"planet" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Later observations showed that this planet also transited the star.
- When the secondary star or planet transits the primary, it blocks part of the latter's disc, preventing some of the shifted light from reaching the observer.
- Because the planet transits the star, the star is dimmed by about 2% every 3.5 days making it an extrinsic variable.
- Because the planet transits the host star its radius can be determined using the transit method and was found to be slightly smaller than Jupiter's.
- It was the part of the first confirmed star system in which multiple planets transited the same star.
- A tiny decrease of light (0.003 magnitudes) was detected every time the planet was transiting the star, thus confirming its existence.
- Real-time radial velocity measurements detected the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect caused by the planet passing in front of its star before photometric measurements confirmed that the planet was transiting.
- If the planet transits the star as seen from our direction, the radius should be measurable, albeit with some uncertainty.
- For an Earth-like planet at 1 AU transiting a Sol-like star the probability is 0.465%, or about 1 in 215.
- When the planet transits the star, light from the star passes through the upper atmosphere of the planet.
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