Sentences with phrase «targeted nearby stars»
The team targeted nearby stars because those stars are brighter, which makes follow - up studies easier.
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And because the targeted stars are nearby, ground - based telescopes should be able to assess the mass of their planets, allowing researchers to calculate the planets» density, indicating which are rocky or gassy.
Because those stars are so nearby and rich with planets, they will be ideal targets for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), due to launch in 2020.
Astronomers have discovered three exoplanets in orbit around a nearby dwarf star, making them good targets for atmospheric analysis
And if sending a probe across the trillions of kilometers of space to visit a nearby star system ever becomes feasible, engineers have their first target.
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is undergoing final preparations in Florida for its April 16 launch to find undiscovered worlds around nearby stars, providing targets where future studies will assess their capacity to harbor life.
One of the prime targets for observation are nearby Earth - size worlds such as TRAPPIST - 1d, and the closest known exoplanet to Earth, Proxima b, which orbits its star a mere 4.25 light - years away.
Apr. 16, 2018 — Vanderbilt's Keivan Stassun serves as a deputy principal investigator on the mission and is tasked with identifying the most promising stars to target in its search for habitable nearby planets.
Astronomers have uncovered evidence buried in the noise of apparently empty data showing that five super-Earths are orbiting the nearby Tau Ceti — a star chosen as one of the targets in the pioneering 1960 Project OZMA search for extraterrestrial life because of its strong similarity to the Sun.
Initial data came from the TRENDS (TaRgetting bENchmark - objects with Doppler Spectroscopy) high - contrast imaging survey that uses adaptive optics and related technologies to target older, faint objects orbiting nearby stars, and precise measurements were made at the W. M. Keck Observatory on the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
TESS will observe these brighter nearby stars for exoplanets in order to identify a list of the best targets for follow - up observations by ground - based observatories and future space telescopes.
[Update: the «Target Star Catalogue for the Darwin Nearby Star Sample for a Search for Terrestrial Planets» (Darwin All Sky Star Catalogue) is now available from Kaltenegger et al, 2010; in pdf.]