Sentences with phrase «outside the solar system around»

Fellow astronomers were quite surprised in 1990 when Alex Wolszczan and «Dale Frail announced the discovery of the first three planets outside the Solar System around PSR B1257 +12 during a pulsars survey (Wolszczan and Frail, 1992.

Not exact matches

Using powerful telescopes, they can spot planets far outside of the reach of our solar system when they cross in front of their sun — it's how we recently found a triad of planets around a red sun 40 light - years away.

There a thousands upon thousands of objects floating around, inside our solar system (meteor belt) and outside (Oort cloud).

The first planets outside the solar system were discovered 25 years ago — not around a normal star like our Sun, but instead orbiting a tiny, super-dense «neutron star».

More than 350 researchers from around the globe gathered at the Extreme Solar Systems (ESS) II conference in Grand Teton National Park, Wyo., to share their findings on these newfound exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system, of every size and configuraSolar Systems (ESS) II conference in Grand Teton National Park, Wyo., to share their findings on these newfound exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system, of every size and configurasolar system, of every size and configuration.

In the past two decades more than 1,800 extrasolar planets (or exoplanets) have been discovered outside our solar system orbiting around other stars.

The pulse also knocked the electron into a highly elliptical path around the nucleus, rather like a comet that orbits the Sun but spends most of its time far outside the Solar System.

This marks the first detection of an atmosphere around an Earth - like planet other than Earth itself, and thus is a significant step on the path towards the detection of life outside our Solar System.

Extrasolar planets (planets outside our solar system) were found in 1995 for the first time, and since then many planets have been found around stars other than the Sun.

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope is an observatory in space dedicated to finding planets outside our solar system, particularly alien planets that are around the same size as Earth in the «habitable» regions of their parent star.

The next challenge is to image smaller planets in the «habitable» zone around stars where possible life - bearing Earth - like planets outside the solar system could reside.

In what is being hailed as «a significant step on the path towards the detection of life outside our Solar System,» astronomers have detected an atmosphere around the exoplanet GJ 1132b, which makes it the most Earth - like world around which such a layer of gasses has ever been found.

The planet, dubbed WASP - 18b, has a mass about 10 times that of Jupiter and completes one orbit around its star WASP - 18 in less than 23 hours, which places the planet in the «hot Jupiter» category of exoplanets, or planets that are located outside our solar system.

The orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around this star would be centered around 1.14 AU — somewhat outside the orbital distance of Earth in the Solar System — with an orbital period of about one and a quarter of an Earth year.

In 1995, University of Geneva astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz announced the discovery of the first planet outside our solar system, a Jupiterlike giant orbiting around a «main sequence» star similar to our sun, 51 Pegasi [source: Mayor and Queloz].

In what is being hailed as «a significant step on the path towards the detection of life outside our Solar System,» astronomers have detected an atmosphere around the exoplanet GJ 1132b, which makes it the most Earth - like world around which...

The distance from Gamma Leporis A where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water may be centered around 1.6 AU — just outside the orbital distance of Mars in the Solar System with an orbital period of 1.85 Earth Years.

Currently, the orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around Pollux may be centered around 5.7 AU — just outside the orbital distance of Jupiter in the Solar System.

Whilst all the exoplanets discovered around the red dwarf, known as TRAPPIST - 1, are capable of hosting liquid water on their surfaces, three are in orbit in what is known as a star's habitable zone, making them an attractive prospect for scientists searching for life outside of our solar system.

The constantly changing Solar System Barycentre varies from being just «the other side» of the solar core to a solar radius outside the Sun's surface, introducing rapidly changing accelerations from planetary bodies at varying latitudes and longitudes around the Solar Solar System Barycentre varies from being just «the other side» of the solar core to a solar radius outside the Sun's surface, introducing rapidly changing accelerations from planetary bodies at varying latitudes and longitudes around the Solar solar core to a solar radius outside the Sun's surface, introducing rapidly changing accelerations from planetary bodies at varying latitudes and longitudes around the Solar solar radius outside the Sun's surface, introducing rapidly changing accelerations from planetary bodies at varying latitudes and longitudes around the Solar Solar body.