Sentences with phrase «planetary system ever»
Together, they constitute the most compact planetary system ever seen — less than 5 million kilometers across.
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No mission has ever explored a planetary system as rich as Saturn's in such depth for so long.
«This discovery of the first ever quintuple planetary system has me jumping out of my socks,» says group member and veteran planet hunter Geoffrey Marcy, an astronomer at the University of California at Berkeley.
Now Chad Trujillo, a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology, and his colleague Mike Brown have identified a massive hunk of rock and ice that is nearly 800 miles across, the largest minor planet ever discovered in the solar system.
Images from the Deep Space 1 spacecraft show that Comet Borrelly is the darkest object yet observed in the inner solar system, and several spots on its surface are blacker than anything planetary scientists have ever seen.
This first - ever evidence that hot Jupiters can appear at such an early stage represents a major step forward in our understanding of how planetary systems form and evolve.
The discovery adds to the ever - increasing variety of planetary systems in the Milky Way.
The scope of COSPAR comprises space studies of the Earth's surface, meteorology and climate; space studies of the Earth - Moon system and other bodies of the solar system, including the search for evidence of life in the solar system; study of planetary atmospheres including those of the ever - expanding inventory of exoplanets; space plasmas in the solar system; research in astrophysics from space; life sciences as related to space; materials sciences in space; and fundamental physics in space.
But when multiple methods are used together, we can learn the vital statistics of whole planetary systems — without ever directly imaging the planets themselves.