Sentence examples for find exoplanets from inspiring English sources

The discovery gives astronomers a new direction to look to find exoplanets.

On board is NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), designed to find exoplanets.

Aiming to find exoplanets around bright nearby stars it is designed to discover a significant number of relatively nearby Earth-like worlds.

As the team described to the American Astronomical Society meeting here today, they combined the spectra of light from the red giants with data from NASA's Kepler observatory, designed to find exoplanets, to calculate the masses of 70,000 red giants across a large swathe of the Milky Way, out to a distance of 50,000 light years.

The techniques used to find exoplanets are strongly biased towards big guys in tight orbits.

Research of the 2012 Venus transit includes: Measuring dips in a star's brightness caused by a known planet transiting the Sun will help astronomers find exoplanets.

Scientists have found exoplanets as light and airy as Styrofoam, for example, and others as dense as iron.

Imaginary aliens abound on TV and in the movies while we listen hopefully for radio signals from other intelligent civilizations and fantasize about the bizarre forms of life that might exist on the thousands of newly found exoplanets.

Radial velocity surveys found exoplanet orbits beyond 0.1 AU to be eccentric, particularly for large planets.

In the meantime, however, its up to the new generation of exoplanet telescopes coming online, like the recently launched TESS and upcoming PLATO telescopes, to find new exoplanets that may be harboring life.

Why good planets go bad, as happened to Venus, remains a mystery and that ignorance has implications for the search to find habitable exoplanets elsewhere in the galaxy.