Sentences with phrase «neighborhood around its orbit»

Not exact matches

Over 300 extrasolar planets have been discovered in orbit around stars in our local galactic neighborhood, and more planets are being discovered every month.

A NASA telescope taking a nose count of planets in one small neighborhood of the Milky Way registered more than 1,200 candidates, including 54 residing in life - friendly orbits around their parent stars.

The project, led by principal investigator George Ricker, a senior research scientist at MKI, will use an array of wide - field cameras to perform an all - sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets, ranging from Earth - sized planets to gas giants, in orbit around the brightest stars in the sun's neighborhood.

The project, led by principal investigator George Ricker, a senior research scientist at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (MKI) will use an array of wide - field cameras to perform an all - sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets, ranging from Earth - sized planets to gas giants, in orbit around the brightest stars in the sun's neighborhood.

Measuring in at around half the size of Makemake, RR245 is much smaller than other known dwarf planets in the neighborhood, but still meets the International Astronomical Union's (IAU) criteria of that category: namely, it's in orbit around the Sun, it has sufficient mass for its self - gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a nearly round shape, and, unlike regular planets, it hasn't cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit, and it isn't a satellite.

Ryugu briefly dips inside Earth's orbit on each 1.3 - year lap around the Sun, making it a potentially hazardous asteroid in our celestial neighborhood.