Sentences with phrase «new planet around another star»

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From the ashes grew new stars, and around one of them, a system of planets and asteroids and moons.

However, when he sensed that funding in his original field, X-ray astronomy, was drying up, he started thinking about new tools for studying planets around other stars.

The lead author of the new study, Guillem Anglada [1], from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC), Granada, Spain, explains the significance of this find: «The dust around Proxima is important because, following the discovery of the terrestrial planet Proxima b, it's the first indication of the presence of an elaborate planetary system, and not just a single planet, around the star closest to our Sun.»

Has there been any specific new research triggered by these studies of planets around other stars?

«That's been called into question over the past decade, and many new ideas have been offered, but the bottom line is that we need to identify a number of newly formed planets around young stars if we hope to fully understand planet formation.»

If confirmed by other researchers, the planet would not just be an astronomical novelty; Its detection, reported on the e-print server at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (see astro - ph / 9908038), would also be a triumph for a new and potentially powerful technique for finding planets around other stars.

With planets orbiting M dwarfs quickly becoming the darlings in the search for life beyond our solar system, a new generation of observatories are poised to discover hundreds of worlds around these stars.

A new paper suggests using the stars themselves to park around their planets

Investigating exoplanet atmospheres can provide new insight into how and where planets form around a star.

«These new results show that planets in open star clusters are about as common as they are around isolated stars — but they are not easy to detect,» adds Luca Pasquini (ESO, Garching, Germany), co-author of the new paper [6].

Our new observations provide intriguing evidence that planets are indeed forming around this one young star.»

The researchers say they detected the presence of two new extrasolar planets (exoplanets) around a red dwarf star, Gliese 581, 20.5 light - years away in the constellation Libra, based on slight motions of the star.

New observations suggested that two planets, each about the size of Saturn, are in orbit around the star.

Intense radiation could strip away the ozone layer of Earth - like planets around other stars and render them uninhabitable, according to a new study led by Dr Eike Guenther of the Thueringer Observatory in Germany.

This finding could offer new insights into the timeline for giant planet formation around young stars.

This new generation of telescopes will allow huge advances in studies of the early universe, of Earth - like planets around other stars, and of the mysterious dark matter and dark energy that influence the structure and expansion of the universe.

«The fact that you can form planets around a star that has so little of this material is a very surprising and unusual thing,» says Christopher Johns - Krull, an astronomer at Rice University in Houston, Texas, who was not involved in the new work.

The new planets have been discovered around stars between 15 and 80 light years away and they have orbital periods between two weeks and nine years.

Astronomers realized that spinning disks of gas always form around the nucleus of a new star, feeding it matter and serving as an incubator for the development of planets.

«New Horizons is the latest in a long line of scientific accomplishments at NASA, including multiple missions orbiting and exploring the surface of Mars in advance of human visits still to come; the remarkable Kepler mission to identify Earth - like planets around stars other than our own; and the DSCOVR satellite that soon will be beaming back images of the whole Earth in near real - time from a vantage point a million miles away.

I spent hours just whizzing around to new star systems, zooming down to various planets, and using my Abduction Beam to fill the ship's cargo hold with terrified aliens.

Sibling suns — made famous in the «Star Wars» scene where Luke Skywalker gazes toward a double sunset — and the planets around them may be more common than we've thought, and Cornell University astronomers are presenting new ideas on how to find them.

According to two new studies, such clouds also arise around the failed stars known as brown dwarfs — even ones as small as giant planets.

The NASA - funded Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer, or LBTI, has completed its first study of dust in the «habitable zone» around a star, opening a new door to finding planets like Earth.

Its new orbit around the second star tends to be very wide as well, and the first star often recaptures the planet, which can shuttle back and forth between the stars many times.

That leaves eight new exoplanets, or planets that orbit around a star other than the sun (also called extrasolar planets), that were announced for the first time in the CfA study.

According to our current knowledge, planets are formed around a new star by condensing in a disc of molecular gas and dust, embedded within a larger molecular cloud.

- A new study examines the prevalence of planets around red dwarf stars, the most common type of star in the galaxy.

«Between the TESS mission and SDSS - V, Vanderbilt is going to be at this world - leading nexus of a major space mission and a major international collaboration on Earth focused on finding new habitable planets around other stars and making detailed measurements of them,» Stassun said.

NASA's newest satellite, TESS (the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), scheduled for launch on April 16, 2018, will extend the hunt for small, rocky planets around nearby, bright stars.

The new exoplanet, dubbed «HIP 116454b,» is 2.5 times the diameter of Earth and follows a close, nine - day orbit around its parent star, whose small size and cool temperature make the planet too hot to support life.

Of the new planets, four are Earth - like planets, less than 2.5 times the size of our planet, and are within the habitable zone, the orbit area around a star where liquid water is possible, of their sun.

This new planet sample demonstrates the capability of K2 to discover numerous planetary systems around bright stars.

KELT - 9, the star around which this new planet orbits, is more than twice as large and nearly twice as hot as our sun, explained co-lead author and Vanderbilt physics and astronomy professor Keivan Stassun.

Kepler's new mission, K2, is targeting several open clusters and star - forming regions around the ecliptic to... ▽ More Open clusters have been the focus of several exoplanet surveys but only a few planets have so far been discovered.

Autonomous telescope joins hunt for alien planets and has already found new planets around distant stars.

He added: «It would open an enormous new window on the Universe, allowing you to detect the presence of oxygen if there is any on Earth - like planets around nearby stars.

Kepler's new mission, K2, is targeting several open clusters and star - forming regions around the ecliptic to search for transiting planets around their low - mass constituents.

We used NaCo at VLT to explore t... ▽ More In anticipation of the VLT / SPHERE planet imager guaranteed time programs, we have conducted a preparatory survey of 86 stars between 2009 and 2013 in order to identify new faint comoving companions to ultimately carry out a comprehensive analysis of the occurence of giant planets and brown dwarf companions at wide (10 - 2000 AU) orbits around young, solar - type stars.

So - called circumbinary planets — those planets that orbit around a binary star, like the fictional Tatooine from the Star Wars — can be ejected off into space as a consequence of their stars» evolution, according to a new study to be published in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org prepristar, like the fictional Tatooine from the Star Wars — can be ejected off into space as a consequence of their stars» evolution, according to a new study to be published in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org prepriStar Wars — can be ejected off into space as a consequence of their stars» evolution, according to a new study to be published in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org preprint).

«Tau Ceti has been a popular destination for science fiction writers and everyone's imagination as somewhere there could possibly be life, but even though life around Tau Ceti may be unlikely, it should not be seen as a letdown, but should invigorate our minds to consider what exotic planets likely orbit the star, and the new and unusual planets that may exist in this vast universe,» says Pagano.

this news just in (did not know where to put it): «Caltech - Led Team of Astronomers Finds 18 New Planets, Discovery is the largest collection of confirmed planets around stars more massive than the sunPlanets, Discovery is the largest collection of confirmed planets around stars more massive than the sunplanets around stars more massive than the sun»

These explosions were misnamed «planetary nebulas,» because early astronomers thought these clouds were evolving planets around new stars.

Modal noise become significantly more important as the wavelength increases and presents a risk to the new generation of near - infrared precision radial spectrographs under construction or being proposed to search for planets around cool M - dwarf stars, which emit most of their light in the NIR.

We address this issue in a new study led by Dr. Ravi Kopparapu, on which I am a co-author, titled «The inner edge of the habitable zone for synchronously rotating planets around low - mass stars using general circulation models.»

Astronomers using radio telescopes in New Mexico and California have discovered a giant, rotating disk of material around a young, massive star, indicating that very massive stars as well as those closer to the size of the Sun may be circled by disks from which planets are thought to form.

15 new planets confirmed around cool dwarf stars: K2 - 155d A new planet near the habitable zone around a bright cool star https://t.co/cL88VxJI5R https://t.co/WEaSrnfN7d https://t.co/WTh2FLQCg6 #K2155d pic.twitter.com / WRDYdexTIN

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.

The four planets claimed in the new paper would be among the smallest, and hence most «Earth - like,» ever spotted around a star like the Sun.

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).