Sentences with phrase «of red dwarf»

The cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina is being studied as a model organism for alternative pigment signatures of oxygenic photosynthesis adapted, for example, to the light of red dwarf stars.

We also get to take a ride with Danny John - Jules and family (fans of Red Dwarf will know him as Cat).

Growing up watching the cast of Red Dwarf enter lifelike video game scenarios in Better Than Life and Gunmen of the Apocalypse, and later seeing The Matrix — where the world was a VR construction within which Neo was able to defy the laws of physics, it doesn't take much imagination to see that a passionate gamer like myself could want to see similar technology -LSB-...]

Even outside of the main mode, you'll find humour in Strafe's live action FMV tutorial that feels like an outtake from an early episode of Red Dwarf.

Witty, informative and clearly happy to interact with his fans he delivered a near hour - long panel where he chatted about shooting two new series of Red Dwarf, his days on Scrapheap Challenge, his books and much more.

Kroese, who also brought us the Mercury Falls series, tells tales in a way that reminds me of Red Dwarf or the Hitchhiker's Guide.

Analysis of Kepler Mission data indicates that 6 percent of all red dwarf stars may have Earth - like planets (more).

Previously discussed in a November 24, 2011 pre-print, the astronomers «surveyed a carefully chosen sample of 102 red dwarf stars in the southern skies over a six - year period» and found a «total of nine super-Earths (planets with masses between one and ten times that of Earth),» of which two orbiting within the habitable zones of Gliese 581 and Gliese 667 C. By combining all the radial - velocity data of red dwarf stars (including those without undetected planets) and examining the fraction of confirmed planets that was found, the astronomers were able to estimate the probable distribution of different types of planets around red dwarfs: for example, only 12 percent of such stars within 30 light - years may have giant planets with masses between 100 and 1,000 times that of the Earth (ESO news release; Bonfils et al, 2011; and Delfosse et al, 2011).

On February 6, 2013, astronomers analyzing data from NASA's the Kepler Space Telescope announced that some six percent of red dwarf stars may have habitable, Earth - sized planets.

But if these much smaller stars are more commonplace, then why do we find ourselves around a yellow star like the sun, instead of a red dwarf?

Notice that Proxima, a runt of a red dwarf, is only slightly larger than Jupiter and far smaller than our yellow sun, third from the top.

Due to the faintness of the red dwarf, its radiation pressure is insufficient to stop a sail craft flying at 20 % of the speed of light before it collides with its surface.

In this image, the size of the red dwarf SO25300.5 +165258 (left) is compared to the Sun.

We suggest that the habitability of red dwarf systems may peak in the far future, while the present time is optimal for habitability around yellow and orange dwarf stars.

If we are to imagine ever traveling to visit another world, it will be a world around one of these red dwarf neighbors,» Stassun said.

«We will also target a small number of red dwarf stars (such as Barnard's star which was discovered by Vanderbilt's first astronomer) because these are the stars nearest to us.

In the other case, the companion may be an orange dwarf, whose properties lie between those of a red dwarf and the sun.

In contrast, the new research examines the effect of the red dwarf's constantly blowing stellar wind.

According to a very rough statistical analysis, the new discovery suggests that up to one - third of all red dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy are accompanied by small, rocky planets, many of which might be in wider orbits.

In the fall of 2007 David Charbonneau of Harvard began deploying a network of small telescopes in Arizona that will be focused on detecting transiting super-Earths in the habitable zones of red dwarf stars.

In May, Drake Deming of NASA was collecting data he hoped might reveal a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a red dwarf (a small and relatively cool star) called Gliese 436; NASA had allowed him to use a spacecraft called Epoxi, which is on its way to a rendezvous with a comet, to observe several stars that are already known to have planets.

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The research also suggests that habitable - zone super-Earth planets (where liquid water could exist and making them possible candidates to support life) orbit around at least a quarter of the red dwarfs in the Sun's own neighbourhood.

- 40 percent of these red dwarfs could harbor planets that maintain water in a liquid state on their surfaces.

Recent statistics indicate that over a fourth of Sun - like stars and roughly a half of red dwarfs in our Milky Way Galaxy have been found in multi-star systems — around 44 percent of of spectral types F6 to K3 and possibly declining to one third to one fourth of very dim type M stars that are difficult to observe (Raghavan et al, 2010; Charles J. Lada, 2006; and Duquennoy and Mayor, 1991).

But there shouldn't be enough material available during the creation of red dwarfs to allow the formation of giant, Jupiter - class planets in the protoplanetary disk.

Not exact matches

In February, for example, a different one revealed the existence of seven rocky, Earth - size planets circling a red dwarf star.

Astronomy is beginning to detect and classify a life of the stars, red, blue and white, giant, middle - sized and dwarf; each type, in its dimensions, particular radiations and brilliance, being subject to a given evolutionary cycle.

Red Dwarf «Mistaken or flawed identification has assumed a newfound prominence in recent years: It's been cited as a factor in nearly 78 percent of the nation's first 130 convictions later overturned by DNA testing, according to the New York - based Innocence Project, which works to free the wrongly convicted.

Whether in the red giants, the medium yellows or the white dwarfs, we may surmise at the presence in the center of heavy and extremely unstable elements possessing a greater atomic weight than uranium (unless these are simply «ordinary matter» reduced to a physical state of extraordinary compression).

Gliese 581 is a red dwarf star, which means its expected lifetime is far longer than our Sun's: it could well last hundreds of billions of years, which is much longer than the present age of the universe.

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According to Nikole Lewis, Webb's project scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, the telescope could perform the simultaneous detection of methane, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in the atmospheres of some planets around red dwarf stars.

Astronomers conducting a galactic census of planets in the Milky Way now suspect most of the universe's habitable real estate exists on worlds orbiting red dwarf stars, which are smaller but far more numerous than stars like our Sun.

A plethora of new observatories — chief among them NASA's multi-billion-dollar James Webb Space Telescope, slated to launch in 2019 — could soon begin studying the planets of TRAPPIST - 1 and other nearby red - dwarf planets for signs of habitability and life.

Brain and his colleagues started to think about applying these insights to a hypothetical Mars - like planet in orbit around some type of M - star, or red dwarf, the most common class of stars in our galaxy.

The small red circles denote other objects that emit X-rays, like neutron stars or white dwarfs, that are found scattered around more of the galaxy.

Carnegie's Gagné devised a test that showed this newly found red dwarf and its disk are likely part of the Carina association, which was key to revealing its surprising age.

But the Carina association, where this red dwarf was found, is a group of stars whose motions through the Galaxy indicate that they were all born at roughly the same time in the same stellar nursery.

It is a faint red dwarf lying just four light - years away in the southern constellation of Centaurus (The Centaur).

Most of the extrasolar planets that have been found by telescopes have been located in disks similar to the one around this unusual red dwarf.

Habitable planets around a red dwarf, which account for three of every four stars, are never exposed.

So far only a quarter of these systems were found to be binary, which would mean that two thirds of stellar systems are actually single red dwarfs.

After years of scrutinizing the closest star to Earth, a red dwarf known as Proxima Centauri, astronomers have finally found evidence for a planet, slightly bigger than Earth and well within the star's habitable zone — the range of orbits in which liquid water could exist on its surface.

A team led by astronomer Steven Majewski of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville sorted through a half - billion objects in the 2MASS catalog to find several thousand M giants, a distinctive class of red - giant star common in the Sagittarius dwarf but rarely seen above or below the plane of our galaxy.

Boss has recently proposed a similar effect to explain the discovery of two gas giants and two so - called super-Earths, or big rocky planets, each orbiting a small red dwarf star.

This map has led to the discovery of 17 dwarf galaxy candidates in the past six months (red dots), including eight new candidates announced today.

The Great Red Spot has been present in Jupiter for hundreds of years and changes very slowly: Such «spots» could not explain the rapid changes in brightness that scientists saw while observing these brown dwarfs.

In addition to sampling cupcakes in flavours such as «red planet» and «white dwarf», visitors tapped their toes to live music and entered a raffle to win bits of meteorite.

The great majority of those stars are dim, low - mass runts known as red dwarfs.