Sentences with phrase «around one's parent star»

As it turns out, the proximity of the giant planet K2 - 33b to its star is not too out of the ordinary for planets in our galaxy — many have been discovered close in, often completing an orbit around their parent star in weeks or even days.

Its elongated path around its parent star is more reminiscent of the orbit of a comet than that of a planet the size of Jupiter.

Their scarcity in HIP 13044 suggests the planet may have collapsed directly from the gas around its parent star, says Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC, who was not involved in the work.

But only a few dozen of the planets have been rocky, as opposed to gaseous, and of these none have been found in the so - called habitable zone around their parent star that would allow liquid water on their surface.

One type of such nebulae, known as bipolar planetary nebulae, create ghostly hourglass or butterfly shapes around their parent stars.

While lots of other folks might be talking about life on Proxima b, this new study is probably more important for what it means to the potential rings of dust around the parent star.

The newly announced one, MOA -2009-BLG-266Lb, is estimated to be just over 10 times the mass of Earth and orbits at a distance of 3.2 AU around its parent star with roughly half the mass of the sun.

GJ 436b is a Neptune - mass gas giant planet whipping around its parent star every 2.64 days.

Kepler is intended to hone in on smaller worlds, like Earth, that are well positioned around their parent stars for Earth - like life.

A NASA telescope taking a nose count of planets in one small neighborhood of the Milky Way registered more than 1,200 candidates, including 54 residing in life - friendly orbits around their parent stars.

Researchers identify such planets by first looking for those that are situated within the «habitable zone» around their parent stars, which is where temperatures are warm enough for water to pool on the surface.

The new exoplanet, dubbed «HIP 116454b,» is 2.5 times the diameter of Earth and follows a close, nine - day orbit around its parent star, whose small size and cool temperature make the planet too hot to support life.