Sentences with phrase «stars at larger distances»

Forgan and his co-authors found that when galaxies collide, the habitable zone is transformed and then gradually settles back to its general trend: Stars at larger distances from the galactic center have higher chances of hosting planets hospitable to life.

Not exact matches

They have found giant planets several times the mass of Jupiter, orbiting their star at more than twice the distance Neptune is from the sun — another region where theorists thought it was impossible to grow large planets.

But to the astronomers» astonishment, the RR Lyrae stars do not follow football - shaped orbits, but have large random motions more consistent with their having formed at a great distance from the centre of the Milky Way.

The region contains relatively large quantities of some of the most important basic building blocks of life, and these are concentrated at a potentially habitable distance away from the parent star.

What is more, improved technology should also allow larger observatories such as Keck to move from the few giant planets already imaged — all of which orbit their host stars at relatively large distances — to closer - in worlds more like our own.

Instead of orbiting the sunlike star, the pulsar orbits the third star, the team speculates, while the sunlike star circles the pair at a much larger distance, disturbing what should be a perfectly circular orbit.

Researchers used software to simulate the planetary motions within a two - planet system: one being a Jupiter - sized planet (depicted in the artist's concept above) orbiting its parent star at about the same distance Earth orbits the sun, and the other a large planet in a highly tilted orbit that was slightly larger.

Although the increased size of the E-ELT will be essential to obtaining an image of a planet at larger distances in the Milky Way, the light collecting power of the VLT is just sufficient to image a planet around the nearest star, Alpha Centauri.

(Fomalhaut b, by contrast, orbits at nearly twice the distance of the farthest - flung planet around HR 8799, albeit around a larger star.)

A larger sixth planet, closer in mass to Saturn, also appears significantly in the data at a greater distance from HD 10180, but the study's authors note that the signal could be caused by a long - term magnetic cycle on the star rather than the tug of an orbiting planet.

It appears to be a main sequence red dwarf star of spectral and luminosity type M4.5 V. Because of its small mass and great distance from the primary (Star A), Upsilon Andromedae B appears to have a negligible effect on the radial velocity measurements used to determine that Star A has at least three large planets (Lowrance et al, 20star of spectral and luminosity type M4.5 V. Because of its small mass and great distance from the primary (Star A), Upsilon Andromedae B appears to have a negligible effect on the radial velocity measurements used to determine that Star A has at least three large planets (Lowrance et al, 20Star A), Upsilon Andromedae B appears to have a negligible effect on the radial velocity measurements used to determine that Star A has at least three large planets (Lowrance et al, 20Star A has at least three large planets (Lowrance et al, 2002).

The following year he began studying star clusters; large groupings of stars that are co-located at approximately the same distance.

Using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope, the scientists found a huge quantity of dense interstellar gas — the environment required for active star formation — at the greatest distance yet detected.

Super-Earths represent the largest population of known planets mostly found at sub-AU distances from their host stars.

There's a gas giant located about 330 light - years from here that's not only unusually large, it's also orbiting its host star at an incredibly close distance.

Using spectral synthesis techniques, we find that its temperature is 9800K + / -300 K, that its projected area is a remarkably large 100 stellar areas, and its emitting volume resides at a distance of 1 AU from the star.

«This is remarkable that the supermassive black hole is able to impact stars forming at such large distances,» says Wright.

So far the direct detection has only been able to show giant exoplanets, several times larger than Jupiter and orbiting at great distances from their stars.

We used an improved method to derive the completeness limits of the observations, which takes into account the elongated point spread function of stars at relatively large distances from the adaptive optics guide star.

On March 4, 2014, a team of astronomers also revealed the detection of a larger super-Earth «c» with around 8.7 (+5.8 / -4.7) Earth - masses at an average distance of 0.176 (+0.009 / -0.030) AU from host star Gl 682.

A large milky - white nebula, on the body of the Great Bear, with a small star at its sp [south preceding, SW] apex, and an 8th - magnitude preceding [W] it at double the distance; there is also a brightish group in the np [north preceding, NW] quadrant.

While large ships have to dock across the bay, the smaller Viking Star is able to dock at the pier in Toulon, within walking distance of the historical center and sights.