Sentences with phrase «with other planetary systems»

The scientists analyzed Kepler - 32 ′ s structure, compared it with other planetary systems discovered by NASA's Kepler space telescope and sat down to do some math.

Not exact matches

This process is called accretion, and you can see it at work over and over again in real life as we currently can watch other new (planetary systems) forming in our own galaxy with a large thing called a telescope.

In this two - hour PBS special (a fine companion to The Life of Super-Earths), NOVA combines cutting - edge planetary science with the thrill of human exploration, putting astronomers and astrobiologists «on location» across the solar system as they explain the scientific search for life on other worlds.

This scenario naturally produces a planetary system just like our own: small, rocky planets with thin atmospheres close to the star, a Jupiter - like gas giant just beyond the snowline, and the other giants getting progressively smaller at greater distances because they move more slowly through their orbits and take longer to hoover up material.

Fortunately, the risk of contaminating the Red Planet is extremely slim, says Catharine Conley, NASA's planetary protection officer, who is charged with ensuring agency projects do not contaminate other solar system bodies.

A new model suggests that most young planetary systems start with several close - in, rocky planets, which later destroy each other in a cascade of collisions.

Our Solar system, and other planetary systems, began life with disks of gas and dust grains around a young star.

At that time, an embryonic Mars may have been kicked around the solar system through gravitational interactions with other planetary embryos.

Outside of Earth, Titan is the only other planetary body in the solar system with actively flowing rivers, though they're fed by liquid methane instead of water.

And although the study focused on this particular star — known as WD 1425 +540 — the fact that its planetary system shares characteristics with our solar system strongly suggests that other planetary systems would also.The researchers observed WD 1425 +540 with the Keck Telescope in 2008 and 2014, and with the Hubble Space Telescope in 2014.

«We would like to know whether in other planetary systems Kuiper belts exist with large quantities of water that could be added to otherwise dry planets,» he said.

Coming hot off the heels of discoveries made by other observatories, including NASA's Kepler and CoRot (the Convection, Rotation, and Planetary Transits mission, led by France's CNES with contributions from the ESA), this spacecraft is intended to build significantly on our knowledge of the universe, the Solar System, and the formation of life in general.

When planetary scientists started studying the photographs and data from Voyager and the subsequent Galileo mission that studied the Jovian system during the 1990s and early 2000s, they confirmed this notion: these ridges, or lineae, are fructures, or cracks, on Europa's icy surface, caused be the intense tidal forces of the massive, nearby Jupiter and the orbital resonances with the other nearby moons.

And with more than two dozen other spacecraft scattered throughout the rest of the Solar System, planetary exploration has been keeping apace.

Astronomers have long wondered whether other planetary systems have bodies with properties similar to those in the Kuiper belt, and the new study appears to confirm for the first time that one such body exists.

Possibilities for the cause of the orbital disturbance include interactions occurring from the inward migration of planets, the ejection of other planets from Star A's system through planet - to - planet scattering, or disruption from Star B. (See a larger, interactive animation of the planetary and potentially habitable zone orbits of this system, with a table of basic orbital and physical characteristics.)

In combinations with other methods of planet detection, direct imaging and spectroscopy will allow us to eventually: 1) fully map out the architecture of typical planetary systems and 2) study the atmospheric properties of exoplanets in depth.

Is there any chance that stars and planetary systems will collide with each other?

With the discovery and observation of planetary systems around stars other than our own, it is becoming possible to elaborate, revise or even replace this account.

«This planetary system is much closer than any other that we know so detailed investigation is easier,» astronomer Ansgar Reiners, with the University of Gottingen in Germany, told reporters on a conference call.

Almost all the extrasolar planetary systems known appear very different from the solar system, but planets like those within the solar system would with current technology be very difficult to find around other stars.

A new study led by Western University's all - star cosmochemist Audrey Bouvier proves that the Earth and other planetary objects formed in the early years of the Solar System share similar chemical origins — a finding at odds with accepted wisdom held by scientists for decades.

Anthropocene, as you likely know, is the term applied increasingly by a range of scientists and others to this period in Earth and human history in which our species is influencing a host of planetary systems in big ways with long - lasting consequences.

When it is noticed that Venus is potentially losing its Atmosphere at a rate related to overall gravity well determinations and the Atmospheric density is potentially due to loss of a planetary «magnetic dipole» with then a relationship linking the notice of which «Planets» in this Solar System present «Earth - like Dipoles», the CONTINUANCE of «life as we know it» is NOT in any study of a supposed «greenhouse effect» or even other Planet's Atmospheres.

Dr Lenton (who is also one of the creators of the planetary - boundaries concept) and Dr Watson suggest that energy might be used to change the hydrologic cycle with massive desalination equipment, or to speed up the carbon cycle by drawing down atmospheric carbon dioxide, or to drive new recycling systems devoted to tin and copper and the many other metals as vital to industrial life as carbon and nitrogen are to living tissue.

«The weight of our civilization has become so great, it now ranks as a global force and a significant wild card in the human future along with the Ice Ages and other vicissitudes of a volatile and changeable planetary system» — Dianne Dumanoski, Rethinking Environmentalism

Orbital variations are also likely to be a generic feature of other planets, with strong implications for the fate of planetary atmospheres (for example, understanding the potential for habitability on other systems).