Sentences with phrase «of planetary systems»

Today, he develops numerical simulations for the formation of planetary systems.

Finding these planets tells us about the architecture of planetary systems.

With the discovery and observation of planetary systems around stars other than our own, it is becoming possible to elaborate, revise or even replace this account.

In our galaxy, there may be billions of planetary systems where more than one planet is habitable.

Most objects in the outer part of a planetary system are made more of ice and most objects in the inner regions are made more of rocks.

This result was very surprising and raises some questions for our understanding of planetary systems.

This result has a transformative impact on the theories of planet formation and gives us a clue to the origin of a wide variety of planetary systems.

The observed planet population carries an important message of how planets form and what types of planetary systems exist for future scientific exploration.

It also means our solar system may have formed more like the rest of the planetary systems we see in the galaxy.

How can we protect and enhance the health of our planetary system?

I think we're going to find lots of planetary systems that in a vague sense resemble our system.

It also suggests that there's «an incredible diversity in the structure of planetary systems,» he says.

For astronomers, attempting to understand the life cycles of planetary systems using existing examples is like trying to learn how people grow from babies to children to teenagers, by only studying adults.

Such discoveries can allow us to determine the orbital configuration of the planetary system, among other things.

It also will analyze the physical and chemical aspects of planetary systems; in other words, we're on the lookout for alien life.

That was clearly a more profound influence on a central component of the planetary system than humans raising the concentration of carbon dioxide 40 percent since the start of the industrial revolution.

Its detection helps astronomers understand the chemical processes that occur during the formation of planetary systems and that ultimately lead to the creation of the ingredients for life.

His research focuses on the formation and evolution of planetary systems.

This discovery shows the type of planetary system that astronomers expect to find around many nearby stars in the coming years.

More generally, these two results demonstrate that the longterm habitability (and astronomical observables) of a terrestrial planet can depend on the detailed architecture of the planetary system in which it resides.

This provides ARIEL with better information about the planet's internal composition and the formation history of the planetary system.

As the Academies notes in their recent decadal survey,» [t] he search for exoplanets is one of the most exciting subjects in all of astronomy...» The report went on to recommend «a program to explore the diversity and properties of planetary systems around other stars, and to prepare for the long - term goal of discovering and investigating nearby, habitable planets.»

Initially, astronomers suspected that small, rocky worlds might get kicked out of their planetary systems altogether by giant planets that were pulled towards their host stars to become «hot Jupiters».

HDST will search for exoEarths around hundreds of stars, but during that quest will revolutionize the study of planetary systems in general.

A paper describing the formation of this planetary system by a research team was published in the journal Nature today.

Eruptions on distant stars hold clues about the number of planetary systems there are in the Universe

«Drastic chemical change occurring in birth of planetary system: Has the solar system also experienced it?.»

Physical properties of the planetary systems WASP - 45 and WASP - 46 from simultaneous multi-band photometry

Anthropocene, as you likely know, is the term applied increasingly by a range of scientists and others to this period in Earth and human history in which our species is influencing a host of planetary systems in big ways with long - lasting consequences.

While today's planet - hunting techniques have favored finding exoplanets near their sun, the outer regions of a planetary system have gone largely unexplored.

We extract science by carefully modeling all the ways in which the spacecraft and the instruments themselves could have caused the apparent brightness of a planetary system to change over time... We are pretty sure we can trust our models of Spitzer down to about a part in 10,000; we are in uncharted territory as far as detector behavior is concerned.»

Led by Christopher Manser of the University of Warwick's Astrophysics Group, the researchers investigated the remnants of planetary systems around white dwarf stars; in this instance, SDSS1228 +1040.

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.

Of the thousands of planetary systems Kepler has discovered, about 80 per cent appear as single planets passing in front of their stars.

STARS like the sun don't last forever — they eventually expand and envelop the inner members of their planetary systems.

While the cold surface conditions and the lack of illumination and heat from the dim host star eliminate the possibility of the new planet being home to life as we know it, the researchers said in a press release that it will improve their understanding of planetary systems beyond our own.

Growing Up: the Long Journey of Planetary Systems from Interstellar Volatiles and Refractories to Asteroids, Comets, and Planets

Many decades of asteroid and comet characterization have yielded formation models that explain the mass distribution, chemical abundances and planetary configuration of the Solar System today, but there has been no way of telling whether the Solar System is typical of planetary systems.

In the fictional universe of Star Trek: Voyager, the crew of a Federation starship comes in contact with the denizens of planetary systems many thousands of light - years away from Earth, while being stranded on the far side of the galaxy.

«This is the widest range of orbital radii of any planetary system known,» Marois told New Scientist.

«So now we have a piece of another planetary system flying by Earth, flying through our solar system, that we briefly have a chance to study.»