The planetary-formation from the gas-and-dust disk surrounding a new star as described above has also raised the question of whether the process itself depletes stars of the elements that are concentrated in the planets. If so, this could be used to improve our planet-searching abilities, as...
It’s worth pointing out that even at the first step there are a lot of possible “next words” to choose from (at temperature 0.8), though their probabilities fall off quite quickly (and, yes, the straight line on this log-log plot corresponds to an n–1 “power-law” decay that...
This is the first time astronomers have directly observed more than one planet orbiting a star similar in size to the Sun. Although astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets, most aren’t observed directly. Instead they are spotted as shadows crossing in front of their stars, or inferred a...
What are the application of sensor? What methods have successfully been used to detect exoplanets? How does the auditory system encode pitch and frequency? 1. What is the different about cone photoreceptors, that enable them to detect different colored light ? 2. What colors can these cone ...
Methods like this still can't be used for terrestrial planets, as the height of the atmosphere engulfing a rocky planet is miniscule compared to that of a gas giant. Earth-like planets also orbit their stars at a larger distance, making it even more difficult to observe their atmospheres. ...
But it’s increasingly clear that having high-precision numbers doesn’t matter; 8 bits or less might be enough even with current methods. With computational systems like cellular automata that basically operate in parallel on many individual bits it’s never been clear how to do this kind of...