Sentences with phrase «planet hunting»
If they go well, Kepler may have years of planet hunting ahead.
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Scientists debate whether hunting, farming, smallpox or the nuclear bomb define the start of irreversible human impacts on our planet
The findings are gaining notice this week at the Planet Formation and Detection conference in Aspen, Colorado, where astronomers have gathered to mark the first decade of extrasolar planet hunting.
How has planet hunting changed since you started?
Discover talked with Seager, now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, about what's next in planet hunting.
Many believe the system's larger, brighter and more sunlike stars, the binary pair Alpha Centauri A and B, offer better prospects for life - friendly worlds, even though all previous planet hunts there have come up empty - handed.
Unlike other planet hunting techniques, microlensing works for finding big planets in large orbits.
Fomalhaut has been a candidate for planet hunting ever since an excess of dust was discovered around the star in the early 1980s by NASA's Infrared Astronomy Satellite (IRAS).
The star will also be a high - priority target for the next generation of planet hunting observatories, including the ESO's European Extremely Large Telescope, and the NASA / ESA / CSA James Webb Space Telescope.
2 Guided 1.5 hour kids & family friendly planet hunting tour of Chris Burden's Scale Model of the Solar System (placed in the Museum to a mile away) led by educator PJ Gubatina Policarpio.
This finding opens a new piece of discovery space in the extrasolar planet hunt: to uncover planets as far from their central stars as Jupiter and Saturn are from our sun.
But planet hunting is in its infancy, and astronomer Dimitar Sasselov estimates that our galaxy harbors some 100 million «super-Earths,» large rocky planets whose stable atmospheres and complex chemistry actually make them mathematically better candidates for the emergence of life than our own small world.
Ultimately, the planet hunt will move into space, above Earth's blurring atmosphere.
The planet hunt accelerated with the launch of NASA's Kepler spacecraft in 2009, and the 2500 worlds it has discovered added statistical heft to the study of exoplanets — and yet more confusion.
Except for a few clouds, the sky is blue and bright, and it seems an odd time for an amateur astronomer to be planet hunting.
Planet hunting is still in its infancy, and the search for the holy grail, an «alien Earth,» continues.
«The Kepler team continues to amaze and excite us with their planet hunting results,» said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.
By May 2013, when the telescope suffered a mechanical failure that ended its planet hunt,...
The art of planet hunting may have finally matured into a science.
People turn in early here, but Marcy and Butler — who, in their 16 years of planet hunting, have found 61 of the 77 planets outside our solar system that are recognized by astronomers — call themselves vampires.
NASA is basically «crowd - sourcing» its planet hunt to clarify where to look and what to look for with its next generation of space telescopes.
Though NASA's Kepler spacecraft isn't dead yet, a serious malfunction aboard the space telescope may mean its days of planet hunting have come to an untimely end.
Now, Hubble is helping astronomers on the planet hunt that has since discovered more than 3,000 extrasolar planets.
Still, Barclay says its pioneering observations will guide the future of planet hunting.
«The Kepler team continues to amaze and excite us with their planet hunting results,» said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate.
Last week's announcement may show the beginning of a new regime of planet hunting; one where we shake - out the smaller worlds hidden in noisy data.
This last point is particularly intriguing, since results from our planet hunting telescopes strongly suggest planets do not stay where they are born.