Sentences with phrase «stars telltale dips»
After reaching its orbit in about two months, the telescope will start scanning nearby stars telltale dips in light that signal a passing planet.
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Kepler watched sunlike stars for telltale dips in brightness that would reveal a passing planet.
Kepler scientists are interested in the brief moments when a star's brightness dips — the telltale shadow of a planet passing in front.
To find them, the team analyzed light data from thousands of stars, looking for telltale dips indicating that a planet may periodically pass in front of a star.
Dittman and his colleagues made the discovery using the MEarth - South telescope array in Cerro Tololo, Chile, detecting telltale dips in light as the planet passed in front of its star (Nature, doi.org/b55f).
After all, if a planet's orbit never allows it to pass between Earth and its stars, no telltale dip in starlight will ever point to the planet's existence.
He's been looking for a telltale periodic dip in the star's light.