Sentences with phrase «orbit over a planet»

Mathematician and galactic explorer Vardas Fisher dropped into orbit over a planet where almost all of the human life had been recently killed for no obvious reason.

Mathematician and galactic explorer Vardis Fisher dropped into orbit over a planet where almost all of the human life had been recently killed for no obvious reason.

Not exact matches

Oh, so in the vast known Universe, which reaches out for 15 BILLION light years in all directions, with over 100 BILLION galaxies, containing an average of 100 BILLION stars each, with most of those stars now thought to have multiple planets orbiting around them, you can't imagine that there would be at least ONE little planet SOMEWHERE with the right conditions for life without divine intervention?

«THE END OF DAYS is near» January 1213 the earth will wobble causing earthquakes, lava will spill all over the earth the oceans will rise changing the topography, the atmosphere will be consumed, our planet will die and orbit just like our mom, a gusted, dust, desolate planet.

The discovery of seven Earth - sized planets orbiting a single cool star fuels a debate over what counts as good news in the search for life outside the solar system.

We're being surprised over and over again: circumbinary planets, which orbit two stars instead of one, for example, or compact multi-planet systems.

Captured by Kepler's digital sensors, transformed into bytes of data, and downloaded to computers at NASA's Ames Research Center near San Francisco, the processed starlight slowly revealed a remarkable story: A planet not much bigger than Earth was whipping around its native star at a blistering pace, completing an orbit — its version of a «year» — in just over 20 hours.

For over 13 years, the Cassini spacecraft has orbited Saturn, beaming back dazzling images from the ringed planet and its diverse moons.

Over the course of its 29 - year - long orbit, the sun's rays move from north to south over the planet and its rings, and back agOver the course of its 29 - year - long orbit, the sun's rays move from north to south over the planet and its rings, and back agover the planet and its rings, and back again.

Since Odyssey began orbiting the Red Planet in 2001, THEMIS has provided compositional and thermal - properties information from all over Mars, but never before imaged either Martian moon.

Our own Kuiper Belt, which extends outward from Neptune's orbit, is home to many dwarf planets, comets, and other small bodies left over from the formation of the solar system.

But over the past five years, NASA's orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory has monitored «light echoes» — X-rays bouncing off nearby molecular clouds and reflecting back toward Earth — showing that Sagittarius A * had a planet - size banquet not so long ago.

Not necessarily, says Harvard astrophysicist Matt Holman, who has used a computer to simulate how a planet around a binary star would behave over millions of orbits.

The duo then checked whether these systems had orbital slots going spare, by sticking an extra planet in between two existing ones and modelling how the orbits evolved over 100 million years.

The catalyst for this epochal transition is Proxima b, a newfound small planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, which at just over four light - years away is the star nearest to our solar system.

Applications include showing how the planet's surface changes over time, including through tectonic activity and sea level change; plotting the trajectories of ballistic missiles and satellite orbits; and making topographic maps and GPS systems more accurate.

They carefully monitored 88 selected stars in Messier 67 [3] over a period of six years to look for the tiny telltale motions of the stars towards and away from Earth that reveal the presence of orbiting planets.

To an observer in space, they would appear to be tracing out the same circle over and over, but since the planet is continuously rotating beneath them, the intrepid satellites orbit over every slice of the surface once every 30 days.

And because these planets would be directly over the star's chilled equator twice in each orbit, it would go through two summers and two winters each year.

The satellite was placed into an orbit that crosses over the North and South Poles, which will allow it to produce images of the entire planet.

Over millions of years, these planets become shrouded by orbiting debris generated from the collision of comets, asteroids, and other objects.

Astronomers are puzzling over some space oddities: planets that don't orbit stars.

Unlike every other major satellite of every other planet in our solar system, our moon ignores the axis of its parent planet and instead circles in nearly the same plane that Earth and the other planets orbit around the sun, offset by slightly over five degrees.

He wondered whether the orbits of the planets might lose energy over time by emitting waves into the gravitational field that their mass created.

Over the past 130 years, astronomers have witnessed five similar events on the ringed planet, but the 2011 storm was the first seen through the lens of a satellite: NASA's Cassini probe, orbiting 1.2 million miles away.

Over the past few years, ground - based telescopes have discovered a dozen stars that might be accompanied by Jupiter - size planets, some of which are broiling in orbits tighter than Mercury's.

And if any planets similar to these orbit in their parents stars» habitable zone, substantially farther from the home star where liquid water might more likely exist, their atmospheres will lose even smaller amounts of hydrogen - bearing compounds over time, the researchers note.

Even though many of the planets orbit their stars very closely and have high temperatures, which in turn causes their hydrogen - rich atmospheres to expand and a fraction of the gases to escape the planet over time, it's unlikely that the planets will lose enough of their atmosphere to become rocky bodies like Earth, the researchers report online today in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

You can eliminate anything on the 70 % of the planet that's water, everything poleward of 57 ° latitude over which UARS does not orbit, and for all practical purposes the empty areas of the world, such as the Amazon, most of Australia, the Sahara, the Tibetan Plateau, much of Siberia, and even a lot of the western interior of the United States.

Over a simulated interval of 200 million years, the inner planet slowly migrated even farther inward to become a «warm Jupiter» orbiting its parent star at about the same distance Mercury does in our solar system, the researchers report online today in Science.

Measurements taken by MESSENGER's Mercury Atmospheric and Surface Composition Spectrometer have revealed seasonal surges of calcium that occurred regularly over the first nine Mercury years since MESSENGER began orbiting the planet in March 2011.

One possibility is that the short time scales over which Wolf 1061c's orbit changes could be enough that it could actually cool the planet off, Kane said.

To be seen over such an expanse, the meteors must have been in orbit around our planet.

Over the past two decades, astronomers have discovered thousands of planets orbiting other stars.

It's a thrilling time to have eyes on the skies, and hard to recall that just over two decades ago, the only known planets in the universe were the nine — back in Pluto's glory days — orbiting the sun.

Data from the Cassini spacecraft, in orbit since 2004, may help resolve a decades - long debate over the age of Saturn's rings, wide belts of shiny ice chunks orbiting the planet.

Over 300 extrasolar planets have been discovered in orbit around stars in our local galactic neighborhood, and more planets are being discovered every month.

APF and Keck Observatory traced out the planets» orbits over many years using the Doppler technique that has successfully found hundreds of mostly larger planets orbiting nearby stars.

Planet «c» - A residual drift in the radial velocity data over a decade suggest the presence of even larger planets in outer orbits (Butler et al, 1999).

The orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around close - orbiting Stars A and B may be centered as close as 1.06 AU — between the orbital distances of Earth and Mars in the Solar System — with an orbital period of over 384 days (1.05 years).

So far, Kepler, a NASA orbiting telescope that searches for planets beyond our solar system, has detected over 1,200 exoplanets.

ALMA can find more planets by measuring the tiny effects over the stars they orbit and allows measuring the mass of these planets under formation.

On October 19, 2010, astronomers using NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope over five days in February 2009 announced that the hot spot is not located near the closest point of the planet to its host star, as was expected for a planet in tidally locked, synchronous orbit with one side in perpetual daylight.

The modelling suggested that a Neptune - like planet actually formed much closer to Vega and was pushed by a Jupiter - like planet in an inner orbit out to its current wide orbit around 80 AUs away from Vega over about 56 million years, sweeping many comets out with it and causing the dust disk to become clumpy (Mark C. Wyatt, 2003).

Over the next several weeks, Dawn will deliver increasingly better and better images of the dwarf planet, leading up to the spacecraft's capture into orbit around Ceres on March 6.

Over a decade before planets were found orbiting normal stars, the astronomy world was intrigued by the discovery of a vast, edge - on, pancake - flat disk of dust and gas encircling the newborn star Beta Pictoris.

The planet is confirmed via both the detection of the radial velocity orbit, and the Doppler tomographic detection of the shadow of the planet over two transits.

Because these planets are light years away, and because the reflected light is incredibly dim, the James Webb Space Telescope will only be able to do this for large planets that orbit red and white dwarfs — but still, it's incredibly exciting to think that we might be able to identify signs of life from all the way over here on our little blue marble.

Planets «b, c, and d» - On December 14, 2009, a team of astronomers (Steven S. Vogt; Robert A. Wittenmyer, R. Paul Butler, Simon O'Toole, Gregory W. Henry, Eugenio J. Rivera, Stefano Meschiari, Gregory Laughlin, C. G. Tinney, Hugh R. A. Jones, Jeremy Bailey, Brad D. Carter, and Konstantin Batygin) announced the discovery of one innermost orbiting super-Earth and two outer - orbiting, Neptune - class planets (with at least 5.1, 18.2, and 24.0 Earth - masses, respectively) in moderately circular, inner orbits around 61 Virginis with periods of 4.2, 38.0, and 124.0 days, based on radial - velocity observations over 4.6 years with the Keck Observatory's High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES) and the Anglo - Australian Telescope (U.C. Santa Cruz news release; AAO press release; Keck press release; the Lick - Carnegie Exoplanet Survey Team's «Systemic Console;» and Vogt et al,Planets «b, c, and d» - On December 14, 2009, a team of astronomers (Steven S. Vogt; Robert A. Wittenmyer, R. Paul Butler, Simon O'Toole, Gregory W. Henry, Eugenio J. Rivera, Stefano Meschiari, Gregory Laughlin, C. G. Tinney, Hugh R. A. Jones, Jeremy Bailey, Brad D. Carter, and Konstantin Batygin) announced the discovery of one innermost orbiting super-Earth and two outer - orbiting, Neptune - class planets (with at least 5.1, 18.2, and 24.0 Earth - masses, respectively) in moderately circular, inner orbits around 61 Virginis with periods of 4.2, 38.0, and 124.0 days, based on radial - velocity observations over 4.6 years with the Keck Observatory's High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES) and the Anglo - Australian Telescope (U.C. Santa Cruz news release; AAO press release; Keck press release; the Lick - Carnegie Exoplanet Survey Team's «Systemic Console;» and Vogt et al,planets (with at least 5.1, 18.2, and 24.0 Earth - masses, respectively) in moderately circular, inner orbits around 61 Virginis with periods of 4.2, 38.0, and 124.0 days, based on radial - velocity observations over 4.6 years with the Keck Observatory's High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES) and the Anglo - Australian Telescope (U.C. Santa Cruz news release; AAO press release; Keck press release; the Lick - Carnegie Exoplanet Survey Team's «Systemic Console;» and Vogt et al, 2009).

At this angular scale, multiple sta... ▽ More The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) project has been conducting a photometric survey for transiting planets orbiting bright stars for over ten years.