Sentences with phrase «solar system data»

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1991: Nascent Solar Systems Data showing pancake - shaped objects within a distant cloud of gas and dust provided the first views of protoplanetary disks — the birthplace of stars and orbiting planets, including our solar system.

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The newly discovered exoplanets, or planets outside of the earth's solar system, were found after researchers applied the same AI techniques that help computers recognize images like cats in photos to data gathered from the Kepler space telescope.

The $ 35 million silicon carbide chip project is the centerpiece of the New York State Power Electronics Manufacturing Consortium, a $ 500 million partnership between GE and SUNY Poly to develop next - generation power electronics chips used in everything from data centers and medical imaging to airplanes and solar power systems.

Using data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission, scientists believe they have solved a mystery from one of the solar system's coldest regions — a permanently shadowed crater on the moon.

They also reprogrammed Voyager 2 with better ways to take images in the very low light of the outer solar system, and with a more efficient way to transmit data.

Some astronomers are questioning the existence of what might be the most Earth - like planet yet found outside the solar system, based on a reexamination of archival data.

Using data from our solar system and observations of huge planets far beyond the visual range of any telescope, astrophysicists René Heller and Ralph Pudritz have shown that some moons of those planets could be habitable.

«With a long, intricate dance around the Saturn system, Cassini aims to study the Saturn system from as many angles as possible,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Beyond showing us the beauty of the Ringed Planet, data like these also improve our understanding of the history of the faint rings around Saturn and the way disks around planets form — clues to how our own solar system formed around the sun.»

More data will determine whether our solar system's pattern is typical or rare.

It is a place human explorers will not visit in the foreseeable future, although the data on the flux of cosmic rays (energetic particles from deep space) into the solar system will allow engineers to better gauge the risk to both spacecraft and humans during extended space voyages.

Reaching the necessary level of precision requires correcting the data for small perturbations in Earth's orbit owing to the other planets in our solar system.

A TALE OF NO TAIL Data from the Voyager and Cassini spacecraft suggest that the heliosphere, the bubble of particles surrounding the solar system, is spherical, not comet - shaped.

Kepler will probably obtain similar data on hundreds of other solar systems, he says, which could then be characterized to an unprecedented detail.

But getting that amount of data from vintage equipment operating at the far reaches of the solar system «was pretty tall cotton,» Maize says.

«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.

Data on the 500 - and - counting planets discovered outside of our solar system in the past decade are revolutionizing researchers» understanding of how planetary systems form and evolve.

This digital cornucopia will most likely include a wealth of data about many thousands of Kuiper belt objects orbiting up to tens of billions of miles from the sun and almost certainly will include objects that once again contradict ideas about where the edge of the solar system is.

New data from NASA's Cassini, Voyager and Interstellar Boundary Explorer missions show that the heliosphere — the bubble of the sun's magnetic influence that surrounds the inner solar system — may be much more compact and rounded than previously thought.

More exoplanet discoveries are expected to be announced next week in Moran, Wyoming, at a conference on extreme solar systems, and a new batch of Kepler data, based on 674 million observations recorded from September to December 2009, is scheduled for public release on 23 September.

With hundreds of satellites operating in orbit around Earth and elsewhere in the solar system, it's easy to imagine that communication channels might become overwhelmed with data from the satellites.

Using data captured by ALMA in Chile and from the ROSINA instrument on ESA's Rosetta mission, a team of astronomers has found faint traces of the chemical compound [Freon - 40]--(CH3Cl), also known as methyl chloride and chloromethane, around both the infant star system IRAS 16293 - 2422, about 400 light - years away, and the famous comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko (67P / C - G) in our own Solar Ssystem IRAS 16293 - 2422, about 400 light - years away, and the famous comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko (67P / C - G) in our own Solar SystemSystem.

Together with observations from more northern latitudes, Cook's 1769 data provided the first accurate distance to our star — and by extension, to the rest of the planets in the solar system.

With eruptions of ice and water vapor, and an ocean covered by an ice shell, Saturn's moon Enceladus is one of the most fascinating in the Solar System, especially as interpretations of data provided by the Cassini spacecraft have been contradictory until now.

Birmingham, Alabama - based Southern Research built the Airborne Imaging and Recording Systems (AIRS) onboard and worked with the scientific team to retrofit its DyNAMITE telescopes with solar filters and improved data recorders and operating software.

Based on data from these two launches, the researchers found fluctuations, but they had to go through a careful process to identify and remove local sources, such as the instrument, as well as emissions from the solar system, stars, scattered starlight in the Milky Way, and known galaxies.

The JWST, which will be launched in 2019, will be instrumental in collecting a range of data for studying the solar system, early universe and exoplanets.

Data readings seem to show that the solar wind moves more slowly than expected at the edge of the solar system.

With those data, they have been piecing together the history and original composition of the solar system, for example.

The HEMS system helps consumers use data on driving times, solar intensity forecasts and current household energy consumption to synchronize electric vehicle charging times with rooftop energy production, so they can maximize the proportion of household - produced energy they use.

This last data grab is a bonus after a mission that is already changing theorists» views about how comets and planets arose early in the solar system.

Data from the Voyager and Cassini spacecraft suggest that the heliosphere, the bubble of particles surrounding the solar system, is spherical, not comet - shaped, Ashley Yeager reported in «Solar system bubble has no tail» (SN: 5/27/17, p.solar system, is spherical, not comet - shaped, Ashley Yeager reported in «Solar system bubble has no tail» (SN: 5/27/17, p.Solar system bubble has no tail» (SN: 5/27/17, p. 15).

Co-author Dr Iain Staffell, from the Centre for Environmental Policy, said: «This tool allows us to combat one of the biggest uncertainties in the future energy system, and use real data to answer questions such as how electricity storage could revolutionise the electricity generation sector, or when high - capacity home storage batteries linked to personal solar panels might become cost - effective.»

Laser altimetry data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have provided a comprehensive look at the cratering history of the inner solar system

On its eight - year data gathering mission, Dawn will be the first space probe to visit and orbit two solar system bodies other than Earth

At least we now have new data to feed into simulations, giving us a clearer picture of our solar system's past.

It could be many weeks before scientists understand what the lander data tell them about the formation and composition of 67P, which, like all comets, is a relatively pristine object that dates to the early days of the solar system.

But the data don't yet conclusively show HAT - P - 26b developed differently than the ice giants in Earth's solar system, he says.

Through Catalyst, communities of innovators use software, data, algorithms, and automation to drive down non-hardware solar soft costs — like permitting, financing, and customer acquisition — that today make up more than half of the cost of a solar electricity system.

Using the Voyager data, researchers can now monitor the magnetic field at the edge of our solar system.

The Gemini «speckle» data directly imaged the system to within about 400 million miles (about 4 AU, approximately equal to the orbit of Jupiter in our solar system) of the host star and confirmed that there were no other stellar size objects orbiting within this radius from the star.

The GRAIL data also suggest that astronomers should not use measurements of the basins on the nearside of the moon to draw conclusions about the rate at which craters struck the planets of the inner solar system 4 billion years ago, the researchers report November 8 in Science.

Writing today (Feb. 23, 2014) in the journal Nature Geoscience, an international team of researchers led by University of Wisconsin - Madison geoscience Professor John Valley reveals data that confirm the Earth's crust first formed at least 4.4 billion years ago, just 160 million years after the formation of our solar system.

The pitch was to buy and install a small supercomputer, which he would name for the biggest donor, to speed up data processing on a search for moons in other solar systems.

The cold and shadowy fringe of the solar system known as the Kuiper belt is generating increasing debate among scientists as data accumulates on the growing population of objects discovered there.

Astronomers have filled in more details in the picture of the Milky Way Galaxy, unveiling five previously unknown planets outside our solar system that were detected via early data from NASA's planet - seeking Kepler spacecraft.

Such measurements will probe the atmospheric structure and composition, providing unique information useful not just in the solar system but also in the study of Jupiter - like exoplanets, where no comparable data will be available for the foreseeable future.

B612 will use data from the space telescope and observatories on Earth to identify potential threats in our neck of the solar system, hopefully decades before those threats become imminent.

We believe that data collected from this comet can help explain how and when the solar system first formed.»

New data reveal that the interstellar asteroid that recently zipped through our solar system is rocky, cigar - shaped, and has a somewhat reddish hue.