Sentences with phrase «dwarf system with»

Not exact matches

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PETRIFYING PARASITE Dwarf tapeworms (Hymenolepis nana, shown) can become a horrifying problem for people with weakened immune systems.

Close encounter Tracing the trajectory of the star and its brown dwarf companion back in time, Mamajek's team found with 98 % confidence that Scholz's star passed within the Solar System's Oort cloud, a reservoir of comets, about 70,000 years ago.

With planets orbiting M dwarfs quickly becoming the darlings in the search for life beyond our solar system, a new generation of observatories are poised to discover hundreds of worlds around these stars.

Project Blue's proposed telescope would have a light - gathering mirror just half a meter wide — so small that it could only look for Earth - like planets around two stars: the Sun - like Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B, which along with the red dwarf Proxima Centauri form the nearest star system to our own at just over four light - years away.

In keeping with all the rest of Ceres's oddball uncertainties, the findings hold major albeit nebulous implications for our understanding of the dwarf planet and its relationship to the other large objects in our solar system.

«Surprisingly, the host galaxy [of FRB 121102] is a puny, star - forming dwarf system,» says ASTRON's Cees Bassa, who led the optical observations together with Shriharsh Tendulkar of McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

At the same meeting, astronomer Thomas Beatty of Ohio State University, Columbus, announced the discovery of just such a system with the small KELT telescope in Arizona: a brown dwarf 27 times as massive as Jupiter, orbiting its hot parent star every 30 hours.

The Moon is compared with Mercury, Venus with the Earth, and dwarf - like Pluto is grouped with the Solar System moons.

Alpha Centauri (shown with the arrow) is a system of three stars, one of which is the red dwarf Proxima Centauri.

The fastest pulsars are in binary systems with another object, like a star or a white dwarf.

Scholz's star is actually a binary system formed by a small red dwarf, with about 9 % of the mass of the Sun, around which a much less bright and smaller brown dwarf orbits.

At one - twelfth the mass of Pluto, Charon is the most massive moon in the solar system in comparison with its host (dwarf) planet.

The waves are an interesting piece of the puzzle: we see large - scale waves in the solar system planets (including Earth), but we have not yet seen waves with wavelengths similar to the entire planet — like the ones we now found in brown dwarfs.

A Type Ia supernova results from a white dwarf that's part of a binary system (that is, one that shares an orbit with another star) and was about twice the size of our sun during its life.

So classifying it as a dwarf planet explains how it interacts (or, really, how it doesn't interact) with other objects in the solar system.

With roughly 15 to 80 times the mass of Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, brown dwarfs had long been thought to exist, but proved difficult to find.

Another well - known white dwarf, designated BD + 16 ° 516, is paired with a much cooler K0 V dwarf in an eclipsing system.

The planet orbits a pulsar in a binary system with a white dwarf.

Because M - dwarfs are so small, with around a tenth of the mass of the Sun, their planetary systems are also on a much smaller scale than our Solar System.

«The amazing results from New Horizons have revealed that Pluto is not just a tiny ice ball on the edge of the solar system, but in fact it is a complex world of its own with vast, alien landscapes containing clues to the geological history of this dwarf planet,» he said.

The white dwarf must be in a binary system with a main sequence companion so that the amount the total shift due to the ordinary doppler effect can be determined and subtracted out.

With a brown dwarf within a parsec of our own system being a hopeful and still - possible scenario for a more - accessible long - term destination than the Alpha Centauri system, I'd say the idea and hope that there could be something even semi-habitable in close orbit around that brown dwarf is a lot more exciting than just rocks or iceballs.

Previously classed as spectral type M4.5 e (with emission lines), the object was observed to be four times brighter than would be expected for a dim red dwarf of that type based on a revised parallax measurement of its distance from the Solar System (Ken Croswell, Science@Now, September 6, 2011).

HDST would also provide detailed data on the interaction of each of the outer planets with the solar wind and give planetary scientists the ability to search for remote, hidden members of our solar system ranging in size from dwarf planets to ice giants like Neptune.

The orbit of an Earth - like planet around the tight binary system that star Ba forms with its brown dwarf companion in the liquid water zone would have to be centered around 1.1 AU — a little farther than Earth's orbital distance around Sol — with an orbital period exceeding one Earth year.

The sequence has been expanded with classes for other stars and star - like objects that do not fit in the classical system, such as class D for white dwarfs and classes S and C for carbon stars.

For a demoted dwarf planet hanging about at the edge of the Solar System, Pluto has been presenting scientists with many surprises.

We performed a pilot study with the extreme - AO system on the Spectro - Polarimetric High - contrast Exoplanet REsearch (SPHERE) on the Very Large Telescopes (VLT) to look for giant planets around a young white dwarf, GD 50.

«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.

With Dwarf Fortress, there's so much functionality in that game, so many interesting things that can happen, and the reason is the aesthetics are completely pared down so you can focus entirely on system design.»

«Any way you cut it» he told TechNewsWorld, «the costs associated with this case will be dwarfed by the billions of dollars Facebook has already invested in Rift and will pour into the system over the next five years to make it conform to Facebook's vision.»