Sentences with phrase «massive distant planet»

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.

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Then, effectively by accident, Batygin and Brown noticed that if they ran their simulations with a massive planet in an anti-aligned orbit — an orbit in which the planet's closest approach to the sun, or perihelion, is 180 degrees across from the perihelion of all the other objects and known planets — the distant Kuiper Belt objects in the simulation assumed the alignment that is actually observed.

However, more - massive stars penetrating the Oort cloud in the distant past might have triggered major comet showers that pummelled the planets and led to some of the mass extinction events on Earth, says Mamajek.

But only the lucky binaries seem to have planets that orbit them; some stellar binaries that lack orbiting bodies have a different third party — a distant star that's so massive, its gravitational fluxes actually change the orbit of the stellar binary, causing the two stars to shrink together in a process called orbital decay.

Researchers used NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope, which measures the heat emitted from distant objects, to study a massive extrasolar planet that lies 40 light - years from Earth.

Scheduled for launch in early 2017, the roughly $ 1 - million mission could pave the way for a new class of instrument that can peer through the sun's glare or at distant alien planets, without requiring a massive single scope.

The clustering of most of their orbits indicates that they are likely be influenced by something massive and very distant, the proposed Planet X.

The big bang theory can not explain how such distant and massive galaxy concentrations could have formed so quickly that their light had over 13.0 - billion years to travel to planet Earth.5, 52, 53

The ACS, which sees visible light, was installed to help map the distribution of dark matter, detect the universe's most distant objects, search for massive planets and examine the evolution of clusters of galaxies.

Sen — Makemake is one of five dwarf planets in our Solar System, including former planet Pluto, Ceres, Haumea and Eris, the most massive and the most distant.

AO has measured the mass of the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, imaged the four massive planets orbiting the star HR8799, discovered new supernovae in distant galaxies, and identified the specific stars that were their progenitors.

«Many of these systems may have formed similarly to Kepler - 223, but then later became destabilized, perhaps by a more distant massive planet or perhaps by the cumulative effect of the scattering of many smaller planetesimals left over from the planet - building process.»

Scientists can take advantage of the warping effect by measuring the light of distant stars, looking for a brightening that might be caused by a massive object, such as a planet, that passes between a telescope and a distant background star.

A massive deep - space mining ship goes dark after unearthing a strange artifact on a distant planet.

Players will investigate a massive, interconnected alien world as they solve the mystery of a strange disappearance on a distant mining planet and experience a story of ancient riddles and modern - day hubris.

The Earth - Moon doesn't orbit the Earth - Moon - Sun barycenter exactly but it is not orbiting the barycenter of the solar sysem either; to some approximation the innermost planets and the sun must wobble around the barycenter together as they are similarly affected by the outermost planets which happen to be more massive as well as more distant and thus dominate in their effects on the barycenter — things should tend to get more complicated when the planets involved are at more similar distances.