Sentences with phrase «form around binary stars»

Not exact matches

They suggested that the magnetar formed through the interactions of two very massive stars orbiting one another in a binary system so compact that it would fit within the orbit of the Earth around the Sun.

It forms a close binary with another massive star within the open cluster, meaning that the two orbit around a shared centre of mass.

Cygnus X-1 was found as part of a binary star system in which an extremely hot and bright star called a blue supergiant formed an accretion disk around an invisible object.

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.

Now that planets are often found around binary stars (an unstable situation), it is clear that the planets are young, and they must have formed at about the same time as their binary stars.

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.