Sentences with phrase «orbit around a single star»

Instead, it would have spent a long time in a stable orbit around a single star before encountering the dangerous influence of Alpha Centauri A and B.

Not exact matches

During the relatively brief, combined giant phases of the two stars at present, however, a planet could orbit the Aab pair far enough out for the two stars to act as a single gravitational source and near enough for it to receive enough energy to sustain life, possibly around 12.5 AUs out from the binary.

Since a star and its planets were never part of a single swirling gas and dust cloud spinning around the same axis, there is no reason for hot Jupiters to have their spin axes aligned with the star's spin axis, or for all their orbits to be prograde.

With a diameter larger than Earth's orbit around the Sun, it radiates as much as more than 10 million times more light than Sol (L = 10 ^ 6.3) and appears to have more than 150 Solar - masses, having been resolved as a single star down to a projected separation of 110 AUs (Figer et al, 1998).