Sentences with phrase «tiny wobbles»

The instrument detects tiny wobbles of nearby stars caused by the gravitational pull of planets orbiting those stars - a sensitive and challenging phenomenon to measure.

And the melting was caused by tiny wobbles in the Earth's orbit that changed the heat balance of the planet by only a fraction as much as our emissions of greenhouse gases are doing today.

The instrument, which is part of the European Space Agency's La Silla Observatory in Chile, measured tiny wobbles in the star that suggested that a planet was orbiting it — likely just a bit bigger than Earth, orbiting its star every 3.24 days.

For months last year, the team kept a near - constant vigil on Proxima Centauri, looking for tiny wobbles caused by the pull of an orbiting planet.

The star had a known Jupiter - size companion, but Santos and his colleagues found an extra tiny wobble on a regular cycle lasting 9.5 days.

By measuring the times at which these transits occurred very carefully, we were able to discover that the two planets are locked in an intricate dance of tiny wobbles giving away their masses.»

Within an hour, a few tiny wobbling blobs appeared within the vacuoles.

Anglada - Escudé's group found its quarry by looking for a super tiny wobble in the position of its star.

It will sense the rotation of Earth and tiny wobbles of its spin axis — helping calibrate GPS satellites.

With these tiny wobbles, the brain can compress memories of time from several seconds down to hundredths of a second — a small enough package to store for later retrieval.

Conventionally, astronomers measure the mass of an exoplanet by measuring the tiny wobbles of the parent star induced by the planet's gravity.

In principle, a firm number is possible by tracking the tiny wobbles in the star's position in the sky.

In the 6 years since the tiny wobbling of a distant star betrayed the presence of the first extrasolar planet, several teams had methodically brought the exoplanet count to 38.