Sentences with phrase «in close orbit around»

With a brown dwarf within a parsec of our own system being a hopeful and still - possible scenario for a more - accessible long - term destination than the Alpha Centauri system, I'd say the idea and hope that there could be something even semi-habitable in close orbit around that brown dwarf is a lot more exciting than just rocks or iceballs.

Pulsar surveys with the SKA will discover tens of thousands of pulsars, amongst which we expect to find a pulsar in orbit around a stellar - mass black hole and pulsars in close orbit around the super-massive black hole at the Galactic Centre.

One common idea suggested by the public is that a stellar - mass black hole in close orbit around Boyajian's star could block the star's light.

On February 25, 2008, a team of astronomers released a paper on simulation results which support the conclusions of previous studies that multiple - planet systems could have formed in close orbits around both heavy - element rich, Alpha Centauri A and B.

Not exact matches

Also known as a perigean full moon or perigee syzygy, a supermoon happens when the moon is full at its closest point in its not - quite - circular orbit around Earth.

The red car — along with a dummy in the driver's seat named «Starman» — were targeting an elliptical, or egg - shaped, orbit around the sun that would at times get close to Mars.

In the summer of 2000 I was commissioned by Harper's Bazaar magazine to write about the young gilded special advisers who were working for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown or orbiting around them, or who were close to Peter Mandelson.

Following its 2004 discovery in a scorching close orbit around a star 40 light - years away, astronomers dubbed the planet a «super-Earth.»

Comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko's 6.6 - year orbit has taken it around the solar system countless times, but Rosetta joined it for its most recent close pass to the sun in August.

Like many of her colleagues, Spilker first began working on Cassini in the 1980s, some 30 years ago — about the same time as it takes Saturn to make one full orbit around the sun, and time enough to get family - close to colleagues, to raise children, to watch them grow.

By dragging space - time around with it, a rotating hole allows gas to orbit closer to the event horizon without falling in.

If you were to get into a spaceship and put it into orbit around this perfect blackness, you would find, once you got close enough, and even before you started your final descent into darkness, that you were no longer in control.

The exoplanet (a planet in another solar system) is about six times the mass of Jupiter and orbits about 40 percent closer to its star, dubbed HD 102272, than Earth does around the sun.

The overall illumination conditions could improve for another couple months, as comet 67P approaches perihelion on 13 August, the closest point in its orbit around the sun.

While NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, orbiting around Earth, was able to observe the northern auroras in ultraviolet wavelengths, NASA's Cassini spacecraft, orbiting around Saturn, got complementary close - up views in infrared, visible - light and ultraviolet wavelengths.

During a busy first year in orbit around Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft got its first close - up look at the ringed planet's sixth - largest moon, Enceladus — and wowed scientists in the process.

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.

An electron that orbits in the shell is a helical string of Higgs Particles that is continuously extruding around a closed circle of R's in the shell.

Moreover, planets can whip around red dwarfs in orbits closer than Mercury's and still have hospitable climates.

But any waste that's ejected from spacecraft in orbit around Earth is too close to the planet to escape the pull of Earth's gravity.

The rocky debris, consisting of mostly sand - size particles, continues in an elongated orbit around the Sun close to that of its parent comet.

Once in orbit around Jupiter, Juno will skim just 5000 km above Jupiter's clouds once a fortnight — too close to provide global coverage in a single image.

The planet, known as HD 189733b, is a hot Jupiter, meaning it is similar in size to Jupiter in our solar system but in very close orbit around its star.

The two binary stars A and B revolve around their common centre of mass in a relatively close orbit, while the third star, Proxima Centauri, is 0.22 light years away, more than 12,500 times the distance between the Sun and Earth.

In fact, the five innermost worlds around Kepler 11 are so close together that gravitational interactions among them produce measurable perturbing effects on their individual orbits, allowing the researchers to make estimates of each planet's mass.

He pointed out that there are many close - orbiting planets around middle - aged stars that are in stable orbits, but his team doesn't know how quickly this young planet is going to lose its mass and «whether it will lose too much to survive.»

Habitable Earth - size planets might turn up sooner around smaller, cooler stars in Kepler's field of view, where water could persist on closer - orbiting planets that would complete laps around their host stars more quickly.

Around smaller, less massive and dimmer dwarf stars, however, planets would have to orbit closer in order to sustain a surface temperature that is warm enough to keep water liquid and so the star would appear larger in the sky.

The failure, thus far, to find large substellar objects like brown dwarfs or a Jupiter - or Saturn - class planet in a «torch» orbit (closer han the Mercury to Sun distance) around 107 Piscium — with even the highly sensitive radial - velocity technique of Geoffrey W. Marcy and R. Paul Butler — bodes well for the possibility of Earth - type terrestrial planets around this star (Cumming et al, 1999).

In one case, an Earth - sized planet could orbit in the habitable zone (capable of having liquid water on their planetary surface) around two stars close togetheIn one case, an Earth - sized planet could orbit in the habitable zone (capable of having liquid water on their planetary surface) around two stars close togethein the habitable zone (capable of having liquid water on their planetary surface) around two stars close together.

In July 2008, astronomers (Michael Endl and Martin Kürster) analyzed used seven years of differential radial velocity measurements for Proxima Centauri to submit a paper indicating that large planets are unlikely to be orbiting Sol's closest stellar neighbor within its habitable zone — around 0.022 to 0.054 AU with a corresponding orbital period of 3.6 to 13.8 days.

The orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around close - orbiting Stars A and B may be centered as close as 1.06 AU — between the orbital distances of Earth and Mars in the Solar System — with an orbital period of over 384 days (1.05 years).

The discovery of 54 Piscium b indicates that the highly elliptical orbits of close - in planets found around other stars could be the result of orbital perturbations by low - mass companions at wide separations from their host stars (more).

The modelling suggested that a Neptune - like planet actually formed much closer to Vega and was pushed by a Jupiter - like planet in an inner orbit out to its current wide orbit around 80 AUs away from Vega over about 56 million years, sweeping many comets out with it and causing the dust disk to become clumpy (Mark C. Wyatt, 2003).

Because the planets are in such close orbits around TRAPPIST - 1, some or all of them may be tidally locked, which means that they always present the same side to the star and the opposite side away from the star.

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.

Around dimmer Zeta1, the orbit of an Earth - like planet would be closer in around 0.9 AU — between the orbital distances of Venus and Earth in the Solar System — with an orbital period of around 320Around dimmer Zeta1, the orbit of an Earth - like planet would be closer in around 0.9 AU — between the orbital distances of Venus and Earth in the Solar System — with an orbital period of around 320around 0.9 AU — between the orbital distances of Venus and Earth in the Solar System — with an orbital period of around 320around 320 days.

These planets would be around the mass of Neptune, or lighter, and would orbit close to their stars, basking in their searing heat.

The orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around Star A may be centered as close as 1.8 AU — between the orbital distances of Mars and the Main Asteroid Belt in the Solar System — with an orbital period of 2.2 years.

G2 makes an unusual, 300 - year elliptical orbit around the black hole and Ghez's group calculated its closest approach occurred this summer — later than other astronomers believed — and they were in place at Keck Observatory to gather the data.

Yet what is observed in a dozen of these bodies is quite different: the values of the semi-major axis are very disperse (between 150 AU and 525 AU), the average inclination of their orbit is around 20 ° and argument of Perihelion -31 °, without appearing in any case close to 180 °.

However, if the existence of a relatively close, second companion (see Star Bc below) around Bab — with an orbital period of 2.2 to 2.9 years or less — is confirmed, then a planetary orbit in Star Ba's water zone may not be stable over the long run.

The TRAPPIST - 1 exoplanets are packed in a tight orbit around their dim parent star and are so close to one another that all of their orbits would fit inside Mercury's orbit of the sun.

«Scientists have identified close to 50 dwarf galaxy candidates around the Milky Way — most of them are aligned in a plane orbiting the centre of the host galaxy,» Dr Jerjen said.

Basically, when a person looks at the same stars when the Earth is at different places in its orbit around the sun, the closer stars will appear to move position relative to the more distant stars.

Furthermore, gravitational microlensing can complement other exoplanet detection techniques like radial velocity and the transit method, which are limited in discovering mostly massive planets in relatively close orbits around their host stars.

Stars close to the black - hole «whirlpool» orbit at a faster rate, in keeping with fundamental laws of orbital motion around a massive central body, as described by Johannes Kepler four centuries ago.

The close - in orbit around the cool star implies a mean surface temperature of between 0 and 40 degrees C - a range over which water would be liquid - and places the planet in the red dwarf's habitable zone.

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.

The Magellanic Clouds are the closest known galaxies to the Milky Way galaxy and move in orbits around it.