Science news articles about 'wobbling in space'Scientists discover new planet orbiting dangerously close to giant star
... the fingerprint of a star that is moving alternately toward and away from Earth as it wobbles in space responding to the gravitational pull of an orbiting planet. Because of the Doppler effect, the ... Record-setting laser may aid searches for Earthlike planets
... such a frequency comb at a ground-based telescope or launching a comb on a satellite or other space mission. Other possible applications of the new laser include remote sensing of gases for medical ... How like Earth are alien planets?
... spotted them by recording how each planet’s gravitational tug makes its parent star wobble. According to Cristophe Lovis of the University of Geneva, Switzerland, a member of the HARPS team, these ... In unique stellar laboratory, Einstein's theory passes strict, new test
... an effect of its spinning around its axis, should cause the spin axis of the other to wobble, or precess.
Studies of other pulsars in binary systems had indicated that such wobbling occurred, but ... Starwatch: Cepheus and Cassiopeia
... are circumpolar in that they remain forever above our horizon as they turn about the pole. Indeed, the slow wobble of the Earth's axis means that Alderamin will become our pole star by about AD 5,500. ... Leading journal names the top 10 scientific breakthroughs of 2008
... had seen shimmers of light from the planets themselves. They are just faint pinpricks of light in space, but they will give astronomers clues to what those distant planets are made of and how they ... Science Weekly podcast: We look back at the most significant stories of 2008
... University of Oxford, popped in for a chat. American space tourist Richard Garriott told us ... your own spaceship, and looked at the science of wobbling. Collectively, producer Andy and James Randerson ...
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Scientists discover new planet orbiting dangerously close to giant star
... the fingerprint of a star that is moving alternately toward and away from Earth as it wobbles in space responding to the gravitational pull of an orbiting planet. Because of the Doppler effect, the ...Record-setting laser may aid searches for Earthlike planets
... such a frequency comb at a ground-based telescope or launching a comb on a satellite or other space mission. Other possible applications of the new laser include remote sensing of gases for medical ...How like Earth are alien planets?
... spotted them by recording how each planet’s gravitational tug makes its parent star wobble. According to Cristophe Lovis of the University of Geneva, Switzerland, a member of the HARPS team, these ...In unique stellar laboratory, Einstein's theory passes strict, new test
... an effect of its spinning around its axis, should cause the spin axis of the other to wobble, or precess. Studies of other pulsars in binary systems had indicated that such wobbling occurred, but ...Starwatch: Cepheus and Cassiopeia
... are circumpolar in that they remain forever above our horizon as they turn about the pole. Indeed, the slow wobble of the Earth's axis means that Alderamin will become our pole star by about AD 5,500. ...Leading journal names the top 10 scientific breakthroughs of 2008
... had seen shimmers of light from the planets themselves. They are just faint pinpricks of light in space, but they will give astronomers clues to what those distant planets are made of and how they ...Science Weekly podcast: We look back at the most significant stories of 2008
... University of Oxford, popped in for a chat. American space tourist Richard Garriott told us ... your own spaceship, and looked at the science of wobbling. Collectively, producer Andy and James Randerson ...