Sentence examples for transit front from inspiring English sources

"Gas Prices Send Surge of Riders to Mass Transit" (front page, May 10) is only a portent of what is to come.

On the public transit front, Uber has partnered with Masabi, a mobile ticketing platform for public transit.

More than 100 'Earth-like' planets have been announced as "discovered" in past few weeks, most of these by researchers working with NASA's Kepler satellite, which was designed and is dedicated to finding such planets by looking for them in transit in front of their stars (looking like dark dots in front of their bright star).

We have detected the presence of a strongly extended exoplanetary atmosphere by achieving the first X-ray detection of an exoplanetary transit in front of its host star.

I'd like to applaud the five former New York City transportation commissioners for joining forces to bring New York City's transit woes front and center.

The Berkeley and Stanford teams are involved in two major exoplanet searches: a highly successful search for exoplanets based on the wobble they produce in a star's motion or the dimming they create when they transit in front of a star; and a newly launched survey by the Gemini Planet Imager to directly take pictures of planets by capturing the heat they give off.

When planets transit in front of their host star, the brightness of that star will dim ever-so-slightly as we view that transit from a telescope.

The planets were detected from the dimming that occurs when they transit in front of their parent star, as shown here.

Their existence is given away by a tiny drop in brightness caused when a planet transits in front of its parent star, as seen from Earth.

Some researchers, like Bakos, are searching for the faint dimming of starlight that happens when a planet transits in front of a star.

A couple times a year, things line up just right for EPIC to capture the moon itself transiting in front of the globe.