Sentences with phrase «around single stars»

At first astronomers thought they might have detected a planet around a single star somewhere in our galaxy.

Instead, it would have spent a long time in a stable orbit around a single star before encountering the dangerous influence of Alpha Centauri A and B.

News Release NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth - Size, Habitable - Zone Planets Around Single Star ssc2017 - 01

«Finding circumbinary planets is much harder than finding planets around single stars,» said SDSU astronomer William Welsh, one of the paper's coauthors, in a press release announcing the discovery.

[3] Because orbits in binary stars are more complex and less stable, it was believed that forming planets in these systems would be more challenging than around single stars.

On March 29, 2007, astronomers using NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope announced their finding that planetary systems — dusty disks of asteroids, comets, and possibly planets — may be at least as abundant in binary star systems as they are around single stars, like Sol.