Sentences with phrase «very faint planets»

We usually use it to look for very faint planets in the close vicinity of nearby stars, by painstakingly observing them one by one,» said Pueyo.

Not exact matches

This is an extremely challenging task as such planets are both very close to their parent stars in the sky and also very much fainter.

«Makemake's moon — nicknamed MK2 — is very dark, 1,300 times fainter than the dwarf planet.»

But Kepler has difficulty identifying smaller planets because the stars that it examines tend to be extremely faint, which makes it very difficult to confirm discoveries with ground - based telescopes.

«We were able to separate the light of the faint planet from the light of the much brighter star and to see that they were both growing and glowing in this very distinct shade of red.»

Jupiter is a gaseous planet with a very faint ring system.

So Jewitt and Luu carried out two parallel surveys: they used the Palomar Observatory's Schmidt telescope equipped with conventional glass photographic plates to scan large areas of the sky for the very faintest objects, while also watching a narrow field of view in the plane of the planets for rare but slightly brighter objects using MIT's 1.3 - metre telescope fitted with a CCD.

But reporters sometimes overlook the fact that all this means is that Kepler will measure a very faint dip in starlight when the planet passes in front of its parent star.

We are now seeing planets in the blackness around other stars, very much in the same way he discovered the faint moon companions around Jupiter.

NASA's search for planets outside of our solar system has mostly involved very distant, faint stars.

Snellan said this will be very difficult, because the planet is very faint compared to its parent star.

Not only are these planets intrinsically faint, they also orbit very bright host stars.

In 2008, astronomers finally discovered the faint signal of a planet eight times the mass of Jupiter, captured in images taken by the Very Large Telescope in 2003.