Sentences with phrase «nearby stars suggests»
If nothing else, the possibility of sending light sails to orbit many nearby stars suggests a natural next - generation, longer - term follow - up to Starshot's more urgent mission goals.
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Earlier studies had suggested that the gravity of nearby stars would have ripped apart these primordial clumps, but the new simulations show that this would only happen in the crowded core of galaxies, leaving the clumps in the galactic suburbs intact (arxiv.org/abs/1006.3392).
He says the dearth of nearby planets suggests that the hot Jupiters formed farther out, and after a run - in with another planet or star, were pushed onto elongated orbits that ultimately led them to cross paths with any planets between their original orbits and the sun.
At least one source of these bright, brief blasts of radio energy may be a young neutron star assisted by a nearby massive black hole, new research suggests.
Extreme and irregular variations in the brightness of a nearby brown dwarf suggest the star's atmosphere is wracked with storms.
Her studies suggest, however, that black holes would only rarely have companion stars so nearby that they could steal matter from them and thus shine in X-rays.
But that pace aligns perfectly with those of typical nearby stars — suggesting «Oumuamua might be merely a piece of galactic «driftwood» washed up by celestial currents.
Computer models suggest a brush with a nearby star may have triggered the clumping as recently as 2,000 years ago.
A speeding star may have been flung away by a black hole lurking unnoticed in a nearby galaxy, new research suggests.
Although the Keck was unable to pick out a nearby star, the computer simulations suggest that the dust stream is probably shaped by colliding stellar winds.
«It suggests that many potentially habitable worlds will be found in the next years around nearby stars by ground - based and space - based observatories, such as PLATO.
Reconstructing the object's motion, my research suggests it probably came from the nearby «Pleiades moving group» of young stars, also known as the «Local Association.»
Almost all the soft X-ray sources have been identified in NIR and their spectral types are consistent with main - sequence stars, suggesting most of them are nearby X-ray active stars.
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» dwStars (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» dwstars known to lie within 10 parsecs (32.6 ly) of Earth is «woefully incomplete,» particularly in faint red (M) dwarfs and «white» dwarfs.