Sentences with phrase «planet hunting observatories»

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.

Not exact matches

In fact many scientists regard the planet - hunting space observatory as one of NASA's most successful scientific ventures.

NASA's planet - hunting space observatory got a second chance at life this year.

These will include planet - hunting stalwarts such as the HARPS instrument at the European Southern Observatory in La Silla, Chile, and the new Miniature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array (MINERVA)- Australis, a group of five planned 0.7 - metre telescopes near Toowoomba, Australia.

Similar to Kepler and CoRot, the observatory will «hunt» for drops in brightness that would signal a planet's transit in front of a star.

The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, a Russian - launched, European - built spacecraft that arrived at Mars in October, is starting to dip into the upper reaches of the red planet's atmosphere in a year - long «aerobraking» campaign place the observatory in the right position to hunt for methane, an indicator of potential biological activity.

Per NBC, the $ 600 million Kepler observatory launched in March 2009 to hunt for Earth - size alien planets in the habitable zone of their parent stars, where liquid water, and perhaps even life, might be able to exist.