Sentence examples for planetary transit from inspiring English sources
By comparing spectral measurements of the star's light before and during the planetary transit, for example, they hope to find out what the planet's atmosphere is made of.
Related sites OGLE home page, with details of planetary transit Compendium of all extrasolar planets to date Kepler, a future NASA satellite devoted to transit searches.
In what's known as a planetary transit, the solar system's smallest planet will appear as a tiny black spot slowly crossing the face of our star.
This crossing slightly dims the star at a regular interval, which is used to determine if the cause of the fluctuation in brightness is indeed due to a planetary transit.
On June 3, 2014, the Curiosity rover on the planet Mars observed the planet Mercury transiting the Sun, marking the first time a planetary transit has been observed from a celestial body besides Earth.
Both gravitational microlensing and planetary transit observations indicate that there may be at least as many planets bound to stars as there are stars in the Milky Way, and microlensing measurements indicate that there are more rogue planets not bound to host stars than there are stars.
Modern interest in planetary transits can be traced from Kepler.
A couple of years after that the European Space Agency plans to launch a telescope of its own, the awkwardly acronymed PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars).
CoRoT-7 was discovered in 2009 by the French satellite CoRoT (Convection, Rotation and Planetary Transits), when it passed in front of its star.
The degree of dimming during the planetary transits — those times that a planet crosses the path of something else — usually allows Kepler astronomers to measure the size of a planet relative to the stars.
Earlier this year Dr. Kailash Sahu of the Space Telescope Science Institute, and his colleagues, trained the Hubble Space Telescope on one patch of the galaxy containing some 167,000 stars, in hopes of recording the blips from planetary transits.
