Sentences with phrase «distant red dwarf star»
How long would a planet like Mars, orbiting a distant red dwarf star be habitable?
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The system's two sunlike stars, Alpha Centauri A and B, orbit each other closely while Proxima Centauri, a tempestuous red dwarf, hangs onto the system tenuously in a much more distant orbit.
The two sunlike stars, Alpha Centauri A and B, orbit each other closely while Proxima Centauri, a tempestuous red dwarf, hangs onto the system tenuously in a much more distant orbit.
As for the distant future, astronomers dream of an infrared counterpart to Gaia, which would be able to peer through the Milky Way's dust cloud into its very center, and also would excel at detecting and measuring faint red and brown dwarf stars in the solar neighborhood.
© Estate of John Whatmough — larger image (Artwork from Extrasolar Visions, used with permission from Whatmough) Glowing red through gravitational contraction, the candidate brown dwarf companion to Proxima Centauri is depicted with two moons (one eclipsing the flare star) with distant Alpha Centauri A and B at upper right, as imagined by Whatmough.
Red dwarf stars are of particular interest to astronomers hunting down distant worlds.
It turns out that OGLE -2007-BLG-349 was caused by a planet orbiting two stars, both tiny red dwarfs, drifting in front of a more distant bright star.
This study also considers that red dwarf stars will be even more numerous in the distant future of the universe, due to their much longer lifetimes than other stars.