Sentences with phrase «around one's host star»

The pattern of dust distribution around a host star also can tell astronomers something about the potential planets in a star system.

The exoplanet, which is about six times the size of Earth, or about 50 percent larger than Neptune, makes a complete orbit around its host star in about five days.

Located just inside the inner edge of Gliese 163's habitable zone, planet c completes an orbit around its host star in less than 26 days.

Assuming an Earth - like Bond albedo, Kepler - 69c has an equilibrium temperature of 299 + / - 19 K, which places the planet close to the habitable zone around the host star.

It whips around its host star at a distance of less than 1 / 16th the distance from the sun to Mercury, completing its orbit once every 26 hours.

As described in the Astrophysical Journal, this newly born planet — about twice the size of Jupiter — is spinning around its host star at ludicrous speed, requiring just 11 hours to make a complete orbit.

The planet zips around its host star every 8.5 hours in an extremely tight orbit, and its daytime temperatures probably top 2,000 ° Celsius.

The Herschel Open Time Key Programmes «DUst around NEarby Stars» (DUNES) and «Disc Emission via a Bias - free Reconnaissance in the Infrared / Submilli... ▽ More Cool debris discs are a relic of the planetesimal formation process around their host star, analogous to the solar system's Edgeworth - Kuiper belt.

The frequent shifting will limit it to spotting planets that take just 20 to 30 days to whizz around their host stars.

Habitable Earth - size planets might turn up sooner around smaller, cooler stars in Kepler's field of view, where water could persist on closer - orbiting planets that would complete laps around their host stars more quickly.

As the planet whirs around its host star every 1.5 days, it may be evaporating with every orbit.

Preferred Hosts for Short - Period Exoplanets In an effort to learn more about how planets form around their host stars, a team of scientists has analyzed the population of Kepler - discovered exoplanet candidates, looking for trends in where they're found.

These gas giants orbit tightly around their host stars, and despite their name, they're typically more massive than Jupiter.

The pulsar's beam of radiation changed slightly due to the gravitational pull of three Earth - sized objects revolving around the host star, PSR B1257 +12.

The habitable zone is a widely debated topic but it is generally referred to as the area around a host star where an exoplanet would be able to host liquid water.

Researchers 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.

Gliese 667Cc completes one orbit around its host star in a mere 28 days, but that star is a red dwarf considerably cooler than the sun, so the exoplanet is thought to lie in the habitable zone.

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.

Gliese 581 g, spotted by a team led by Steven Vogt of the University of California, Santa Cruz, inhabits a «Goldilocks» zone around its host star, a band just warm enough to boast liquid water.

Through the Kepler observations, the astronomers were able to determine Kepler - 10c's diameter, 2.3 times the size of Earth, as well as its orbit duration; the mega-Earth takes a mere 45 days to complete one orbit around its host star.

Astronomers from Wesleyan University have detected the shock waves produced by a high - speed «hot Jupiter» exoplanet caught in a tight orbit around its host star.

We focus on planets and moons orbiting stars bright enough for future atmosphere follow - up, especially Mini - to Super-Earths (rocky terrestrial planets of 0.5 - 10 Earth masses) orbiting in the «Habitable Zones» around their host stars.

NASA's Kepler space observatory has shown that almost all red dwarf stars host planets in the range of one to four times the size of Earth, with up to 25 percent of these planets located in the temperate, or «habitable,» zone around their host stars.

Recent studies have identified a new classification of exoplanets — they're small, rocky and have hellish orbits around their host stars.

With a torch orbit around its host star that takes only about 20 hours (84 percent of an Earth day) to complete, Kepler 10b has an average orbital distance of only 0.017 AU from its host star and so has a tidally locked, synchronous orbit.