Sentences with phrase «outer solar system»

«NASA investigates invisible magnetic bubbles in outer solar system
Pluto has a strange elliptical orbit and forms part of the Kuiper Belt of outer solar system objects.
Designated 2015 RR245 by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center, it was found using the Canada - France - Hawaii Telescope on Maunakea, Hawaii, as part of the ongoing Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS).
The discovery and study of DeeDee (which has not yet officially been anointed a dwarf planet) shows that astronomers can probe the deep outer solar system and that similar techniques could potentially spot Planet Nine, the big world hypothesized to lurk out there undetected, researchers said.
AmericaSpace recently spoke with Dr. Mark Hofstadter as well as Dr. Alan Stern, principal investigator for NASA's New Horizons mission — both experts in the field of outer Solar System exploration — about the prospect of missions to Uranus and Neptune and what it would take to get us there.
Outer solar system astronomers are now setting their sights on Jupiter and its icy, possibly life - friendly moons.
In the second, a gigantic icy object from the extreme outer solar system swooped in, got too close to Saturn, and was ripped apart by gravitational forces.
Its H2O ice — rich surface is unlike other outer solar system icy satellites in exhibiting distinctly reddish tholin coloration around its northern pole as well as a few highly localized patches rich in NH3 ice.
«This is our first foray into the deep, frozen, ancient outer solar system,» says planetary scientist Alan Stern.
Dawn and New Horizons will mark our «first exploration into the real outer solar system,» says McDowell.
(4) Does the «typical» circumstellar disk states of primary star + Kuiper Belt Star show evidence for material from each of the different kinds of small outer solar system bodies (Comets, Centaurs, KBOs) like the active comet debris in HR4796A and the icy KBO debris in Fomalhaut and HD 32297?
A photo montage showing the size of the Earth compared to that of several outer Solar System moons, which are believed to host underground liquid water oceans that could be potentially habitable.
And I'm fascinated by the idea that some of the moons of our own outer Solar System — particularly Saturn's tiny Enceladus — have vast under - ice oceans and quite possibly the conditions necessary for life to arise independently of Earth.
Outer Solar System Origins Survey involves a collaboration of nearly 50 scientists at institutes and universities across the world.
[Our mission is to] make sure we have the capabilities for human interstellar travel, to the outer solar system and to another star within a hundred years.
The two nuclear - powered probes launched 40 years ago and became the first and only robots to take close - up photographs of Uranus and Neptune, the planets» moons and rings, and other objects in the outer solar system.
«We also found that it had a reddish color, similar to objects in the outer Solar System, and confirmed that it is completely inert, without the faintest hint of dust around it.»
It appears that the inclusions are also isotopically similar to the outer solar system meteorites.
Before the space age, scientists thought the moons of the outer solar system would be featureless, geologically dead balls of ice.
Its shape, size and composition — round, roughly the size of Texas and at least 20 percent water ice — place it at the poorly understood transition point between rocky worlds like Earth and icy worlds like Jupiter's Europa, Saturn's Enceladus, and other large moons of the outer solar system.
At the size of a school bus, it was bigger than Voyager and outfitted with the most sophisticated scientific instruments ever carried into the outer solar system.
Such microbes could aid our search for life in the outer solar system.
Pluto and Charon make sense only if hundreds or thousands of dwarf planets once roamed the outer solar system.
Future observations and studies into the dynamical lifetimes of non-resonant planet - crossing orbits in the far regions of the outer solar system could help to further test the case for the existence and whereabouts of a ninth planet, Malhotra and her co-authors write.
The authors also note that the long orbital timescales in this region of the outer solar system may allow formally unstable orbits to persist for very long times, possibly even to the age of the solar system, without the help of orbital resonances.
«We find no evidence of the orbit clustering needed for the Planet Nine hypothesis in our fully independent survey,» says Cory Shankman, an astronomer at the University of Victoria in Canada and a member of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS), which since 2013 has found more than 800 objects out near Neptune using the Canada - France - Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii.
They soon realized the pair formed when two dwarf planets collided in the outer solar system.
«Although we were initially quite skeptical that this planet could exist, as we continued to investigate its orbit and what it would mean for the outer solar system, we become increasingly convinced that it is out there,» says Batygin, an assistant professor of planetary science.
«When you see something red in the outer solar system, generally that's an indication the object is covered in complex organic molecules,» says Northern Arizona University astronomer Stephen Tegler.
Caltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the outer solar system.
Where did Planet Nine come from and how did it end up in the outer solar system?
Not only is the «Jupiter as shield» concept, implying that the planet shields Earth from comet impacts, not true, but perhaps Jupiter's most important role in fostering the development of life on Earth was just the opposite — delivering the volatile materials from the outer Solar System needed for life to form.
This belt is estimated to have a temperature of about -230 degrees Celsius, as cold as that of the Kuiper Belt in the outer Solar System.
NASA's Outer Planets Assessment Group generates ideas and gives advice on exploring the outer solar system.
Or perhaps, he says, formation models need to be adjusted to make it easier for larger building blocks to grow in the outer solar system where comets form and where ice and organic molecules could assist in the sticking.
WHEN the sun dies, it's not just Earth that will be doomed — the destruction will reach as far as the comets in the outer solar system.
It gives further evidence of how Titan, despite its location in orbit around a gas giant in the outer Solar System, is one of the most Earth - like objects ever studied.
One by one, Mars, Earth, Venus and Mercury are all tossed out of their orbits as Jupiter swings around our star on a path that takes it from the outer solar system to the sun's searing doorstep.
Indeed, our moon would seem more at home in the outer solar system, among the massive satellites that orbit the gas giants.
Cassini has been orbiting Saturn since 2004 and has revolutionized our understanding of Saturn's atmosphere, rings, moons, and of the outer solar system in general.
They also reprogrammed Voyager 2 with better ways to take images in the very low light of the outer solar system, and with a more efficient way to transmit data.
Pictures of Earth from the outer solar system are rare because from that distance, Earth appears very close to our sun.
With further study, this primitive object and its cousins could help clarify how the outer solar system formed.
That would be big enough to fulfill several high - priority items on astronomers» wish lists, revolutionizing studies of faraway galaxies, observations of planets in the outer solar system and searches for life on Earth - like exoplanets.
Astronomers have detected a surprisingly irregular object in the dark reaches of the outer solar system.
The star sped through the outer Solar System at 83 kilometres per second, and came within 0.25 parsecs of the Sun (or 52,000 times the Earth — Sun distance), the team reports in the February 10 issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters.
That will allow us to know more about the current architecture of the outer Solar System and the role of Jupiter in protecting the Earth from comparable impacts.»
To date, telescopes have revealed more than 400 KBOs in our outer solar system with diameters of at least 100 kilometers; 70,000 such bodies may exist.
«We can now start with a pretty simple disk, pretty simple physics, and reproduce the outer solar system — and that's never been done before,» says Hal Levison, a planetary scientist at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, who led the study.

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