Sentences with phrase «orbit around distant stars»
In late 2008 two teams made waves with the simultaneous announcement that they had managed to directly photograph planets in orbit around distant stars, also known as exoplanets.
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On the face of it, detecting a moon around a planet orbiting a distant star seems like a spectacularly difficult task, but with a bit of luck today's technology may be able to do it.
Basically, when a person looks at the same stars when the Earth is at different places in its orbit around the sun, the closer stars will appear to move position relative to the more distant stars.