Sentences with phrase «even in a close orbit»

This is because their intense magnetic activity interferes with the light emitted by the star to a far greater extent than a potential giant planet, even in a close orbit.

Not exact matches

Planets orbiting more compact objects, such as white dwarfs, pulsars and black holes, might have even shorter years since they can get closer in.

Dawn co-investigator Maria Cristina De Sanctis of the National Institute of Astrophysics in Rome, Italy and colleagues report their detection of abundant ammonia - rich minerals on Ceres's surface, suggesting that it was born closer to the vicinity of Pluto even though it now orbits in the Asteroid Belt.

If you were to get into a spaceship and put it into orbit around this perfect blackness, you would find, once you got close enough, and even before you started your final descent into darkness, that you were no longer in control.

Even if you could find a single orbit that emerged from the boundary and led to the moon, another orbit infinitesimally close by might lead a million miles away in the opposite direction.

In the following months, Prospector will continue to send back more detailed data, eventually dropping from its present orbit 62 miles above the moon's surface to a mere six miles for an even closer look.

According to Spilker, Cassini's orbit will move closer to the outer edge of the A ring in late 2016 and provide an opportunity to study Peggy in more detail and perhaps even image it.

But in several weeks, Rosetta will settle into a orbit of 30 kilometers — and it may attempt orbits even closer than that, if the comet's activity level will allow.

From even just a few light - years away in our own little corner of the Milky Way, a planet in an orbit comparable to Earth's would be too close to its star for even the Hubble to see them as two distinct objects.

It will be a few years before we see the results of this mission as, even through the Sun is quite close in astronomical terms, it is still a huge distance from the Earth and the mechanics of getting the probe into the right orbit require multiple orbits and positioning.

The failure, thus far, to find large substellar objects like brown dwarfs or a Jupiter - or Saturn - class planet in a «torch» orbit (closer han the Mercury to Sun distance) around 107 Piscium — with even the highly sensitive radial - velocity technique of Geoffrey W. Marcy and R. Paul Butler — bodes well for the possibility of Earth - type terrestrial planets around this star (Cumming et al, 1999).

«The young star was accelerated to a large velocity by the close approach, and certainly now is in a very different, more remote orbit, and may even completely escape its companions,» said Laurent Loinard, leader of the research team that also included Monica Rodriguez in addition to Luis Rodriguez.

When it was discovered, this phenomenon could not be completely explained by Newtonian mechanics, and for many years it was hypothesized that another planet might exist in an orbit even closer to the Sun to account for this perturbation (another explanation postulated a slight oblateness of the Sun).

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.

GJ 1214 is a red dwarf star with one known planet in a hot inner orbit, beyond even the inner edge of the star's close - in habitable zone, as imagined by Aguilar with two hypothetical moons (more).

The failure, thus far, to find large substellar objects like brown dwarfs or a Jupiter - or Saturn - class planet in a «torch» orbit (closer than the Mercury to Sun distance) around Xi Boötis A — with even the highly sensitive radial - velocity methods of Geoffrey W. Marcy and R. Paul Butler — bodes well for the possibility of Earth - type terrestrial planets around this star (Cumming et al, 1999).

The smallest planet orbits Kepler - 33, a star older and more massive than our Sun, Sol, which also had the most detected planet candidates at five (ranging in size from 1.5 to 5 times that of Earth) in uninhabitable, hot inner orbits closer to their star than even Mercury around our Sun (NASA Kepler news release; and JPL news release).

In October 2011, a closer orbit of Vesta will enable Dawn to collect even better images of this protoplanet (NASA science news).

Upon their arrival at the restaurant and walking in the street afterwards, the couple's physical behavior attracts the gaze of others even as the intent physical focus and close friendship of the rendezvous creates an orbit of grace around their interactions.

Granted, the car's orbit makes it very unlikely that it will ever come close to Earth again, but its launch initiated a debate over whether or not wealthy CEOs can simply launch whatever they want in space, even if it serves no scientific or economic purpose.