Sentences with phrase «stars by their planets»

Known as the Doppler method, it measures the gravitational tug exerted on a star by a planet — a planet that could not be seen directly because it would be lost in the glare of its star.

These transits can be thought of as tiny eclipses of the host star by a planet (or planets) as seen from Earth.

These transits can be thought of as tiny eclipses of the host star by a planet (or planets) as seen from the Earth.

HARPS has been enormously successful at detecting exoplanets using the radial velocity method, or measuring the gravitational tugs on stars by their planets by watching the stars» spectral lines «wobble» back and forth due to the Doppler effect.

Not exact matches

The transit method of detecting planets that Kepler scientists use involves looking for dips in a star's brightness, caused by a planet blocking a fraction of the starlight (similar to how the moon eclipses the sun).

But Malone isn't one of those executives, and he proved it by drawing the now - pervasive comparison between Amazon and the Death Star, the evil Empire's battle station in the «Star Wars» franchise that had the power to destroy entire planets.

Everything single galaxy, star (sun) and planet, in the universe have been formed by gravity over billions of years, NO god needed.

Stars, well known, have disappeared, new ones have come into view, comets, in their incalculable courses, may run foul of suns and planets and require renovation under other laws; certain races of animals are become extinct; and, were there no restoring power, all existences might extinguish successively, one by one, until all should be reduced to a shapeless chaos.

«Astronomers now find they have painted themselves into a corner because they have proven, by their own methods, that the world began abruptly in an act of creation to which you can trace the seeds of every star, every planet, every living thing in this cosmos and on the earth.

If any of those constants was off by even one part in a million, or in some cases, by one part in a million million, the universe could not have been able to coalesce, there would have been no galaxy, stars, planets or people.»

British physicist P.C.W. Davies has concluded that the odds against the initial conditions being suitable for the formation of stars, which are necessary for planets and thus life, is a one followed by at least a thousand billion billion zeros.

Forest Ray Moulton and Thomas C. Chamberlin in the United States supposed that the sun, under the gravitational pull of some passing star, erupted gigantic globs of matter which in time formed planets, and a comparable theory was proposed by Sir James Jeans and H. Jeffreys.

In contrast, Immanuel Kant and Pierre de Laplace argued that planetary development was part of a normal process to be expected in the life of almost every star: they assumed the young sun was surrounded by a thin lens - shaped gaseous envelope (solar nebula) which later condensed into planets.

If what you interpret Paul as saying is that before creating all the myriad galaxies and star systems God decided that They would put some humans on the third planet from an insignificant star on a little arm of a middling galaxy and that the first hominids chosen role would be to perform pretty much to spec and do something silly and rebellious (arguably without sufficient information as to consequences for themselves and their off spring, oh, and for serpents) and cause affront to the tripartite godhead warranting separation of Gods grace from all their offspring; then we are left with people being chosen from way back before the Big Bang to do some terrible things like killing babies or betraying Jesus who was chosen on the same non date (time didn't exist before creation) to die in a fairly nasty fashion and thereby appease the righteous wrath of himself and his fellow Trinitarians by paying a penalty as a substitute for all future sins (of believers?)

Oh, and by the way, I made the universe in 6 days, put the stars in the heavens just for your enjoyment at night, and put in subjection all the other creatures on the planet.

One insignificant planet orbiting one insignificant star out of billions, in one insignificant galaxy out of billions of other galaxies, and we are somehow the sole focus of a greater being that by all accounts has not had any provable direct communication with mankind, ever?

As were all other other planets created by their stars.

Since this «Big Bang» galaxies, stars and planets have gradually congealed out of the gases released by that unique and momentous cosmic event.

Is it possible that a man of Barr's education really wonders why some of us would not accept a natural explanation for the formation of stars and planets in light of discoveries made possible by the Hubble telescope?

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.

Browse our list of girl, boy, and unisex baby names inspired by stars, planets, moons, astronauts, and more.

Solar System Sensory Bottle inspired by How to Catch a Star — Learn about the planets in our solar system with this simple sensory bottle.

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What a great chance to learn about space by exploring the planets, stars, sun, moon and even ride some cool rocket ships!

In 2008, Tennant was voted «Greenest Star on the Planet» in an online vote held by Playhouse Disney as part of the Playing for the Planet Awards.

Most likely, Meech says, the object is an outcast from another star system: a space rock flung out during the star's tempestuous youth when it was surrounded by freshly - formed giant planets embedded in a disk of debris.

TESS is expected to perform an all - sky survey focused on finding transiting rocky planets around nearby stars, planets that could then be studied in further detail by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which would launch no sooner than 2018.

When a planet orbits in front of its host star, it temporarily blocks a tiny portion of starlight, and these dips will be recorded by TESS» four ultrasensitive cameras.

This kind of random fluctuation is thought to have ultimately created our cosmos of stars, planets and existential worriers out of the quantum vacuum — admittedly abetted by some as - yet - unexplained happenstance, such as a period of faster - than - light inflation in the early universe, and matter somehow winning out against its evil twin, antimatter.

The first and second planets from the dwarf star are probably less than 15 percent water by mass, still far wetter than Earth, the researchers found.

Carr and the other research team members set out to study the protoplanetary disk around a star known as HD 100546, and as sometimes happens in scientific inquiry, it was by «chance» that they stumbled upon the formation of the planet orbiting this star.

Those metals, forged by the explosions of dying stars, were mixed throughout the disk of gas and dust from which planets and asteroids took shape.

Astronomers were observing a very young star (the position of which is marked in the image by the star shape) known to have a disk of material surrounding it, the kind that forms planets.

A far - flung star's extra wink, spotted in data from the Kepler space telescope and further probed by the Hubble Space Telescope, may be the first evidence for an exomoon — a moon orbiting a planet orbiting a distant star.

The group of five planets, all smaller than Neptune, was found by citizen scientists scouring data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, which measures light from distant stars.

Eli Kintisch's book Hack the Planet, published in April, 2010, was given a starred review by Publisher's Weekly, which called it a «fascinating wake - up call... engaged but balanced.»

Astronomers have identified over 2,300 new planets in Kepler data by searching for tiny dips in a star's brightness when a planet passes in front of it.

Estranged from its parent star and sibling worlds, this rogue planet wanders the universe alone and dawnless, just 100 light - years from where you sit surrounded by your warm social group.

When a planet crosses in front of its star, Kepler sees a small dip in starlight (as indicated by the white line).

Captured by Kepler's digital sensors, transformed into bytes of data, and downloaded to computers at NASA's Ames Research Center near San Francisco, the processed starlight slowly revealed a remarkable story: A planet not much bigger than Earth was whipping around its native star at a blistering pace, completing an orbit — its version of a «year» — in just over 20 hours.

The planet's gravity should bend starlight, shifting the position of stars ever so slightly, and this effect should be detectable by a satellite currently in orbit.

The challenge for Kepler — or more specifically, for Jenkins's software — is to tease out brightness changes caused by the passage of a planet and to distinguish them from all the normal stellar variations, such as flares and star spots (the stellar equivalent of sunspots) or even nearby eclipsing stars.

More broadly, it also is a key component of the concept that the geometry of spacetime is curved by the mass density of individual galaxies, stars, planets, and other objects.

That's the question raised by a planet orbiting its star in less than an Earth day.

Has there been any specific new research triggered by these studies of planets around other stars?

Earth and the other planets of our solar system suffer occasional impacts when comets are disturbed from their orbits around the sun by the gravity of nearby stars and gas clouds.

Kepler - 11 By 2010 astronomers had discovered 54 stars hosting multiple planets, yet none of these planetary systems much resembled our own.

Planets give themselves away by the length of time it takes them to pass across the face of a star — typically a few hours.

The star is surrounded by enough raw material to build at least seven Jupiter - sized planets.

It could ball up into dark stars surrounded by dark planets made of dark atoms.