Other fiction nominees include Argentine Sergio Chejfec's (SHAY'-fekz) "The Planets, " translated from Spanish by Heather Cleary.
These slight pulls cause regular variations in the planets' orbits, affecting the timing of their transits.
Five of the systems, and 10 of the planets, are the same in both papers.
They are then able to observe the chemical spectra and observe the composition of the planets themselves.
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You kind of - you have to have the planets that do form forming just in time.
"At that time, people would have set great store by the motions of the planets, " says O'Brien.
The suppression of that light makes it easier for astronomers to then uncover the images of the planets.
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Reading Tom's script was one of those things where you think the planets are aligned in some way.
Gravitational interactions between the planets and the remains of the circumstellar disc are thought to play a role.
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Nature demands that we accept, just as with the planets, that our idea of exceptionalism may be tested.
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Two of the planets (Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f) orbit a K2 dwarf estimated to be around 7 billion years old.
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Rosamund Gurney sang in the choral section of The Planets in the famous 1927 performance at Cheltenham Town Hall.
As a composer Holst is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets.
Astrologers, who use dates and times and the movement of the planets to make their prophecies, are especially annoyed.
Then as the planets formed, they cleared out the material in their vicinity.
His finding that the planets circle the sun underpins much of modern science.
The Planetarium also projects amazing 3D films on the 1, 000sqm dome-shaped screen, including voyages to the planets and creatures of the deep seas.
Astronomers think the planets may have yet to reach their final stable orbits, so more violence could be in store.
Since the planets are closer, the communications link between the rovers and Earth will be shorter, allowing faster transmissions back home.
As regards the planets around HR8799, the astronomers made some fascinating observations.
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Such is the distance between the planets, it can take 20 minutes for an instruction sent from Earth to arrive at Mars.
All the planets in a series are hospitable to all the others.
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That is how the planets of our solar system most likely formed.
Even if the planets did all line up perfectly there would be nothing to worry about, as a number of astronomers have demonstrated.
Their model takes into account both general relativity and all known gravitational effects of the sun, the moon, the planets and large asteroids.
Astronomer Steven Vogt describes one of the planets as "a real speedy son of a gun, " orbiting its star once every three days.
Copernicus deduced that the planets revolved around the Sun, and finally refuted the belief that the Earth was the centre of the Universe.
"When the planets align this can be a good strategy, " says Marty Kearney, senior staff instructor at the Chicago Board Options Exchange's Options Institute.
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Near-Earth objects are asteroids or comets, believed to be remnants from the formation of the planets, whose orbits brings them close to the Earth.
Until the first colonies were established on the planets, the U.N.
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