Sentences with phrase «near a star like»

«This may explain why we find ourself near a star like the Sun and not near the more abundant dwarf stars.

Not exact matches

Most of Turk's stars, like Randolph Keys (see box), live reasonably near the campus, but coach Turk did spirit away «Ville - killer John White, a 6» 7» swingman, from under the Cards» nose.

The likes of Ander Herrera, Daley Blind and Angel Di Maria all arrived at Old Trafford this season, but they could be joined by further additions in the near future as United ponder improvements on some of their under - performing stars.

While some will point to the fact that Francis Coquelin has made a big difference as well as other players like Laurent Koscielny being an improvement on what Arsenal had before, some Arsenal fans feel that nowhere near enough credit has been given to our former defensive star and current assistant manager Steve Bould, who was a player when Arsene Wenger arrived and helped us to win three titles, five domestic trophies and the UEFA Cup Winners» Cup.

The first is the increased attention to defensive value that's turned players like Kevin Kiermaier and Kevin Pillar into near - stars.

With the likes of Alexis Sanchez and Olivier Giroud grabbing the plaudits for their scoring exploits and some surprises from the emergence of new stars like Coquelin and Bellerin, poor old Nacho Monreal has been nowhere near any of the player awards.

Just days after «Sex and the City» star Cynthia Nixon announced her campaign to unseat him, he clearly doesn't want to hear complaints — like the ones leveled during the last storm that he was m.i.a. in Albany, not anywhere near where the outages were, Kramer reported.

He is also part of a NASA team that will soon be using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to find Earth - like planets orbiting in or near the habitable zone of their stars.

If they are right, a burst of x-rays from near the star should precede each new blob like the muzzle flash of a gun barrel.

LIVERPOOL, U.K. — Alpha Centauri, a three - star system just 4 light - years away that is the sun's nearest neighbor, ought to be a great place to look for Earth - like planets.

«Looking around the very nearest Sun - like stars is the next logical step in the search for another Earth,» says Supriya Chakrabarti, an astronomer at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, who is developing planet - imaging technologies for Project Blue.

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.

A privately funded small space telescope could soon seek Earth - like planets around the sun's nearest neighboring stars

The nearest sunlike stars have failed to yield exoplanets so far, but searches for Earth - like ones are ramping up.

Alpha Centauri, a three - star system just 4 light - years away that is the sun's nearest neighbor, ought to be a great place to look for Earth - like planets.

«This is science, so null results about our nearest neighboring Sun - like stars are just as valuable as positive ones, although they don't generate a press release,» says Jared Males, an astronomer at the University of Arizona who is working on image - processing algorithms for Project Blue.

«Finding the organohalogen Freon - 40 near these young, Sun - like stars was surprising,» said Edith Fayolle, a researcher with the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the USA, and lead author of the new paper.

In the interim, to reach the Planck energy with something like current laser technology would require an atom smasher 10 light - years long, reaching beyond the nearest star.

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 Sstar known as Barnard's StarStar.

Carone and her team considered some of the nearest exoplanets that have the potential to be Earth - like: Proxima b, which is orbiting the star nearest to the Sun (Proxima Centauri), and the most promising of the TRAPPIST - 1 family of planets, TRAPPIST - 1d.

The work also explains why exoplanets appear to pile up — in a statistical sense — near their stars in orbits as short as 3 days, he says, «like a school of salmon approaching the waterfall.»

In a few other cases a candidate planet had been observed near a star but had not been proved to follow a planet - like orbit.

«TPF will look at each of the nearest few hundred stars for a few hours, and we'll know for sure whether or not there's an Earth - like planet around it,» says jpl scientist and senior project overseer Charles Beichman.

«New Horizons is the latest in a long line of scientific accomplishments at NASA, including multiple missions orbiting and exploring the surface of Mars in advance of human visits still to come; the remarkable Kepler mission to identify Earth - like planets around stars other than our own; and the DSCOVR satellite that soon will be beaming back images of the whole Earth in near real - time from a vantage point a million miles away.

It's a force to be reckoned with — enough to rip a close - passing star in half, sending the near half plunging into the hole, while the other half, like a sudden winner in a tug of war, goes careering backward.

Alpha Centauri, the nearest neighboring star system to our Sun, harbors two sun - like stars, Alpha Centauri A and B.

NASA announces the discovery of the first near - Earth - size planet in the habitable zone of a sun - like star.

Its predecessor spacecraft, Kepler, surveyed 150,000 stars in a patch of sky near the constellation Cygnus, and found over a thousand planets ranging from gaseous giants like Jupiter to rocky planets as small as Mercury.

«I've been studying young stars near Earth for 20 years and I've never seen anything like this one,» said UCLA astronomer Benjamin Zuckerman.

The object, nicknamed Gomez's Hamburger, is a sun - like star nearing the end of its life.

«For NASA, this number — that every fifth star has a planet somewhat like Earth — is really important, because successor missions to Kepler will try to take an actual picture of a planet, and the size of the telescope they have to build depends on how close the nearest Earth - size planets are,» said Andrew Howard, astronomer with the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii.

«Imagine taking a planet like the Earth or Mars, placing it near a cool red star and stretching it out.

By studying the habitability of the Universe throughout cosmic history from the birth of the first stars 30 million years after the Big Bang to the death of the last stars in ten trillion years, I concluded6, 7 that unless habitability around low mass stars is suppressed, life is most likely to exist near dwarf stars like Proxima or TRAPPIST - 1 ten trillion years from now.

This is the smallest planet found by Kepler to be orbiting in or near habitable zone of a Sun - like star and represents an important step on the path to finding the first true Earth analog.

Like planets, dust near a star is hard to see.

Star B was chosen for analysis because efforts are underway to detect of an Earth - like planet in or near its habitable zone (between 0.5 and 0.9 AU) using available technology — more discussion below (Xie et al, 2010; and Jessica Griggs, New Scientist, January 29, 2010).

Kepler has even identified some planets with Earth - like traits, such as Kepler - 452b, a near - Earth - size planet found in the habitable zone of a sun - like star.

Their simulations suggest that at least one planet in the one to two Earth - mass range could have formed within orbital distances of 0.5 to 1.5 AUs around both heavy - element - rich stars; of particularly note, the simulations frequently generated a Earth - like planet in or near Star B's habitable zone (where liquid water could exist on the planet's surface).

«What this means is, when you look up at the thousands of stars in the night sky, the nearest sun - like star with an Earth - size planet in its habitable zone is probably only 12 light years away and can be seen with the naked eye.

Using the very high precision Kepler photometry, and follow - up observations, our confidence that these signals re... ▽ More We present the discovery of a super-earth-sized planet in or near the habitable zone of a sun - like star.

Petigura said, «When you look up at the thousands of stars in the night sky, the nearest sun - like star with an Earth - size planet in its habitable zone is probably only 12 light years away and can be seen with the naked eye.

[30] Medium - sized, low mass stars like the Sun have a core region that is stable against convection, with a convection zone near the surface that mixes the outer layers.

Abstract: We present the discovery of a super-earth-sized planet in or near the habitable zone of a sun - like star.

They are shells of gas thrown off by Sun - like stars nearing the ends of their lives.

Two distinct sets of transit events were detected: 1) a 152 + / - 4 ppm dimming lasting 1.811 + / - 0.024 hours with ephemeris T [BJD] = 2454964.57375 + N... ▽ More NASA's Kepler Mission uses transit photometry to determine the frequency of earth - size planets in or near the habitable zone of Sun - like stars.

This oddly shaped object is an aging, Sun - like star near the end of its life.

Now including near - infrared observations by the Wide Field Camera 3, installed in 2009, the HUDF / XDF shows us galaxies across some 95 percent of cosmic history, from the first star - bursting seeds of galaxies to the assembly of more massive, more regular structures of galaxies more like those we see today.

Dubbed Project Blue, the mission aims to build and launch a space telescope with a single goal in mind: to image any planets in the habitable zones of the nearest Sun - like stars.

While larger planets could have sufficient gravity to attract a massive hydrogen - helium atmosphere, smaller planets — like Mars or Mercury that have less than half the Earth's mass — located in or near their star's habitable zone may lose their initial life - supporting atmosphere because of low gravity and / or the lack of plate tectonics needed to recycle heat - retaining carbon dioxide gas back into the atmosphere (Kasting et al, 1993).

This orbits places the planet near the inner edge of its host star's habitable zone, where liquid water could exist in liquid form under favorable conditions such as an albedo of 0.52 with an orbital eccentricity of 0.11 and more than 52 percent cloud cover under a sufficiently dense atmosphere of water, carbon dioxide, and molecular nitrogen like Earth's (ESO science release; Pepe et al, 2011; and Kaltenegger et al, 2011 — more below).