Sentences with phrase «circumbinary orbits»

As a result of this study, HD 284149 ABb therefore becomes the latest addition to the (short) list of brown dwarfs on wide circumbinary orbits, providing new evidence to support recent claims that object in such configuration occur with a similar frequency to wide companions to single stars.

Not exact matches

We're being surprised over and over again: circumbinary planets, which orbit two stars instead of one, for example, or compact multi-planet systems.

The worlds are aptly named «circumbinary planets» («circum» meaning around, and «binary» referring to two objects), and in this type of binary system, the two stars orbit each other while the planet orbits the two stars (pictured above).

Tatooine A commonly used epithet for Kepler - 16b, the first confirmed circumbinary planet, meaning it orbits two suns like Luke Skywalker's fictional desert world from Star Wars.

Like the fictional Star Wars planet, Kepler - 34 (AB) b is a circumbinary planet, so - called because its orbit encompasses two stars.

This artist's concept illustrates Kepler - 16b, the first planet known to definitively orbit two stars - what's called a circumbinary planet.

We'd get jaded, thinking we'd seen it all, and then we'd see something new: circumbinary planets, which orbit two stars instead of one, for example, or compact multi-planet systems.

The findings help explain why astronomers have detected few circumbinary planets — which orbit stars that in turn orbit each other — despite observing thousands of short - term binary stars, or...

That they found this planet at all --- the second circumbinary planet with such an off - plane orbit — probably means that they're incredibly common, the astronomers say.

So - called circumbinary planets — those planets that orbit around a binary star, like the fictional Tatooine from the Star Wars — can be ejected off into space as a consequence of their stars» evolution, according to a new study to be published in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org preprint).

Planets like Kepler - 1647b in orbit around binary stars are known as circumbinary planets, and planet hunters spot them by looking for a dimming in the light from a star as the planet transits, or passes in front of the star from our perspective.

They include a pair of stars in orbit around each other, with circumstellar disks surrounding each star and a circumbinary torus and disk that orbits the combination.

But our team had successfully imaged the circumbinary disk orbiting the close binary T Tauri system V4046 Sgr with GPI (Rapson et al. 2015ApJ... 803L.

Kepler - 16b was the Kepler telescope's first discovery of a planet in a «circumbinary» orbit — circling both stars, as opposed to just one, in a double - star system.

A more recently announced exoplanet, Kepler - 453b, is also a circumbinary and a gas giant, though its orbit within its star's habitable zone means any moons it might have could be hospitable to life.