Sentences with phrase «exoplanets around red dwarfs»

But the ultimate kicker when considering «Earth - like» exoplanets around red dwarf stars is that just because red dwarfs are small, it doesn't mean they are docile.

Not exact matches

Researchers at the Astrobiology Center (ABC) of National Institutes of Natural Science (NINS) in Japan and their colleagues have proposed a prediction that red - edge could be observed as on the Earth even on exoplanets around M - dwarfs.

The researchers say they detected the presence of two new extrasolar planets (exoplanets) around a red dwarf star, Gliese 581, 20.5 light - years away in the constellation Libra, based on slight motions of the star.

The superior sensitivity of the latest generation of ground - based instruments has allowed astronomers to discover a wealth of exoplanets (most of them in multi-planetary systems) around red dwarfs, while overturning our conventional notions and expectations regarding planetary formation and evolution processes around metal - poor stars.

Observations of exoplanets have also shown that rocky, and potentially habitable, planets are just as common around red dwarfs as yellow dwarfs.

Whilst all the exoplanets discovered around the red dwarf, known as TRAPPIST - 1, are capable of hosting liquid water on their surfaces, three are in orbit in what is known as a star's habitable zone, making them an attractive prospect for scientists searching for life outside of our solar system.

A recent paper submitted to the Astrophysical Journal by Sarah Ballard, an exoplanet astronomer at MIT, estimated that TESS may find as many as 1000 planets orbiting red dwarfs and around 15 of these may be less than twice the size of the Earth and orbit within the habitable zone; ideal candidates for a JWST observation.