Sentences with phrase «terrestrial planets like»

These doughnut - shaped objects might even explain the formation of other terrestrial planets like Mars, Venus, and many more outside our solar system.

The discovery is remarkable because the debris appears to be rocky and suggests that terrestrial planets like Tatooine — Luke Skywalker's home world in Star Wars — might exist in the system.

These organisms show that life's potentially habitable zone includes terrestrial planets like Mars and moons like Europa and Titan.

Core accretion relies on the formation of a planetary core — a compact, massive object composed of refractory elements, similar to a terrestrial planet like Earth but typically more massive.

Not exact matches

Depicted here as a terrestrial planet, Kepler - 16b might also be a gas giant like Saturn.

«It's truly amazing — it's like something from a terrestrial planet.»

Within just a few years we may have such an interesting planet catalog of Earth - like possibilities that we won't be able to resist putting the Terrestrial Planet Finder, now in development, out planet catalog of Earth - like possibilities that we won't be able to resist putting the Terrestrial Planet Finder, now in development, out Planet Finder, now in development, out there.

Scientists have theorised that any microbes living on Mars would have to be something like terrestrial halophiles in order to cope with the planet's high salinity.

«In many ways, the atmospheric studies we're doing now on these gaseous «hot Jupiter» kinds of planets are test beds for how we're going to do atmospheric studies of terrestrial, Earth - like planets,» said Thomas Beatty, assistant research professor of astronomy at Penn State and the lead author of the study.

For every type of star in the simulation, Forgan and his colleagues estimated the probability that terrestrial planets would form, some of which might be Earth — like or might be as inhospitable as Mercury.

This latter feature is upsetting for those who hope that any planets around Tau Ceti support life, because Earth - like planets and terrestrial life are made of heavy elements.

Earth and the other terrestrial planets, by contrast, have cores more like the pit of a peach — giving them a lower density overall.

I got started doing CubeSats when the Terrestrial Planet Finder mission, which was supposed to directly image Earth - like planets, lost funding in 2005.

Based on humankind's admittedly limited experience, habitability seems to mean a small world — a terrestrial planet rather than a gas giant like Jupiter or Saturn — orbiting its star at a comfortable «Goldilocks» distance that allows water to persist in liquid form.

Kepler launched in March to seek out worlds like our own — terrestrial planets orbiting sunlike stars at a temperate distance where liquid water could persist.

The failure, thus far, to find large substellar objects like brown dwarfs or a Jupiter - or Saturn - class planet in a «torch» orbit (closer han the Mercury to Sun distance) around 107 Piscium — with even the highly sensitive radial - velocity technique of Geoffrey W. Marcy and R. Paul Butler — bodes well for the possibility of Earth - type terrestrial planets around this star (Cumming et al, 1999).

«In many ways, the atmospheric studies we're doing on hot Jupiters now are testbeds for how we're going to do atmospheric studies on terrestrial, Earth - like planets,» comments lead researcher Thomas Beatty of Pennsylvania State University.

We show that if a terrestrial planet undergoes Milankovitch - like oscillations of eccentricity that are of great enough magnitude, it could melt out of a snowball state.

Due in part of discoveries of planetary companions around this Sun - like star, 47 Ursae Majoris became one of the top 100 target stars for NASA's proposed Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), which is now indefinitely delayed.

Follow - up observations of planetary candidates identified by detection of transit - like events are needed both for identification of astrophysical phenomena that mimic planetary transits and for characterization of the... ▽ More The Kepler Mission was launched on March 6, 2009 to perform a photometric survey of more than 100,000 dwarf stars to search for terrestrial - size planets with the transit technique.

Like the other terrestrial planets (Venus, Earth and Mars) Mercury is made mostly of rock and metal.

A sample of dozens of exoEarths opens up the opportunity to identify truly Earth - like worlds with rocky surfaces and oceans, amidst a complex zoo of other varieties of terrestrial planets.

The failure, thus far, to find large substellar objects like brown dwarfs or a Jupiter - or Saturn - class planet in a «torch» orbit (closer than the Mercury to Sun distance) around Xi Boötis A — with even the highly sensitive radial - velocity methods of Geoffrey W. Marcy and R. Paul Butler — bodes well for the possibility of Earth - type terrestrial planets around this star (Cumming et al, 1999).

The sci - fi premise of Another Earth sounds like something that must have been explored long before now: without explanation, a second planet appears in the sky that resembles our Earth in every way, as SETI tries to make contact with this anomaly, a far more terrestrial drama unfolds in the forefront between a MIT student and Harvard professor.

I do hope that someday the international ban might be lifted, both because I fear for the wellbeing of wild salamanders around the planet and because my favorites are two European animals: the fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra), a terrestrial animal of vivid black and yellow coloration and an outgoing temperament, and the crested newt (Triturus cristatus), an aquatic newt in which the males develop a spectacular Godzilla - like crest when in breeding mode.

Much like Independence Day, the movie / game explores the eerie scenario of what would happen if hostile extra terrestrials eventually landed and exposed themselves to the inhabitants of planet earth.

Planetbase is an indie game that lets you build a space colony on a Mars - like planet and two other extra terrestrial worlds.

There are very deep reasons for the differences in climate among the terrestrial, or Earth - like, planets (as opposed to the Jupiter - like gas giants in the outer solar system), and I mean that literally.

With terrestrial - like planets, the relationship is consistent - consistent with pressure profiles viewed from WITHIN, and consistent with distance - from - sun profile viewed from WITHOUT.

These really do NOT compare to the inner terrestrial - like planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.