Sentences with phrase «dust around other stars»
We also show that an aCenA - like temperature minimum may result in an erroneous apprehension about the presence of dust around other stars.
https://arxiv.org/
The HOSTS Survey has determined that the typical level of zodiacal dust around other stars — called «exo - zodiacal dust» — is less than 15 times the amount found in our own solar system's habitable zone.
Not exact matches
Other astronomers are examining the smallest known brown dwarfs — which are around 10 times as massive as Jupiter — to determine the minimum mass needed for gravity to pull a pocket of gas and dust together to form a star.
«If we want to study the evolution of Earth - like planets close to the habitable zone, we need to observe the zodiacal dust in this region around other stars,» said Steve Ertel, lead author of the paper, from ESO and the University of Grenoble in France.
De Leeuw's team created computer models of dust grains made of olivine, a common mineral both in our solar system and in the dusty nebulae around other stars, and calculated what happened when water molecules attached themselves to the irregular surfaces of these fluffy grains.
Our Solar system, and other planetary systems, began life with disks of gas and dust grains around a young star.
While lots of other folks might be talking about life on Proxima b, this new study is probably more important for what it means to the potential rings of dust around the parent star.
Like other spiral galaxies, the Milky Way Galaxy, has a bright disk of stars with sweeping arms of conspicously younger, brighter, and bluer stars enveloped in gas and dust that curve around its center like the arms of a huge pinwheel.
Such elongated shapes are common among other planetary nebulae, because thick disks of gas and dust form a waist around a dying star.
The halos around quasars — the brightest and the most active objects in the universe, they are galaxies formed less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang; they have supermassive black holes in their centers and consume stars, gas, interstellar dust and other material at a very fast rate — are made of gas known as the intergalactic medium and extend for up to 300,000 light - years from the centers of the quasars.
In other words, finding dust around a star is like seeing a large signpost saying «PLANETS!
Re: Nick Stokes (Apr 2 01:20), What Marcott in the FAQ is now claiming is that it makes no difference if the planets are in fact dust specs, that there are other high resolution photos that show the planets around the star, thus this star is different because none of the low resolution pictures of other stars show any planets.