Sentences with phrase «even tighter orbits»

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Among the 1,900 - and - counting confirmed alien planets found so far, we've seen everything from bizarro, jumbo versions of Jupiter in scorchingly tight orbits to exoplanets dozens of times farther out than Neptune, and even worlds circling two stars, like Tatooine in Star Wars.

That parts - per - million sensitivity should allow Corot to detect the dips in a star's light caused by a transiting planet with a radius just twice that of Earth — and perhaps an even smaller one, provided its orbit is tighter than Mercury's, so that the planet completes three transits during the 150 - day viewing period.

Even apart from the radiation, Juno needs to enter orbit just the right way; if the engine burn is too long, the spacecraft could enter an orbit that is too tight, and if the burn is too short, Juno could simply keep traveling into space without being caught by Jupiter's gravity.