Sentences with phrase «type of planet»

«We've just discovered what we thought was a single type of planet is actually two distinct classes of planets with quite different properties,» said graduate student Benjamin «B. J.» Fulton, who also works at Caltech and Institute of Astronomy at the University of Hawaii, during the briefing.

«When one type of planet is found, that's usually the tip of the iceberg,» says Sara Seager.

«One of the most startling discoveries about other planetary systems has been that the most common type of planet out there has a mass between that of Earth and that of Neptune,» said Batygin.

It should be noted that «super-Earth» simply refers to a type of planet which is usually rocky, but significantly larger than Earth.

It belongs to a common type of planet found throughout our galaxy.

Textor's massive tome contains a cultural correlation that bears disquietingly on the type of planet we humans have produced for ourselves today, and my mind turns to it more and more of late.

But there is a third type of planet in our solar system — part gas, part ice — and this is the first time anyone has spotted a twin for our so - called «ice giant» planets, Uranus and Neptune.

More recently, NASA's Kepler spacecraft found that the most common type of planet in the galaxy is something between the size of Earth and Neptune, which has no parallel in our solar system and was thought to be almost impossible to make.

Kepler found that the most common type of planet in the galaxy is something between the size of Earth and Neptune — a «super-Earth,» which has no parallel in our solar system and was thought to be almost impossible to make.

In my case, it was pretty easy — the exploration of a new planet and a new type of planet was a scientific gem in my eyes.

Although the atmosphere of this type of planet was expected to have water, the discovery showcased astronomers» new ability to detect it, a necessary step in finding extraterrestrial life.

«One of the most startling discoveries about other planetary systems has been that the most common type of planet out there has a mass between that of Earth and that of Neptune,» says Batygin.

«Until now, we've thought that the solar system was lacking in this most common type of planet.

While all we know life can live on is earth like planets, there's nothing to rule out life living on other types of planets.

«What we observe really fits into the idea that there are two different types of planet in this range», says Leiden team member Ignas Snellen.

So as long as people think up new techniques, they will also find new types of planets.

«I don't think there is a question of [whether exomoons] exist,» but rather their rarity, their size distribution, the types of planets they orbit and so on, he says.

Researchers use a concept known as the habitable zone to distinguish between these two types of planets, which exist beyond our solar system.

«The universe has told us the most common types of planets are small planets, and our study shows these are exactly the ones that are most likely to be orbiting Alpha Centauri A and B,» said Fischer, a leading expert on exoplanets who has devoted decades of research to the search for an Earth analog.

This result is another step towards understanding the origins of various types of planets.

Astronomers are able to identify these types of planet - birthing disks, because the star heats up the surrounding dust, which affects the way it looks using a telescope with an infrared camera.

Its ability to detect planets on the other side of the galaxy has revamped our understanding of how solar systems form, which types of stars tend to pair with which types of planets, and shed light on the early dynamics of solar system formation.

The next step will be for astronomers to figure out how to detect these types of planets.

Or consider the opposite extreme: NASA's Kepler mission has found a new type of planets, super-Earths, to be very common in the Galaxy.

The one GOOD thing about these direct hits would be ELIMINATION of thick Hydrogen envelopes around these types of planets when these envelopes were HEATED by MUCH MORE LUMINOUS HOST STARS to the point where the envelopes FILLED the planets» Hill spheres.

These types of planets, 1 - 3x larger than our own, have proven to be common across the cosmos.

For this study, the scientists had one driving question, said UC Berkeley astronomer and lead author Erik Petigura: Among all these different types of planets, how common were the ones that were sized like Earth?

«Kepler's original mission observed a small patch of sky as it was designed to conduct a demographic survey of the different types of planets,» said Ian Crossfield, a Sagan Fellow at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, who led the research effort.

In the years since, astronomers have found other types of planets that don't exist in our solar system.

Previously discussed in a November 24, 2011 pre-print, the astronomers «surveyed a carefully chosen sample of 102 red dwarf stars in the southern skies over a six - year period» and found a «total of nine super-Earths (planets with masses between one and ten times that of Earth),» of which two orbiting within the habitable zones of Gliese 581 and Gliese 667 C. By combining all the radial - velocity data of red dwarf stars (including those without undetected planets) and examining the fraction of confirmed planets that was found, the astronomers were able to estimate the probable distribution of different types of planets around red dwarfs: for example, only 12 percent of such stars within 30 light - years may have giant planets with masses between 100 and 1,000 times that of the Earth (ESO news release; Bonfils et al, 2011; and Delfosse et al, 2011).

The «non-detections» place upper limits on the number of certain types of planets; that is, if there were any more planets of a certain mass or orbital distance then these surveys would have found them.

Sen — Jupiter - sized planets are the easiest type of planets to detect with every one of our current detection methods.

What are the different types of planets?

While the geography of each planet is unique, there's only a set number of types of planets, so you'll quickly find yourself on another ice planet, or tropical planet, or rocky moon, but with slightly different»70s sci - fi Day - Glo colors lighting everything up.

The Solar variation, gravity and the Specific Heat Capacity of the atmosphere are the ONLY factors that effect the surface temperature profile of Earth and these type of planets!

Not exact matches

Google also introduced PlaNet, which identifies where a photo was taken without using geotags — instead relying on landmarks and clues such as types of vegetation, languages on signs, architectural styles, and the side of the road cars are driving on.

«Having a ubiquitous system that allows you to operate multiple vehicles and multiple types of vehicles gives you great capability across the planet.»

One of the most popular Q&A sites on the planet, this community allows people to ask questions and receive answers to all types of questions.

No one in the history of the planet has come forth with any evidence to support the claim that any type of a god or gods exist.

Each of these two types secures stability amidst environmental novelty, but the former overwhelms and virtually eliminates these intrusions and thereby persists much as we observe in crystals, rocks, planets and suns.

Who knows, there might be other life forms out there on planets with differnt types of suns, other types of atmosphere, maybe even based on something other than carbon... Religion can't answer those questions, but science, ever so slowly, is plugging away at the answers.

If one were the type to be depressed at the thought that the sun will run out of energy some day and our planet become an empty chunk of rock, then I should think one would derive cold comfort in the thought that even at that time God will prehend the present as objectified in his consequent nature!

Many other types of creatures have been here before us, including the dinosaurs who roamed the planet for nearly 200 million years.

any PhD would know the earth did not «become» the planet for us, we evolved to conditions on this planet at it's distance from this type of sun.

I would hope that reason would inform you that this type of smoke and mirrors has really done great harm to humanity considering the massive amount of violence done in the name of religion on this planet.

A: The Paleo diet mimics the types of foods every person on the planet ate prior to the Agricultural Revolution (a mere 10,000 years or 500 generations ago).

When I was little, chocolate chip cookies were my favorite type of cookies on the planet.

-LSB-...] I was little, chocolate chip cookies were my favorite type of cookies on the planet.

«We are also seeing a growing number of retailers and growers seeking to use a more sustainable type of packaging that is 100 % biodegradable and does not harm the planet.»

But David Gray, analyst at Planet Retail, rejects the idea that frozen food has any type of image problem.