Sentences with phrase «nearby planet known»

Not exact matches

Life as we know it could not exist on the gas - giant planet, and its nearby suns would incinerate any cities all on their own.

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

The craft will measure the sizes of known planets — from those a little bigger than Earth to ones that are roughly Neptune - sized — orbiting nearby bright stars.

Twenty years ago, the hottest known planet was nearby Venus, sizzling at 460 °C.

We, as a scientific community, know the planets quite well, enough to make predictions on the possibility of finding planets around other nearby stars.

The Kepler statistics predict that 10 percent of nearby stars would host Earth - sized planets within the habitable zones of their stars, where temperatures are optimum for life, as we know it.

For your analogy to hold, you are arguing that a hypothetical Star Trek near - instantaneous scanning will take place on the complete assembled structure, of complete depth at a very fine resolution No, only for the things that are relevant, which for a star or the Sun are only its mass, composition, and age [and to second order if it is part of a binary star or has giant nearby planets — but since none of those things apply to the Sun we can ignore them].