Sentences with phrase «known planet circles»

Formed a billion years after the Big Bang, the universe's oldest and most distant known planet circles a collapsed star, or pulsar (green circle), in the globular cluster M4, which is 5,000 light - years away from Earth.

Not exact matches

In addition to our solar system's eight near - and - dear planets, there are more than 800 so - called exoplanets known to circle stars beyond our sun.

Astronomers currently know of roughly 200 planets circling nearby stars, and more and more of these so - called exoplanets are discovered every year.

Gravity keeps our feet on the ground and our planet circling the sun, but we know remarkably little about it.

Until then, all the known exoplanets (planets circling other stars) were big and gaseous, but this one is probably made of rocky materials — the first world like ours found in an alien solar system.

The only truly Earth - like planet we know of — ours — takes more than 150 times as long as HAT - P - 7 b does to circle its star, so collecting data on similar planets across multiple orbits will take years.

The team used a computer model developed at the University of Michigan to represent three known red - dwarf planets circling a simulated, middle - aged red dwarf.

Marcy and Butler recently posted a notice on their Web site of the discovery of a somewhat similar planet circling the star HR3522, also known as 55 Rho Cancri.

Designated 2015 RR245, the object's size hasn't been confirmed just yet, but its discoverers estimate it to have a diameter of 700 km (435 miles) and one of the largest known orbits of a dwarf planet, circling the Sun once every 700 years.

Retool is a 3D hacking puzzle game set on incomplete orbital defense stations that circle around Sinai, home planet of the alien species known as Onix.