Sentences with phrase «class planet around star»
In 1996, a team of astronomers (including Eric Williams, Heather M. Hauser, and Phil Shirts) led by Geoffrey W. Marcy and R. Paul Butler announced the discovery of a Jupiter - class planet around Star A using highly sensitive radial - velocity methods (Butler et al, 1997).
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Brain and his colleagues started to think about applying these insights to a hypothetical Mars - like planet in orbit around some type of M - star, or red dwarf, the most common class of stars in our galaxy.
Early on, I always had to say to the class, «It's probably true that planets around other stars are out there, but we really don't know.»
Learn about the formation and origin of the Solar System and go beyond our neighborhood to investigate exoplanets (planets around other stars) in this video of class 11 of Bruce Betts» Introduction to Planetary Science and Astronomy class.
The failure, thus far, to find large substellar objects like brown dwarfs or a Jupiter - or Saturn - class planet in a «torch» orbit (closer han the Mercury to Sun distance) around 107 Piscium — with even the highly sensitive radial - velocity technique of Geoffrey W. Marcy and R. Paul Butler — bodes well for the possibility of Earth - type terrestrial planets around this star (Cumming et al, 1999).
Previous observations of other hot Jupiter - class planets (HD 189733 b and unpublished data for HD 209458 b) have found that their hot spots may be shifted slightly away from the closest point to the star, possibly due to strong winds moving hot, gaseous material around.
On June 16, 2008, a team of astronomers announced at the 2008 Extra Solar Super-Earths Workshop in France their discovery of a «super-Earth» class planet in a tight orbit around this star with with two other gas planets in outer orbits (ESO press release and Bouchy et al, 2009 — more details below).
The failure, thus far, to find large substellar objects like brown dwarfs or a Jupiter - or Saturn - class planet in a «torch» orbit (closer than the Mercury to Sun distance) around Xi Boötis A — with even the highly sensitive radial - velocity methods of Geoffrey W. Marcy and R. Paul Butler — bodes well for the possibility of Earth - type terrestrial planets around this star (Cumming et al, 1999).
On January 6, 2010, a team of astronomers announced their discovery of a «super-Earth» class planet in a tight orbit around this star (Keck press release and Howard et al, 2010 — more details below).
On June 16, 2008, a team of astronomers announced at the 2008 Extra Solar Super-Earths Workshop in France their discovery of three «super-Earth» class planets in tight orbits around this star (ESO press release; Barnes et al, 2009; and Mayor et al, 2008 and 2009 — more details below).
SNOWPIERCER Starring: Chris Evans and Tilda Swinton Directed by: Joon - ho Bong In a future where a failed global - warming experiment kills off all life on the planet except for a lucky few that boarded the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe, where a class system evolves.