Sentences with phrase «into orbit around a star»

All of this suggests that getting into orbit around a star, preferably while a grad student or postdoc, is an increasingly important career - building strategy.

Not exact matches

When Kepler launched into orbit in 2009 to survey a patch of sky containing some 150,000 stars, one of its primary goals was to find mirror Earths, worlds about the same size as our own in approximately 365 - day orbits around sunlike stars.

Captured by Kepler's digital sensors, transformed into bytes of data, and downloaded to computers at NASA's Ames Research Center near San Francisco, the processed starlight slowly revealed a remarkable story: A planet not much bigger than Earth was whipping around its native star at a blistering pace, completing an orbit — its version of a «year» — in just over 20 hours.

Around younger stars, however, many of these newly formed objects have yet to settle into stately orbits and routinely collide, producing enough rubble to spawn a «second - generation» disk of debris.

Now, Hippke and Heller show that a combination of the stars» gravity and radiation pressure from their photons can bring the craft into a stable orbit around one of the stars, then around the tantalising planet (Astrophysical Journal Letters, doi.org/bx8t).

The team used the carbon monoxide study as a guide to expand the RV technique into the infrared to determine the orbit of tau Boo b itself around its star, and added further analysis of the light shifts via spectroscopy — an analysis of the light's spectrum.

Those remnants went into orbit around the white dwarf — much like the rings around Saturn, Zuckerman said — before eventually spiraling onto the star itself, bringing with them the building blocks for life.

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.

However, the stars will be thrown into different orbits around the new galactic center.

So - called circumbinary planets — those planets that orbit around a binary star, like the fictional Tatooine from the Star Wars — can be ejected off into space as a consequence of their stars» evolution, according to a new study to be published in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org prepristar, like the fictional Tatooine from the Star Wars — can be ejected off into space as a consequence of their stars» evolution, according to a new study to be published in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org prepriStar Wars — can be ejected off into space as a consequence of their stars» evolution, according to a new study to be published in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org preprint).

The numerous galaxy collisions literally tear some galaxies apart and scatter their stars into wide orbits around the newly created large galaxies, which should give the galaxies a faint background glow of stellar light.

Although the cluster dissolved over the past 4.6 billion years with the dispersal of the Sun's sibling stars into the surrounding the Milky Way, the stars should have remained on a similar orbit around the galactic center.