Sentences with phrase «complete orbit around its star»

No further transits have occurred since 2007 — the unseen planet J1407b and its rings have yet to complete another orbit around their star.

It makes a complete orbit around its star in about five days.

Given this distance, it takes approximately 80,000 Earth years for GU Psc b to make a complete orbit around its star.

Not exact matches

According to the researchers» calculations, such a hypothetical planet would complete one orbit around the Sun roughly every 17,000 years and, at its farthest point from our central star, it would swing out more than 660 astronomical units, with one AU being the average distance between Earth and the Sun.

Captured by Kepler's digital sensors, transformed into bytes of data, and downloaded to computers at NASA's Ames Research Center near San Francisco, the processed starlight slowly revealed a remarkable story: A planet not much bigger than Earth was whipping around its native star at a blistering pace, completing an orbit — its version of a «year» — in just over 20 hours.

Every 38 hours GJ 1214 b completes an orbit around GJ 1214, a dim, lightweight red star known as an M dwarf that lies just 42 light - years from the sun.

Habitable Earth - size planets might turn up sooner around smaller, cooler stars in Kepler's field of view, where water could persist on closer - orbiting planets that would complete laps around their host stars more quickly.

According to the Sixth Catalog of Orbits of Visual Binaries, Stars A and B move around each other at an average distance of 7.33 AUs (semi-major axis a = 0.58») in a very eccentric (e = 0.43) orbit that takes 19.5 years to complete.

The exoplanet, which is about six times the size of Earth, or about 50 percent larger than Neptune, makes a complete orbit around its host star in about five days.

According to the Sixth Catalog of Orbits of Visual Binaries, Stars A and B move around each other at an average distance of 250 AUs (semi-major axis a = 22.289») in a mildly eccentric (e = 0.13) orbit that takes 2,720 years to complete.

The planet, dubbed WASP - 18b, has a mass about 10 times that of Jupiter and completes one orbit around its star WASP - 18 in less than 23 hours, which places the planet in the «hot Jupiter» category of exoplanets, or planets that are located outside our solar system.

circumnavigate To travel all around something, such as to complete at least one orbit around a star or to travel all of the way around the Earth.

It moves around Star A at an average distance of less than 0.05 AUs (a semi-major axis well within Mercury's orbital distance) in a near circular orbit (e = 0.23 + / - 0.015) that takes 3.312 days to complete.

According to the Ninth Catalogue of Spectroscopic Binary Orbits (for HD 210027), Stars A and B move around each other at an average distance of only 0.051 AUs (semi-major axis a = 0.00407 + / - 0.27») in a highly circular (e ~ 0) orbit that takes just 10.2 days to complete.

It moves around Star A at an average distance of 0.35 AUs (a semi-major axis inside the orbital distance of Mercury) in an elliptical orbit (e = 0.21) that takes about 75.6 days to complete.

The distance separating Sirius A from its companion varies between 8.1 and 31.5 AUs as the two swing around in a highly eccentric orbit (e = 0.59) that takes 50.1 years to complete (Willem Henrik van den Bos, 1960; in the new Sixth Catalog of Visual Orbits of Binary Stars).

With a torch orbit around its host star that takes only about 20 hours (84 percent of an Earth day) to complete, Kepler 10b has an average orbital distance of only 0.017 AU from its host star and so has a tidally locked, synchronous orbit.