Sentences with phrase «on nearby stars»

More information on Gliese 229 and its brown dwarf companion can be found at: the Astronomiches Rechen - Institut at Heidelberg's ARICNS, the NASA Star and Exoplanet Database, the Research Consortium on Nearby Stars (RECONS) list of the 100 Nearest Star Systems, and Roger Wilcox's Internet Stellar Database.

A 1997 paper by astronomers (Henry et al) associated with the Research Consortium on Nearby Stars (RECONS) suggests that the sample of stars known to lie within 10 parsecs (32.6 ly) of Earth is «woefully incomplete,» particularly in faint red (M) dwarfs and «white» dwarfs.

Up - to - date technical summaries on CD - 44 11909 can be found at: the Astronomiches Rechen - Institut at Heidelberg's ARICNS, the SIMBAD Astronomical Database, and the Research Consortium on Nearby Stars (RECONS) list of the 100 Nearest Star Systems.

Up - to - date technical summaries on GJ 1214 can be found at: Jean Schneider's Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia; Astronomiches Rechen - Institut at Heidelberg's ARICNS, the NASA Star and Exoplanet Database, and the Research Consortium on Nearby Stars (RECONS).

Up - to - date technical summaries on these stars can be found at: the Astronomiches Rechen - Institut at Heidelberg's ARICNS, the Nearby Stars Database, and the Research Consortium on Nearby Stars (RECONS).

Up - to - date technical summaries on this star can be found at: the Astronomiches Rechen - Institut at Heidelberg's ARICNS for Star A and Star B, the NASA Star and Exoplanet Database, and the Research Consortium on Nearby Stars (RECONS) list of the 100 Nearest Star Systems.

Up - to - date technical summaries on these stars can be found at: the Astronomiches Rechen - Institute at Heidelberg's ARICNS pages for Star A and Star B, the NASA Star and Exoplanet Database for Stars A and B, and the Research Consortium on Nearby Stars (RECONS) list of the 100 Nearest Star Systems.

Up - to - date technical summaries on these stars can be found at: the Astronomiches Rechen - Institut at Heidelberg's ARICNS, the NASA Star and Exoplanet Database, and the Research Consortium on Nearby Stars (RECONS).

Up - to - date technical summaries on these stars can be found at: Jean Schneiders's Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia; the Astronomiches Rechen - Institut at Heidelberg's ARICNS (Star A and Star B), the NASA Exoplanet Archive and the Research Consortium on Nearby Stars (RECONS).

Up - to - date technical summaries on these stars can be found at: Jean Schneider's Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia; the Astronomiches Rechen - Institut at Heidelberg's ARICNS, the NASA Star and Exoplanet Database, and the Research Consortium on Nearby Stars (RECONS).

Up - to - date technical summaries on these stars can be found at: the Astronomiches Rechen - Institut at Heidelberg's ARICNS, the NStar Database, and the Research Consortium on Nearby Stars (RECONS).

Up - to - date technical summaries on these stars can be found at: the Astronomiches Rechen - Institut at Heidelberg's ARICNS, the NASA Star and Exoplanet Database, and the Research Consortium on Nearby Stars (RECONS) list of the 100 Nearest Star Systems.

Up - to - date technical summaries on these stars can be found at: the Astronomiches Rechen - Institut at Heidelberg's ARCNS pages on Stars A and B and Star C; the NASA Stars and Exoplanet Database for stars A, B, and C; and the Research Consortium on Nearby Stars (RECONS) list of the 100 Nearest Star Systems.

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way also betrays its presence by its influence on nearby stars.

But researchers can infer properties of a black hole from its hearty gravitational influence on nearby stars.

For instance, black holes exert a powerful gravitational pull on nearby stars.

He tested it on the nearby star Altair in 2006, and found that he could clearly see how the star's rapid rotation whips it up into a roughly egglike shape.

Not exact matches

On traditional review sites with a star rating system, users would see a list of lakes nearby, and let's say this would have a star rating of about 3.

Former astronaut John Grunsfeld added, «I think we're one generation away in our solar system, whether it's on an icy moon or on Mars, and one generation [away] on a planet around a nearby star»...

TESS is expected to perform an all - sky survey focused on finding transiting rocky planets around nearby stars, planets that could then be studied in further detail by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which would launch no sooner than 2018.

Because this scenario depends on the presence of nearby stars, we expect DCBHs to typically form in satellite galaxies that orbit around larger parent galaxies where Population III stars have already formed.

UP, UP AND AWAY NASA's TESS telescope launches from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on April 18 on a mission to search for planets orbiting nearby, bright stars.

Based on various lines of indirect evidence, astronomers are fairly sure that the sun is surrounded by a huge cloud of dormant comets — trillions of them, probably — that move in lazy orbits extending halfway to the nearby stars.

It could be a «microquasar» — a black hole feeding on gas from a nearby star — but the X-rays typically emitted from such objects are absent.

«It shows that astronomers are working their best to optimize techniques to work on smaller and smaller planets, and that nature has once again delivered on a fascinating planet orbiting a bright nearby star.»

On 16 April, the agency plans to launch the US$ 337 - million Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which will scrutinize 200,000 nearby bright stars for signs of orbiting planets.

A NEARBY neutron star is chilling out, providing the first evidence that the cores of these collapsed stars can produce a neutron superfluid — an exotic state that can not be created on Earth.

Astronomers have noted that such streams of stars are relatively common in the outer regions of spiral galaxies, a phenomenon that has been observed on the outskirts of the Milky Way as well as around the nearby Andromeda galaxy.

They are normally detected through the effect they have on nearby astrophysical bodies such as stars or gas.

An international team of astronomers used the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope to estimate whether there might be water on the seven earth - sized planets orbiting the nearby dwarf star TRAPPIST - 1.

Using the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer, or LBTI, in Arizona, the HOSTS Survey determines the brightness and density of warm dust floating in nearby stars» habitable zones, where liquid water could exist on the surface of a planet.

The action takes place on a terrariumlike spaceship in which successive generations are born and die without ever making planetfall, bound for promising worlds orbiting the nearby star Tau Ceti.

This image from the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG / ESO 2.2 - metre telescope at La Silla, shows the cluster and the gas clouds surrounding it, which glow in orange and red hues due to the radiation coming from nearby hot stars.

For example, Riess's modern measurements rest on accurately knowing the distance to nearby pulsing stars.

In previous studies, it was predicted that red - edge position on exoplanets should be decided by the radiation spectrum by nearby stars.

Low - Hanging Fruit The trick to keeping costs down is focusing on planets around relatively bright, nearby stars — the easiest ones to detect.

It relies on eight identical 16 - inch telescopes in Arizona to look for planets around nearby stars that are smaller and cooler than our sun.

Instead, astronomers look for wobbles in the star itself, indicating that something nearby is tugging on it gravitationally.

The dense core of a nearby collapsed star is undergoing a rapid chill, providing the first direct evidence that such stars can produce a superfluid of neutrons — a state of matter that can not be created in laboratories on Earth.

Astronomers expect TESS to find about 20,000 planets in its first two years in operation, focusing on nearby, bright stars that will be easy for other telescopes to investigate later.

The partnership, in which Breakthrough purchases instrument upgrades and observing time on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile for an undisclosed sum, is only the first phase of the organization's more ambitious plans to scour nearby stars for promising worlds that its Starshot probes might someday visit.

Vigelius and Melatos believe that such waves could even be observable by the existing LIGO detector, depending on how massive the mountains on nearby neutron stars have grown.

And on Monday a pair of studies set to be published in the Astrophysical Journal were unveiled, each claiming the discovery of a different super-Earth orbiting nearby sunlike stars.

But the remarkably still air on Mount Wilson — the same climatic condition that keeps LA choked in smog — promises some of the world's sharpest images of the Sun, nearby bright stars, and any planets found orbiting them.

When stars pair up, they often gobble nearby rocky material that could have formed new worlds and stir up or fling away what's left, Kraus told the American Astronomical Society meeting on 5 January.

Such stars are usually prone to deadly eruptions of ultraviolet radiation and X-rays, so nearby planets are likely to be severely irradiated, casting doubt on whether life could survive there.

TEMPER TANTRUM Proxima Centauri released a gigantic flare on March 24, 2017, fizzling hopes that this nearby star's Earth - mass planet is habitable.

On April 23, NASA's Swift satellite detected the strongest, hottest, and longest - lasting sequence of stellar flares ever seen from a nearby red dwarf star.

It turns out that this trick also enables astronomers to measure distances to nearby stars with unprecedented precision, helping to zero in on the expansion rate of the universe and why it's picking up speed.

Earlier this year, U.S. and Japanese astronomers published a paper on their discovery of one star in a nearby galaxy that brightened and dimmed precisely as if a primordial black hole was passing in front of it.