Sentences with phrase «rogue planets»

These ejected planets are called rogue planets, and have been discovered in other exoplanet searches.
You've heard of rogue planets, floating through the universe untethered to any solar system.
He does worry that on other planets that don't receive light energy from a sun but still get bombarded with GCRs — such as free floating rogue planets not tied to any solar system — temperatures would dip too low and freeze life in its tracks.
Extrapolating that number to the entire galaxy brings the tally of such rogue planets up to hundreds of billions, suggesting they may be twice as prevalent as stars.
Our long - lost neighbor may now be one of the hundreds of billions of rogue planets hurtling through space.
We know more about what it isn't: it can't be dead stars, rogue planets, or wandering black holes, for example.
«Where does the light come from that allows rogue planets to be seen, either directly or via gravitational lensing?»
Estranged from its parent star and sibling worlds, this rogue planet wanders the universe alone and dawnless, just 100 light - years from where you sit surrounded by your warm social group.
The duration and strength of such a «gravitational microlensing» event could reveal not only a rogue planet's existence but also its mass, as bigger worlds tend to create longer, stronger amplifications of a background star's light.
Based on a statistical analysis of more than 2,600 microlensing events, drawn from six years of observations on about 50 million stars, the OGLE team estimates that there is perhaps one Jupiter - mass rogue planet for every four stars in the galaxy.
(Neither result is anything for Earthlings to fret about — space is so huge that the chances of a rogue planet wandering close enough to our solar system to cause harm are, well, astronomically low.)
It takes intensive calculations and a complicated series of assumptions to extract a rogue planet's basic details from the deceptively simple brightening of faraway stars.
Batygin says he spends little time ruminating on its origin — whether it is a fugitive from our own solar system or, just maybe, a wandering rogue planet captured by the sun's gravity.
«The researchers report that their simulations showed that 60 percent of the times a rogue planet encountered our solar system, it came in and then left, sometimes taking another smaller planet with it.
WISE 1828 +2650 (full designation WISEPA J182831.08 +265037.8) is a brown dwarf or rogue planet [2] of spectral class > Y2, [2] located in constellation Lyra at approximately 47 light - years from Earth.
Given the large orbital eccentricities of these two objects (which move beyond 500 AUs of the Sun), some astronomers have argued that they were likely to have been strongly perturbed by a massive celestial object (which is unlikely to have been Neptune as they do not come close enough to feel its gravitational influence) such as the passing of a rogue planet (perturbed from its primordial orbit by the gas giants of the inner Solar Sylstem) or one or more passing stars, which could have dragged the two objects farther out after initial orbital perturbation by Neptune or as part of a «first - generation» Oort Cloud.
A rogue planet moving through the solar system would be pretty obvious to astronomers, who can detect planets far beyond our home solar system by looking for the wobbles their passage causes in the stars they orbit.
Since then, the rogue planet has become the bogeyman of multiple doomsday predictions, including the 2012 Maya apocalypse, which was based on the supposed end of the ancient Maya calendar.
A rogue planet is heading towards Earth and the scientists seem to be in disagreement as to whether it's going to collide or not.
And when Justine takes a break from the festivities to lie on her back and peer into the night sky, it doesn't register that the unusually bright star overhead might be a rogue planet on a rendezvous with Earth.
Snapshot: A drama about two adult sisters working to repair their strained relationship, just as a rogue planet threatens to collide with Earth.
The title describes more about the atmosphere and mood of this film rather than the rogue planet will clash with Earth.
What that means is it's a starting point for new readers, as a new story kicks off in this issue — in this case, a rogue planet is on a collision course toward the Earth, and it's up to the Avengers to stop it.
When you engage in combat, the screen transitions into a focused battlefield, akin to other popular TBS games such as Rogue Planet.
Mecho Wars, Rogue Planet, Battle For Wesnoth, Unowars... now this!?
While Rogue Planet promised over 100 hours of gameplay, Transformers will come in with around 27 levels lasting two to four hours total.
As far as iPhone - based TBS games go, there is little variation beyond the tried - and - tested, ultra deep formulas seen in Rogue Planet, Mecho Wars, and Battle for Wesnoth.
The game has been simplified a bit compared to other strategy games, and it doesn't have nearly the amount of content of a game like Rogue Planet.
Like similar turn - based strategy games Rogue Planet and Mecho Wars, in Transformers G1: Awakening you take turns moving your characters (the Autobots) close enough to your enemies (the Decepticons) to attack them.

Not exact matches

Planets can go rogue in two ways: They can get kicked out of their parent planetary systems or form when a ball of gas and dust collapses (SN: 4 /...
Researchers and science fiction authors have worried about self - replicating nanomachines going rogue and consuming the entire planet, covering it in «grey goo ``.
Depending on the prophecy, the world is predestined to expire by means of a solar storm, asteroid strike, rogue - planet collision, plague, falling stars, earthquake, debt crisis, or some combination thereof.
To explain the MOA results, some theorists guessed that many of the purported rogue giant planets were actually free - floating failed stars called brown dwarfs — intermediate objects that straddle the hazy line between being a planet and a sun.
Some relatively cool, «rogue» planets (not associated with any star) are being discovered wandering alone in deep space.
His story intertwines with that of two other characters: James Holden (Steven Strait), a rogue ship's captain involved in a planet - threatening accident; and U.N. undersecretary Chrisjen Avasarala (Shohreh Aghdashloo), who's willing to go to any lengths for what she deems is right.
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Let's get the big one out of the way first: this incredible shot of our heroes sprinting across the beach on the planet Scarif with the Death Star plans — that's what Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) is holding in her left hand there — is nowhere to be found in «Rogue One.»
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We've assaulted the virtual shores of Normandy a thousand times over, drank from umpteen different toilets in Fallout and similar titles, picked between the holy trinities of human / elf / dwarf and warrior / rogue / mage countless times, and have explored many distant planets.
Intent on not returning to their home planet empty - handed, the group undertake a rogue mission to collect samples, and all kinds of hell breaks loose as a mysterious presence starts to off them one by one.
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In this post-apocalyptic rogue - like squad based tactical mouthful, you control a convoy traveling across a planet which is controlled by three factions.
On the planet, Opoona must find a job, search for his siblings, and defend himself and the people of Landroll against creatures known as the Dark Rogues.
These are the games whose control schemes I studied to come up with the perfect scheme: Ace Combat 6, Colony Wars, Star Wars Rogue Squadron, SDF Macross (PS2), Metal Gear Solid 4, Splinter Cell Conviction, Grand Theft Auto IV, Vanquish, A.C.E. 3, Anubis, Border Break, Modern Warfare, Gears of War, Dead Space, Orbiter (PC), Shattered Horizon, DropShip, Lost Planet & Transformers: War for Cybertron.
The story in CNRR revolves around a rogue Claptrap assimilating with everything on the planet, and you're tasked with stopping him and his growing army.
You're Joules, a would - be colonist of distant planet Far Eden who wakes up from cryosleep to find her fellow settlers depleted in number and scattered across the sands while rogue bots stalk the lands.
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