Sentences with phrase «studying alien worlds»
Although she was not involved in the discovery, she has spent her entire career studying alien worlds.
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As always in planetary science, the ultimate goal of studying alien worlds is to understand our own better.
This year DISCOVER honors David Charbonneau, a Harvard University astronomer whose research could soon lead to an equally stunning revelation: By studying alien worlds, he may find the first direct evidence of life beyond Earth, a sign that our living planet is — yet again — one among many.
Not exact matches
First up: In conjunction with the National Science Foundation, Caltech, and the Thirty Meter Telescope, DISCOVER brought together four leading astronomers to describe their studies of wayward comets, alien worlds, black holes, and the expanding universe.
And because they are almost as cold as «gas giant» planets — Jupiter is about 150 K — studying them could offer a better handle on what the atmospheres of alien worlds look like.
«We determined the weather on these alien worlds by measuring changes as the planets circle their host stars, and identifying the day - night cycle,» said Lisa Esteves, a PhD candidate in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, and lead author of the study published today in The Astrophysical Journal.
The study of alien worlds is entering its next phase as astronomers amass the best planets outside our Solar System to look for signs of life.
The magnetic field of Planet HD 209458b has been measured for the first time, using a novel method that could be used to study other alien worlds.
This opening image is appropriate to Jonathan Glazer's astonishing yet infuriating film, in which an alien voyeur visits our world to study, and often snuff out, human life.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Scott Pilgrim vs The World) stars as Kate Lloyd, a scientist sent to Antarctica to study an alien life form that has been frozen underneath the surface.
The film is a hypnotic, sensitive yet brutal study of masculinity in crisis set in the alien world of the Badlands.
The Avengers do not get any of Hydra's data, but they do acquire the scepter, and in studying it, Tony Stark / Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) gets the brilliantly stupid idea to convert the scepter's alien power source into an artificial intelligence that will work to achieve world peace, an idea he's had for years but has never been able to perfect.
Described by Sony as an unnerving VR space adventure set on a hostile alien planet, your mission is to to pick up scientists studying an anomaly near Jupiter, before a rupture transports you to an unknown alien world.