Sentences with phrase «around binary stars»

This is the largest - ever planet found in orbit around a binary star system, and like our own solar system neighbor, is a gas giant that probably has moons.
If planets formed around binary stars millions of years ago, they would have been be so unstable that we would never see them today.
New images coming in from 450 light - years away may reveal a planet — or a planetary system — beginning to form around a binary star system.
Once, astronomers thought planets couldn't form around binary stars.
Astronomers could discover a plethora of planets around binary star systems ¬ - stars that rotate around each other — by measuring with high precision how stars move around each other, looking for disturbances exerted by possible exoplanets.
But barring the development of an interplanetary rating system, when we talk about two - star planets, we're talking about a planet in orbit around a binary star system — two stars linked together by gravity, orbiting a common point called a barycenter.
Astronomers had discovered a planet revolving around a binary star — two stars orbiting one another.
But those same statistics also indicate that planets are less common around binary stars like Alpha Centauri A and B, and previous studies have largely ruled out large worlds like Jupiter or Neptune there.
In research published this week in Astrophysical Journal Letters, Dr Zoe Leinhardt and colleagues from Bristol's School of Physics have completed computer simulations of the early stages of planet formation around the binary stars using a sophisticated model that calculates the effect of gravity and physical collisions on and between one million planetary building blocks.
Now that planets are often found around binary stars (an unstable situation), it is clear that the planets are young, and they must have formed at about the same time as their binary stars.
Colliding Planets part 2 October 13, 2010 Mike Lucibella interviews Mark Kuchner about the discovery of a dust cloud around a binary star system, possible evidence of colliding planets.
Planets like Kepler - 1647b in orbit around binary stars are known as circumbinary planets, and planet hunters spot them by looking for a dimming in the light from a star as the planet transits, or passes in front of the star from our perspective.
Not necessarily, says Harvard astrophysicist Matt Holman, who has used a computer to simulate how a planet around a binary star would behave over millions of orbits.
Colliding Planets part 1 October 06, 2010 In today's podcast, PhysicsBuzz talks to Marc Kuchner from NASA Goddard about planets orbiting around binary stars.
Kuchner and his colleagues recently reported their findings from the Spitzer Space Telescope, which showed that planets around binary stars can have a rough life.
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