Sentences with phrase «whether planets form»

By studying these stars, and using additional telescope facilities such as the powerful Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, the study will provide new and unique insight into the timescale for the formation of stars and planets, including whether planets form during or after the assembly of the star.

I'm very curious to continue to study this system to figure out whether the planet formed in that odd orbit or if it moved there after encountering another planet or one of the double stars.»

Not exact matches

Finally, whether the universe had a beginning in time, whether the Big Bang was that beginning, and whether that beginning was «natural» are questions that have nothing directly to do with the theories of how stars and planets formed.

In short, since the 1950's almost every piece of plastic that we have ever made, used and thrown away is still here on this planet in one form or another, whether its in our homes, in landfill or in the environment; and it will be here for centuries to come.

This technique can determine whether a spot on the planet's surface is rising or falling over time, such as near a volcano on the verge of erupting or a sinkhole about to form.

This makes it a perfect laboratory to study how many planets form in such a crowded environment, and whether they form mostly around more massive or less massive stars.»

Whether these planets survived the original star's death blast or formed later is unknown.

The researchers found that whether a polar cyclone forms depends on two parameters: the energy within a planet's atmosphere, or the total intensity of its thunderstorms; and the average size of its thunderstorms, relative to the size of the planet itself.

The Red Planet has never been a tropical paradise, but after investigating how a canyon in south - central Idaho formed, a group of terrestrial geologists is now questioning whether early Mars had even the minimal conditions for life.

Jupiter was apparently born from the leftover gas and dust of the primordial nebula that formed our sun, yet exactly how that birth occurred, or even whether the planet has a solid core, is unknown.

Astronomers were at a loss to explain how such planets formed and whether there was a continuum between rocky terrestrial «super-Earths» and gassy «mini-Neptunes.»

This is dependent on the properties of this system — for example, whether it is a binary [3], or has a number of planets orbiting it, both of which may greatly influence the form of the blown bubble.

So if life ever existed in Mars, we could probably expect the life - forms to differ from what we have on Earth — at least until further exploration and studies are done to determine whether Mars steadily became an oxygen - rich planet like ours.

Winn, who is also a Participating Scientist in the NASA Kepler mission, is interested in the properties of planets around other stars, how planets form and evolve, and whether there are planets beyond Earth capable of supporting life.

The goal of these observations was to understand not only whether planets have formed, but also what conditions can result in planet formation and what chemical constituents are available for new planets.

The index doesn't represent an absolute statistical prediction of whether complex life could be present on a planet; rather, it can be used to estimate the relative likelihood of life having evolved there, based on the conditions that we know are compatible with the evolution of complex life forms on a planet, and assuming that no further information is available.

Astronomers have observed and suspect that large amounts of water are always present in planet - forming material, but Webb will determine whether that's accurate across the board.

Assuming that the frequency of observed habitable zone planets really is a result of stellar age, this begs the question of whether the planets currently observed in the habitable zone really formed there or whether they were brought into it as their star evolved.

How something forms is of crucial importance to understanding whether something is a planet or not, since planets tend to form from disks around stars, while stars form from the centers of the disks themselves.

Three planetary formation experts — Kate Follette, Bruce Macintosh and Ruth Murray - Clay — joined a roundtable discussion on new ways of studying how planets form and whether they can explain the rise of our Solar System.

Lois Lane could find some competition for Clark Kent's affections in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in the form of Gal Gadot's Diana Prince, a.k.a. Wonder Woman, and Heny Cavill has offered a rather diplomatic response when asked by Cosmopolitan whether the intrepid Daily Planet reporter or the Amazon Princess is a better fit -LSB-...]

Regardless of whether you are playing as a lone wolf on your PS Vita or forming a team of four on the PS4, the expansive game mechanics can take you to 56 planets across seven galaxies.

Powering their behemoth toys means more to them than whether life on this planet will continue in anything like its current form.

We felt that the fundamental difference was not «is the planet heating up due to our emissions» but how people felt about whether this demanded special forms of politics.

I have no need to form an opinion as to whether climate change is happening via man's last century or two on the planet.

But their consumerism (the 1 billion plus on the planet today) takes all forms via services rendered and purchases (whether that's a 10 bathroom villa, flying to London for the latest stars rock concert, or another new car, or buying $ 1 million in shares with their loose change to keep the tax free / low tax income coming in from shares and other special «investment» opportunists only they get offered.)