Sentences with phrase «orbit around a star called»

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This is called a binary star and they are held together by their mutual gravity and orbit in a path around each other.

Then we started finding some that were misaligned — planets with tilted orbits or planets going around their star in the opposite direction from its spin, in what we call a retrograde orbit.

Early in its mission, Kepler managed to find some tantalizing worlds, a handful of supersize cousins of Earth, most of them in clement orbits around smaller, cooler, quieter stars than the sun called M and K dwarfs, but all the setbacks made finding smaller Earth - sized planets around sun - like G stars a very tall order.

In 1983, an orbiting satellite called IRAS discovered far more infrared radiation — which has waves longer than red light — coming from the Vega than expected for small interstellar dust grains found around young, early - type stars (Harvey et al, 1984).

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.

Astronomers watched an exoplanet called HD 80606b heat up and cool off during its sizzling - hot orbit around its star....

The newly discovered exoplanet — a planet that orbits around a star other than the sun (also called extrasolar planet)-- is called Kepler - 452b.

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).

One of the stars, called S2, orbits Sgr A * every 16 years and zooms very close to the black hole — around four times the sun - Neptune distance.

On July 21, 2003, some astronomers provided evidence from recent discoveries of giant extrasolar planets in mostly inner orbits around host stars that planetary systems may be more common around stars whose spectra show an enriched abundance of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium — also called high «metallicity» (exoplanets.org press release; and Gonzalez, 1999).