Sentences with phrase «of planet hunters»

Members of the Planet Hunters citizen science project were the first to notice it when they scoured Kepler's data for transiting worlds overlooked by professional astronomers» automated planet - hunting algorithms.

THE fallen king of planet hunters is looking on the sunny side.

According to Geoff Marcy, whose team of planet hunters used the Doppler method to find 28 exoplanets in the past year alone, there could be hundreds of millions of planets to find.

Plainly put, nobody would know about this one - off object if not for the wisdom of the Planet Hunters.

Not exact matches

Nicknamed «the planet hunter,» the $ 337 million TESS will deploy into its first orbit just under an hour after launch, when SpaceX's part of the mission will be complete.

One is that the ecologically impoverished planet could not support the population of hunters, gatherers, and gardeners that it once did, and even that population at its height was a small fraction of ours.

Just as physics generalizes variables of movement so that they can apply not only to a human hunter and his fleeing prey, but also to stars, planets, atoms, and photons, so psychics needs to generalize such ideas as feeling, perceiving, remembering, anticipating, intending, liking and disliking, so that they can apply not only to animals, but even to the real individual constituents of the vegetable and mineral portions of nature.

Of course, it is much harder for planet hunters.

In June, planet hunters and theorists met on the Greek island of Santorini to mull over the most bizarre solar systems they've found to date.

Now as he settles down in front of the computer, watching images of the sky build up on the screen, Dyvig slides naturally into his identity as one of the world's leading asteroid hunters — as someone who, just maybe, could help save the planet.

«This discovery of the first ever quintuple planetary system has me jumping out of my socks,» says group member and veteran planet hunter Geoffrey Marcy, an astronomer at the University of California at Berkeley.

Most planet hunters watch for wobbles in the light from stars, which arise from the back - and - forth gravitational tugs of unseen companions.

These characteristics would explain the extreme time dilation on the world where the film's intrepid planet hunters landed: In one hour there, seven elapsed on Earth, a phenomenon predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity.

Long - time planet hunter Debra Fischer of Yale University isn't surprised.

But after having some of their preconceptions shattered by the discovery of Jupiter - size planets orbiting their stars in less than two days, planet hunters are no longer so confident of the others.

Nonetheless, Baglin, the planet hunter in spite of herself, beat Borucki into space with it.

A haul of more than 300 planetary systems reminiscent of our own has been found in data collected by a NASA planet - hunter.

«This work is important — really the first rigorous empirical look at the process by which nature converts dust in the disks into planets,» says Geoff Marcy, a leading planet hunter at the University of California, Berkeley.

ANTI-GLARE GOGGLES FOR PLANET HUNTERS The search for alien life requires analyzing distant planets» light to determine the makeup of their atmospheres.

Leading planet hunters from around the world announced the discovery of some 75 extrasolar planets, and hints of many more

And ultimately it could point the way toward what many planet hunters consider their holy grail: obtaining actual images of an Earth - like planet orbiting another star.

With increased funding for planet hunters, NASA's plans to launch the $ 550 million planet - seeking Kepler mission in 2009, and the French national space agency's launch of the alien - Earth - hunting COROT late last year, the exosolar ranks should continue to grow.

«The most significant thing that changed the face of the planet is conversion from hunter - gatherer to farmer,» she says.

Exoplanet hunters also use the transit method, which scours stars for the tiny shadows of crossing planets, to find new worlds.

Now, each new dispatch from exoplanet hunters sends ne tiptoeing closer to an answer, as its next - door factor «fp» — the fraction of stars with planets — has already done.

A pioneering planet - hunter shares her thoughts on Kepler, exoplanets, and the possibility of intelligent extraterrestrials.

Relatively few giant planets orbiting low - mass stars are known, so every instance is of interest to planet hunters.

A flood of information from planet - hunters such as NASA's Kepler space telescope, coupled with improved models of how planets and solar systems work, is forcing us to reconsider another set of geocentric views — this time about what a planet capable of harbouring life should look like.

Planet hunters are getting closer to finding an alien version of home.

Perplexed, these citizen scientists notified Boyajian, a member of the team overseeing the Planet Hunters project.

Massimo Marengo, an Iowa State University associate professor of physics and astronomy, wondered when he saw all the buzz about the mysterious star found by citizen scientists on the Planet Hunters website.

Planet Hunters is an online experiment that taps into the power of human pattern recognition.

«This is irrefutable proof that there really are planets like Jupiter,» says planet - hunter William Cochran of UT Austin, who was not on the team.

A previous NASA project, called the Keck Interferometer, had a similar task of seeking out this dust, finding good news for planet hunters: The stars they observed didn't seem to be all that dusty on average.

Planet hunter Geoffrey Marcy of the University of California at Berkeley describes his colleagues as «deeply depressed.»

«Hopefully, we can conduct further research on them and be able to narrow down what kind of activity is happening in them and whether or not they would be good targets for future planet hunters.»

The new discovery, Kepler - 452b, fires the planet hunter's imagination because it is the most similar to the Earth - sun system found yet: a planet at the right temperature within the habitable zone, and only about one - and - a-half times the diameter of Earth, circling a star very much like our own sun.

It probably won't be too long before the planet hunters hit upon their Holy Grail: a planet just like Earth in the habitable zone of a sunlike star.

The addition of the Kepler space telescope to the planet hunter's arsenal has removed some of this bias, finding planets of far lower masses, but still prefers planets in short orbits where they are more likely to transit.

MAUNA KEA, Hawaii — A new study from the Keck Interferometer, a former NASA project that combined the power of the twin W. M. Keck Observatory telescopes atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii, has brought exciting news to planet hunters.

In Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, the nuclear DNA for clone army grown on the planet Kamino for the Galactic Republic came from the bounty hunter Jango Fett — Boba Fett «s father.

A new analysis of a Martian rock that meteorite hunters plucked from an Antarctic ice field 30 years ago this month reveals a record of the planet's climate billions of years ago.

Earth - size may not mean habitable The team, which also included planet hunter Geoffrey Marcy, UC Berkeley professor of astronomy, cautioned that Earth - size planets in Earth - size orbits are not necessarily hospitable to life, even if they orbit in the habitable zone of a star where the temperature is not too hot and not too cold.

A new analysis of a Martian rock that meteorite hunters plucked from an Antarctic ice field 30 years ago this month reveals a record of the planet's climate billions of years ago, back when water likely washed across its surface and any life that ever formed there might have emerged.

With Planet Hunters (http://www.planethunters.org), one of the many Zooniverse citizen science projects, we enlist the general public to inspect the publicly released Kepler data via the World Wide Web.

With Planet Hunters I aim complete a census of the exoplanet population and provide an independent assessment of the Kepler exoplanet inventory.

I am presently studying the abundance of single planetary systems with Planet Hunters classifications for > 2 Earth radii planets on less than 15 - day orbits.

In an intriguing study published in Current Biology this week, researchers traveled to remote corners of the planet to scrutinize the sleep patterns of some of the world's last remaining hunter - gatherers — the Hadza of Tanzania, the San of Namibia, and the Tsimane of Bolivia.

Still, planet - hunter Geoff Marcy says it's the first statistical estimate of just how many pale, blue dots may be out there.

Planets like Kepler - 1647b in orbit around binary stars are known as circumbinary planets, and planet hunters spot them by looking for a dimming in the light from a star as the planet transits, or passes in front of the star from our perspPlanets like Kepler - 1647b in orbit around binary stars are known as circumbinary planets, and planet hunters spot them by looking for a dimming in the light from a star as the planet transits, or passes in front of the star from our perspplanets, and planet hunters spot them by looking for a dimming in the light from a star as the planet transits, or passes in front of the star from our perspective.