Sentences with phrase «many planet hunters»

Nicknamed «the planet hunter,» the $ 337 million TESS will deploy into its first orbit just under an hour after launch, when SpaceX's part of the mission will be complete.

Nicknamed «the planet hunter,» the $ 337 million TESS is a follow - up to NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which spent the last eight years searching the skies for as many planets outside our solar system as possible.

Most planet hunters now pin their immediate hopes for discovering Earth - like planets on NASA's upcoming Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, which is slated to launch in 2017.

Planet Hunters, meanwhile, puts citizen scientists to work analyzing readings from NASA's Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth - like planets orbiting other stars.

Of course, it is much harder for planet hunters.

In June, planet hunters and theorists met on the Greek island of Santorini to mull over the most bizarre solar systems they've found to date.

More than 300,000 amateur astronomers have participated in the Planet Hunters project.

Plainly put, nobody would know about this one - off object if not for the wisdom of the Planet Hunters.

Planet hunters have found more than 130 extrasolar planets, but nearly all are bloated gas giants like Jupiter.

«This discovery of the first ever quintuple planetary system has me jumping out of my socks,» says group member and veteran planet hunter Geoffrey Marcy, an astronomer at the University of California at Berkeley.

Valencia's excitement proved justified, as ecstatic planet hunters added more super-Earths to the rolls.

According to Geoff Marcy, whose team of planet hunters used the Doppler method to find 28 exoplanets in the past year alone, there could be hundreds of millions of planets to find.

Most planet hunters watch for wobbles in the light from stars, which arise from the back - and - forth gravitational tugs of unseen companions.

These characteristics would explain the extreme time dilation on the world where the film's intrepid planet hunters landed: In one hour there, seven elapsed on Earth, a phenomenon predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity.

On Your Computer Begin your adventure at Planet Hunters.

Long - time planet hunter Debra Fischer of Yale University isn't surprised.

Geoff Marcy is a prolific planet hunter, but now he's turning his gaze to alien civilisations.

But after having some of their preconceptions shattered by the discovery of Jupiter - size planets orbiting their stars in less than two days, planet hunters are no longer so confident of the others.

She never intended to be a planet hunter.

NASA's planet hunter has identified more than 700 candidate extrasolar worlds that have yet to be confirmed, including some that may be Earth - size

Nonetheless, Baglin, the planet hunter in spite of herself, beat Borucki into space with it.

THE fallen king of planet hunters is looking on the sunny side.

«This work is important — really the first rigorous empirical look at the process by which nature converts dust in the disks into planets,» says Geoff Marcy, a leading planet hunter at the University of California, Berkeley.

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

Leading planet hunters from around the world announced the discovery of some 75 extrasolar planets, and hints of many more

And ultimately it could point the way toward what many planet hunters consider their holy grail: obtaining actual images of an Earth - like planet orbiting another star.

Meanwhile, the citizen science Planet Hunters project has notched a planet on its belt: PH1b.

With increased funding for planet hunters, NASA's plans to launch the $ 550 million planet - seeking Kepler mission in 2009, and the French national space agency's launch of the alien - Earth - hunting COROT late last year, the exosolar ranks should continue to grow.

But most planet hunters are unimpressed.

But for the modern - day planet hunter, breaking records is all in a day's work.

Then, planet hunters started finding «hot Jupiters» — giant worlds, hotter than Venus, that orbit close to their stars.

Relatively few giant planets orbiting low - mass stars are known, so every instance is of interest to planet hunters.

Before Kepler launched in 2009, most planet hunters doggedly revealed new exoplanets (planets orbiting other stars) one by one, like anglers pulling individual fish from the sea.

Members of the Planet Hunters citizen science project were the first to notice it when they scoured Kepler's data for transiting worlds overlooked by professional astronomers» automated planet - hunting algorithms.

Planet hunters are getting closer to finding an alien version of home.

Perplexed, these citizen scientists notified Boyajian, a member of the team overseeing the Planet Hunters project.

Massimo Marengo, an Iowa State University associate professor of physics and astronomy, wondered when he saw all the buzz about the mysterious star found by citizen scientists on the Planet Hunters website.

The Kepler team's computers are sifting through the data, but the Planet Hunters project is betting that there will be planets that can only be found via the human ability for pattern recognition.

Planet Hunters is an online experiment that taps into the power of human pattern recognition.

The online citizen science group Planet Hunters was established so that volunteers could help to classify light curves from the Kepler mission and to search for such planets.

A previous NASA project, called the Keck Interferometer, had a similar task of seeking out this dust, finding good news for planet hunters: The stars they observed didn't seem to be all that dusty on average.

Planet hunter Geoffrey Marcy of the University of California at Berkeley describes his colleagues as «deeply depressed.»

«Hopefully, we can conduct further research on them and be able to narrow down what kind of activity is happening in them and whether or not they would be good targets for future planet hunters.»

The new discovery, Kepler - 452b, fires the planet hunter's imagination because it is the most similar to the Earth - sun system found yet: a planet at the right temperature within the habitable zone, and only about one - and - a-half times the diameter of Earth, circling a star very much like our own sun.

In recent years, planet hunters have been able to measure extremely precise velocities as they hunt for the tiny shifts a small planet, like the one orbiting Proxima, induces in its star, tugging it towards and away from us.

It probably won't be too long before the planet hunters hit upon their Holy Grail: a planet just like Earth in the habitable zone of a sunlike star.

The online citizen science group Planet Hunters was established so that volunteers could help classify light curves from the Kepler mission and search for such planets.

The addition of the Kepler space telescope to the planet hunter's arsenal has removed some of this bias, finding planets of far lower masses, but still prefers planets in short orbits where they are more likely to transit.

MAUNA KEA, Hawaii — A new study from the Keck Interferometer, a former NASA project that combined the power of the twin W. M. Keck Observatory telescopes atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii, has brought exciting news to planet hunters.

Earth - size may not mean habitable The team, which also included planet hunter Geoffrey Marcy, UC Berkeley professor of astronomy, cautioned that Earth - size planets in Earth - size orbits are not necessarily hospitable to life, even if they orbit in the habitable zone of a star where the temperature is not too hot and not too cold.