Sentences with phrase «planets orbiting the star kepler»

Sarah Ballard, a CfA graduate student and member of the Kepler team, described on September 12 a newly uncovered pair of planets orbiting the star Kepler 19.

The planet orbits the star Kepler - 13A, one of a triple - star system located 1,730 light - years away, once every 1.8 Earth days.

Not exact matches

In talking about the two new planets, NASA focused less on Kepler - 80g and more on Kepler - 90i because it was found to be the eighth planet orbiting the only star in its solar system.

Although a mechanical failure recently put the telescope out of commission (SN: 6/15/13, p. 10), Kepler's census of planets orbiting roughly 170,000 stars is enabling astronomers to predict how common planets...

Planet Hunters, meanwhile, puts citizen scientists to work analyzing readings from NASA's Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth - like planets orbiting other stars.

A far - flung star's extra wink, spotted in data from the Kepler space telescope and further probed by the Hubble Space Telescope, may be the first evidence for an exomoon — a moon orbiting a planet orbiting a distant star.

Dubbed Kepler 438 b and Kepler 442 b, both planets appear to be rocky and orbit in the not - too - hot, not - too - cold habitable zones of their stars where liquid water can exist in abundance.

Captured by Kepler's digital sensors, transformed into bytes of data, and downloaded to computers at NASA's Ames Research Center near San Francisco, the processed starlight slowly revealed a remarkable story: A planet not much bigger than Earth was whipping around its native star at a blistering pace, completing an orbit — its version of a «year» — in just over 20 hours.

Kepler - 11 In this miniature version of our solar system, announced in February, five of the six planets circle their star more closely than Mercury orbits the sun.

The Kepler team has already pulled off that feat for two planets orbiting a star called Kepler - 9, about 2,000 light - years from Earth.

And this is just the latest in a series of stunning finds from Kepler, a space telescope designed to search for Earth - size planets orbiting other stars in what is called «the Goldilocks zone.»

Like Luke Skywalker's planet «Tatooine» in Star Wars, Kepler - 16b orbits a pair of stars.

One example is the recently discovered planet Kepler - 186f, which is orbiting an M - dwarf star,» says Rein.

Kepler - 186f is the fifth and outermost planet discovered orbiting around the dwarf star Kepler - 186.

Astronomers detected the planets using the Kepler telescope, which measures the slight dimming of a star's light caused by orbiting planets passing in front of it.

Kepler 36: Most Crowded One of Kepler's more surprising results is that many stars host multiple planets crammed together in weirdly close orbits.

Although a mechanical failure recently put the telescope out of commission (SN: 6/15/13, p. 10), Kepler's census of planets orbiting roughly 170,000 stars is enabling astronomers to predict how common planets similar to Earth are across the galaxy.

Kepler 20: Oddest Family Five planets, including two rocky worlds about the size of Earth, orbit the star Kepler 20.

The first evidence for an exomoon — a moon orbiting a planet orbiting a distant star — may have been spotted in data from the Kepler space telescope.

«William Borucki, of the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California,» won the astronomy prize for «conceiving the observational technique of transit photometry that raised the tantalizing prospect of sighting Earth - like planets orbiting other stars, and [for] leading the 25 - year - long development of the Kepler mission.»

The planet, Kepler 452 b, is likely rocky and orbits in its star's habitable zone where liquid water can exist

Under K2, Kepler won't stare at the same patch of sky for as long, so it will be restricted to hunting for planets that orbit their stars much more closely than Earth does the sun.

Early in its mission, Kepler managed to find some tantalizing worlds, a handful of supersize cousins of Earth, most of them in clement orbits around smaller, cooler, quieter stars than the sun called M and K dwarfs, but all the setbacks made finding smaller Earth - sized planets around sun - like G stars a very tall order.

They found that one possibly habitable planet, Kepler - 186f, might orbit outside its star's astrosphere, which is smaller than the one puffed out by our sun.

While searching for Earth - like planets, NASA's Kepler spacecraft has come across 10 that share one very un-Earth-like quality: They orbit two stars, instead of one.

The Kepler spacecraft, launched last March, orbits the sun while scanning upward of 150,000 stars for signs of a slight dimming — a sign that a planet has crossed its face.

Most of the planets found by Kepler orbit stars 1,000 light - years away or farther.

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.

Tatooine A commonly used epithet for Kepler - 16b, the first confirmed circumbinary planet, meaning it orbits two suns like Luke Skywalker's fictional desert world from Star Wars.

By measuring those rising and falling «light curves,» Kepler will give astronomers valuable information about planets orbiting other stars — including exoplanets in far - out orbits that other techniques can't detect — and even free - floating planets that don't orbit stars at all.

It's a basic bias in transiting exoplanet surveys: Larger objects will produce larger changes in a star's brightness, so Kepler is more likely to detect big planets or moons.Another bias is planets with shorter orbits.

NASA's prolific exoplanets - hunting satellite Kepler has found its strongest candidate yet for an Earth - like planet in a life - friendly orbit around a sunlike star.

A new find from NASA's Kepler orbiting observatory is the first Earth - sized planet to be detected in the habitable zone of a star

That precision is what makes Kepler - 10b the first unquestionably rocky planet orbiting another star, Batalha said.

The star, designated Kepler - 10, dimmed 0.015 % every 0.84 day, revealing a planet — dubbed Kepler - 10b — orbiting only 1 / 20th as far from its star as Mercury, the innermost planet in our solar system, orbits the sun.

The discovery, announced today at a COROT symposium in Paris, is good news for NASA's Kepler mission, which will hunt for Earth - like planets orbiting in the habitable zones of their stars.

«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.

Kane and his colleagues used this information to fine - tune the boundaries of Kepler - 69c's habitable zone, in addition to careful measurements of the star's total energy output and the orbit of the planet.

Like the fictional Star Wars planet, Kepler - 34 (AB) b is a circumbinary planet, so - called because its orbit encompasses two stars.

Before Kepler launched in 2009, most planet hunters doggedly revealed new exoplanets (planets orbiting other stars) one by one, like anglers pulling individual fish from the sea.

This artist's concept illustrates Kepler - 16b, the first planet known to definitively orbit two stars - what's called a circumbinary planet.

To find out, the team added instabilities to a computer model of Kepler - 11, a system that contains six rocky planets orbiting closer to their star than Mercury does to the sun.

These exoplanets — terrestrial and larger planets orbiting other stars — are detected with help from NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which launched in March 2009 with the goal of using the transit technique to detect exoplanets.

Earlier this year the scientists of NASA's Kepler mission announced that their planet - hunting space telescope had identified more than 1,200 possible exoplanets (worlds orbiting stars other than our own sun) in its first few months on the job.

TIGHT FIT The star Kepler 11 (illustrated) is home to six planets, five of which would fit inside the orbit of Mercury.

William Borucki, of the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, has captured the astronomy prize for two achievements: conceiving the observational technique of transit photometry that raised the tantalizing prospect of sighting Earth - like planets orbiting other stars, and leading the 25 - year - long development of the Kepler mission, which in 2009 placed a telescope in space to make those observations.

The Kepler 11 system is unique for several reasons: For starters, it is among the largest collections of worlds known outside our own solar system, and all six of the planets Kepler has found there are aligned so that their orbits carry them across the face of their host star from Kepler's vantage point.

Borucki says it will be a few years yet before Kepler is able to identify a true Earth analogue — a small planet on a one - Earth - year orbit around a sunlike star.

All five of the new extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, as well as one more world whose properties are not yet fully understood, orbit a sunlike star called Kepler 11, some 2,000 light - years away.

The planet designated Kepler - 186f, however, is earth - sized and orbits within the star's habitable zone.