Sentences with phrase «search nearby exoplanets»
Our goal is to search nearby exoplanets which have been determined to be in the habitable zone of their host star.
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With the right technology, and the right telescope, we could soon search nearby exoplanets for signs of life, and tell the cosmic story of how this life came to be.
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But a trio of papers published or announced this week shows just how far exoplanet searches have come and how such projects are progressing toward finding an Earth - like planet, possibly even a nearby one.
As the Academies notes in their recent decadal survey,» [t] he search for exoplanets is one of the most exciting subjects in all of astronomy...» The report went on to recommend «a program to explore the diversity and properties of planetary systems around other stars, and to prepare for the long - term goal of discovering and investigating nearby, habitable planets.»
Anne - Marie Lagrange and her group have used these adaptive optics systems to painstakingly search nearby stars (typically within a distance of 250 lightyears) for exoplanets.
The TESS satellite, which will launch in 2017, will use four cameras to search for exoplanets around bright nearby stars.