Sentences with phrase «around stars other than our sun»

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

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.

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.

That leaves eight new exoplanets, or planets that orbit around a star other than the sun (also called extrasolar planets), that were announced for the first time in the CfA study.

The newly discovered exoplanet — a planet that orbits around a star other than the sun (also called extrasolar planet)-- is called Kepler - 452b.

«I'm an astronomer who studies exoplanets — planets around stars other than the sun — and their host stars,» explains Teske.

Roughly 250 planets have been discovered so far around stars other than our Sun.

Astronomers have used the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array radio telescope to make the first - ever time - lapse movie showing details of gas motions around a star other than our Sun.

Not exact matches

Half of the water on Earth is older than the sun, a finding that hints at what planets around other stars might be like.

Named PH1, the planet goes around two of the four stars, shown close - up here: One is a yellow - white F - type star that is slightly warmer and more luminous than our sun; the other, at the 11 o'clock position, is a red dwarf, cooler and dimmer than the sun.

Our solar system may have started out with several planets packed closer to the sun than Mercury, much like the planets we see around other stars

There are many white dwarfs that hold large amounts of hydrogen in their atmospheres, and this new study suggests that this is evidence that water - rich asteroids or comets are common around other stars than the Sun.»

It will also allow us to understand the mechanisms that may be going on around other stars, given the Sun is the easiest to study because it's significantly closer than the other stars (4.3 light years being th next closest).

The Kepler spacecraft, which was launched in 2009 by NASA to find Earth - like planets orbiting other stars, has found yet another exoplanet, which orbits around a star much smaller and cooler than the sun.

As the first planet ever discovered around a normal star other than the Sun, it was a ground - breaking achievement.