Sentences with phrase «study formation of solar systems»
«This history - making discovery is opening a new window to study formation of solar systems beyond our own.»
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«This is evidence of a big shakeup early on in the solar system's formation,» Glenn Orton, a co-author of the new study and a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told Business Insider.
Siding Spring will be the first comet from the Oort Cloud to be studied up close by spacecraft, giving scientists an invaluable opportunity to learn more about the materials, including water and carbon compounds, that existed during the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago.
Lucy would be the first mission to study these objects, which are thought to be left - overs from the early formation of the Solar System.
A new study challenges the idea that a nearby supernova forced the formation of our solar system.
Studying younger solar systems such as 51 Eridani will help astronomers understand the formation of our neighbor planets, and how common that planet - forming mechanism is throughout the universe.
Now, according to findings of simulations of the solar system formation carried out by researchers — detailed in the study — the impactor planet might very well have resembled Earth.
Three planetary formation experts — Kate Follette, Bruce Macintosh and Ruth Murray - Clay — joined a roundtable discussion on new ways of studying how planets form and whether they can explain the rise of our Solar System.