Sentences with phrase «around its host star at»

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Researchers at MIT have discovered an Earth - sized exoplanet named Kepler 78b that whips around its host star in a mere 8.5 hours — one of the shortest orbital periods ever detected.

Jun. 5, 2017 — Astronomers at Vanderbilt and Ohio State have discovered a planet like Jupiter zipping around its host star every day, boiling at temperatures hotter than most stars with a giant cometary tail.

At the UA, astronomers and planetary scientists were awarded a $ 5.7 million, five - year grant to identify the optimum conditions for extraterrestrial life and the planets around nearby stars that are capable of hosting it.

I will present recent results and also give an update of the HOSTS survey at the LBTI, currently the most advanced survey searching for habitabe zone dust around nearby main sequence stars.

The discovery of 54 Piscium b indicates that the highly elliptical orbits of close - in planets found around other stars could be the result of orbital perturbations by low - mass companions at wide separations from their host stars (more).

As relatively small planets at close distances to their host stars, astronomers would have great difficulty in detecting such planets around either star using present methods.

At the planet's orbital distance of only 0.014 AU from its host star, however, the surface temperature has been estimated to be around 400 ° Fahrenheit (200 ° Celsius), which is way too hot for liquid water.

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.

This excess emission has been suggested to stem from debris di... ▽ More (abridged) Infrared excesses associated with debris disk host stars detected so far peak at wavelengths around ~ 100 -LCB- \ mu -RCB- m or shorter.

On March 4, 2014, a team of astronomers announced that analysis of new and older radial - velocity data from nearby red dwarf stars revealed two super-Earths «b» and «c» with minimum earth - masses of 4.4 (+3.7 / -2.4) and 8.7 (+5.8 / -4.7), respectively, at average orbital distances of 0.080 (+0.014 / -0.004) and 0.176 (+0.009 / -0.030) AU, respectively, from host star Gl 682, with orbital eccentricities of 0.08 (+0.19 / -.08) and 0.010 (+0.19 / -0.10) and periods around 17.5 and 57.3 days, respectively (UH news release; and Tuomi et al, 2014).

Designated MOA -2009-BLG-266L b, the planet has a mass of around 10.4 + / - 1.7 Earth - masses and orbits its host star at a semi-major axis of 3.2 +1.9 / -0.5 AUs with an orbital period of 7.6 +7.7 / -1.5 years.

The outer disk is revealed in reprocessed archival Hubble Space Telescope NICMOS F110W images, as well as new coronagraphic H band images from the Very Large Telescope SPHERE instr... ▽ More We present the first scattered - light images of the debris disk around 49 ceti, a ~ 40 Myr A1 main sequence star at 59 pc, famous for hosting two massive dust belts as well as large quantities of atomic and molecular gas.

With a semi-major axis of 0.066 AUs, it orbits so close to its host star that its orbital period lasts only 8.78 days, and so the planet must be very hot at around 450 ° Kelvin, 351 ° F, or 177 ° C (Forveille et al 2008).

On March 4, 2014, a team of astronomers announced that analysis of new and older radial - velocity data from nearby red dwarf stars revealed a planet with a minimum of 32 (max 49) Earth - masses at an average orbital distance of 0.97 AU from host star Gl 229, with an orbital period around 471 days (UH news release; and Tuomi et al, 2014).

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