Sentences with phrase «of planet hunting»

The star will also be a high - priority target for the next generation of planet hunting observatories, including the ESO's European Extremely Large Telescope, and the NASA / ESA / CSA James Webb Space Telescope.

What they find could change the future of planet hunting

If they go well, Kepler may have years of planet hunting ahead.

Not exact matches

But, once released from its constraints, we flooded over the planet and, in 2000 years, we peeled the land of large game species (with the exception of Africa, where those species had time to co-evolve with us) and fueled a population boom that we could no longer feed by hunting.

But after last week's malfunction of a crucial piece of equipment on NASA's planet - hunting Kepler space telescope, the May 20 gathering of more than 100 astronomers in Cambridge,...

Though hobbled by age, NASA's Kepler planet - hunting telescope is proving to be an almost inexhaustible engine of discovery.

In fact many scientists regard the planet - hunting space observatory as one of NASA's most successful scientific ventures.

The good news is that Kepler's latest results include 117 candidates at or below the size of Kepler - 10 b and 23 smaller than Earth, strongly suggesting that the planet - hunting probe should soon find small, rocky exoplanets in kinder climates.

The planet was found with the radial velocity method, a planet - hunting technique that relies upon slight variations in the velocity of a star to determine the gravitational pull exerted by nearby planets that are too faint to observe directly with a telescope.

But planet hunting is in its infancy, and astronomer Dimitar Sasselov estimates that our galaxy harbors some 100 million «super-Earths,» large rocky planets whose stable atmospheres and complex chemistry actually make them mathematically better candidates for the emergence of life than our own small world.

But after last week's malfunction of a crucial piece of equipment on NASA's planet - hunting Kepler space telescope, the May 20 gathering of more than 100 astronomers in Cambridge, Mass., proved all too timely.

A new analysis of data from NASA's planet - hunting Kepler mission suggests one of the telescope's prized finds, Kepler 452 b, might be a statistical mirage

Kepler 10b: Kepler's Calling Card Announced in January 2011, Kepler 10b was the mission's first discovery of a small, rocky planet, proof of the Kepler telescope's planet - hunting prowess.

Orosz found the new worlds while looking at data from the planet - hunting Kepler space telescope, which searches for stars with planets that cross in front of them, or transit, as seen from Earth.

Unencumbered by human frailties, Curiosity — like the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which survived on the Red Planet years longer than expected — will be free to hunt for E.T. «If we find evidence for life on Mars, boy, are we just gonna go wild with speculation about how common it is in the universe,» says Lou Friedman, a former scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and cofounder, with Carl Sagan, of the Planetary Society.

«This is only one planet, and we don't yet know whether it is actually habitable or not, but it still is an extremely big deal because it will rapidly push the field into new frontiers,» says Olivier Guyon, a planet - hunting astronomer at the University of Arizona.

These will include planet - hunting stalwarts such as the HARPS instrument at the European Southern Observatory in La Silla, Chile, and the new Miniature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array (MINERVA)- Australis, a group of five planned 0.7 - metre telescopes near Toowoomba, Australia.

Despite the loss of its precision steering in May, NASA's Kepler space telescope may hunt planets again — by carefully balancing nudges from the sun that would otherwise put it in a spin.

«We've been hunting for this signal and confirmation of the planet for almost four years.»

Under K2, Kepler won't stare at the same patch of sky for as long, so it will be restricted to hunting for planets that orbit their stars much more closely than Earth does the sun.

Additionally, the thousands of worlds discovered by NASA's planet - hunting Kepler mission strongly suggest that «there should be as many small planets like the Earth as there are stars,» Morse explains, meaning that to see one astronomers should not need to build a gargantuan telescope that could peer clear across the galaxy.

By next spring, the planet - hunting space telescope known as Kepler — rejected by NASA three times but then approved after those initial detections of exoplanets in the 1990s — will most likely report the discovery of the first known Earth - like planet in an Earth - like orbit.

The telescope will also hunt these planets over a wider slice of sky than before.

Johnson and his colleagues used data from the exoplanet - hunting Kepler spacecraft to analyse the composition of stars known to have planets.

Discover talked with Seager, now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, about what's next in planet hunting.

Thus, «giant chunks of space debris clobbering the planet and wiping out life on Earth has undeniably broad appeal,» Meltzer says, whereas «no one in Hollywood makes movies» about more nuanced explanations, such as Clovis points disappearing because early Americans turned to other forms of stone tool technology as the large mammals they were hunting went extinct as a result of the changing climate or hunting pressure.

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.

Science presents an overview of planet - hunting techniques and representative efforts for the nearly 900 confirmed exoplanets and the hundreds of fresh candidates that are turning up every month.

So whereas NASA's TESS exoplanet - hunting mission, which could launch in 2017, will spend just 1 month gazing at any one region of the sky and as a result be limited to «hot» planets closer to their parent stars, PLATO will have up to 3 years at a time.

The discovery, announced today at a COROT symposium in Paris, is good news for NASA's Kepler mission, which will hunt for Earth - like planets orbiting in the habitable zones of their stars.

For now, the planet - hunting trophy goes to the team led by Geoffrey W. Marcy and R. Paul Butler of San Francisco State University and the University of California at Berkeley.

The hunt is on for planets about the size of Earth that orbit at just the right distance from their star — in a region termed the habitable zone.

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 algorPlanet 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 algorplanet - hunting algorithms.

Just as we're discovering more Earth - like planets, budget cuts force the shutdown of SETI's array of antennas that hunt for extraterrestrial life.

Then a postdoctoral scholar at Yale University, Boyajian had flagged inexplicable fluctuations of light from a star monitored by NASA's planet - hunting Kepler space telescope.

Similarly - aged stars moving through space together in a group — described by astronomers as an association — are of great interest to researchers, because they are considered a prime target to hunt for brown dwarfs and free - floating planet - like objects.

Earlier this year the scientists of NASA's Kepler mission announced that their planet - hunting space telescope had identified more than 1,200 possible exoplanets (worlds orbiting stars other than our own sun) in its first few months on the job.

Scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet on 5 August via a nail - bitingly intricate, autonomous procedure, NASA's Curiosity rover will undertake an unprecedented two - year hunt for signs of alien life.

After 4 years of faithful service, a reaction wheel malfunction may have scuppered the planet - hunting Kepler spacecraft for good.

Scientists debate whether hunting, farming, smallpox or the nuclear bomb define the start of irreversible human impacts on our planet

Kepler mission co-investigator Dimitar Sasselov of Harvard University, speaking at the popular TED talks, tried to convey the excitement of hunting for Earth - size planets orbiting in the habitable zones of other stars.

Team members in the hunt for Earth - size planets circling other stars released the identity and characteristics of 306 candidate exoplanets located using the Kepler spacecraft launched in March 2009.

In the hunt for the beginning of the much - debated «Anthropocene» — a supposed new geologic era defined by human influence of the planet — the new research suggests a need to look back farther in time than the arrival of human - caused climate change, atomic weapons, urbanization or the industrial revolution.

But the links between the two phenomena go much deeper, so much so that those seeking life on other planets are eagerly hunting for signs of tectonic activity.

NASA is basically «crowd - sourcing» its planet hunt to clarify where to look and what to look for with its next generation of space telescopes.

The large majority of exoplanets cataloged so far are very close to their host stars because several current planet - hunting techniques favor finding planets in short - period orbits.

Still, many of the nearby planets are detectable via three exoplanet hunting methods: planetary transits, high - contrast imaging, and stellar radial velocity measurements.

The Fiscal Year 2019 budget and the State of NASA, astronauts at work outside the International Space Station, and the arrival of our next planet - hunting satellite... a few of the stories to tell you about - This Week at NASA.

Similar to Kepler and CoRot, the observatory will «hunt» for drops in brightness that would signal a planet's transit in front of a star.

TESS will take the baton from NASA's other planet - hunting spacecraft, Kepler, which is running out of fuel after almost a decade in space.