Sentences with phrase «see planets of our solar system»

I just finished assembling that 8 ″ dobsonian telescope with which I'll be able to see planets of our solar system, but also deep space stellar objects like galaxies, clusters or nebulas.

I just finished assembling that 8 ″ dobsonian telescope with which I'll be able to see planets of our solar system, but also deep space stellar objects like galaxies, clusters or...

Not exact matches

Descartes suggested, with persuasive rhetoric, a theory of the solar system whereby the planets are carried round the sun by vortices, but he made no calculations to see if it is true.

In the world view we share we have all been made aware of the rather insignificant role played by the planet on which we live; we know something of the solar system, and we have had impressed upon us the unbelievably immense distances which separate us from most of the stars we see in the sky with our naked eyes.

When astronomers started finding planets around other stars in the 1990s, they fully expected to see the general structure of our own solar system repeated throughout the cosmos.

The images show storm systems and weather activity unlike anything previously seen on any of our solar system's gas - giant planets.

«The planet's atmosphere, if it indeed exists, might be something completely different from what we are used to seeing in the solar system,» says Mikko Tuomi of the University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield, UK, who was the first to spot signs of the planet when studying archival data.

The Planet Observer's Handbook begins with a general description of the Solar System, followed by an account of the celestial sphere and a particularly good chapter on telescopes and accessories — the diagrams here are among the best I have seen for a long time.

When Jupiter emerged from its annual pass behind the sun last March, amateur astronomers saw a brand - new blotch of vermilion on the solar system's largest planet, just west of the Great Red Spot, Jupiter's signature storm.

«We are seeing order in the solar system, and part of the nature of understanding the planets is to see the order in things,» he writes.

In a decade, NASA hopes to launch a network of space - based telescopes that will be able to pinpoint Earth - like planets in other solar systems and see whether life has altered their atmosphere in the same way it has here on Earth — flooding it with oxygen, for example.

GREEDY GIANT Jupiter, seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image, might have once robbed the inner solar system of planet - building material

Batygin began seeding his solar system models with Planet X's of various sizes and orbits, to see which version best explained the objects» paths.

As with previous studies, the researchers found that the most probable way of creating a solar system with the same planet sizes and positions as seen today is to have Mars form within Earth's orbit and migrate outward.

Then we leave our home planet to see more of the solar system's wonders, taking in a Martian sunset and a simulation of Saturn's dark side bathed in ring - shine.

Jupiter and Neptune may have collected their Trojans about 3.8 billion years ago, at a time when the orbits of these planets were shifting and their gravity was flinging vast numbers of comet - like objects around the solar system (see The solar system, but not as we know it).

If you look at exoplanets (ie those outside our solar system), you see bizarre things: planets of fiery magma, which resemble hell; Planets of ice and colder than the Arctic; Planets that consist only of water or purplanets of fiery magma, which resemble hell; Planets of ice and colder than the Arctic; Planets that consist only of water or purPlanets of ice and colder than the Arctic; Planets that consist only of water or purPlanets that consist only of water or pure iron.

One of the weirdest comets we've seen formed from tiny pebbles that trace back to the start of our solar system — which may tell us more about how planets are made

The waves are an interesting piece of the puzzle: we see large - scale waves in the solar system planets (including Earth), but we have not yet seen waves with wavelengths similar to the entire planet — like the ones we now found in brown dwarfs.

«You can see from the surface a record of solar system history, building blocks of planets and precursors to life.»

A hundred days have passed since Mars was closest to Earth this year, but the Red Planet can still be seen in the early evening sky close to the jewel of the solar system, Saturn.

Although Kargel's research focused on the icy moons of the outer solar system, his interest was piqued when he saw what he thought was a network of sinuous channels meandering through the Argyre impact basin, a region in the southern highlands of the red planet.

At 21 light - years away, the planet is the closest outside of our solar system that can be seen crossing, or transiting, its star — a bonus for astronomers because transiting planets make ideal specimens for detailed studies of their atmospheres.

During the orbital period of such a planet of 0.6 (3) a, an observer on the planet would see this intensely bright companion star circle the sky just as humans see with the Solar System's planets.

For the first time since Pluto's discovery in 1930, astronomers at last see directly see details on the surface of the solar system's farthest known planet...

While many people think it's pretty cool to see images of features like ice mountains on the most mysterious planet (even if it is a dwarf) in our solar system, imagine the excitement of the scientists that have made a career of studying Pluto having never seen it; or the engineers that built and programmed the craft, the instruments, and the flight path that had New Horizons travel the length of our solar system for nearly a decade.

Now, giant cyclones at the planet's poles have been seen in greater detail than ever before — they are not only stunning, but unique from atmospheric storms of any other planet in the Solar System, even other gas and ice giants.

The high precision of the Kepler space telescope has allowed us to detect planets that are the size of Earth and somewhat smaller, but no previous planets have been found that are smaller than those we see in our own Solar System.

Based on the available data, the astronomers concluded that the planet's atmosphere is either a thin but dense layer rich in water steam or a thick layer of high clouds or hazes, similar to those seen in the atmospheres of Venus and Titan in the Solar System.

Eventually, the pair saw that if they ran simulations using a hypothetical massive planet in what's called an anti-aligned orbit — a path in which the planet's perihelion, or closest approach to the sun, is 180 degrees from all of the other objects and known planets in the solar system — their six strangely behaving objects moved in the strange alignment that they actually do in reality.

It's therefore important that the Gemini Planet Imager can see big, Jupiter - size planets in the outer parts of solar systems and perform spectroscopy on these planets to see what they are made out of.

«The fact that we can see planets being born will help us understand not only how planets form around other stars but also the origin of our own solar system.»

The comparisons we have carried out thus far (see above) indicate that the 5 - AU - wide gap's observed structure could be generated by a sub-Jupiter-mass planet orbiting within the disk at a position roughly equivalent to that of Uranus in our solar system.

Life On Mars — not to be confused with the two TV shows that have already run with that Bowie - alluding name — will see Krasinski shifting his aims from post-apocalyptic Earth to the equally barren surface of our solar system's fourth planet, centering on a young woman trying to survive on the Red Pplanet, centering on a young woman trying to survive on the Red PlanetPlanet.

Increase the mass of Jupiter and you'll see the rest of our solar system being sucked into it, or delete the Sun and watch Earth and the other planets drift away confused.

About other planets in our solar system, see the same list of talking points: http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-other-planets-solar-system.htm 1.

Hansen began his career studying Venus, which was once a very Earth - like planet with plenty of life - supporting water before runaway climate change rapidly transformed it into an arid and uninhabitable sphere enveloped in an unbreathable gas; he switched to studying our planet by 30, wondering why he should be squinting across the solar system to explore rapid environmental change when he could see it all around him on the planet he was standing on.

You can get quite a range of periodicities if you consider all the planets in our solar system, their resonances and harmonics, see any of Scafetta's recent papers for more examples.

In sum, both the OLR measured by satellite and the energy balance of the planets in our solar system indicate that Planck's law and a bulk emission temperatures provide an approximate description of the planet's temperature (see Supplementary Material).