Sentences with phrase «which distant planets»

This new mass - measuring technique should allow researchers to determine which distant planets could support life.

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The group of five planets, all smaller than Neptune, was found by citizen scientists scouring data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, which measures light from distant stars.

Then, effectively by accident, Batygin and Brown noticed that if they ran their simulations with a massive planet in an anti-aligned orbit — an orbit in which the planet's closest approach to the sun, or perihelion, is 180 degrees across from the perihelion of all the other objects and known planets — the distant Kuiper Belt objects in the simulation assumed the alignment that is actually observed.

TRAPPIST - 1, which is 39 light - years distant and just 8 % the mass of the sun, caught the team's attention because it was obvious from multiple dips that more than one planet orbited the star.

Its discovery proved that the Kepler spacecraft, which was launched in March 2009, could indeed do what its designers had boldly promised: find small, Earth - size planets around distant stars, a task that once seemed so difficult as to border on the absurd.

Such distant giants lend support to the most radical challenge to standard theory, in which some planets form not by core accretion, but by a process called gravitational instability.

Launched late last year, COROT is collecting information about distant planets as well as measuring cosmic stellar vibrations, which provide clues to the interiors of distant stars.

Slight shifts in the color of light coming from a distant star can clue astronomers in to an orbiting planet via the Doppler equation, which links changes in the wavelength (λ) of light to the motion (v) of the thing emitting it.

Mercury's New Face: NASA's Messenger probe delivers impressive new views of the inner-most planet, which is in some respects harder to reach than distant Pluto.

Researchers used NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope, which measures the heat emitted from distant objects, to study a massive extrasolar planet that lies 40 light - years from Earth.

Formed a billion years after the Big Bang, the universe's oldest and most distant known planet circles a collapsed star, or pulsar (green circle), in the globular cluster M4, which is 5,000 light - years away from Earth.

The New Horizons probe has the most distant target of any space mission ever attempted: everyone's favorite dwarf planet, Pluto, which it will reach in July 2015.

Brown first achieved notoriety for the discovery of Eris, a distant object nearly the size of Pluto, which led to the dwarf planet's demotion.

Nesvold and her colleague Marc Kuchner, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., presented the findings Thursday during the «In the Spirit of Lyot 2015» conference in Montreal, which focuses on the direct detection of planets and disks around distant stars.

NASA's Messenger probe delivers impressive new views of the inner-most planet, which is in some respects harder to reach than distant Pluto.

Their findings are in the new paper «Evidence for a Distant Giant Planet in the Solar System,» which is in the current issue of the Astronomical Journal.

The ACS, which sees visible light, was installed to help map the distribution of dark matter, detect the universe's most distant objects, search for massive planets and examine the evolution of clusters of galaxies.

Because stars and planets beyond our solar system are too distant and unreachable, a team of scientists created a technique that could determine which exoplanets have the potential to accommodate human life.

When heated by the distant sun, the materials are converted directly into vapors, which then fall back to the dwarf planet in the form of precipitation.

The more distant planets (Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) which move slower and have a greater distance to travel, complete just a fraction of their orbits in this time.

And as a nifty bonus, the telescope will be able to spot distant exoplanets in the heart of the Milky Way, and its second instrument will be able to gather data about their atmospheres, which can tell scientists whether a planet is more like Neptune or Jupiter, for instance.

By observing slight dips in the light from distant stars — which correspond to planets «transiting» between their host stars and the telescope's lens — Kepler has discovered 135 confirmed planets and 3,548 planet candidates.

It examines the transit of planets across distant stars, which gives researchers an idea of the candidates ability to how life based on its orbit and size.

Sheppard and Trujillo suggest a super Earth or an even larger object at hundreds of AU could create the shepherding effect seen in the orbits of these objects, which are too distant to be perturbed significantly by any of the known planets.

On December 5, 2011, astronomers working on the Kepler Mission announced their first confirmation an extra-Solar, super-Earth-sized planet orbiting within the «habitable zone» of a distant Sun - like star (spectral class G5), which was discovered using Kepler.

New work from Carnegie's Scott Sheppard and Chadwick Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory reports the discovery of a distant dwarf planet, called 2012 VP113, which was found beyond the known edge of the solar system.

2) By definition, each planet must orbit a star — and because stars are very distant, the planets appear to be extremely close to their host stars, which are always much brighter.

Published by Activision and developed by Infinity Ward, Retribution features four new multiplayer maps, and the highly - anticipated culmination of the Infinite Warfare zombies storyline called «The Beast from Beyond,» which takes players to an abandoned military base on a distant ice planet to fight the undead.

Based on Michel Faber's celebrated 2014 novel The Book Of Strange New Things, project — which is being eyed as a 10 - episode event series — centers on a soulful, intense priest (Madden) who leaves his wife to travel to a distant planet / colony to preach to the native population.

It's the distant planet from which a New York mental patient known only as Prot (Kevin Spacey) claims to be visiting.

Stranded on a distant, unknown planet, you have to survive volatile environments, all the time while discovering ways in which to save mankind.

There's not a prettier game yet released for the fledgling PlayStation VR than Robinson: The Journey, which sees our youthful human protagonist, Robin, abandoned on a distant planet.

LA - based artist Kathryn Andrews, in conjunction with composer Scott Benzel, will present a new performance in which performers summon alien beings from distant planets.

Boris (# 121) points out that contrarians are more than happy to accept the trends calculated for a few distant planets if it obscures the cause of the trends seen on Earth — even though the data which we have on those trends have a great deal more uncertainty associated with them (see Nicholar L's # 88), and as an explanation in terms of solar variability is not credible (ibid.)

The Earth - Moon doesn't orbit the Earth - Moon - Sun barycenter exactly but it is not orbiting the barycenter of the solar sysem either; to some approximation the innermost planets and the sun must wobble around the barycenter together as they are similarly affected by the outermost planets which happen to be more massive as well as more distant and thus dominate in their effects on the barycenter — things should tend to get more complicated when the planets involved are at more similar distances.

As part of an effort to identify distant planets hospitable to life, NASA has established a crowdsourcing project in which volunteers search telescopic images for evidence of debris disks around...