Sentences with phrase «cooler than a star»

They are much smaller, dimmer and cooler than stars like our Sun, and for a long time scientists searching for life on other worlds paid little attention to them; the general feeling was that they gave out so little heat and light, compared with the Sun, that they were unlikely to host habitable planets.

This is like having faith that the Star Wars universe is way cooler than the Star Trek universe.

And the truth is having faith Star Wars is cooler than Star Trek makes about the same difference as having faith in the Hebrew God or the Hindu God or any other for that matter.

Therefore, planets are much cooler than stars — and being also much smaller, planets are typically ten million to a billion times fainter than their host stars.

Not exact matches

Back then, this mysterious, magical piece of smart technology seemed like the gateway to only fun and positive things: Words with Friends, a star chart app and an archaic version of Instagram, at the time designed for nothing more than applying cool filters to your low - res camera phone photos.

More than 1,500 Amazon buyers have left five - star reviews of the Bellemain Cooling Rack.

Entrepreneurship is much cooler than it was years ago, with entrepreneurs seen as modern - day rock stars.

The planets orbit an «ultracool dwarf,» a star much smaller and cooler than the sun, but still possibly warm enough to allow for liquid water on the surfaces of at least two of the planets.

Imagine a place where people talked about star wars more than vine; that Avatar the Last Air bender seemed much cooler than Justin Bieber.

Michael Powell: «The man likely to be the next mayor, Mr. de Blasio now sometimes seems less suggestive of a Nation magazine star than a savvy, even cool - eyed pol.»

Most black holes are thought to form when very massive stars — those with more than about 10 times the mass of sun — exhaust their nuclear fuel and begin to cool and therefore contract.

«It will put special emphasis on stars smaller and cooler than the sun, because any planets orbiting such stars will be easier to detect, confirm and characterize.

«As for exoplanets we want to broaden the search and study planets around stars that are cooler and fainter than our own Sun.

Its star is much cooler and redder than our Sun.

Earlier this year, MIT astronomer Sarah Ballard re-calculated how many planets TESS might find orbiting the cool, plentiful stars known as M dwarfs — and predicted some 990 such planets, 1.5 times more than earlier estimates2.

Kepler - 186 is an M - dwarf star, much smaller and cooler than the Sun.

A select few have become tantalizing targets in the search for life despite orbiting stars that are much smaller, cooler — and in many ways harsher — than the sun.

However, when such stars are cooler than the sun, they could still host life.

Early in its mission, Kepler managed to find some tantalizing worlds, a handful of supersize cousins of Earth, most of them in clement orbits around smaller, cooler, quieter stars than the sun called M and K dwarfs, but all the setbacks made finding smaller Earth - sized planets around sun - like G stars a very tall order.

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.

The gas around the star's equator is then farther away from its centre, so it cools more than other parts of the star's surface, in a phenomenon called gravity - darkening.

Recently, a newly discovered Earth - sized planet orbiting Ross 128, a red dwarf star that is smaller and cooler than the sun located some 11 light years from Earth, was cited as a water candidate.

It relies on eight identical 16 - inch telescopes in Arizona to look for planets around nearby stars that are smaller and cooler than our sun.

Every 290 days, it orbits a star that is just a bit smaller and cooler than our own sun.

Red dwarf stars are smaller and cooler than the Sun.

HD 219134 is an orange Type K star somewhat cooler, smaller and less massive than our Sun.

But many candidate Earth - sized worlds are in orbit around red dwarf stars, much smaller and cooler than our own.

Because hydrogen fluoride molecules break down at high temperatures, the spectra of warmer stars show less of the gas than those of cooler ones do — even if the warmer stars contain just as much fluorine.

Its sensitivity and high resolution — 10 times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope — are ideal for observing the «cool» universe, or the regions of gas and dust around stars.

Plucked from millions of stars and galaxies analyzed over the past 7 years by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, this bunch burns considerably cooler than normal and contains atmospheres made entirely of carbon, with no traces of hydrogen or helium.

Because Proxima Centauri is so much cooler than our sun, Proxima b is only potentially habitable because it orbits its star much closer than Mercury does the sun.

The Atacama Large Millimeter / Submillimeter Array (ALMA), high up in the deserts of northern Chile, is sensitive to light from cooler objects of the cosmos: clouds of gas and dust rather than burning stars.

Similarly, stars that are smaller and cooler sport tighter belts of habitability than our sun.

This gal thinks scientists are cooler than rock stars: Shirley Ann Jackson, recites Lia in an excited crescendo, «explores the invisible particles that make up everything in the universe, including you and me and your computer and Limburger cheese and the rings of Saturn and even giant squids!»

The planet, known as Exo - 7b, lies about 390 light years away and orbits a star slightly smaller and cooler than the Sun.

The gas around the star's equator is then further from its centre, so it cools more than other parts of the star's surface, while the poles remain hot and dense.

Kepler, which will keep a continuous watch on a patch of stars for more than three years, is better suited to finding planets like our own in terms of orbital periods as well as other parameters, although it will likely be a few years before it moves from the hot objects it has already discovered to cooler, potentially habitable worlds, whose transits are subtler and less frequent.

But, like Kepler - 186f, its 267 - day orbit also carries it around a star that is cooler and smaller than the sun, some 1,200 light - years away in the constellation Lyra.

But its 130 - day orbit carries it around a red - dwarf star that is much cooler than our sun and only half its size.

«What makes this finding particularly compelling is that this Earth - sized planet, one of five orbiting this star, which is cooler than the Sun, resides in a temperate region where water could exist in liquid form,» says Elisa Quintana of the SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center who led the paper published in the current issue of the journal Science.

Kepler - 421b orbits an orange, K - type star that is cooler and dimmer than our Sun and is located about 1,000 light - years from Earth in the constellation Lyra.

While smaller and cooler than Sol, 41 Arae A is somewhat more like a sister star than nearby Epsilon Eridani.

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.

Moreover, strong darkening observed around Vega's equator indicates that the star's surface at the equator is around 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit (2,300 ° Kelvin) cooler than at its poles.

TRAPPIST - 1 also is much cooler than the sun, which makes its habitable zone closer than bigger, hotter stars like the sun's.

And each of these stars appears to be cooling far more quickly than expected.

About 80 percent of the stars in the Milky Way are red dwarfs, which, on average, are about one - third smaller and 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than the sun.

Red dwarf stars are significantly smaller and cooler than our own Sun, and are the most common variety of stellar bodies in the Universe.

The technique, known as gyrochronology, can be used to determine the age of such older, cooler stars with a less than 10 percent margin of error, a substantial improvement over previous techniques where the margin of error could reportedly be as high as 100 percent.

It orbits a star that is cooler and smaller than our sun, whipping closely around it in a mere three days.