Sentences with phrase «giants in close orbits»

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Justin R. Crepp, Freimann Assistant Professor of Physics, was part of the team that discovered KELT - 4Ab, a so - called «hot Jupiter» because it is a gas giant that orbits extremely close to one of the stars in its solar system.

While all the planets orbiting the sun closer than this tilted blue giant have been known to humans since ancient times, Uranus wasn't spotted until William Herschel saw it in 1781.

Several other super-Earths have been identified in systems much like our solar system, with small planets closer to the star and giants in the outer orbits.

For years, astronomers expected to see elsewhere what they saw in our own orderly solar system: rocky planets close to a star and gas giants farther away, all in neat, nearly circular orbits.

These are large gas giants that look a little like the planet Jupiter in our solar system, although they are much hotter as they circle their star in a very tight orbit: about a hundred times closer than our Jupiter is to the sun.

One possible clue was that small, cold stars tend to have close - in gas giants called hot Jupiters that stay in line, whereas bigger, hotter stars are more likely to have hot Jupiters with tilted orbits.

Meléndez identified 15 elements that are more abundant in sun - size stars with giant planets orbiting very close to the stars.

But astronomers have always wondered about the paucity of close - in brown dwarfs: While many giant planets have been found in small orbits, whirling around their sunlike stars in just a few days, the more massive brown dwarfs appear to shun these intimate relationships.

AD Leo has a giant planet orbiting 3 million kilometres away (fifty times closer than the Earth to the Sun), and it may have Earth - sized worlds further out in its habitable zone.

This is because their intense magnetic activity interferes with the light emitted by the star to a far greater extent than a potential giant planet, even in a close orbit.

Of the alien solar systems we've spotted, many seem to have one intriguing thing in common: giant gas planets like Jupiter and Saturn orbiting very close to their parent star.

According to this theory, the companion would have to be in an elliptical orbit that carries it close to the red giant's puffed - up atmosphere every 8.5 years.

What is more, improved technology should also allow larger observatories such as Keck to move from the few giant planets already imaged — all of which orbit their host stars at relatively large distances — to closer - in worlds more like our own.

Theorists will have to refine their models of planet formation, but will still have to explain how systems like our own ended up with giant planets farther out and small planets in closer orbits.

Comet Wild - 2 used to orbit beyond the orbit of Jupiter, but it made an unusually close approach to the giant planet in September 1974 and got catapulted into the inner solar system.

The new study suggests that the «hot Jupiter» WASP - 18b, a massive planet that orbits very close to its host star, has an unusual composition, and the formation of this world might have been quite different from that of Jupiter as well as gas giants in other planetary systems.

Hot Jupiters - One of the most surprising findings thus far is the detection of giant, Jupiter - class planets in orbits very close to their host stars (three within the range of tidal interaction with their stars).

Then, in 1995, astronomers discovered the distant planet 51 Pegasi b, a «hot Jupiter,» or gas giant, that orbited very close to its sun.

For example, 51 Pegasi, an extrasolar system found this time has a giant gas planet with a half the size of Jupiter that orbits close to the central star in only 4 days.

Many of these are much larger than Earth — ranging from large planets with thick atmospheres, like Neptune, to gas giants like Jupiter — or in orbits so close to their stars that they are roasted.

Tidal interactions between close - in, gas - giant exoplanets and their host star should cause the orbits of the planets to decay.

In 2005, MOST was responsible for another surprising discovery: it observed a giant planet that orbits so close to its host star that the star was forced to synchronize its rotation with that of the planet.

On September 20, 1996, astronomers at the European Southern Observatory announced that they had detected possible indications of a giant planet around Zeta2 with around 27 percent of Jupiter's mass, moving in a close inner orbit (0.14 AUs) with a period of 18.9 days.

All four giant planets, they claim, crowded closer together in their orbits in the early age of our solar system about 4.5 billion years ago.

Again the difficulty lies in detecting small exoplanets at far orbits, since giant exoplanets and close orbits exert much larger gravitational pulls over the star and create easily visible oscillations.

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The detection of close - in giant planets around other stars was the first clue that this pattern is not universal, and that planets» orbits can change substantially after their formation.

Almost 1 percent of stars have such giant planets in very close orbits, with orbital periods of less than one week.

A subsequent search ruled out close - orbiting giant planets and similar objects at least as large as 0.878 Jupiter - mass in circular orbits within three AUs of Star A (Wittenmyer et al, 2006, Table 5).

Miranda and Ariel orbit closest to the giant planet; Miranda is the smallest at 470 km (290 miles) in diameter with the innermost orbit, while Ariel is more than twice as big at 1,160 km (720 miles) and nearly the same size as Umbriel.

Hot Jupiters are heated gas giant planets that are very close to their stars, just a few million miles distant and orbiting their stellar hosts in just a few days.