Sentences with phrase «of nearby stars compiled»

Similarly, a name like GJ 436 is the 436th star in the catalog of nearby stars compiled by German astronomers Wilhelm Gliese and Hartmut Jahreiss.

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1 Astronomers Margaret Turnbull and Jill Tarter of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C., have compiled a list of 17,129 nearby stars most likely to have planets that could support complex life.
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