Sentences with phrase «star other than the sun»

During the past 5 years, scientists have discovered more than 50 planets orbiting stars other than our sun — or so they think.

Since the late 1980s, scientists have discovered nearly 5,000 planetary bodies orbiting stars other than the sun.

Since the first discovery in 1993, more than 1800 planets have been found in orbit around stars other than our Sun.

That is when a Swiss team found the first planet orbiting a sunlike star other than our sun.

Do stars other than the Sun have planetary systems?

As the first planet ever discovered around a normal star other than the Sun, it was a ground - breaking achievement.

For the first time since exoplanets, or planets around stars other than the sun, were discovered almost 20 years ago, X-ray observations have detected an exoplanet passing in front of its parent star.

With the addition this year of 180 new worlds to the Paris Observatory's list of confirmed exoplanets, there are now more than 1,000 known planets orbiting stars other than the sun.

Exoplanets Planets that orbit a star other than our sun.

It has discovered thousands of probable exoplanets — worlds orbiting stars other than the sun — more than 100 of which have already been vetted and confirmed.

In that time they and their colleagues have found thousands of exoplanets — planets orbiting stars other than our sun — and have statistically surmised that hundreds of billions more await discovery in our galaxy alone.

A team of astronomers at the University of Chicago and Grinnell College seeks to change the way scientists approach the search for Earth - like planets orbiting stars other than the sun.

In this, the first direct, detailed image of a star other than the sun, the hot outer atmosphere of Betelgeuse is shown to stretch nearly a billion miles across — if it were our sun it would have swallowed Jupiter.

In 1961 astronomers had not yet discovered a single planet orbiting a star other than the sun.

Hewitt highlighted research into exoplanets, planets that orbit stars other than the sun, which has been booming since the launch of the Kepler Space Telescope in 2009.

Now, however, discoveries of potentially habitable planets orbiting stars other than our sun — exoplanets, that is — are challenging that geocentric approach.

Since first observing a planet orbiting a star other than our sun in 1992, astronomers have made definitive sightings of about 1000 «exoplanets» and have identified a further 3000 to 4000 candidate exoplanets.

Ballard's research focuses on the rapidly evolving field of exoplanets, which are planets that orbit stars other than the sun and may resemble Earth.

Since the first confirmed discovery in 1993, astronomers have found more than 3,000 planets in orbit around stars other than our Sun.

According to Margot's criteria, all eight planets in our solar system and all classifiable exoplanets — the large bodies that orbit stars other than our sun — would be confirmed as planets.

Astronomers are finding hundreds of planets orbiting stars other than our sun, some of them not much bigger than Earth.

When NASA's Kepler space telescope launched in March 2009, astronomers had no proof that any star other than the sun harbored an Earth - sized planet (with a diameter within 25 percent of Earth's).

At today's session of the International Astronomical Union in Manchester, United Kingdom, astronomers announced that they have discovered 10 new planets orbiting stars other than our sun, bringing the total number to almost 50.

Taking advantage of an unusual pair of nearby stars, astronomers have for the first time captured images of a magnetic field generated by a star other than our sun.

They have also made the first map of the velocities of material in the atmosphere of a star other than the Sun, revealing unexpected turbulence in Antares's huge extended atmosphere.

Extrasolar planets (planets outside our solar system) were found in 1995 for the first time, and since then many planets have been found around stars other than the Sun.

Astronomers at Las Cumbres Observatory are investigating exoplanets - planets which orbit stars other than our Sun - and they'd like your help.

Planets that orbit stars other than the Sun are called extrasolar planets.

That leaves eight new exoplanets, or planets that orbit around a star other than the sun (also called extrasolar planets), that were announced for the first time in the CfA study.

Astronomers have discovered roughly 2,000 planets orbiting stars other than our Sun — however, nearly all are middle - aged, with ages of a billion years or more.

The newly discovered exoplanet — a planet that orbits around a star other than the sun (also called extrasolar planet)-- is called Kepler - 452b.

Exoplanet (Extrasolar planet): A planet orbiting a star other than our Sun and therefore does not belong to the solar system.

Earlier this year, scientists using the European Southern Observatory (ESO) 3.6 m Telescope in Chile discovered the smallest exoplanet - as astronomers call planets that orbit a star other than the Sun - yet.

Exoplanets, or planets orbiting stars other than the Sun, were first discovered in the 1990s, but old photographic plates taken nearly 100 years ago and recently found in storerooms at Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, contain the first evidence of their existence.

Astronomers at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) have used the continent - wide Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) to map for the first time the magnetic field on the surface of a star other than the Sun.

An exoplanet is a planet orbiting a star other than the sun; a transiting exoplanet is one that periodically eclipses its host star.

«Just the fact that we can image the surface of a star other than the Sun blows me away,» said Carilli.

Astronomers at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory have used the continent - wide Very Long Baseline Array to map for the first time the magnetic field on the surface of a star other than the Sun.

This is called a stellar wind, when from a star other than the sun.

Kepler detects exoplanets, or planets orbiting a star other than the sun, using the «transit method.»

Although the deadly radiation from the pulsar is not condusive to any of the planets being life - bearing, it was the first example of a star other than our Sun producing planets.

The planets detected so far around stars other than the Sun have masses from nearly twice to thousands of times that of Earth.

Extrasolar planet, also called exoplanet, any planetary body that is outside the solar system and that usually orbits a star other than the Sun.

«I'm an astronomer who studies exoplanets — planets around stars other than the sun — and their host stars,» explains Teske.

But after the mission launched in 2009, it contributed significantly to the understanding of exoplanets — planets that orbit a star other than the sun.