Sentences with phrase «worlds around other stars»

NASA's Kepler telescope is designed to find Earth - like worlds around other stars, but could it also find intelligent life?

Webb will help humanity solve the mysteries of our solar system, look beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probe the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it.

A barrier - breaking mission for engineers and astronomers, Webb will solve mysteries of our solar system, look beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probe the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it.

Life as we know it couldn't exist on Titan — but if most of life's needs exist there, they might exist on balmier worlds around other stars.

Astronomers identified more than 100 more worlds around other stars in 2012, but one especially hit home — because it is right next door.

These are the people who are making giant strides in tapping new sources of energy, eliminating deaths from cancer, ushering in a second computer revolution, and seeking habitable worlds around other stars.

Since his pulsar planet discovery in 1992, lots of other scientists have joined the search for worlds around other stars, but almost nobody else does it the way he does.

Astronomer Boss gives an inside view of how new space telescopes like Kepler and Corot are on the verge of finding Earth - like worlds around other stars.

Since 1995, several teams have found more than 170 worlds around other stars.

Not exact matches

In an interview with Business Insider, Akshay Kumar — one of the most famous actors in Bollywood — said sexual misconduct is «everywhere» and that the allegations against entertainment stars in the US may encourage other women around the world to speak up.

In a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.

A host of soccer stars from around the world were joined by several NBA players and other celebrities to play in the charity match hosted by the Steve Nash Foundation to raise money for underprivileged children.

Scientists naively presumed if we ever did discover planets around other stars, these worlds would look, well, familiar.

Atmospheres have been reported on only three other small worlds: one around an M dwarf, one around a K dwarf and one orbiting a star similar to the sun.

THE thousands of probable worlds discovered in orbit around other stars are making our corner of the universe appear a lot friendlier to life these days.

The worlds are aptly named «circumbinary planets» («circum» meaning around, and «binary» referring to two objects), and in this type of binary system, the two stars orbit each other while the planet orbits the two stars (pictured above).

In the past year, astronomers searching for planets around other stars have found alien worlds that are smaller and younger than any previously known.

If the giant planet announced this week actually exists, we can already explain how it got there - and how it solves a mystery about the worlds we see around other stars

Most theorists hold that such ejections should be quite common during the chaotic tumult of a planetary system's early days, when closely - packed worlds whirling around a star can scatter off each other like billiard balls in a break shot.

Astronomers using the TRAPPIST - South telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory, the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal and the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, as well as other telescopes around the world [1], have now confirmed the existence of at least seven small planets orbiting the cool red dwarf star TRAPPIST - 1 [2].

The oldest detected Kepler planets (exoplanets found using NASA's Kepler telescope) are about 11 billion years old, and the planetary diversity suggests that around other stars, such initially frozen worlds could be the size of Earth and could even provide habitable conditions once the star becomes older.

A spacecraft on a quest to discover Earth - like and potentially habitable worlds in other solar systems around other stars took to space on April 18, 2018, riding atop a shiny new SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

«Between the TESS mission and SDSS - V, Vanderbilt is going to be at this world - leading nexus of a major space mission and a major international collaboration on Earth focused on finding new habitable planets around other stars and making detailed measurements of them,» Stassun said.

It is also the only telescope and instrument in the world — in space or on Earth — that is capable of measuring reflected light from planets orbiting around other stars.

Though it's a long way from a few simple molecules to even the most basic proteins, detecting chemistry similar to Earth's around distant stars suggests that the pathway to life may be possible on other worlds.

A spacecraft on a quest to discover Earth - like and potentially habitable worlds in other solar systems around other stars took to space on April 18, 2018, riding atop a shiny new SpaceX Falcon -LSB-...]

A spacecraft on a quest to discover Earth - like and potentially habitable worlds in other solar systems around other stars took to space on April 18, 2018, riding atop a shiny new SpaceX Falcon 9 ro...

Natalie Spilger is a professional soccer player for the Chicago Red Stars and the CEO and Founder of GreenLaces.org, an organization she created to inspire other professional athletes and people around the world to be a little greener.

Amy Adams stars as a linguist who helps the U.S. government communicate with aliens who appear in Montana and 11 others sites around the world.

The chance to star in a Tarantino film doesn't come around often, which might explain why the ridiculously stacked cast — which includes Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Sacha Baron Cohen, Don Johnson, Joseph Gordon - Levitt, James Remar, Anthony LaPaglia and The RZA, among others — also features DiCaprio, one of the biggest movie stars in the world, in a supporting role.

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Players from around the world can now start tipping other players stars!

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Chen and Armstrong (2002) described a myriad of project - based learning activities in which teachers used technologies to engage students as scientists in collecting data on stars for NASA, as explorers in wide - ranging expeditions around the world, as writers publishing poems or even literary magazines, and in a range of other innovative roles engaging in relevant projects.

The drive of Amazon to make this unlikely little thing a star is inspiring in a world where most companies just go around copying each other.

Our partnerships with Star Alliance carriers and other partner airlines can take our customers to over a thousand destinations around the world, and we're excited to be the first U.S. carrier to provide customers with this convenience when connecting to partners

SkyTrax rates Scoot a 3 (out of 5) star airline, comparable to other low - cost carriers around the world.

«Our partnerships with Star Alliance carriers and other partner airlines can take our customers to over a thousand destinations around the world, and we're excited to be the first US carrier to provide customers with this convenience when connecting to partners.»

The Diplomat's signature steakhouse Diplomat Prime serves award - winning steaks, fresh seafood and other fare accompanied by fine wines from around in the world in an elegant, fine dining setting, while celebrity chef, restaurateur, and television star Geoffrey Zakarian serves a menu of creative Coastal American cuisine at Point Royal.

It's pretty exciting to think that players waging war over planets around other stars in a virtual universe will soon be finding them in the real world.

The game will feature the same famous golf star that your girlfriend most likely slept with, among other golfers from around the world.

With his promotion also comes a seat that's already on fire due to the Star Wars Battlefront II controversy that led into some other EA high - profile titles and even some non-EA titles that have caught the attention of lawmakers around the world due to loot boxes being viewed as a form of gambling.

«Like so many others around the world, everyone at DICE is a tremendous fan of the Star Wars universe,» said Sigurlina Ingvarsdottir, Senior Producer of Star Wars Battlefront.

RedLynx vs All - Stars is a collection of 22 new tracks, half of them created by RedLynx's track developers and the other half made by the very best track creators from all around the world!

Other good examples are LawBreakers, presumably played only by its developers, and of course Star Wars: Battlefront II, whose biggest claim to fame turned out to be saying to politicians all around the world: «Hey, we've created our own virtual casinos — what are you gonna do about it?»

As the journey takes the party around the world, they'll stumble upon a variety of guest stars from other Dragon Quest games that have found themselves in this new world for a variety of reasons.

Mobile World Congress is just around the corner, and though the Galaxy S9 will probably be the star of the show, other manufacturers are going to have their heavy hitters on hand as well.

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