Sentences with phrase «new dwarf planet»

A new dwarf planet has been identified on the fringes of our solar system.

He thinks Eris is a fitting name for the new dwarf planet because astronomers have argued for so long over how to define a planet.

A new dwarf planet, named as 2014 UZ224 has been discovered and may join the club of five dwarf planets and give company to Pluto.

An international team of astronomers including researchers from the University of British Columbia has discovered a new dwarf planet orbiting in the disk of small icy worlds beyond Neptune.

«Finding a new dwarf planet beyond Neptune sheds light on the early phases of planet formation,» said Brett Gladman, the Canada Research Chair in planetary astronomy at UBC.

Not exact matches

We're just now seeing them — months after we first encountered the dwarf planet — because the New Horizons spacecraft can only trickle the images back to Earth from billions of miles away.

Early images taken by New Horizons of the dwarf planet's surface mean we have to rethink how the planet was formed

A plethora of new observatories — chief among them NASA's multi-billion-dollar James Webb Space Telescope, slated to launch in 2019 — could soon begin studying the planets of TRAPPIST - 1 and other nearby red - dwarf planets for signs of habitability and life.

THE shattered remnants of a dwarf planet may have bombarded the inner planets in the early solar system, suggests a new analysis of craters on the moon.

NASA's New Horizons probe has officially begun to execute its sequence of Pluto flyby observations as it zooms toward its closest approach to the dwarf planet on July 14.

The first published scientific findings from NASA's New Horizons mission, which flew past Pluto in July, confirm that the dwarf planet does not resemble any other single world in the Solar System.

«New images of dwarf planet Ceres.»

First published findings from NASA's New Horizons mission lay out the dwarf planet's wildly varying terrain

These failed stars, or brown dwarfs, inhabit a peculiar gray area between large planets and small stars, and their split personalities are providing scientists with new ways to learn about both kinds of objects.

RR245 is the largest discovery and the only dwarf planet found by OSSOS, which has discovered more than five hundred new trans - Neptunian objects.

The new object is about 700 km in diameter — roughly one - and - a-half times the size of Vancouver Island — and has one of the largest orbits for a dwarf planet.

Soar over Pluto's seas, mountains, craters and volcanoes of ice in this montage of images released by NASA from the New Horizons encounter with the dwarf planet.

In March, four months before New Horizons made it to Pluto, NASA's Dawn probe entered Ceres» orbit, becoming the first to see a dwarf planet up close.

An avalanche of data released from NASA's New Horizons probe, which flew past Pluto on 14 July, show the dwarf planet has a pair of potentially volcanic mountains near its south pole.

The Dawn spacecraft has delivered a glimpse of Ceres, the largest body in the main asteroid belt, in a new image taken 740,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) from the dwarf planet.

«Astronomers discover new distant dwarf planet beyond Neptune.»

The multitude of fainter water - rich, free - floating brown dwarfs and planets within the Orion nebula are all new discoveries.

With planets orbiting M dwarfs quickly becoming the darlings in the search for life beyond our solar system, a new generation of observatories are poised to discover hundreds of worlds around these stars.

New results from Dawn spacecraft fuel debate on whether the dwarf planet is a habitable oasis between Mars and Jupiter

Now, new results from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which has been orbiting Ceres since March, hint that the body may have much more in common with its diminutive dwarf - planet cousin Pluto than once thought.

New findings reveal a crater's vaporous hazes, and hint at the dwarf planet's possible origin in the outer solar system

The flaring of M - dwarfs seems to die down over time, and new climate models suggest that even a locked planet could be habitable because its atmosphere would help even out the temperatures.

Latest New Horizons data also show that the dwarf planet's atmosphere could be heading toward a global collapse

Excitement over the new planet in Pegasus couldn't obscure another important astronomical discovery made in 1995: the best evidence yet for the existence of brown dwarfs.

Red dwarf stars, which are by far the most common stars in our galaxy, were once considered unlikely places to find Earth - like planets, but new studies contradict that view.

We knew the dwarf planet had weather systems, but here's the first evidence from the New Horizons probe of clouds in Pluto's atmosphere

Images from the New Horizons spacecraft show hints of what could be a few isolated clouds scattered around the dwarf planet, the first seen in otherwise clear skies.

There's an intriguing twist, too: Jayawardhana and others have shown that young brown dwarfs generally do not have massive protoplanetary disks of gas and dust, which means that if the new object is indeed a planet, it may not have formed the same way planets in our solar system did.

A giant asteroid impact in the dwarf planet's past offers new insights into the possibility of an ocean beneath its surface.

But the dwarf planet rallied, as New Horizons scientists blitzed Twitter with get - out - the - vote tweets.

Ever since NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto last year, evidence has been mounting that the dwarf planet may have a liquid ocean beneath its icy shell.

As a worldwide audience awaits images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flyby of Pluto on July 14, NAU scientists already are supporting astronomers» understanding of the dwarf planet's surface.

The New Horizons spacecraft, which buzzed the dwarf planet on July 14, has so far sent back only about 20 percent of the data it acquired from the Pluto system.

The researchers say they detected the presence of two new extrasolar planets (exoplanets) around a red dwarf star, Gliese 581, 20.5 light - years away in the constellation Libra, based on slight motions of the star.

According to a very rough statistical analysis, the new discovery suggests that up to one - third of all red dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy are accompanied by small, rocky planets, many of which might be in wider orbits.

Other Sloan researchers have identified a new class of white dwarfs, the cores left over after sun - size stars die, and have sighted elusive brown dwarfs, objects too big to be planets but not quite massive enough to ignite fusion reactions and become stars.

SPREADING THE LOVE One of the latest false color images of Pluto from the New Horizons spacecraft suggests that the dwarf planet's heart may push exotic ices to its edges.

But a new study shows that harsh space weather might strip the atmosphere of any rocky planet orbiting in a red dwarf's habitable zone.

Data gathered when the dwarf planet Makemake passed in front of a distant star last year are shedding new light on the icy orb's size, shape, and atmosphere — or, more precisely, its lack of one.

The spacecraft's view is now three times as sharp as in its previous mapping orbit, revealing exciting new details of this intriguing dwarf planet,» said Marc Rayman, Dawn's chief engineer and mission director, based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.

Ever since the New Horizons probe buzzed Pluto in July 2015, scientists have been poring over the slow trickle of high - resolution images and data to mine the dwarf planet's secrets.

For the dwarf planet Pluto, however, the predicted temperature based on the composition of its atmosphere was much higher than actual measurements taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in 2015.

Pluto becomes just another «plutoid» Opponents of Pluto's 2006 demotion from planet to «dwarf planet» status have a new reason to be peeved at astronomy's official name - issuing organization.

New Horizons» flyby of the dwarf planet and its five known moons is providing an up - close introduction to the solar system's Kuiper Belt, an outer region populated by icy objects ranging in size from boulders to dwarf planets.

Three new planets classified as habitable - zone super-Earths are amongst eight new planets discovered orbiting nearby red dwarf stars by an international team of astronomers from the UK and Chile.