Sentences with phrase «rare planetary alignment»
Studying historical, astronomical and biblical records, Mathews believes the event that led the Magi — Zoroastrian priests of ancient Babylon and Mesopotamia — was an extremely rare planetary alignment occurring in 6 B.C., and the likes of which may never be seen again.
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«These chance alignments are rare, occurring only about once every 1 million years for a given planet, so it was thought that a very long wait would be required before the planetary microlensing signal could be confirmed,» said David Bennett, the lead of the team that analyzed the Hubble data.
On Wednesday, February 2, 2011, NASA's Kepler Mission revealed that, thus far, it has detected 1,235 planetary candidates orbiting 907 host stars, from a survey of some 155,453 stars in constellations Cygnus and Lyra using the transit method which requires a rare orbital alignment across the face of the host star as seen from the Solar System.