Sentences with phrase «powerful solar telescope»

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Using powerful telescopes, they can spot planets far outside of the reach of our solar system when they cross in front of their sun — it's how we recently found a triad of planets around a red sun 40 light - years away.

Astrophysicists using a telescope embedded in Antarctic ice have succeeded in a quest to detect and record the mysterious phenomena known as cosmic neutrinos — nearly massless particles that stream to Earth at the speed of light from outside our solar system, striking the surface in a burst of energy that can be as powerful as a baseball pitcher's fastball.

All this comes as missions beyond the Moon provide greater insights into our solar system and more powerful telescopes give us a glimpse at exoplanets light years away.

The ultraviolet Hubble data was captured after astronomers detected powerful solar winds heading towards Uranus, and tasked the telescope with observing the effects on the planet's atmosphere and magnetic field

Scientists using the powerful Hubble Space Telescopes have identified three tiny objects at the frontier of the solar system that NASA's New Horizons spacecraft could visit after making an historic flyby of Pluto next summer.