Sentences with phrase «other known exoplanets»

There are two other known exoplanets that seem to follow a similar planetary evolution to that of HAT - P - 26b.

These transiting exoplanets are astronomical gold mines in the sense that we can learn a lot more about them than other known exoplanets.

Of the more than 300 other known exoplanets, all have been detected indirectly by their effects on their parent stars — either a wobble in induced by the object's orbit or a decrease in detected light from the star as the planet passes in front of it.

Proxima b fell from the public consciousness and the front page within weeks, just one more among 3,565 other known exoplanets.

For an alien world, this gas planet seems almost like kin; it's closer than any other known exoplanet.

Not exact matches

The planet appears to be too hot and violent to support anything like life as we know it, but now that astronomers know how to study the atmosphere of one exoplanet, they are ready to try extending the technique to other, potentially more inviting worlds.

The travel destinations they depict are further afield: exoplanets in other solar systems, about which we know very little.

This research will contribute to a once - per - decade report on the field of astrophysics, produced by the National Academies, that NASA uses to help chart a course for future missions, some of which could continue the search for planets around other stars, known as exoplanets.

Until then, all the known exoplanets (planets circling other stars) were big and gaseous, but this one is probably made of rocky materials — the first world like ours found in an alien solar system.

Over the last quarter century or so, astronomers have confirmed more than 3,600 exoplanets — that's 3,600 - plus worlds in addition to the planets, moons and other heavenly bodies known in our own solar system.

That is how 51 Pegasi b — known as a «hot Jupiter» because of its size and closeness to its star — and hundreds of other exoplanets have been found.

When it comes to big balls of rock, exoplanet BD +20594 b might have all other known worlds beat.

That measurement was surprising because it doesn't match what astronomers know about other Neptune - mass exoplanets.

The high precision of the Kepler space telescope has allowed us to detect planets that are the size of Earth and somewhat smaller, but no previous planets have been found that ar... ▽ More Since the discovery of the first exoplanet we have known that other planetary systems can look quite unlike our own.

All images in science must be interpreted, but the interpretation of future direct images from exoplanets is guaranteed to be a major controversy since images showing either creatures resembling those we all know on Earth, or something wildly different, will provoke vigorous doubts by other scientists and the public!