Not exact matches
Oh,
so in the vast known Universe, which reaches out for 15 BILLION light years in all directions, with over 100 BILLION galaxies, containing an average of 100 BILLION
stars each, with most of those
stars now thought to have multiple planets
orbiting around them, you can't imagine that there would be at least ONE little planet SOMEWHERE with the right conditions for life without divine intervention?
The International Astronomical Union defines «planet» as a celestial body that, within the Solar System that is in
orbit around the Sun; has sufficient mass for its self - gravity to overcome rigid body forces
so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape; and has cleared the neighbourhood
around its
orbit; or within another system, it is in
orbit around a
star or stellar remnants; has a mass below the limiting mass for thermonuclear fusion of deuterium; and is above the minimum mass / size requirement for planetary status in the Solar System.
We would expect this disc to settle
around the
star's middle,
so planets in our solar system ought to
orbit in line with the sun's equator.
They suggested that the magnetar formed through the interactions of two very massive
stars orbiting one another in a binary system
so compact that it would fit within the
orbit of the Earth
around the Sun.
Synchronous
orbits exist
around all moons, planets,
stars and black holes — unless they rotate
so slowly that the
orbit would be outside their Hill sphere.
The theory goes that before exploding, the progenitor
star has its hydrogen outer coat stolen by a companion
star in
orbit around it, but astronomers have never before been able to spot the thieving companion because the supernova is
so bright.
The planets» rotation is locked,
so the worlds keep the same face towards the
stars they
orbit, much like the Moon does as it moves
around the Earth.
For example, as Kepler has spotted 1,235 exoplanet candidates
so far - 53 of which
orbit stars in their habitable zones - knowing approximately how many
stars there are in our galaxy (there are thought to be
around 300 billion
stars in the Milky Way), an estimate can be made of how many worlds are
orbiting these
stars.
Around smaller, less massive and dimmer dwarf
stars, however, planets would have to
orbit closer in order to sustain a surface temperature that is warm enough to keep water liquid and
so the
star would appear larger in the sky.
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 prepri
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 prepri
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 preprint).
Moreover, the brown dwarf companion to 15 Sge may eventually prove to have a highly circular
orbit that is coplanar with the circumstellar disk
so that planets formed in inner
orbits around the
star.
The TRAPPIST - 1 exoplanets are packed in a tight
orbit around their dim parent
star and are
so close to one another that all of their
orbits would fit inside Mercury's
orbit of the sun.
With a torch
orbit around its host
star that takes only about 20 hours (84 percent of an Earth day) to complete, Kepler 10b has an average orbital distance of only 0.017 AU from its host
star and
so has a tidally locked, synchronous
orbit.
With a semi-major axis of 0.066 AUs, it
orbits so close to its host
star that its orbital period lasts only 8.78 days, and
so the planet must be very hot at
around 450 ° Kelvin, 351 ° F, or 177 ° C (Forveille et al 2008).