the future — opening up new possibilities for securing footage from deep forests, war zones and even distant planets.

In England, the gifted young mathematician John Couch Adams meticulously calculated where a more distant planet must be orbiting to exert gravitational effects responsible for the oddities in Uranus» orbit.

The large and distant planet may be adding a wobble to the solar system, giving the appearance that the Sun is tilted slightly.

The compressed diamond's properties could reveal the extreme conditions deep inside supersized distant planets, the team reports in the July 17 Nature.

The brown dwarf in question, called LSR J1835 +3259, lies 18 light - years away, suggesting astronomers may soon glimpse auroras on similarly distant planets, too.

Launched late last year, COROT is collecting information about distant planets as well as measuring cosmic stellar vibrations, which provide clues to the interiors of distant stars.

Meanwhile, astronomers will get close - up views of the outer solar system in July 2015, when the New Horizons spacecraft flies past Pluto and sends back detailed images of the once most - distant planet and its three moons.

Distant planets may be swaddled in a protective bubble of magnetism and charged particles, courtesy of their parent star.

ANTI-GLARE GOGGLES FOR PLANET HUNTERS The search for alien life requires analyzing distant planets» light to determine the makeup of their atmospheres.

As scientists learn more about the magnetospheres of planets in our solar system, it can help us one day identify magnetospheres around more distant planets as well.

* Astronomers detect a distant planet by measuring how its gravity bends light.

The social robots were more efficient and effective than single robots, Laurent Keller's team reports, suggesting that setting loose swarms of robots might be a robust and flexible strategy for exploring distant planets.

Astronomer Matt Mountain, director of the new Gemini Telescope in Hawaii, says this future generation of gargantuan earthbound telescopes would make it possible to study individual stars in some of the earliest galaxies or determine the atmospheric gases of distant planets.

When Venus passes directly between earth and the sun, we see the distant planet as a small dot gliding slowly across the face of the sun.

A wordless but eerily expressive seven - minute film, Grounded explores the last moments of astronauts stranded on a distant planet.

Researchers looked at seven of these worlds — distant planets whose mass lies between one and 10 times ours — including 55 Cancri e (at right, compared to Earth) and GJ1214b, evaluating how the x-ray and extreme ultraviolet radiation emitted by their parent stars might affect their atmospheres over their remaining lifetimes.

What was once considered a sure - fire sign of life on distant planets may not be so sure - fire after all, a new study suggests.

Astronomers may have found the first exomoon around a distant planet, and have asked to use Hubble to confirm whether the tantalising hints are a real discovery

In principle, Venter notes, the process could go the other way: It would be possible to send human DNA, along with an appropriate incubator, to distant planets and synthesize people at the other end.

The more distant planets and their squadrons of satellites remained as tantalising dots of light even with a telescope, allowing plenty of scope for imagination about conditions on those alien worlds.

If space scientists hoping to send manned missions to distant planets were given one wish, many would ask for a convenient source of water outside the tug of Earth's gravity.

Since Pluto's demotion from the brotherhood of planets a few years back, Neptune has taken on the mantle of responsibility of most distant planet in the solar system.

Using the powerful eye of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, two teams of scientists have found faint signatures of water in the atmospheres of five distant planets.

If further research confirms the model's accuracy, it could also open new avenues for exploring the origin of life on Earth, and for understanding the role hydrogen gas might play in supporting life in a wide range of extreme environments, from the sunless deep - sea floor to distant planets.

Techniques now coming of age allow astronomers to more easily photograph distant planets rather than inferring their presence indirectly

Robotic spacecraft voyage to distant planets while giant mountaintop observatories and space - based telescopes probe the edge of the Universe.

In the recent science fiction film Passengers, a huge spaceship flies at half the speed of light on a 120 - year - long journey toward the distant planet Homestead II, where its 5000 passengers are to set up a new home.

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.

With its heavy - lift capability, the rocket can fling larger probes to distant planets more quickly — and, perhaps, more cheaply — than previous rockets.

Journey to the Exoplanets is a hands - on introduction to the distant planets that continue to be discovered outside our Solar System.

Barring the appearance of flying saucers, there are two broad possibilities: either we have a close encounter with our neighbours by visiting the planets and moons next door; or we make an interstellar phone call to creatures inhabiting much more distant planets that circle alien suns.

As they find and confirm extremely distant objects, they analyze whether their discoveries fit into the larger theories about how interactions with a massive distant planet could have shaped the outer Solar System.

Yale researchers have found a data - driven way to detect distant planets and refine the search for worlds similar to Earth.