Sentences with phrase «slight dip in brightness»
They monitored more than 34,000 stars, searching for slight dips in their brightnesses from the shadows of giant planets crossing in front.
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Using the «transit method» to discover exoplanets, the system watches stars for slight dips in their brightness, a sign that an exoplanet orbited in front of its host star.
Not exact matches
Kepler continuously tracks more than 150,000 stars; when a planet passes in front of one of them, in a kind of mini eclipse known as a transit, the spacecraft registers a slight dip in the star's apparent brightness.
The Kepler space telescope watches the same patch of sky - containing around 100,000 stars - and waits for slight «dips» in starlight brightness.