Sentences with phrase «nearest star besides»
Bottom line: Astronomers with the Pale Red Dot campaign of the European Southern Observatory announced the discovery of a planet for Proxima Centauri, the next - nearest star besides our sun.
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Isn't Alpha Centauri the nearest star besides our sun?
Not exact matches
Some planets are so near their star that they are losing mass too rapidly to have been planets for very long.14 Besides, their rocky cores would have melted before the planet's evolution could begin.15 Others are too far from their star and the dust near the star needed to grow a planet.
Besides these remote organizations, investigators have observed what appear to be groups of high - velocity stars near the Sun.