My daughters will grow up in a world where there were
always planets around the stars.
Not exact matches
Rovelli points out that humans have
always observed that the
stars, the moon, the
planets, etc, continually revolve
around us, so it should follow that «below us» is nothing; in other words, the sky is not just over our head, it's also under our feet.
«We're
always trying to look for Earth analogs, and that is an Earth - like
planet in the habitable zone
around a
star very much the same as our Sun,» said Kane, who is the chair of Kepler's Habitable Zone Working Group.
Early on, I
always had to say to the class, «It's probably true that
planets around other
stars are out there, but we really don't know.»
But astronomers have
always wondered about the paucity of close - in brown dwarfs: While many giant
planets have been found in small orbits, whirling
around their sunlike
stars in just a few days, the more massive brown dwarfs appear to shun these intimate relationships.
Astronomers realized that spinning disks of gas
always form
around the nucleus of a new
star, feeding it matter and serving as an incubator for the development of
planets.
Since a
planet's
star is almost
always discovered before the
planet itself, a
planet - bearing
star receives a lowercase letter «a.» So the first
planet found
around a
star will get «b,» the second «c,» the third «d,» and so on.
Because the
planets are in such close orbits
around TRAPPIST - 1, some or all of them may be tidally locked, which means that they
always present the same side to the
star and the opposite side away from the
star.