Sentences with phrase «nearby star system»

«With these missions we will learn about the most extreme states of matter by studying neutron stars and we will identify many nearby star systems with rocky planets in the habitable zone for further study by telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope.»

«Oumuamua was never seen to sprout a comet - like tail after getting close to the sun, hinting it is not a relatively fresh bit of icy flotsam from the outskirts of a nearby star system.

ESO has signed an agreement with the Breakthrough Initiatives to adapt the Very Large Telescope instrumentation in Chile to conduct a search for planets in the nearby star system Alpha Centauri.

And if sending a probe across the trillions of kilometers of space to visit a nearby star system ever becomes feasible, engineers have their first target.

A nearby star system appears to be forming planets, and one of these may resemble a young Earth.

As reported in an earlier AmericaSpace article, the announcement that KIC 8462852 exhibited some very unusual and anomalous changes in brightness caused quite a media sensation, with many news sources on the internet leading the public to believe that aliens had indeed been discovered in the nearby star system.

In the far future, Earth's nearby star systems have been colonized.