Sentences with phrase «predicting planet size»

She is now one of the world's experts in predicting planet size and position from the features of a star's dust ring.

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By the end of the summer, he predicts, the test bed will have demonstrated the necessary contrast ratio that, scaled up to full size, could enable the imaging of Earth - like planets.

«The French will find the first terrestrial - size planet,» Borucki predicts.

To predict when astronomers might find the first planet similar in size to Earth that also orbits far enough from its star to boast liquid water, the team scoured the discovery records of 370 exoplanets.

Extrasolar planets are extremely hot right now — some researchers are predicting it's only a matter of time until we discover Earth - size planets outside the solar system — and Scientific American has elaborate coverage of these developments.

The placement and orbits of small, so - called extreme trans - Neptunian objects, can help narrow down the size and distance from the Sun of the predicted ninth planet, because that planet's gravity influences the movements of the smaller objects that are far beyond Neptune.

The data collected by Spitzer and other telescopes reveal the exoplanets» sizes and distances to their stars, while theoretical models predict additional information about the planets» atmospheres and surfaces.

So I predict that in 10 years we will have detected oxygen in Earth - size planets around Sun - like stars.

The Kepler statistics predict that 10 percent of nearby stars would host Earth - sized planets within the habitable zones of their stars, where temperatures are optimum for life, as we know it.