Sentence examples for transiting in front of from inspiring English sources
Their configuration evolves from night to night as they orbit every 1.8 to 17 days, sometimes transiting in front of the disc and sometimes hiding behind it in occultation or being eclipsed by the Jovian shadow.
When a star's light is dimmed periodically, it hints that a planet might be transiting in front of it.
They've already bagged huge planets orbiting in a star's habitable zone--where any water would be liquid--and huge planets transiting in front of their stars.
Its mission is to determine the fraction of stars in the galaxy that harbor Earth-like planets by carrying out a survey of some 150,000 stars in the constellations of Cygnus and Lyra, looking for the dips in starlight caused by planets passing, or transiting, in front of their suns.
Its official mission was to determine the fraction of stars in the galaxy that harbor Earthlike planets by carrying out a survey of some 150,000 stars in the constellations of Cygnus and Lyra, looking for the dips in starlight caused by planets passing, or transiting, in front of their suns.
When Europa transits in front of the bright giant planet, any plumes around the moon should be backlit.
However, Kepler-1647b's orbital period is so long that it transits in front of its star less frequently than other confirmed exoplanets.
This was done by subtracting the parent star's constant light and noting the difference as the planet transited in front of the star and was eclipsed behind it, providing a measure of the light from the planet itself.
The Kepler telescope, launched in March 2009, detects exoplanets by looking for a periodic dimming in stellar brightness, caused by a planet transiting (passing in front of) a star.
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.
The planet was found by astronomers scouring the Milky Way galaxy for potentially habitable worlds Using Nasa's Kepler space telescope, they measured the very tiny dimming that occurs when a planet crosses or "transits" in front of its star.
