Sentences with phrase «planet search team»

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As the search for a hypothetical, unseen planet far, far beyond Neptune's orbit continues, research by a team of the University of Arizona provides additional support for the possible existence of such a world and narrows the range of its parameters and location.

A team of astronomers at the University of Chicago and Grinnell College seeks to change the way scientists approach the search for Earth - like planets orbiting stars other than the sun.

All these search teams report their observations to the Minor Planet Center, the central node where all observations from observatories worldwide are correlated with objects, and they are given unique designations and their orbits are calculated.

The astronomy teams were led by Lorna Temple, Astrophysics Researcher at Keele University, who explained: «Planet - search teams are only just beginning to find hot - Jupiter planets with hot, fast - rotating host stars.

While the HARPS team monitors nearby stars for telltale wobbles caused by orbiting planets, Kepler scientists search a wide field of faraway stars, watching for planets that become silhouetted against their suns.

«By combining seven smaller telescopes to synthesize the accuracy of one large one,» says Michael Shao, the scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who heads the SIM team, «we're going to be able to search the nearest 40 or so stars to find planets that are from one to two times the mass of Earth and that are in a habitable zone around their stars.»

Any of these planets might also transit the star, so the team plans to search for additional transits in the months ahead.

The NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope is already being used to search for atmospheres around the planets and team member Emmanuël Jehin is excited about the future possibilities: «With the upcoming generation of telescopes, such as ESO's European Extremely Large Telescope and the NASA / ESA / CSA James Webb Space Telescope, we will soon be able to search for water and perhaps even evidence of life on these worlds.»

As a member of the Science Team of the MESSENGER mission to Mercury, Chapman has been studying images and other data returned from the spacecraft's first flybys of Mercury and from its primary and extended orbital missions around the planet; he is Education Public Outreach liaison with the Science Team and, as a member of the Geology Discipline Group of the Science Team, he is helping to conduct searches for satellites of Mercury and putative vulcanoids, as well as concentrating on studies of Mercury's craters and geological processes and history.

Renu Malhotra — LPL Professor and EOS Team Member — has recently given an excellent TEDx talk on the Search for Planet 9.

As NASA beefs up its search for life elsewhere, it has selected two teams of astronomers, planetary scientists and other specialists, led by the University of Arizona and Arizona State University, to join in a systematic search for Earth - like planets.

Stassun is a co-principal investigator on the project and he and his team will be selecting the specific stars that the project will target in its search for subtle, periodic dips in brightness that occurs when a planet transits across a star's face.

In the latter half of 2008, two teams of astronomers began technically difficult searches for small terrestrial planets around the two brightest stars of the Alpha Centauri triple system.

The team analyzed data collected by the European Southern Observatory's High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) telescope and the Ultraviolet and Visual Echelle Spectrograph (UVES) to search for planet candiPlanet Searcher (HARPS) telescope and the Ultraviolet and Visual Echelle Spectrograph (UVES) to search for planet candiplanet candidates.

Several established planet - hunting teams have used various radial velocity or star transit methods in their searches around these two bright stars.

But we will reach an and involve much larger groups: Our results will find their way to the courses we teach and we will also build up a team of Other Earths Ambassadors — citizen scientists excited by the search for life on other planets and eager to contribute.

For the remainder of the three - year sub-millimetre survey, the team will continue to monitor EC53 and will also be searching for additional young stars showing variations in growth to learn more about how stars and planets assemble.

On August 29, 2012, the Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) revealed that a team of astronomers working with the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Search (HARPS) project had discovered two planets «b» and «c» around the red dwarf star Gliese 163.

Kalas and a multi-institutional team using GPI first targeted the star in search of other planets in May 2015 and discovered that it was surrounded by a ring of dusty material very close to the size of our own solar system's Kuiper Belt.

The team, including Carnegie scientists, uses the «Doppler wobble» technique to search for these otherwise invisible extra-solar planets, and achieve the highest long - term precision demonstrated by any Southern Hemisphere planet search.

This documentary follows the dramatic life - or - death adventures of a team of surfer / explorers who search the seven seas on the quest to find and ride the biggest wave on the planet.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening August 7, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (PG - 13 for mayhem and graphic violence) Action - oriented thriller about an elite team of gadget - equipped, military spies who venture to the ends of the Earth in search of the international arms dealer (Christopher Eccleston) masterminding a diabolical plot to plunge the planet into complete chaos.

PORTLAND, Maine — The Planet Dog Foundation is making an emergency donation to the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation to support the efforts of their teams currently active in Haiti.

Whether you are dreaming of all - inclusive bliss and overwater bungalows in the Maldives, rustic beachfront accommodation where you can enjoy the days barefoot with the sand in your toes in Indonesia, or want pampering onboard a five star liveaboard while you fly along the seas in search of manta rays, the team at Planet Dive are on hand to make sure all your luxury holiday teams come true!

This ragtag team of developers has banded together to create a space exploration game where players can touch down on 18 quintillion (that's an 18 followed by 18 zeros) planets in search of... something.