Sentences with phrase «new planetary discoveries»

Méndez, who will make the program available to scientists next year, hopes the detailed visualizations will help them interpret the mind - numbing streams of numbers typically used to evaluate new planetary discoveries.

Not exact matches

The lead author of the new study, Guillem Anglada [1], from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC), Granada, Spain, explains the significance of this find: «The dust around Proxima is important because, following the discovery of the terrestrial planet Proxima b, it's the first indication of the presence of an elaborate planetary system, and not just a single planet, around the star closest to our Sun.»

The new object, dubbed OGLE - TR - 56b, marks the first time a transit led to a planetary discovery.

While the pace of planetary discovery is less with the new mission, new finds continue to be announced.

Both Voyager 1 and 2 changed our perspective of our solar system, revealing never - before - seen details in planetary atmospheres and revealing new discoveries about interplanetary space.

Last year's historic close flyby of Pluto by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft put the outer Solar System firmly back in the spotlight, providing both scientists and the general public with ground - breaking and revolutionary discoveries about the far - off little world in the outer reaches of the Sun's planetary family.

«When we landed the Huygens probe on Titan, we had no idea what we'd find on the surface, so it was really the discoveries of Huygens and Cassini that led to these new [planetary protection] requirements,» says Spilker.

On December 13, 2005, a team of astronomers (led by Lynne Allen) announced the discovery of a new planetary body between one - fifth to one half the size of Pluto, found during routine operation of the Canada - France Ecliptic Plane Survey (CFEPS) as part of the Legacy Survey on the Canada France Hawaii Telescope (CFEPS press release).

Second, together with our international partners, NSF provides the tools that astronomers need to make precision measurements of planetary systems; the newly inaugurated Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) can study planets in the act of formation, while the Gemini Observatory is poised for new exoplanet discoveries with the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) that will be commissioned in the next year.

From possible ice volcanoes to twirling moons, NASA's New Horizons science team is discussing more than 50 exciting discoveries about Pluto at this week's 47th Annual Meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences.

Since then there has been tremendous progress both in the discovery of new planetary systems and their characterisation which belies the difficulty in their detection.

In addition to providing a new perspective into the history of Earth, the discovery is also expected to provide significant insights into the study of planetary habitability.

On January 26, 2012, scientists working on NASA's Kepler Mission team announced the discovery of 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 confirmed planets, as well as additional planetary candidates.

On December 5, 2011, on the opening of its inaugural science conference at NASA's Ames Research Center, the Kepler Mission team announced 1,094 new planetary candidates, bringing the running total of potential planet discoveries to 2,326.

Despite the fact that this rover and MER mission have produced success the likes of which has never before been seen in planetary exploration and that Opportunity is continuing to boldly go where no rover has gone before, still making discoveries and setting new records, the impact of the additional cuts likely will reduce MER's ops staff.