Sentences with phrase «nearby planets»

On nearby planets, plants might take on a range of colors, including red, orange, and yellow, in addition to familiar green.
With the Starshade in place, we would be able to probe thousands of nearby planets for signs of life.
Once the U.S. regains its ability to send humans into deep space, there's more than one nearby planet for them to explore
[28] She enters the room via elevator and is debriefed by Aurora Unit 242 on the two Leviathans that have impacted nearby planets which had no protection from the Galactic Federation forces.
For your analogy to hold, you are arguing that a hypothetical Star Trek near - instantaneous scanning will take place on the complete assembled structure, of complete depth at a very fine resolution No, only for the things that are relevant, which for a star or the Sun are only its mass, composition, and age [and to second order if it is part of a binary star or has giant nearby planets — but since none of those things apply to the Sun we can ignore them].
So where Kepler went narrow and deep, its successor goes shallow and wide, seeking out only nearby planets around bright stars.
He says the dearth of nearby planets suggests that the hot Jupiters formed farther out, and after a run - in with another planet or star, were pushed onto elongated orbits that ultimately led them to cross paths with any planets between their original orbits and the sun.
The planet was found with the radial velocity method, a planet - hunting technique that relies upon slight variations in the velocity of a star to determine the gravitational pull exerted by nearby planets that are too faint to observe directly with a telescope.
«I think now that we have these very nearby planets what I'm seeing in the community is all kinds of ingenuity, in terms of designing ground - based telescopes, small space - based telescopes, that are specifically... they're specifically intended to do just this one job.»
And they do pose some problems: red dwarfs tend to be more active than sun - like stars, shooting out energetic flares that could fry nearby planets.
Expeditions to explore, mine and settle nearby planets and asteroids are planned.
As we know, radiation is bad for life, and stellar winds can strip nearby planets of their atmospheres.
Apr. 16, 2018 — Vanderbilt's Keivan Stassun serves as a deputy principal investigator on the mission and is tasked with identifying the most promising stars to target in its search for habitable nearby planets.
More than 20 percent of stars have somewhat smaller nearby planets, with sizes of several to a few tens of Earth masses and with orbital periods of less than three months.
The campaign follows the adventures of the iconic White Bomberman and his seven color - coded siblings, as they scramble to free nearby planets from the forces of an evil emperor and his team, the Five Dastardly Bombers.
The player later disengages from the fight and heads towards a completely different nearby planet and enters its atmoshpere which blew my mind all over again.
I can understand that with the galaxy at war there's no time to stand around mining minerals, but the scanning system has been simplified such that a press of a button will sweep nearby planets looking for anomalies and other things of interest.
That same sign showed a picture of Earth and a mysterious floating orb nearby the planet.
Expanding your domain early is key to victory, so you must also conquer nearby planets to increase your area of control.
the recent identification of a more or less nearby planet that would, in human estimation, be suitable for life
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), currently slated to launch in 2018, should be able to tease out the signatures of certain molecules in the atmospheres of nearby planets.
Case in point, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg is joining forces with fellow billionaire Yuri Milner and famed scientist Stephen Hawking to search for alien life on a nearby planet...
Now, Livio and co-worker Lionel Siess of the Grenoble Observatory in France have adapted a sophisticated stellar evolution model to compute the aftermath of a red giant devouring a nearby planet.
Regardless, if TESS can indeed locate hundreds of nearby planets, astronomers will have their hands full for the foreseeable future — finding out what those planets are like and what kinds of habitats they might support and, just maybe, flinging some future probe toward one enticing - looking world.
Adjust the sail's trim and you could travel almost anywhere in the Solar System — without heavy rocket propellants or a helpful gravitational tug from a nearby planet.
We could very well be out of phase with the nearby planets, which could be either ahead of us or behind us in some sense.
As a result, they emit mostly harsh ultraviolet radiation and they burn out relatively quickly; nearby planets would face a fierce environment.
Speculation to account for KIC 8462852's dips in brightness has ranged from it having swallowed a nearby planet to an unusually large group of comets orbiting the star to an alien megastructure.
HARPS allows for measurements of radial velocities of stars, which can be affected by the presence of nearby planets, to be taken with the highest accuracy currently available.
Previous work has looked at the impact of stellar flares from a red dwarf on a nearby planet.
But Ross 128 seems to be more tranquil, not emitting the flares that would plague life on a nearby planet.
A giant impact that disrupted a nearby planet?
Meteorites abound with organic compounds, which rain down on any nearby planets.
Example from the new PEPSI atlases: the nearby planet - host star epsilon Eridani.
As stars and planets grew, their spheres» of influence grew rapidly, so run - away merging occurred simultaneously for both growing stars and nearby planets.
Still, many of the nearby planets are detectable via three exoplanet hunting methods: planetary transits, high - contrast imaging, and stellar radial velocity measurements.
It was discovered using a sensitive instrument that can measure tiny changes in the velocity of a star as it experiences the gravitational tug of a nearby planet.
Unfortunately, red dwarfs are known to have bad tempers — they flare regularly, blasting ionizing clouds of particles into space and accelerating stellar winds, bathing any nearby planets in powerful radiation.
In fact, red dwarf stars can be downright violent, frequently erupting with powerful flares, flooding any nearby planets with ionizing radiation.
Now that the entire crew is awake, they decide to investigate a human transmission coming from a nearby planet and see if that planet is a better bet for colonization than the one they were supposed to reach in seven more years.
They trace the visual and voice on the other end to a nearby planet which wasn't on their radar.
Then, the chapter closes with a bang — a proper spacewalk just outside of the atmosphere of a nearby planet, in which we're slinging ourselves from one piece of debris to another, eventually taking shelter in another spoke of the station.
Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto), and the rest of the bridge crew separate and crash - land on a nearby planet, forcing them to fight for their lives to save their crew from the dreaded Krall (Idris Elba), a humanoid with a mysterious vendetta against the Federation.
The ship is on its way back to Earth when it receives a distress call from a nearby planet.
While repairing the damage to the ship, the pilot, Tennessee (a pleasantly if uncharacteristically subdued Danny McBride), detects a signal from a nearby planet.
The crew aboard a massive commercial space vehicle is enroute to earth with a load of extraterrestrial ore when they are sidetracked by mysterious signals from a nearby planet.
While the humans on the ship sleep, the crew, now without a captain, receives a scrambled message of a John Denver song from a nearby planet, which suggests the presence of human life — or a race of aliens who love folk music.
The Rebellion once again plans to destroy the Death Star before it becomes functional by eliminating the force field surrounding it generated by a base on a nearby planet, but the Emperor isn't a fool, and has a few surprises up his sleeve.
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