Sentences with phrase «located around these bright stars»

There's also a practical reason for prioritizing planets located around these bright stars.

Not exact matches

Using the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) at the Gemini South telescope in Chile, the researchers identified a disc - shaped bright ring of dust around a star only slightly more massive than the sun, located 360 light years away in the Centaurus constellation.

The center of mass of these stars is located 135 + / - 15 pc away from the Sun, whereas the distance of the Gould or Gould's Belt of young bright stars in this direction is around 160 pc, whose origins may be 30 to 60 million years old.