Sentences with phrase «planets outside our solar system orbiting»

Those theories got a jolt 10 years ago, when astronomers first began discovering planets outside our solar system orbiting other stars.

Not exact matches

The discovery of seven Earth - sized planets orbiting a single cool star fuels a debate over what counts as good news in the search for life outside the solar system.

Many planets outside the solar system are even more massive than Jupiter, and they orbit their Sun - like stars at an Earth - like distance, but these faraway super-Jupiters are effectively giant gas balls that can not support life because they lack solid surfaces.

Dawn is the first mission to visit a dwarf planet, and the first mission outside the Earth - moon system to orbit two distinct solar system targets.

Fascinating new light could be shed on the complex atmospheres of planets which orbit stars outside our own solar system, thanks to pioneering new research.

Researchers expect to find water on many planets outside the solar system, called exoplanets, including Jupiter - size gas giants such as HD 189733 b and HD 209458 b, which orbits a different star.

Planets orbiting stars outside the Solar System are now known to be very common.

The first planets outside the solar system were discovered 25 years ago — not around a normal star like our Sun, but instead orbiting a tiny, super-dense «neutron star».

The Wide - Field Infrared Survey Telescope, or WFIRST, is a proposed mission to study, in part, planets orbiting stars outside the solar system.

In the past two decades more than 1,800 extrasolar planets (or exoplanets) have been discovered outside our solar system orbiting around other stars.

You have been studying exoplanets — planets outside the solar system that orbit Sun - like stars — almost since they were first discovered.

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.

Astronomers have identified more than 100 planets orbiting stars outside our solar system, primarily by monitoring the way a planet's gravity tugs its star back and forth.

Leslie Sage, an authority on exoplanets (planets outside our Solar System), was perplexed when he learned about hot Jupiters — Jupiter - size planets orbiting so close to their stars that they complete an orbit every few days.

The planet, dubbed WASP - 18b, has a mass about 10 times that of Jupiter and completes one orbit around its star WASP - 18 in less than 23 hours, which places the planet in the «hot Jupiter» category of exoplanets, or planets that are located outside our solar system.

The orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around this star would be centered around 1.14 AU — somewhat outside the orbital distance of Earth in the Solar System — with an orbital period of about one and a quarter of an Earth year.

Five new planets have been discovered outside our solar system, all orbiting a sun - like star located within the constellation Aquarius, nearly 620 light years...

A planet orbiting a star outside of our solar system.

We know that there are at least 75 planets outside our own solar system, orbiting their distant stars.

In 1995, University of Geneva astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz announced the discovery of the first planet outside our solar system, a Jupiterlike giant orbiting around a «main sequence» star similar to our sun, 51 Pegasi [source: Mayor and Queloz].

Marcy studies planets orbiting stars outside our own solar system, or exoplanets.

exoplanet A planet that orbits a star outside the solar system.

Extrasolar planet, also called exoplanet, any planetary body that is outside the solar system and that usually orbits a star other than the Sun.

If you include infrared radiation, the orbit of an Earth - like planet with surface water would be centered beyond 0.4 AU — outside the orbital distance of Mercury in the Solar System.

Currently, the orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around Pollux may be centered around 5.7 AU — just outside the orbital distance of Jupiter in the Solar System.

An exoplanet is a planet which orbits a star outside our solar system.

This chart compares artists» concepts of the smallest known exoplanets (planets orbiting outside the solar system) as of January 2012 to our own planets Mars and Earth.