Sentences with phrase «wobbles caused»

The difference between the emissions and the natural variation is that the emissions caused the entire increase of 60 ppmv 1959 - 2004, while natural wobbles caused a temporarely change of a few ppmv, followed by normal temperatures (and CO2 increases, 1994) or even cooler periods (1999)...

The first, called MARVELS, will use a new instrument to repeatedly measure spectra for approximately 8,500 nearby stars like our own Sun, looking for the telltale wobbles caused by large Jupiter - like planets orbiting them.

For months last year, the team kept a near - constant vigil on Proxima Centauri, looking for tiny wobbles caused by the pull of an orbiting planet.

While the HARPS team monitors nearby stars for telltale wobbles caused by orbiting planets, Kepler scientists search a wide field of faraway stars, watching for planets that become silhouetted against their suns.

As instruments improved, astronomers detected smaller wobbles caused by smaller planets, until in 2004 a team using the Hobby - Eberly Telescope was arguably the first to find a super-Earth, 55 Cancri e. Others were revealed when their gravity briefly magnified the light of a distant star, a process known as gravitational lensing.

«THE END OF DAYS is near» January 1213 the earth will wobble causing earthquakes, lava will spill all over the earth the oceans will rise changing the topography, the atmosphere will be consumed, our planet will die and orbit just like our mom, a gusted, dust, desolate planet.

«There must have been regional climate and chemical conditions that varied in time and space,» he says, adding that this would occur as the tilt of Mars's spin axis changed over tens of thousands of years, a wobble caused by the lack of a massive moon to stabilise the planet.

In particular, there was no sign of climate change in Indonesia associated with Earth's orbital precession, a wobble caused by Earth's axis tilt that generates differences in sunlight in a 21,000 - year cycle.

Detecting the wobble caused by an Earth - size planet orbiting at a more temperate distance from its sun is out of the question for a ground - based telescope.

HARPS is an instrument that measures the wobble caused by a planet's gravitational tug on its host star, so it can be used to estimate planetary mass.

Second, to find a planet like Earth, and especially to see it directly rather than just detecting it by the wobble caused by its gravitational pull on its sun, the array of telescopes used to create the interferometer would have to be launched into space to get them above our planet's murky atmosphere.

by Guillem Anglada - Escude, Mario Damasso & Fabio del Sordo As featured in the current ESO picture of the Week, Proxima Centauri keeps showing extra variability beyond the wobble caused by Proxima b.

We are not talking about some vague little internal wobble caused by God only knows what.

Not exact matches

The company has been up - and - down recently, with a string of mixed earnings and botched merger talks with CBS causing the stock to wobble, but the company's recent Q2 earnings release shows a media giant that is on solid footing.

However, while the Fed's mandate does not extend to reacting to the vagaries of the currency market or the dynamics affecting other economies, recent US dollar strength and wobbles in risk assets caused by concerns over the state of the Chinese economy can not be entirely ignored.

When markets wobbled, the Federal Reserve was loathe to tighten monetary policy for fear of causing a further market decline which might hurt the economy.

And to perhaps oversimplify, we humans essentially created the concept ourselves thanks to the diurnal cycle caused by the sun as the earth wobbles it's way around the solar system.

The heads shaking across the land may cause the earth to wobble on its axis.

Mysterious seasonal wobbles in the rate of radioactive decay may be caused by elusive particles from the sun

When it tunnels, it effectively disappears, causing that electrical field to wobble like a plucked string, Turin explains.

Some candidates can be checked further using another technique that looks for «wobbles» in the star caused by the gravitational tug of an orbiting body, but Kepler 452 b is too distant and small for that.

This image shows the supernova debris shell, expanded greatly over the millennia, will a telltale spiral structure caused by the wobbling jets striking the inside of the shell and causing radio waves to be emitted.

For now, astronomers have yet to actually see this new planet — instead, they have simply measured how its to and fro orbital tugging causes Proxima Centauri to wobble back and forth in the sky.

The two main methods — measuring the wobble of stars caused by the gravitational tug of an orbiting planet and measuring the periodic dimming of a star as a planet passes in front — both favor big planets in close orbits.

Mayor and his colleagues showed instead that it was possible, through a technique called astrometry, to detect the slight wobble in a star's light caused by the gravitational pull of an orbiting planet.

Although the planets are too faint to be seen directly, their motions cause the star's spectrum to wobble back and forth across the digital detector of an astronomical telescope.

Superimposed upon this are oscillations in climate every 20,000, 40,000 and 100,000 years caused by wobbles in the Earth's orbit.

An Earth - like planet would cause a bigger wobble and a darker transit in a red dwarf than in a sun, and the effect would be even more pronounced if the planet were in the habitable zone — because the habitable zone, where liquid water can exist, lies closer to a cool red dwarf.

A partner would cause the black hole to wobble, lowering surface gravity and cooling it a little.

The wobble in Earth's axis of rotation is a combination of two major components, each with its own cause.

SIM would easily be able to spot the wobble of our sun caused by Jupiter from a distance of 30 light - years — and there are about 400 stars within that distance of Earth.

The idea goes like this: Two massive bodies orbiting near each other will warp space enough to disturb the central axis around which both are moving, causing them to begin wobbling just like spinning tops.

The two methods of detecting extrasolar planets, nicknamed «wobble and blink,» involve plotting tiny shifts in a star's motion caused by the gravitational tug of its orbiting planets, and catching the slight dimming in a star's light that occurs whenever a planet passes between the star and an observer's telescope.

Repeated observations reveal the size and period of the wobble, and from that astronomers can infer some characteristics of the planet that is causing it — without actually «seeing» the planet itself.

One key part of follow - up observations is measuring a planet's mass, which must be found by a different method, such as detecting the back - and - forth wobble of a parent star caused by the planet's mass as it orbits.

In addition to the first set of shifts caused by the star's wobble, they found a second set of shifts, much fainter and with higher redshifts and blueshifts.

Firing an ultra-fast laser pulse at the material may completely flip the spin direction, reversing the magnetism, or may disrupt the spins, causing a kind of wobbling known as spin precession.

As an object orbits a star, its gravitational pull causes the star to wobble back and forth.

These climate shifts, the theory went, were caused by the combined effects of three cycles: A wobble in Earth's axis repeating every 25,700 years, on average, and orbital shifts repeating every 109,000 years and every 405,000 years, respectively.

In October, Xavier Dumusque at the Observatory of Geneva and colleagues described a slight wobble in Alpha Centauri B, caused by the tug of an Earth - mass planet orbiting every three days around that yellowish, sunlike star.

The research team theorizes that this heat would have created a less dense lens in the moon's mantle that would have caused the axis to wobble into today's position.

Johny Setiawan of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, and colleagues found the planet by the way its gravity caused its host star to wobble.

There are theories about the cause and the effect of the wobble.

Using the ten - meter Keck I telescope fitted with the HIRES instrument, the team employed the radial velocity method to measure how much an orbiting planet causes its star to wobble, to determine the planet's mass.

But gravitational waves send shivers out across the universe, causing the distance between Earth and a pulsar to wobble a little, which scientists should be able to see in the pulsar's signature.

Astronomers detected Ross 128 b using the European Southern Observatory's High Accuracy Radial - velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) at the La Silla Observatory in Chile and measured the slight «wobbles» of the star caused by the orbiting exoplanet.

Most have been discovered because they caused a wobble or a slight diminution of a star's light as they passed by.

The disk in SS 433 wobbles like a child's top, causing its jets to trace a corkscrew in the sky every 162 days.

As an orbiting planet's gravity tugs on its parent star, it causes the star to wobble in its path across the sky.

In addition, they could track the jets» precession, the movement caused by the disk's wobble.