Sentences with phrase «nearby stars telltale»
After reaching its orbit in about two months, the telescope will start scanning nearby stars telltale dips in light that signal a passing planet.
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Bower says his team next will be taking more precise measurements of nearby low - mass stars to detect the telltale wobble in their motion that reveals orbiting extrasolar planets.
While the HARPS team monitors nearby stars for telltale wobbles caused by orbiting planets, Kepler scientists search a wide field of faraway stars, watching for planets that become silhouetted against their suns.
The science team, led by chemist Brett McGuire at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Virginia, detected this molecule's telltale radio signature coming from a nearby star - forming nebula known as the Taurus Molecular Cloud 1 (TCM - 1), which is about 430 light - years from Earth.
He decided to point Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, an addition made to the scope in 2009, at four nearby aging galaxies to hunt for the telltale ultraviolet glow of young stars.
The first, called MARVELS, will use a new instrument to repeatedly measure spectra for approximately 8,500 nearby stars like our own Sun, looking for the telltale wobbles caused by large Jupiter - like planets orbiting them.