Sentences with phrase «planets around stars other»

«I'm an astronomer who studies exoplanets — planets around stars other than the sun — and their host stars,» explains Teske.

For the first time since exoplanets, or planets around stars other than the sun, were discovered almost 20 years ago, X-ray observations have detected an exoplanet passing in front of its parent star.

«New Horizons is the latest in a long line of scientific accomplishments at NASA, including multiple missions orbiting and exploring the surface of Mars in advance of human visits still to come; the remarkable Kepler mission to identify Earth - like planets around stars other than our own; and the DSCOVR satellite that soon will be beaming back images of the whole Earth in near real - time from a vantage point a million miles away.

Not exact matches

In a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.

Rovelli points out that humans have always observed that the stars, the moon, the planets, etc, continually revolve around us, so it should follow that «below us» is nothing; in other words, the sky is not just over our head, it's also under our feet.

Google's artificial intelligence has been taught to look for planets around other stars.

Carr and the other research team members set out to study the protoplanetary disk around a star known as HD 100546, and as sometimes happens in scientific inquiry, it was by «chance» that they stumbled upon the formation of the planet orbiting this star.

However, when he sensed that funding in his original field, X-ray astronomy, was drying up, he started thinking about new tools for studying planets around other stars.

It is expected to revolutionize our knowledge of the early universe, planets around other stars, and much else in between.

Second, the most common planets around other stars range between 1 and 10 Earth - masses.

«Looking at how pigments might be adapted on planets around other stars makes us really appreciate how life is specially adapted to our planet and our sun,» Kiang notes.

Has there been any specific new research triggered by these studies of planets around other stars?

They have been looking for signs of planets around other stars, but also discarding false signals while keeping an eye out for anything genuinely strange.

Earth and the other planets of our solar system suffer occasional impacts when comets are disturbed from their orbits around the sun by the gravity of nearby stars and gas clouds.

The answers will not only help explain how Earth became an ideal place for incubating life; they will also tell a lot about the odds of finding similar habitable planets around other stars.

Astronomers now know that planets around other stars are plentiful.

When astronomers started finding planets around other stars in the 1990s, they fully expected to see the general structure of our own solar system repeated throughout the cosmos.

The scope's light - collecting capacity — made possible with almost 800 mirror segments just 50 millimeters thick — will allowastronomers to detect Earth - like planets around other stars, measure the properties of the universe's first stars and galaxies, and probe the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

Prior to 1992, keeping track of all the known planets around other stars like the sun was easy — the tally stood at an even zero.

«The excitement is, yes, there may be gaggles of planets around other stars in their survey as well.»

If conditions are similar around other stars and planets, there should be trillions of moons in our galaxy, with a small but significant percentage of them suitable for life.

Scientists naively presumed if we ever did discover planets around other stars, these worlds would look, well, familiar.

But until astronomers began finding planets around other stars, no one calculated how swallowing nearby objects would affect a star, says theoretical astrophysicist Mario Livio of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.

It took Bill Borucki more than 30 years and $ 600 million to build the Kepler telescope so he could detect planets around other stars.

After a decade of searching for planets orbiting stars like our sun, astronomers had found nothing but giant planets, most of them gas balls like Jupiter, around other stars.

Researchers have discovered more than 3,000 planets around other stars and expect to find tens of thousands more within the next decade.

How realistic are images of planets around other stars — and should they be?

When did you start thinking about a mission to find planets around other stars?

These orbits put the planets at safe distances from their chaotic parent stars, which are pulling each other around in a constant cosmic waltz.

Looking ahead, NASA has no plans for a next - generation mission to study Earth - like planets around other stars, the most exciting astronomical discovery of the past decade if not the past half - century.

It was a brilliant paper about how you could find planets around other stars by measuring the light from those stars.

By the time Webb is operational, Clampin says, another NASA mission, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), slated for launch in 2017, will already be producing a short list of other potentially habitable rocky planets around nearby small stars.

If confirmed by other researchers, the planet would not just be an astronomical novelty; Its detection, reported on the e-print server at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (see astro - ph / 9908038), would also be a triumph for a new and potentially powerful technique for finding planets around other stars.

Early on, I always had to say to the class, «It's probably true that planets around other stars are out there, but we really don't know.»

This is the first time humanity has been able to seriously search for terrestrial planets around other stars.

Even without trillion - dollar funding, you are all making huge advances in our understanding of planets around other stars.

This research will contribute to a once - per - decade report on the field of astrophysics, produced by the National Academies, that NASA uses to help chart a course for future missions, some of which could continue the search for planets around other stars, known as exoplanets.

Over the past decade, the discovery of planets around other stars and the development of intricate computer simulations have suggested that our solar system is something of an oddball.

By then we will have confirmed the existence of many more planets around other stars.

Two rival teams of astronomers are racing to capture unprecedented images of giant planets around other stars.

«If we want to study the evolution of Earth - like planets close to the habitable zone, we need to observe the zodiacal dust in this region around other stars,» said Steve Ertel, lead author of the paper, from ESO and the University of Grenoble in France.

By exploring Titan, we can hope to understand more about planets around other stars.

Kepler launched in March to search for life - friendly planets around other stars.

After detecting the first exoplanets in the 1990s it has become clear that planets around other stars are the rule rather than the exception and there are likely hundreds of billions of exoplanets in the Milky Way alone.

Half of the water on Earth is older than the sun, a finding that hints at what planets around other stars might be like.

Named PH1, the planet goes around two of the four stars, shown close - up here: One is a yellow - white F - type star that is slightly warmer and more luminous than our sun; the other, at the 11 o'clock position, is a red dwarf, cooler and dimmer than the sun.

The worlds are aptly named «circumbinary planets» («circum» meaning around, and «binary» referring to two objects), and in this type of binary system, the two stars orbit each other while the planet orbits the two stars (pictured above).

Capable of collecting nine times as much light as any other optical telescope, it could discover Earth - like planets in the habitable zones around other stars and search for changes over time in the fundamental physical constants.

Planets around other stars have been found with wildly tilted orbits, or «obliquities».

He speculates that even larger planets around other stars might have lost their rocky cores entirely.