Sentences with phrase «form around other stars»

«The fact that we can see planets being born will help us understand not only how planets form around other stars but also the origin of our own solar system.»

We'll be looking at the places where comets form around other stars,» explained Pontoppidan.

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Other stars are forming around the rim of the bubble, and one of them is already massive enough that its fate is sealed: one day, million of years from now, it will explode.

In neutron star collisions, two neutron stars orbit around each other, eventually merging to form a star with approximately twice the mass of the individual stars.

Other astronomers are examining the smallest known brown dwarfs — which are around 10 times as massive as Jupiter — to determine the minimum mass needed for gravity to pull a pocket of gas and dust together to form a star.

As the stars within the cluster interact with other clusters and clouds of gas in the galaxy around them, and as the gas between the stars is either used up to form new stars or blown away from the cluster, the cluster's structure begins to change.

Cassini scientists hope that studying these differences will tell us about how giant planets form, how weather systems work under different conditions, and what planets around other stars might be like.

That could be crucial to learning much more: Jupiter was likely the first planet to form around the sun, so its inner workings — particularly the nature of its core and how heat trickles out from the planet's abyssal depths — may offer hints about how other planets came to be, both in our solar system and around other stars.

In its updated form, it receives e-mail requests from astronomers and automatically executes the observations, searching for planets around other stars and monitoring the flickering of gas falling into black holes.

This suggests that the way our planets and asteroids formed has a lot of kinship to the systems around other stars.»

Debris disks are found around stars that have shed their dusty, gas - filled protoplanetary disks and gone on to form planets, asteroids, comets, and other planetesimals.

«These findings may have implications for how planetary systems around other stars could form and where and how big the planets would be.»

Until now, the prevailing hypothesis has said that as stars evolve, metals (astronomers» term for any chemical elements heavier than hydrogen and helium) in the swirling disk around them form tiny «seeds» that attract other matter and slowly grow into planets.

Portegies Zwart and his team suspect a middleweight black hole forms after a massive star, drawn by gravity to the crowded centre of a star cluster, merges with other stars swarming around there.

He comments: «Until now we have struggled to explain how pebbles can come together to form planets, and yet we've now discovered huge numbers of planets in orbit around other stars.

«If there is water in Kuiper belt - like objects around other stars, as there now appears to be, then when rocky planets form they need not contain life's ingredients,» said Siyi Xu, the study's lead author, a postdoctoral scholar at the European Southern Observatory in Germany who earned her doctorate at UCLA.

Winn, who is also a Participating Scientist in the NASA Kepler mission, is interested in the properties of planets around other stars, how planets form and evolve, and whether there are planets beyond Earth capable of supporting life.

«If we know how our solar system was formed, then when we look at other stars and other solar systems, we can sort of guess how they are evolving with time, and it can help us locate perhaps other stars that can have habitable planets around them.»

Such elongated shapes are common among other planetary nebulae, because thick disks of gas and dust form a waist around a dying star.

Given the apparent youth of the Pistol Star, it is likely that any protoplanetary bodies that may have formed around the star are still agglomerating other planetesimStar, it is likely that any protoplanetary bodies that may have formed around the star are still agglomerating other planetesimstar are still agglomerating other planetesimals.

The halos around quasars — the brightest and the most active objects in the universe, they are galaxies formed less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang; they have supermassive black holes in their centers and consume stars, gas, interstellar dust and other material at a very fast rate — are made of gas known as the intergalactic medium and extend for up to 300,000 light - years from the centers of the quasars.

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