Sentences with phrase «for circumbinary»

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We're being surprised over and over again: circumbinary planets, which orbit two stars instead of one, for example, or compact multi-planet systems.

Tatooine A commonly used epithet for Kepler - 16b, the first confirmed circumbinary planet, meaning it orbits two suns like Luke Skywalker's fictional desert world from Star Wars.

The trio is not the only so - called circumbinary system known, but it is the first for which researchers have been able to measure the properties of both stars and the planet so precisely, and the first system where the planet has been directly detected, rather than inferred.

We'd get jaded, thinking we'd seen it all, and then we'd see something new: circumbinary planets, which orbit two stars instead of one, for example, or compact multi-planet systems.

Based on these conclusions for Kepler - 34, it seems likely that all of the currently known circumbinary planets have also migrated significantly from their formation locations — with the possible exception of Kepler - 47 (AB) c which is further away from the binary stars than any of the other circumbinary planets.

Planets in such a system are called «circumbinary» for the fact that they circumnavigate both stars.

Planets like Kepler - 1647b in orbit around binary stars are known as circumbinary planets, and planet hunters spot them by looking for a dimming in the light from a star as the planet transits, or passes in front of the star from our perspective.

Since the novel was for the first time published in 1961, it precedes Star Wars» Tatooine planet (1977) in terms of the first case of a circumbinary planet in pop culture.

Based on these conclusions for Kepler - 34, it seems likely that all of the currently known circumbinary planets have also migrated significantly from their formation locations - with the possible exception of Kepler - 47 (AB) c which is further away from the binary stars than any of the other circumbinary planets.

For the first time, they succeeded in imaging the detailed structures of the circumbinary disk, and found that the circumbinary disk consists of a southern U-shaped feature and northern emission protrusions pointing to the northwest and the northeast (Figure 1).