Sentences with phrase «around stars»

We take a statistical approach to thinking about the region around all stars where life is most likely to develop.

«We expect to be able to study planets around stars and to study the chemistry of regions in which stars form.

[121] If such a disc existed around both stars, α Centauri A's disc would likely be stable to 2.8 AU, and α Centauri B's would likely be stable to 2.5 AU.

Observations of star systems by an international group of researchers suggest that debris disks around stars may be indicative of giant exoplanets.

These circumstellar dusty disks are likely generated by collisions between objects left over from planet formation around stars.

TESS is expected to find thousands of orbiting, Earth - sized - or - larger planets around these stars.

Unfortunately most of those planets and planet candidates are around stars that are too faint for these observations, so we need a plethora of close - in planets around bright stars.

There are 49 planet candidates around these stars, including 42 detected through transits and 7 revealed by precise Doppler measurements of the host stars.

Now, they are thought to be common around stars.

However, one confounding parameter in studying these grains around stars is the stars themselves.

We also find that planet occurrence increases with stellar mass (f \ propto Mstar), characterized by a rise from 3.5 % around M dwarfs (0.5 Msun) to 14 % around A stars (2 Msun), at Solar metallicity.

However, astronomers would find it very difficult to detect Earth - type planets around these stars using present methods.

By exploring the habitable planets around the stars closest to the Sun Project EDEN aims the search for life in the solar neighborhood and leads to the discovery of planets that are close enough to be studied in details.

My research is in celestial mechanics, including the architecture of extra-solar planetary systems, debris disks around stars, the Kuiper belt and asteroid belt, orbital resonances, and meteoritic bombardment on planets in the solar system.

Ongoing radio observations (SMA, JCMT, VLA) of Sirius A are being used to set an observationally determined standard for stellar atmosphere modeling and debris disk studies around A stars, as well as to take the first step toward characterizing potential intrinsic uncertainty in stellar emission at these wavelengths.

The next challenge is to image smaller planets in the «habitable» zone around stars where possible life - bearing Earth - like planets outside the solar system could reside.

Astronomers are hoping to use NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) and the ESA's Darwin planned groups of observatories to search for rocky inner planets in the so - called «habitable zone» (HZ) around both Stars A and B.

«While the current state of the technique can not detect Earths around stars like the Sun, with Keck Observatory it should soon be possible to study the atmospheres of the so - called «super-Earth» planets being discovered around nearby low mass stars, many of which do not transit,» Blake said.

So I started a small research project investigating what the Kepler planet population looked like around stars of different masses.

Such a lofty goal may take decades, but researchers are already on the path to get there, developing new instruments and analyzing the dust kicked up around stars to better understand how to snap crisp planetary portraits.

In doing so, we will test our models for planet formation and evaluate the probability that habitable planets are present around stars of various types.

«Failed - Jupiter planets, like OGLE -2005-BLG-169Lb, are predicted to be more common than Jupiters, especially around stars less massive than the sun, according to the preferred theory of planet formation.

I study the statistical properties of extrasolar planetary systems around stars of different masses, and combine these results with numerical simulations to better understand their origins and habitability.

Extrasolar planets (planets outside our solar system) were found in 1995 for the first time, and since then many planets have been found around stars other than the Sun.

Directly imaged planets, such as those discussed by Kevin Wagner in a previous blog post, are mainly discovered around stars more massive than the sun (A or F stars)...

Over 300 extrasolar planets have been discovered in orbit around stars in our local galactic neighborhood, and more planets are being discovered every month.

Measurements of the gas around the stars also provide additional clues about the properties of those planets.

Scientists have catalogued nearly 2,000 exoplanets around stars near and far.

Exoplanets have been found around stars only one - tenth as metal - rich as our Sun.

The Kepler space telescope, which simultaneously and continuously measured the brightness of more than 150,000 stars, is NASA's first mission capable of detecting Earth - size planets around stars like our sun.

In a few million years, any inhabitants of planets around the stars will have a grand view of the outside of the Milky Way, something no human being will probably ever experience.»

And unlike many other subatomic particles, neutrinos have no charge, so they travel in a straight line from their source without being deflected by the magnetic fields around stars.

We used to think that moons form around planets in the same way as planets form around stars: coalescing from a gaseous disc that surrounded the planet as it formed.

For the first time since exoplanets, or planets around stars other than the sun, were discovered almost 20 years ago, X-ray observations have detected an exoplanet passing in front of its parent star.

With their gas depleted, it may be impossible for the disks around stars in massive clusters to form giant planets like Jupiter or Saturn.

Since the first confirmed discovery in 1993, astronomers have found more than 3,000 planets in orbit around stars other than our Sun.

«New Horizons is the latest in a long line of scientific accomplishments at NASA, including multiple missions orbiting and exploring the surface of Mars in advance of human visits still to come; the remarkable Kepler mission to identify Earth - like planets around stars other than our own; and the DSCOVR satellite that soon will be beaming back images of the whole Earth in near real - time from a vantage point a million miles away.

The new planets have been discovered around stars between 15 and 80 light years away and they have orbital periods between two weeks and nine years.

In essence, instead of flowing around stars like water past a stone, some of the gas and dust bunches up against stellar winds like vast snowdrifts.

Debris disks are found around stars that have shed their dusty, gas - filled protoplanetary disks and gone on to form planets, asteroids, comets, and other planetesimals.

«If [the moon is] real, maybe it shouldn't be terribly surprising that we saw it, since it's large enough to be detected as a planet in its own right, at least around some stars.

It's particularly true in the search for Earth - like planets in the habitable zone around stars, he says, which will have similar transit times.

Its sensitivity and high resolution — 10 times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope — are ideal for observing the «cool» universe, or the regions of gas and dust around stars.

«If we start detecting planets around stars like that, we can tell what happens to planetary systems when their stars begin to evolve and lose mass and swell up and do all those unpleasant things,» he says.

«By combining seven smaller telescopes to synthesize the accuracy of one large one,» says Michael Shao, the scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who heads the SIM team, «we're going to be able to search the nearest 40 or so stars to find planets that are from one to two times the mass of Earth and that are in a habitable zone around their stars.»

In particular, the Deep Impact mission blasted a crater in the comet Tempel 1 so astronomers could study the makeup of the debris, providing a «Rosetta stone» for interpreting the composition of material around stars, says Lisse, who led the Deep Impact analysis.

Your look at more sophisticated attempts to define the habitable zone around stars — and Earth's delicately balanced position within...

She says that the uncertain science of measuring dust around stars means that there may have been more present at TYC 8241 2652 than Song believes.

NASA's Kepler mission's principal investigator, Bill Borucki, talks about the search for exoplanets that might be in habitable zones around their stars.

One day that may be all it takes: Townes, a Nobel laureate at UC Berkeley, notes that flashes of light from planets around stars within 50 light - years could even grow bright enough for the naked eye to see.