Sentences with phrase «planets outside the solar system as»

Nicknamed «the planet hunter,» the $ 337 million TESS is a follow - up to NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which spent the last eight years searching the skies for as many planets outside our solar system as possible.

New work led by Carnegie's Jacqueline Faherty surveyed various properties of 152 suspected young brown dwarfs in order to categorize their diversity and found that atmospheric properties may be behind much of their differences, a discovery that may apply to planets outside the solar system as well.

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You do not have to be a NASA scientist or a religious person to know that there has to be a designer who is responsible for this existence, just walk outside at night and gaze at the stars and ask yourself as to how did our solar system became so perfectly established and how our planets are perfectly aligned.

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.

«We can use Mars, a planet that we know a lot about, as a laboratory for studying rocky planets outside our solar system, which we don't know much about yet.»

Van de Kamp pointed out that although Barnard's star and its companion are the third known «solar system» outside our own, they constitute the first such pair in which the companion is small enough to be classified confidently as a planet.»

Kepler - 10b The smallest known planet outside our solar system, it is just 1.4 times as wide as Earth and is as dense as solid iron.

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.

Using recently discovered planets outside our solar system (exoplanets) as examples, they investigated the potential for these planets to host life.

Lawrence Livermore scientists for the first time have experimentally re-created the conditions that exist deep inside giant planets, such as Jupiter, Uranus and many of the planets recently discovered outside our solar system.

When Marcy first decided to look for planets outside the solar system, the powers that be were as skeptical as they have always been.

The study of alien worlds is entering its next phase as astronomers amass the best planets outside our Solar System to look for signs of life.

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope is an observatory in space dedicated to finding planets outside our solar system, particularly alien planets that are around the same size as Earth in the «habitable» regions of their parent star.

So many planets have been found outside our solar system that there appear to be about as many planets as there are stars.

The technology, known as Laser Guide Star adaptive optics, will lead to important advances in the study of planets both inside and outside our solar system, as well as of galaxies, black holes, and how the universe formed and evolved, Ghez said.

An artist's conception of Kepler - 22b, a planet 600 light years away from Earth, and the first confirmed planet outside our solar system that could conceivably harbor life as we know it.

These planets outside our solar system — which are known as exoplanets — are companions to stars, swimming in their own sea of darkness.

Of the 209 extrasolar planets (those outside the solar system) discovered as of November 2006, most have masses which are about the same as, or larger than, Jupiter.

NASA has selected a team to build a new, cutting - edge instrument that will detect planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, by measuring the miniscule «wobbling» of stars.

SJSU Associate Professor Natalie Batalha, as a member of NASA's Kepler mission, contributed to the discovery of the smallest planet ever identified outside of our solar system.

As the Governor of humanity's first colony outside the solar system, you are tasked with successfully creating a thriving colony of settlers in various different locations on the planet Aven Prime.

Scientists have discovered the strongest evidence to date for a stratosphere on a planet outside our solar system on WASP - 121b, an exoplanet described as a «hot Jupiter».

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.