Sentences with phrase «keeps dwarf planet»

Not exact matches

Life might emerge on a red dwarf planet, some now think, after the star has aged and its flares have settled down; winds on the planet might transport heat from one hemisphere to the other, keeping the atmosphere from freezing.

In keeping with all the rest of Ceres's oddball uncertainties, the findings hold major albeit nebulous implications for our understanding of the dwarf planet and its relationship to the other large objects in our solar system.

The European Space Agency craft designed to map a billion stars in the Milky Way has also been keeping an eye out for everyone's favourite dwarf planet

If phototrophs keep their photosynthetic apparatus for landing, the red - edge position of the land surface on M - dwarf planets show just like as on the Earth, at the initial stage of land vegetation.

White dwarfs keep cooling, so even if a planet started out balmy, it would gradually sink into deep freeze.

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 distant dwarf planet just keeps on surprising the universe.

Depending on the mass of the planets and their distance from the brown dwarf, we should get Io / Europa analogues or, if it has enough mass to hold onto an atmosphere, we could get something different: a world that thanks to tidal heating (and infrared radiation) keeps the surface water liquid.

That means scientists can train it on Pluto and someday soon crack the most charismatic dwarf planet's secret to keeping its cool.