Sentences with phrase «of planetary discoveries»

The Kepler mission's announcement of 1,284 worlds previews the overwhelming number of planetary discoveries to come

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

Not exact matches

Clearly in face of so appalling a discovery the psychic mechanism of evolution would come to a stop, undermined and shattered in its very substance, despite all the violent tuggings of the chain of planetary in - folding.

In the same manner, the symbolism of the number 7 and, consequently, the image of the Cosmic Tree with seven branches did not appear before the discovery of the seven planets, which in Mesopotamia led to the conception of the seven planetary heavens.

Only a powerful polarization of human wills, after each fragment of humanity has been led to the discovery of his own particular form of freedom, can ensure the convergence and unified working of this plurality in a single, co-ordinated planetary system.

Following the Kepler space telescope's discovery of more than 5,000 possible exoplanets since 2009, TESS will continue the galactic census — flagging more planetary...

One of Borucki's most important goals was that Kepler should be the first word in planetary discovery, not the last.

The discovery, also reported in a paper accepted to the Astronomical Journal, can also help astronomers better understand the planetary population of our galaxy.

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.

«One of the most startling discoveries about other planetary systems has been that the most common type of planet out there has a mass between that of Earth and that of Neptune,» says Batygin.

Astronomers announced today the discovery of an extraordinary planetary system: seven Earth - sized planets that could all have liquid water on their rocky surfaces.

These names highlight the importance of pushing to the frontiers of discovery,» said Rita Schulz, chair of the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature.

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 discovery of strangely ordered planetary systems around other stars showed that the formation process can not be so tidy after all.

«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.

The sheer volume of discoveries would allow astronomers to begin comparing broad classes of exoplanets: learning how stellar flares affect planetary atmospheres, for instance, or what sorts of planets surround stars of different ages.

A team of scientists using a state - of - the - art UCLA instrument reports the discovery of a planetary - scale «tug - of - war» of life, deep Earth and the upper atmosphere that is expressed in atmospheric nitrogen.

Amazingly, while the fundamental discoveries in science in the 17th century — gravity, light waves, planetary rotation around stars and the incredible abstraction of science in mathematics — spurred huge explosions of discoveries in physics and chemistry, fundamental discoveries in biology largely lagged behind and were important only as they related to human health.

Discoveries of water on Mars are now so common that the subject has become the butt of jokes among planetary scientists: «Congratulations — you've discovered water on Mars for the 1,000 th time!»

[5] Since the discovery of Pease 1, only three other globular clusters have been found to host planetary nebulae: Messier 22, NGC 6441, and Palomar 6.

Kepler in the 16th century justified his shattering empirical discovery that planetary motion was ellipitcal rather than circular by the essentially medieval and mystical belief that the circle represented the spiritual and the straight line the material, so the combination of the two in an ellipse showed the planets «striving to reach the divine ideal».

Researchers discovered the pattern when the NASA rover stopped at a set of dunes in Gale crater in late 2015 and early 2016, and they first reported the discovery in March at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.

The discovery may also help solve a nagging problem regarding the makeup of planetary systems.

The eastern part of Ligeia Mare averages from 20 to 40 meters in depth, says Alexander Hayes, a Cornell University planetary scientist who reported the discovery November 10 at the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciencesplanetary scientist who reported the discovery November 10 at the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary SciencesPlanetary Sciences meeting.

«This discovery will make us look very hard at exoplanet formation scenarios,» says planetary scientist David Trilling of the University of Arizona.

Following the Kepler space telescope's discovery of more than 5,000 possible exoplanets since 2009, TESS will continue the galactic census — flagging more planetary candidates for further study.

Planetary scientists long skeptical offinding extraterrestrial life are intrigued by the discovery of deepmicrobes.

Planetary scientist Steven Squyres of Cornell University, head of both rover science teams, calls the Meridiani sea discovery the mission's biggest success.

The discovery still doesn't provide direct evidence of the exocomets» existence, but it could pave the way for a better understanding of comets in distant planetary systems and our own solar system.

The discovery that the debris disks around some larger stars retain carbon monoxide longer than their Sun - like counterparts may provide insights into the role this gas plays in the development of planetary systems.

They were just trying to do their science as best they knew how before announcing a fascinating (at least to planetary geochemists) discovery that they've found a class of chemicals called perchlorates in the martian soil.

But the catalogued planetary population has just gotten a lot larger and more diverse, thanks to word this week of a newly identified planet orbiting two suns, more than a dozen newfound «super-Earths,» and strong indications that the Milky Way Galaxy is home to an almost unfathomable number of planets awaiting discovery.

Already the National Science Foundation, through its Planetary Biodiversity Inventories for select groups of organisms has shown that intense, team efforts can speed the discovery and classification of unknown organisms, says meeting organizer Quentin Wheeler from Arizona State.

The discovery shows for the first time that hot Jupiters can appear at a very early stage in the formation of planetary systems, and therefore have a major impact on their architecture.

«It's a story that's not implausible, but I also think it's not needed,» said planetary scientist Konstantin Batygin of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) here, who wasn't part of the recent discovery.

Following up on that discovery, planetary scientists Caitlin Griffith and Joseph Hall of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff and astronomer Thomas Geballe of the Gemini Observatory in Hilo, Hawaii, took a closer look.

A total of 188 have been confirmed so far, and 340 are still awaiting discovery according to the results of a probability calculation presented by the two researchers in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

Now our Enceladus discoveries have changed the direction of planetary science.

That's close enough that other advanced telescopes could follow up on promising planetary discoveries, and look into the composition of those planets» atmospheres.

Writing in the current edition (Sept. 9, 2013) of the journal Icarus, a team led by UW - Madison Space Science and Engineering Center planetary scientists Lawrence Sromovsky, and including Kevin Baines and Patrick Fry, reports the discovery of the icy forms of water and ammonia.

When astronomers announced the discovery of seven Earth - sized planets orbiting the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST - 1, Earthlings immediately celebrated the possibility that one of those planetary neighbors could host life.

Coming hot off the heels of discoveries made by other observatories, including NASA's Kepler and CoRot (the Convection, Rotation, and Planetary Transits mission, led by France's CNES with contributions from the ESA), this spacecraft is intended to build significantly on our knowledge of the universe, the Solar System, and the formation of life in general.

u «The discovery of spin - orbit misalignment in close - in exoplanetary systems in the past few years was a major surprise in planetary astrophysics.»

The discovery was made by Simon Kattenhorn, a geologist previously at the University of Idaho in Moscow, and Louise Prockter, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., after looking through photographs from the Galileo spacecraft, which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003.

«These fabulous observations of ISON are unique and set the stage for more observations and discoveries to follow as part of a comprehensive NASA campaign to observe the comet,» said James L. Green, NASA's director of planetary science.

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.

Due in part to the discovery of planetary companions, Upsilon Andromedae A was identified as one of the top 100 target stars for NASA's proposed Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF).

«The discovery of spin - orbit misalignment in close - in exoplanetary systems in the past few years was a major surprise in planetary astrophysics.»

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.

On January 16, 2002, a team of astronomers (including (Debra A. Fischer, Geoffrey W. Marcy, R. Paul Butler, Steven S. Vogt, and Gregory W. Henry) announced the discovery of a planetary companion «b,» whose mass has been estimated at a minimum of 20 percent that of Jupiter (exoplanets.org; and Fischer et al, 2003, in pdf) with a similar diameter.