Sentences with phrase «dwarf stars in»

Astrophysicists at UC Santa Barbara are the first scientists to identify two white dwarf stars in an eclipsing binary system, allowing for the first direct radius measurement of a rare white dwarf composed of pure helium.

Previously discussed in a November 24, 2011 pre-print, the astronomers «surveyed a carefully chosen sample of 102 red dwarf stars in the southern skies over a six - year period» and found a «total of nine super-Earths (planets with masses between one and ten times that of Earth),» of which two orbiting within the habitable zones of Gliese 581 and Gliese 667 C. By combining all the radial - velocity data of red dwarf stars (including those without undetected planets) and examining the fraction of confirmed planets that was found, the astronomers were able to estimate the probable distribution of different types of planets around red dwarfs: for example, only 12 percent of such stars within 30 light - years may have giant planets with masses between 100 and 1,000 times that of the Earth (ESO news release; Bonfils et al, 2011; and Delfosse et al, 2011).

I am characterizing the magnetic fields of ultra-cool brown dwarf stars in an effort to understand the magnetic dynamo mechanisms operating in the mass regime that bridges planets and stars.

UC Santa Barbara Astrophysicists are the first to identify two white dwarf stars in an eclipsing binary system, allowing for the first direct radius measurement of a rare white dwarf.

Because of these measurements we fully expect that this catalog can be used to accurately calculate the frequency of planets out to Kepler's detection limit, which includes temperate, super-Earth size planets around GK dwarf stars in our Galaxy.

Moreover, the star's discovery suggest that even relatively low - mass Population III stars could have formed and survived until today, still shining faintly below easy detectability as main sequence dwarf stars in distant reaches of the galactic halo.

A Dutch astronomer is claiming to have found scores of brown dwarf stars in the process of being born.

Observations of the explosions of white dwarf stars in binary systems, so - called Type Ia supernovae, in the 1990s then led scientists to the conclusion that a third component, dark energy, made up 68 % of the cosmos, and is responsible for driving an acceleration in the expansion of the universe.

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.

According to a very rough statistical analysis, the new discovery suggests that up to one - third of all red dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy are accompanied by small, rocky planets, many of which might be in wider orbits.

Ray Jayawardhana of the University of Toronto stresses that there's a remote chance, perhaps 1 in 10 million, that the «exoplanet» is actually a very old and dim brown dwarf star in the foreground.

The microlens turns out to be a dim red dwarf star in the disk of the Milky Way.

Astronomers have identified a white dwarf star in our galaxy that may be the leftover remains of a recently discovered type of supernova.

Type Iax supernovae may be caused by the partial destruction of a white dwarf star in such an explosion.

Type Ia supernovae are caused by the complete destruction of a white dwarf star in a thermonuclear explosion.

A UCLA - led team of scientists discovered a white dwarf star in the constellation Boötes whose atmosphere is rich in carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen.

A white dwarf star in a binary orbit with a neighbour can slowly pull material off, gradually increasing its own...

Type Ia supernovae are fairly rare in the nearby Universe and represent the explosion of at least one white dwarf star in a binary system.

The statistics for this aspect of the problem suggest that our existence around a yellow dwarf star today, compared to a red dwarf star in the future, might be a slight statistical anomaly — perhaps on the order of finding oneself born ambidextrous or with perfect pitch.

TRAPPIST - 1 is an ultra-cool dwarf star in the constellation Aquarius, and its planets orbit very close to it.

«Stellar Forge created a system with a brown dwarf star in very nearly the same place,» says Frontier CEO and Elite creator David Braben, referring to the system in the game that has since been replaced by TRAPPIST - 1.

Not exact matches

In February, for example, a different one revealed the existence of seven rocky, Earth - size planets circling a red dwarf star.

The extremely strong gravity of a massive neutron star in orbit with a companion white dwarf star puts competing theories of gravity to a test more stringent than any available before

Astronomy is beginning to detect and classify a life of the stars, red, blue and white, giant, middle - sized and dwarf; each type, in its dimensions, particular radiations and brilliance, being subject to a given evolutionary cycle.

A blue hypergiant star (sometimes 72,000 degrees F) would cool down to a Y dwarf (sometimes around 80 degrees F) if it had to live very long in International Falls, MN, where it's currently -8 F this fourth day of spring.

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Whether giants, medium - sized or dwarfs, the stars are curiously similar in mass (from one to ten times the mass of the sun), which proves, incidentally, that they must vary prodigiously in their mean density — 1.4 in the case of the Sun, but 50,000 and even 300,000 in the case of the dwarf stars (a fragment the size of a pinch of snuff, brought from one of these to Earth, would weigh a ton!)

In nature, changes of environmental conditions arise from such sources as the melting of polar ice - caps, explosion of dwarf stars, the fall of night.

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According to Nikole Lewis, Webb's project scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, the telescope could perform the simultaneous detection of methane, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in the atmospheres of some planets around red dwarf stars.

The supernova, known as SN1987A, was first seen by observers in the Southern Hemisphere in 1987 when a giant star suddenly exploded at the edge of a nearby dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Astronomers conducting a galactic census of planets in the Milky Way now suspect most of the universe's habitable real estate exists on worlds orbiting red dwarf stars, which are smaller but far more numerous than stars like our Sun.

A civilization in the habitable zone of a dwarf star like Proxima Centauri might find it hard to get into interstellar space with conventional rockets

Right: After a couple hundred million years, the red giant star has burned out and collapsed to the white dwarf that shines intensely in ultraviolet wavelengths.

Red dwarfs are a popular place to hunt for small exoplanets in the habitable zone — but the stars» radiation bursts might fry chances for life as we know it.

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.

The study, «Accretion - induced variability links young stellar objects, white dwarfs, and black holes», which is published in the journal Science Advances, shows how the «flickering» in the visible brightness of young stellar objects (YSOs)-- very young stars in the final stages of formation — is similar to the flickering seen from black holes or white dwarfs as they violently pull matter from their surroundings in a process known as accretion.

It was named in honor of Indian - American physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar who is known for determining the mass limit for white dwarf stars to become neutron stars.

But because a red dwarf is dimmer overall than our Sun, a planet in the habitable zone would have to orbit much closer to its star than Mercury is to the Sun.

Helling used the model to simulate how dust whirls and swirls around in the atmospheres of brown dwarfs: gassy bodies too big and warm to be planets, but too small and cool to be stars.

Even though the star GJ 1214 is a puny red dwarf, it would still look 17 times larger from GJ 1214 b than the sun does in our sky.

From the way the object bent the light, Andrew Gould of Ohio State University in Columbus and colleagues have now found that it is a brown dwarf — a «failed star» with too little mass to sustain the nuclear reactions that power stars.

But the Carina association, where this red dwarf was found, is a group of stars whose motions through the Galaxy indicate that they were all born at roughly the same time in the same stellar nursery.

Cooler stars — like red dwarfs, the most common stars in the universe — give off less visible light.

OXYGEN on a planet might be a sign of life, but in two odd white dwarf stars it could indicate a narrow escape from violent death.

«It's hard to observe exoplanets because there's a star in the way,» he says, «but brown dwarfs are very similar, and you can see them in isolation.»

«Stars in a dwarf galaxy often move around at random, but this is not exactly the case for Andromeda II.

Locked in a deadly embrace, two white dwarf stars may be the strongest source of gravitational waves now flooding our galaxy.

• How might the burned - out stars called white dwarfs be brought to ruin by other stars in so - called Type Ia supernovae, inciting the fiery alchemy that yielded much of the iron in our blood and the potassium in our brains?

It is currently a yellow dwarf, a star that is average in size and temperature.