Sentences with phrase «in wide orbits»

About 150 globular clusters are known to loop in wide orbits around the Milky Way's center.

Direct imaging of exoplanetary systems is a powerful technique that can reveal Jupiter - like planets in wide orbits, can enable detailed characterization of planetary atmospheres, and is a key step toward imaging Earth - like planets.

According to a very rough statistical analysis, the new discovery suggests that up to one - third of all red dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy are accompanied by small, rocky planets, many of which might be in wider orbits.

On May 21, 2002, another team of astronomers announced the discovery of a stellar companion B in a wide orbit (Lowrance et al, 2002 — details below).

On the other hand, the discovery of a brown dwarf companion in a wide orbit that could perturb dormant comets in an Oort Cloud around Epsilon Indi inwards towards the star's inner planetary regions may periodically shower an Earth - type, inner planet with catastrophic impacts.

Further analysis by Akeson et al (2009) on a puzzling reduction in mid-range infrared excess «visibility» failed to rule out the possibility of an unseen stellar companion (as bright as M0 red dwarf) in a wide orbit with a period measured in years or a very close orbit companion with a period measured in as short as a few days.

Abstract: In the Solar system the planets» compositions vary with orbital distance, with rocky planets in close orbits and lower - density gas giants in wider orbits.

Here we report another violation of the orbit - composition... ▽ More In the Solar system the planets» compositions vary with orbital distance, with rocky planets in close orbits and lower - density gas giants in wider orbits.

Misalignments in a broader class of systems had been predicted as a consequence of torques from wide - orbiting companions, and indeed radial - velocity measurements revealed a third companion in a wide orbit in the Kepler - 56 system.

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We are aware that all material beings are composite, composed of atoms, that these particles are discrete within the continuity they integrate, that in themselves even they are miniature solar systems, and that these orbits are wide open spaces in relation to the miniature elementswhich are bound within them: bound and determined by the fixed laws that define the still mysterious phenomena of centrifugal and centripetal force.

One nearby example, the bright star Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion, is at least as wide as the orbit of Mars.

NASA's Spaceguard survey program, established in 1998, aims to locate and follow at least 90 percent of the estimated 1,100 asteroids that come within about 30 million miles of Earth's orbit around the sun and that are larger than two - thirds of a mile wide.

The vast bulk of asteroids — millions of individual objects ranging from 560 - mile - wide Ceres to pea - size pieces of space shrapnel — reside in a broad zone between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the legendary asteroid belt.

On March 7, the spacecraft snapped a series of portraits (one shown above) of Pan, Saturn's small moon that orbits within a 325 - kilometer - wide gap in one of the planet's rings.

However, the debris stream responsible for the annual Geminid shower in December follows the orbit of a 5 - kilometre - wide object called 3200 Phaethon, which appears to be an asteroid.

Saturn's tiny moon Daphnis orbits within the 42 - kilometer - wide Keeler Gap in Saturn's outer A ring.

Earth also has wide swings in climate that are thought to be caused by variations in its orbit.

He's the man who recently stirred up a hornet's nest by finding lots of new objects orbiting in the outer reaches of the solar system, one of which — Eris — is around 1,400 miles wide, about the same size as Pluto.

But in 1992 a pair of astronomers turned up 1992 QB1, a body about 200 kilometers wide circling the sun at a distance of about 6.5 billion kilometers, well beyond Neptune's orbit.

New Scientist reported possible NASA plans to capture a 7 - metre - wide asteroid and place it in the moon's orbit (2 January,...

The Wide - Field Infrared Survey Telescope, or WFIRST, is a proposed mission to study, in part, planets orbiting stars outside the solar system.

The 5 - kilometre - wide asteroid Cruithne orbits the sun in an elliptical orbit that is locked in a complex resonance with the Earth, making periodic and predictable close approaches.

A landmark for orbiting travellers, the Eye of the Sahara is a strange, 40 - kilometre - wide bullseye in the otherwise featureless desert

This discovery demonstrates that microlensing is capable of discovering planets in very wide orbits,» Poleski said.

Like other teams positioned in a 1500 - kilometer - wide swath across South America, the astronomers had started out the night with one mission: They intended to measure the size of Chariklo, an icy body that circles the sun between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus.

Any material works in principle, but even for stainless steel the tether would need to be 1043 times wider at geosynchronous orbit than at the ground.

A pair of icy or rocky protoplanets, forming in a kind of wide binary system in which they orbit each other far apart, seems more likely.

«This is a very exciting discovery, found by scouring the new generation of wide - area, sensitive surveys astronomers are conducting using NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer in orbit and ground - based telescopes in Chile and Hawaii,» said Daniel Stern of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadwide - area, sensitive surveys astronomers are conducting using NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer in orbit and ground - based telescopes in Chile and Hawaii,» said Daniel Stern of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in PasadWide - field Infrared Survey Explorer in orbit and ground - based telescopes in Chile and Hawaii,» said Daniel Stern of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

Edwards's response: Make the ribbon's base mobile so that it can dodge the biggest pieces that NASA tracks (a 30 - to 60 - foot movement would be needed every six days); make the ribbon wider in low Earth orbit, where debris is most plentiful; and regularly patch small gashes.

The plan calls for using a deployment booster assembled in low Earth orbit to carry two spools of 5 - to 10 - inch - wide pilot ribbon into geosynchronous orbit, 22,000 miles above the equator.

It travels around Pluto in a 95,000 - kilometre - wide orbit in the same plane as the other moons in the dwarf planet's entourage — Charon, a 1200 - kilometre - wide beast of a moon, Nix, Hydra and the recently discovered P4.

The location of HD 131399Ab on a wide orbit in a triple system demonstrates that massive planets may be found on long and possibly unstable orbits in multistar systems.

Data from the Cassini spacecraft, in orbit since 2004, may help resolve a decades - long debate over the age of Saturn's rings, wide belts of shiny ice chunks orbiting the planet.

Once in orbit, 27 «petals» made of carbon fibre will unfold to create the 10 - metre - wide antenna.

Mu Herculis was first discovered to have a dimmer companion in 1781 with a relatively wide orbit by Sir William Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel (1738 - 1822, portrait), who was born Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel and who discovered the planet Uranus — which led to his appointment in 1782 as private astronomer to the King of England.

But if approved, K2 will be looking at a much more diverse region of sky with a wide range of astronomical and astrophysical phenomena: planets with short orbits around cooler stars (which, if in their star's habitable zone, could still harbor water); young, still - forming proto - stars, which could provide insight into star and planet formation; and supernovae and galaxy clusters.

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).

MARCI will recover the objectives of the Mars Climate Orbiter MARCI wide angle camera, which was lost during orbit insertion in September 1999.

If, on the other hand, the moon is in a wide, elongated orbit, it is more likely a captured object from the Kuiper Belt.

Measuring the eccentricity of individual planets is only practical in favo... ▽ More Doppler planet searches have discovered that giant planets follow orbits with a wide range of orbital eccentricities, revolutionizing theories of planet formation.

Several formation mechanisms have been proposed to explain Sedna's extreme orbit, including interactions with planet - sized bodies, stellar encounters, multiple stellar fly - bys in a stellar birth cluster, interstellar capture, and perturbations from a wide - binary solar companion.

Cassini has been in continual orbit around Saturn since 2004, capturing images of the planet in varying lighting conditions and from a wide range of angles.

We used NaCo at VLT to explore t... ▽ More In anticipation of the VLT / SPHERE planet imager guaranteed time programs, we have conducted a preparatory survey of 86 stars between 2009 and 2013 in order to identify new faint comoving companions to ultimately carry out a comprehensive analysis of the occurence of giant planets and brown dwarf companions at wide (10 - 2000 AU) orbits around young, solar - type starIn anticipation of the VLT / SPHERE planet imager guaranteed time programs, we have conducted a preparatory survey of 86 stars between 2009 and 2013 in order to identify new faint comoving companions to ultimately carry out a comprehensive analysis of the occurence of giant planets and brown dwarf companions at wide (10 - 2000 AU) orbits around young, solar - type starin order to identify new faint comoving companions to ultimately carry out a comprehensive analysis of the occurence of giant planets and brown dwarf companions at wide (10 - 2000 AU) orbits around young, solar - type stars.

The project, led by principal investigator George Ricker, a senior research scientist at MKI, will use an array of wide - field cameras to perform an all - sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets, ranging from Earth - sized planets to gas giants, in orbit around the brightest stars in the sun's neighborhood.

To find these exoplanets, TESS sports four wide - angle cameras and will ultimately orbit Earth in a 2:1 lunar resonance orbit, meaning for every time the Moon orbits Earth once, TESS will orbit Earth twice.

The project, led by principal investigator George Ricker, a senior research scientist at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (MKI) will use an array of wide - field cameras to perform an all - sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets, ranging from Earth - sized planets to gas giants, in orbit around the brightest stars in the sun's neighborhood.

As a result of this study, HD 284149 ABb therefore becomes the latest addition to the (short) list of brown dwarfs on wide circumbinary orbits, providing new evidence to support recent claims that object in such configuration occur with a similar frequency to wide companions to single stars.

In the research of extrasolar planets, astronomers have found a wide variety of planets such as Jupiter - like gaseous giant planets circling around central stars in a much smaller orbit than that of the Mercury, and planets that have a very large orbit far beyond the Neptune's orbiIn the research of extrasolar planets, astronomers have found a wide variety of planets such as Jupiter - like gaseous giant planets circling around central stars in a much smaller orbit than that of the Mercury, and planets that have a very large orbit far beyond the Neptune's orbiin a much smaller orbit than that of the Mercury, and planets that have a very large orbit far beyond the Neptune's orbit.