Sentences with phrase «talk about exoplanets»

We often discuss and talk about exoplanets as isolated entities, but this discovery is a poster child for how important interactions between a planet and its host star can be, and a good reminder that planets are being found in large and dynamic solar systems.

And we're here to talk about exoplanets, one of our favorite subjects.

Although this is very exciting, the key thing to remember is that we are talking about exoplanet candidates, which means Kepler has detected 1,235 exoplanet signals, but more work needs to be done (i.e. more observing time) to refine their orbits, masses and, critically, to find out whether they actually exist.

Not exact matches

SETI pioneer Jill Tarter and Berkeley researcher Dan Werthimer talk about how the discovery of nearby exoplanets is inspiring new efforts to gain info about these galactic neighbors.

Basri: We've learned that we really don't know what we're talking about with respect to exoplanets: how they form, what their distributions are, anything!

NASA's Kepler mission's principal investigator, Bill Borucki, talks about the search for exoplanets that might be in habitable zones around their stars.

Mark Anderson, author of the book The Day The World Discovered the Sun, talks about the transit of Venus coming up on June 5th or 6th in different parts of the world and how it will be of use to astronomers searching for exoplanets

This year we head to Nashville to talk about dinosaurs ancient and otherwise, exoplanets, carbon cycling, pictures from Pluto, metallic hydrogen, photon pressure, and methane on Mars, among other things.

Andrew Howard, astronomer from the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy, gave an illuminating talk about the hunt for exoplanets and the quest for another Earth.

The day featured inspiring international speakers talking about the challenges and excitement of their search for the first exoplanets, as well as the newest results of the search for Pale Blue Dots.

Andrew Howard, astronomer from the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy, gave an illuminating talk about the hunt for exoplanets and the quest for another... Read more»

Although he refers to these exoplanets as «candidate» Earth - like worlds, Sasselov goes on to talk about the statistical prevalence of small planets throughout the Milky Way.