Sentences with phrase «like red dwarfs»

Cooler stars — like red dwarfs, the most common stars in the universe — give off less visible light.

But planets this close to a cooler star, like a red dwarf, might have the right surface temperatures for liquid water.

Not exact matches

The most recent Nature World News reported this week that a German weekly magazine announced that researchers have found an «Earth - like» planet orbiting Proxima Centauri — a star that's known as a «tiny, red dwarf.»

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Astronomers conducting a galactic census of planets in the Milky Way now suspect most of the universe's habitable real estate exists on worlds orbiting red dwarf stars, which are smaller but far more numerous than stars like our Sun.

Brain and his colleagues started to think about applying these insights to a hypothetical Mars - like planet in orbit around some type of M - star, or red dwarf, the most common class of stars in our galaxy.

The small red circles denote other objects that emit X-rays, like neutron stars or white dwarfs, that are found scattered around more of the galaxy.

How long might a rocky, Mars - like planet be habitable if it were orbiting a red dwarf star?

Red dwarfs everywhere: If the Milky Way had just 100 stars — it's more like 100 billion — 75 would be red dwarRed dwarfs everywhere: If the Milky Way had just 100 stars — it's more like 100 billion — 75 would be red dwarred dwarfs.

Project Blue's proposed telescope would have a light - gathering mirror just half a meter wide — so small that it could only look for Earth - like planets around two stars: the Sun - like Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B, which along with the red dwarf Proxima Centauri form the nearest star system to our own at just over four light - years away.

An Earth - like planet would cause a bigger wobble and a darker transit in a red dwarf than in a sun, and the effect would be even more pronounced if the planet were in the habitable zone — because the habitable zone, where liquid water can exist, lies closer to a cool red dwarf.

Fortunately, the realization that dim red dwarf stars could potentially support Earth - like planets greatly stretches out the temporal habitable zone.

Red dwarf stars, which are by far the most common stars in our galaxy, were once considered unlikely places to find Earth - like planets, but new studies contradict that view.

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.

Maybe it was just large accumulations of dim but familiar objects, like extremely faint red stars or white dwarfs, some astronomers speculated.

Apps noted that the precise colors of KOI - 961, which is some 120 light - years away from Earth, are exactly like those of a much nearer red dwarf star known as Barnard's Star.

«A red - dwarf planet faces an extreme space environment, in addition to other stresses like tidal locking,» says Ofer Cohen of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).

And they do pose some problems: red dwarfs tend to be more active than sun - like stars, shooting out energetic flares that could fry nearby planets.

Proxima b hints that many of the Milky Way's other roughly 75 billion red dwarfs might also have Earth - like planets.

Red dwarfs, by far the most abundant type of star in the galaxy, can create planet - like signals during their powerful flares.

«We find that variations in the UV emissions of red - dwarf stars have a potentially large impact on atmospheric biosignatures in simulations of Earth - like exoplanets.

For small, red - dwarf stars, habitable zone planets might gather close, like marshmallow - roasting campers around the fire.

This red dwarf pulls on the 55 Cancri system, and because all five planets in the system — and their host star — are such a tight - knit family, they behave like ice skaters holding hands, so that the companion star's tugs cause them all to do somersaults in space.

Kepler (Figure 3) observed over 100.000, mainly sun - like stars, but also a few thousand red dwarfs.

Like many red dwarfs, Proxima is a «Flare Star» that can brighten suddenly to many times its normal luminosity.

Fortunately, red dwarf (or M - dwarf) stars like Trappist - 1 are cool and dim, so the glare problem is less acute.

The best estimates for the occurrence rates of habitable zone earth - sized planets around sun - like stars is about 50 %, and for lower - mass stars this value is likely to be even higher: most red dwarf stars are expected to have one or more habitable zone, approximately earth - sized planets.

Initially, we expected that the changes we see are driven by Great Red Spot - like stable features (the GRS has been seen in Jupiter for more than 300 years)-- but the brightnesses of the brown dwarfs changed way too much to be explained by spots, Waves, however, worked extremely well.

© Torben Krogh & Mogens Winther, (Amtsgymnasiet and EUC Syd Gallery, student photo used with permission) Alp Cen B is an orange - red dwarf star, like Epsilon Eridani at left center of meteor.

Like Gliese 752 B, Proxima is so small, with less than 20 percent of Sol's mass, that it can transport core heat only through convection, unlike larger larger red dwarf stars like Gliese 752 A (moLike Gliese 752 B, Proxima is so small, with less than 20 percent of Sol's mass, that it can transport core heat only through convection, unlike larger larger red dwarf stars like Gliese 752 A (molike Gliese 752 A (more).

With less than 20 percent of Sol's mass, Proxima is so small that it can transport core heat to its surface only through convection, unlike larger red dwarf stars like Gliese 752 A — also known as Wolf 1055 A or Van Biesbroeck's Star (more).

Take the most common type of star in the Milky Way - so - called red dwarf stars that are cooler, smaller and longer - lived than stars like the sun.

Perhaps there's a life - supporting, Earth - like planet orbiting close to a red dwarf star many light years away.

Type Ia supernovas are known to form when a white dwarf merges with another star, like a puffed - up red giant (as opposed to Type II supernovas, which form when a single star dies and collapses on itself).

Given at least nine meters (roughly 30 feet) of water on the planet, photosynthetic microbes (including mats of algae, cyanobacteria, and other photosynthetic bacteria) and plant - like protoctists (such as floating seaweed or kelp forests attached to the seafloor) could be protected from «planet - scalding» ultraviolet flares produced by young red dwarf stars, according to Victoria Meadows of Caltech, principal investigator at the NASA Astrobiology Institute's Virtual Planetary Laboratory.

Although radiation may not be a problem, orbiting so close to a red dwarf star presents a unique situation for habitable zone exoplanets like Ross 128 b.

Discoveries of Sun - like stars with host exoplanets as well as red dwarf companions have been common, and many appear to be old and stable enough for life to have evolved (RAS new releases of April 16 and April 19, 2011; and University of St. Andrews press release).

© Torben Krogh & Mogens Winther, (Amtsgymnasiet and EUC Syd Gallery, student photo used with permission) Gliese 105 A is an orange - red dwarf star, like Epsilon Eridani at left center of meteor.

NASA — larger image CM Draconis Aab are dim red dwarf stars, like Gliese 623 A (M2.5 V) and B (M5.8 Ve) at lower right.

Like Gliese 752 B, Groombridge 34 B is so small, with less than 20 percent of Sol's mass, that it can transport core heat only through convection, unlike larger larger red dwarf stars like Gliese 752 A (moLike Gliese 752 B, Groombridge 34 B is so small, with less than 20 percent of Sol's mass, that it can transport core heat only through convection, unlike larger larger red dwarf stars like Gliese 752 A (molike Gliese 752 A (more).

NASA — larger image Proxima is a dim red dwarf star, like Gliese 623 A (M2.5 V) and B (M5.8 Ve) at lower right.

They are so faint that they are invisible to the naked eye, and famous red dwarfs like Kapteyn's star can only be seen with binoculars.

Recent statistics indicate that over a fourth of Sun - like stars and roughly a half of red dwarfs in our Milky Way Galaxy have been found in multi-star systems — around 44 percent of of spectral types F6 to K3 and possibly declining to one third to one fourth of very dim type M stars that are difficult to observe (Raghavan et al, 2010; Charles J. Lada, 2006; and Duquennoy and Mayor, 1991).

NASA — larger image Groombridge 34 AB are dim red dwarf stars, like Gliese 623 A (M2.5 V) and B (M5.8 Ve) at lower right.

We found that brown dwarfs are similar to the gas giants in the Solar System (in that they have zonal circulation), but that they are more like Neptune and less like Jupiter (their brightness variations are driven by large - scale waves in zones rather than Great Red Spot - like storms as in Jupiter).

In order to be warmed sufficiently have liquid water at the surface, an Earth - type rocky planet would have to be located very close to such a cool and dim red dwarf star like CD - 51 5974.

Red dwarf stars like these account for as much as 80 percent of the stars in our galaxy.

Sure, Gliese 1132b isn't «Earth - like» by any stretch of the imagination — it's hot, probably toxic, has a day as long as a year and liquid water can't exist on its surface — but the fact that it has an atmosphere at all provides clues that other red dwarf exoplanets are likely out there with their own atmospheres able to resist the onslaught of their ferocious stars.

As stars like our sun age, they puff up into red giants and then gradually lose about half or more of their mass, shrinking into skeletons of stars, called white dwarfs.