Sentences with phrase «planetary systems like»

As such, they can be used as a proxy to probe the origin and formation of planetary systems like our own.

These discoveries will continue to change our understanding of how planetary systems like our own form and evolve, and of humanity's place in the universe.

These discs, first seen with Hubble, are seeds of future planetary systems like our own Solar System (figure 4).

In the process, they uncovered a tale of two comet families that might help explain how planetary systems like our own formed.

By observing these systems, we can answer questions such as: Are other planetary systems like our own?

Two decades of searching have failed to turn up another planetary system like ours.

Not exact matches

And what can this mean except that, like those planetary orbits which seem to traverse our solar system without remaining within it, the curve of consciousness, pursuing its course of growing complexity, will break through the material framework of Time and Space to escape somewhere towards an ultra-center of unification and wholeness, where there will finally be assembled, and in detail, everything that is irreplaceable and incommunicable in the world.

you're killing me, New York), the world of wine auctions seemed like a different planetary system altogether.

Before the International Astronomical Union announced the names April 11, scientists referred to Charon's features with nicknames like «brown mountain» or «yellow mountain,» says Rita Schulz, a planetary scientist who heads the union's Working Group for Planetary System Nomeplanetary scientist who heads the union's Working Group for Planetary System NomePlanetary System Nomenclature.

The sun's birth environment couldn't have been too crowded, the logic went, because planetary systems, like ours, could never survive the gravitational jostling of neighboring stars in urban clusters.

First seen in October 2017, the space rock «Oumuamua looks like a skyscraper tumbling through space — and challenges our ideas of how planetary systems form

It may seem like a trivial distinction for something billions of years old, but it could make a difference when pinning down the conditions that led to the solar system's formation, says Bouvier, and those needed for other life - friendly planetary systems to form.

«If we extrapolate down to Earth - size planets, there could be something like 100 billion planetary systems.»

Now I don't think we'll run into humanoid - like creatures in every planetary system.

«The solar system is now looking like a pretty soggy place,» Jim Green, director of NASA's Planetary Science Division, said March 12 at a news conference.

Most planetary systems have Jupiter - like planets.

Fridlund helped design COROT (for convection, rotation, and planetary transits), ESA's early entry in the race to find rocky, Earth - like planets outside our solar system.

Craters like this one are typically found on planetary bodies in the Solar System that don't have atmospheres and therefore no weather systems to erode them.

This scenario naturally produces a planetary system just like our own: small, rocky planets with thin atmospheres close to the star, a Jupiter - like gas giant just beyond the snowline, and the other giants getting progressively smaller at greater distances because they move more slowly through their orbits and take longer to hoover up material.

Recent star surveys indicate that planetary systems — very likely including many Earth - like planets — are common throughout the Milky Way and the rest of the universe.

AUSTIN, TEXAS — Like a planetary jewelry case, our solar system glitters with a dazzling variety of rings.

Direct imaging of exoplanetary systems is a powerful technique that can reveal Jupiter - like planets in wide orbits, can enable detailed characterization of planetary atmospheres, and is a key step toward imaging Earth - like planets.

This implies that different planetary systems in our galaxy contain minor planets like our own.

The findings offer additional insight into the unusual and active geology on Pluto and, perhaps, other bodies like it on the planetary outskirts of the solar system.

The discovery that the debris disks around some larger stars retain carbon monoxide longer than their Sun - like counterparts may provide insights into the role this gas plays in the development of planetary systems.

«If we start detecting planets around stars like that, we can tell what happens to planetary systems when their stars begin to evolve and lose mass and swell up and do all those unpleasant things,» he says.

It also means our solar system may have formed more like the rest of the planetary systems we see in the galaxy.

If so, the authors calculate, HIP 56948's planetary system should have the same amount of Earth - like material as ours.

Most theorists hold that such ejections should be quite common during the chaotic tumult of a planetary system's early days, when closely - packed worlds whirling around a star can scatter off each other like billiard balls in a break shot.

For planetary scientists like Jackson, being able to observe objects like these may yield important clues about how planet formation works in other star systems.

STARS like the sun don't last forever — they eventually expand and envelop the inner members of their planetary systems.

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE — For years, astronomers have searched for planetary systems that look like our own.

But if astronomers find more planetary systems around pulsars, they probably won't be so much like our solar system, says infrared astronomer Dana Backman of Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

A dark ring of dust and gas circling the star (dark bands, center), material that may one day coalesce into a planetary system, acts like a belt, cinching the nebula into an hourglass shape.

This newly discovered huge structure around the system may have implications for what this yet - unseen planetary system looks like around the 8 - million - year - old star, which is in its formative years of planet construction.

This newly discovered huge dust structure around the system may have implications for what a yet - unseen planetary system looks like around the 8 - million - year - old star.

In many of these cases, the star will thus take its name from various details of the scientific projects that brought attention to it by discovering its planetary system, which leads to exoplanets with unwieldy monikers like «2MASS J04414489 +2301513 b» or «MOA -2007-BLG-192Lb.»

«This means that some of the planets discovered by K2 will have orbits lined up with Earth's, a celestial coincidence that allows Kepler to see the alien planets, and Kepler - like telescopes in those very planetary systems (if there are any) to discover Earth.»

For astronomers, attempting to understand the life cycles of planetary systems using existing examples is like trying to learn how people grow from babies to children to teenagers, by only studying adults.

«We would like to know whether in other planetary systems Kuiper belts exist with large quantities of water that could be added to otherwise dry planets,» he said.

From studies of extrasolar systems, it is apparent that planetary systems around other stars are as varied as the planets they contain and that no one system is like another.

The artist concepts show what the TRAPPIST - 1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about their diameters, masses and distances from the host star.

This suggests that the star GD 61 and its planetary system — located about 150 light years away and at the end of its life — had the potential to contain Earth - like exoplanets.

In other cases, when a solar system contains more than 3 massive Jupiter - like planets, the orbits become unstable by the gravity of these planets and some of them may spin out the planetary system.

This artist's concept shows what the TRAPPIST - 1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about the planets» diameters, masses, and distances from the host star.

The study of Earth - like exoplanets must begin with analogies to observations on Earth, and studies like ours help to apply Earth system models toward more general planetary system.

Some of them are orbiting extremely close to their parent star like the 51 Peg planetary system, while others are found to be at distances comparable to where Mars and Jupiter lie in our solar system.

The volu... ▽ More Owing to the remarkable photometric precision of space observatories like Kepler, stellar and planetary systems beyond our own are now being characterized en masse for the first time.

Follow - up observations of planetary candidates identified by detection of transit - like events are needed both for identification of astrophysical phenomena that mimic planetary transits and for characterization of the true planets and planetary systems found by Kepler.

Well, by understanding how multi-star systems evolve by finding examples like this embedded inside star forming molecular clouds, we may start to appreciate how common and how stable they are and whether accompanying planetary systems are a reality or something that will forever be confined to the Twelve Colonies.