Sentences with phrase «found around binary stars»

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.

Not exact matches

The co-authors suggest that future studies looking to find and study possibly habitable planets around short - term binary stars should focus on those with longer orbital periods than about 7.5 days.

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.

Adding to the recent spate of planetary finds, astronomers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and San Diego State University (SDSU) announced yesterday they've discovery the largest - known planet to orbit two stars, confirming theories about large planets around binary systems.

This is the largest - ever planet found in orbit around a binary star system, and like our own solar system neighbor, is a gas giant that probably has moons.

With the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) observation, astronomers led by Shigehisa Takakuwa, Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica (ASIAA), Taiwan, found spiral arms of molecular gas and dust around the «baby twin» stars, binary protostars.

Kuchner and his colleagues recently reported their findings from the Spitzer Space Telescope, which showed that planets around binary stars can have a rough life.

On March 29, 2007, astronomers using NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope announced their finding that planetary systems — dusty disks of asteroids, comets, and possibly planets — may be at least as abundant in binary star systems as they are around single stars, like Sol.