Sentences with phrase «nearby red dwarf»
On March 4, 2014, a team of astronomers announced that analysis of new and older radial - velocity data from nearby red dwarf stars revealed a planet with a minimum of 32 (max 49) Earth - masses at an average orbital distance of 0.97 AU from host star Gl 229, with an orbital period around 471 days (UH news release; and Tuomi et al, 2014).
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NASA's Swift satellite detected the strongest, hottest, and longest - lasting sequence of stellar flares ever seen from a nearby red dwarf star.
On March 4, 2014, a team of astronomers announced that analysis of new and older radial - velocity data from nearby red dwarf stars revealed two super-Earths «b» and «c.» Planet b has around 4.4 (+3.7 / -2.4) Earth - masses and an average orbital distance of 0.080 (+0.014 / -0.004) AU from host star Gl 682.
On March 4, 2014, a team of astronomers announced that analysis of new and older radial - velocity data from nearby red dwarf stars revealed two super-Earths «b» and «c» with minimum earth - masses of 4.4 (+3.7 / -2.4) and 8.7 (+5.8 / -4.7), respectively, at average orbital distances of 0.080 (+0.014 / -0.004) and 0.176 (+0.009 / -0.030) AU, respectively, from host star Gl 682, with orbital eccentricities of 0.08 (+0.19 / -.08) and 0.010 (+0.19 / -0.10) and periods around 17.5 and 57.3 days, respectively (UH news release; and Tuomi et al, 2014).
This highlights the importance of searching for life around these nearby red dwarf stars, namely the Red Dots campaign.
An international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a potentially - habitable Super-Earth around the nearby red dwarf star Gliese 832.
On April 23, NASA's Swift satellite detected the strongest, hottest, and longest - lasting sequence of stellar flares ever seen from a nearby red dwarf star.
Three new planets classified as habitable - zone super-Earths are amongst eight new planets discovered orbiting nearby red dwarf stars by an international team of astronomers from the UK and Chile.
We only have limited resources and technology available to us and currently looking at nearby red dwarfs is a good opportunity to find exoplanets which we can hopefully start to characterise in the near future.
Following on from the success of Pale Red Dot, our team are now searching for more terrestrial rocky worlds around nearby red dwarfs.
Not exact matches
A plethora of new observatories — chief among them NASA's multi-billion-dollar James Webb Space Telescope, slated to launch in 2019 — could soon begin studying the planets of TRAPPIST - 1 and other nearby red - dwarf planets for signs of habitability and life.
Located 1,350 light - years away, the Orion Nebula is a relatively nearby laboratory for studying the star formation process across a wide range, from opulent giant stars to diminutive red dwarf stars and elusive, faint brown dwarfs.
Other recent discoveries of nearby Earth - sized planets have been around red dwarf stars, including TRAPPIST - 1 and Proxima Centauri, but these create less favorable conditions for life.
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.
Previous work has looked at the impact of stellar flares from a red dwarf on a nearby planet.
This diagram below is a plot of 22000 stars from the Hipparcos Catalogue together with 1000 low - luminosity stars (red and white dwarfs) from the Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars.
In fact, red dwarf stars can be downright violent, frequently erupting with powerful flares, flooding any nearby planets with ionizing radiation.
Because it covers more of the sky, the K2 mission is capable of observing a larger fraction of cooler, smaller, red - dwarf type stars, and because such stars are much more common in the Milky Way than Sun - like stars, nearby stars will predominantly be red dwarfs.
A 1997 paper by astronomers (Henry et al) associated with the Research Consortium on Nearby Stars (RECONS) suggests that the sample of stars known to lie within 10 parsecs (32.6 ly) of Earth is «woefully incomplete,» particularly in faint red (M) dwarfs and «white» dwarfs.