Sentences with phrase «called red dwarf»

Take the most common type of star in the Milky Way - so - called red dwarf stars that are cooler, smaller and longer - lived than stars like the sun.

However, most stars in the galaxy, around 75 %, are lower mass stars called red dwarfs, or M stars (See Figure 1).

Not exact matches

Consider, for instance, the red dwarf star called TRAPPIST - 1, just under 40 light - years away.

Boss has recently proposed a similar effect to explain the discovery of two gas giants and two so - called super-Earths, or big rocky planets, each orbiting a small red dwarf star.

In May, Drake Deming of NASA was collecting data he hoped might reveal a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a red dwarf (a small and relatively cool star) called Gliese 436; NASA had allowed him to use a spacecraft called Epoxi, which is on its way to a rendezvous with a comet, to observe several stars that are already known to have planets.

The star is a red dwarf just 4.3 light years away from us with a planet called Proxima Centauri b orbiting in the habitable zone.

The planet circles a dim red dwarf called Gliese 876, just 15 light - years from Earth.

The star, called Gliese 1132, is an M dwarf (commonly known as a red dwarf).

As stars like our sun age, they puff up into red giants and then gradually lose about half or more of their mass, shrinking into skeletons of stars, called white dwarfs.

The two planets orbit a star called K2 - 18, which is a red dwarf star (dimmer and smaller than our sun) lying about 111 light - years from Earth.

It orbits a red dwarf star about 200 light years away, which is called K2 - 155.

When this happens, smaller stars expand into what astronomers call red giants, then shrink into faint white dwarfs, according to NASA.