Sentences with phrase «planet candidates awaiting»
Kepler has discovered more than a thousand planets this way, and many more thousands of planet candidates awaiting verification.
http://eos-nexus.org/ Not exact matches
This is in part why the GMT has yet to settle on a design for a planet - imaging camera whereas the E — ELT's premiere offering, EPICS (for Exoplanet Imaging Camera and Spectrograph), technically remains only a candidate instrument awaiting formal approval from the European Southern Observatory (ESO).
A total of nearly 4,700 candidate planets await confirmation by astronomers and physicists.
To date, Kepler has confirmed the existence of 135 other planets in the Milky Way, with more than 3,500 «candidate» planets awaiting confirmation (it takes time to sift through all of the data).