Sentence examples for planet findings from inspiring English sources

Re "Use Energy, Get Rich and Save the Planet" (Findings, April 21): John Tierney argues that the environmental Kuznets curve means that environmental issues will be solved as societies become wealthier.

How for most of the planet, "finding out" is rarely fun.

I am concerned because bright young entrepreneurs and engineers, as well as the venture capitalists and their billions, could be spending their time, talents and money to spur innovation in areas of critical need: feeding a growing planet, finding new solutions for energy, and providing health care around the world, to name a few.

"It's more difficult to see the systems like our own by any of the existing planet finding methods," says Jim Kasting, a planetary scientist at Penn State University in State College, US. "The fact that we haven't seen many systems like our own doesn't mean they're not common.

A third part of the planet finding mission was the search for Jupiter-mass planets around young stars.

Epsilon Eridani is a target for planet finding programs because it has properties that allow an Earth-like planet to form.

The mission's planet finding component was set up to serve as an important complement to the future missions designed to image and measure terrestrial and other exoplanets.

With this so-called direct imaging planet finding technique and the right instrumentation, an exoplanet's atmosphere can be observed to determine if the planet is habitable (via evidence for liquid surface water, needed for all life as we know it) or if the planet is possibly inhabited (via atmospheric gases that can be attributed to life).

The discovery could provide impetus for planet-finding telescopes.

The Kepler space telescope is the most successful planet-finding instrument ever built.

The planet-finding telescope would be, in essence, an 8.4 megapixel camera with a lens 40cm across.