Sentence examples for unseen planet from inspiring English sources

Neptune was also discovered in 1846 after two mathematicians analysed decades of observations of the anomalous motion of Uranus to reveal the gravitational influence of an unseen planet.

Many thought that these anomalies could be explained by an unseen planet (they called it Vulcan), which would be closer to the Sun than Mercury.

The existence of a tenth, as-yet unseen planet — or Nemesis, the twin star to our sun — both with large orbits were also contemplated.

An image of the star Fomalhaut taken by the Hubble Space Telescope gives strong evidence that an unseen planet is affecting its ring.

Those hidden billions are like an unseen planet whose gravity is pulling our politics and our economy always in a certain direction.

In The Neptune File, Standage explained how in the 19th century a new unseen planet was discovered because of its gravitational tugging, which caused Uranus to deviate from its predicted path.

Today, astronomers can detect unseen planets orbiting distant stars, because the same tugging causes the stars to wobble.

By looking at the particulars of how the colors change, that could even give clues of the atmosphere of those distant, unseen planets.

In fact, some of the disks seem to show hollow centers, comparable in size to our own planetary system and perhaps carved out by newborn (yet unseen) planets.

To date, most of the extrasolar planets have been found using the technique of the European team, by looking for wobbles in the wavelength of light from the star caused by the back-and-forth gravitational tugging of unseen planets.

The Kepler space telescope can determine the mass and orbital period of unseen planets orbiting distant stars.