Sentence examples for dips in brightness from inspiring English sources

Watching for those dips in brightness is how Kepler detects planets.

It looked for tiny dips in brightness caused when planets drift in front of their parent star.

TESS is set to monitor more than 500,000 stars, looking for periodic dips in brightness that could be caused by the transit of an orbiting planet.

Kepler scans hundreds of thousands of stars, hunting for the tiny but regular dips in brightness which occur when a planet passes in front of its parent star.

The satellite detects possible planets by measuring the light of 156,000 stars in its field of view and looking for slight dips in brightness when a planet crosses in front of a star.

Kepler, launched in 2009, searches for exoplanets by staring at 150,000 stars in a patch of sky between Cygnus and Lyra constellations, looking for dips in brightness caused by the passage of a planet in front of its home star.

Measuring a star's dip in brightness precisely also allows the planet's size to be calculated.

By measuring the dip in brightness, they can work out how much of the star's surface is being obstructed.

The spacecraft detected CoRot-9b by measuring the dimming of its star's brightness as the planet passed in front of it, a technique called "transit observation". The small dip in brightness allows the planet's size to be calculated.

This led scientists to predict that the cosmic dawn must have left an imprint in the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation in the form of a dip in brightness at a specific point in the spectrum that ought, in theory, to still be perceptible today.

And it orbits its parent star firmly inside the "habitable zone", in which temperatures are just right for liquid water.The planet was found by NASA's recently-defunct Kepler space telescope, which stared at hundreds of thousands of distant stars, looking for the tiny dip in brightness produced when a planet crosses in front of its star as seen from Earth.