Sentences with phrase «orbiting pair»

A U.S. - British team has found a closely orbiting pair of twin stars in the Orion Nebula, where one star is hundreds of thousands of years older than the other.
«We were looking for orbiting pairs of supermassive black holes, with one offset from the center of a galaxy, as telltale evidence of a previous galaxy merger,» said James Condon, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
Fortunately, they do indeed often travel in orbiting pairs, and do sometimes, for a very brief period before they merge, orbit rapidly enough to produce gravitational waves that LIGO and VIRGO can observe.
This Saturn - size world orbits a pair of stars that would offer golden double sunsets, but also eccentric weather: The planet's temperatures would fluctuate wildly as it and the two stars move about their orbits.
Like Luke Skywalker's planet «Tatooine» in Star Wars, Kepler - 16b orbits a pair of stars.
Astronomer George Djorgovski of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena used adaptive optics on the 10 - meter Keck telescope, also on Mauna Kea, to reveal orbiting pairs of black holes in 16 distant galaxies.
Astronomers first realized the bright star Alpha Centauri was a tightly orbiting pair in 1689, and Proxima Centauri was first spotted in 1915.
Many man orbit the pair of women, played by Bobby Cannavale, Louis CK, Andrew Dice Clay and Alec Baldwin.
The other moons orbit this pair: icy shards called Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra.
The stellar system closest to Earth consists of three stars: the closely orbiting pair of Alpha Centauri A and B, and an outlier called Proxima Centauri.
«We were looking for orbiting pairs of supermassive black holes, with one offset from the center of a galaxy, as telltale evidence of a previous galaxy merger.
The forty - nine experts who discovered this planet admit that they have no theoretical understanding for how such a planetary system could have evolved.10 One planetary system (having at least two planets) orbits a pair of suns!
The stars being studied were identified as members of a binary pair because they periodically move closer to and further from Earth — the hallmark of an orbiting pair of stars.
Because stars flung out by a binary black hole sap energy from the orbiting pair, the two move closer together and eventually merge.
The object's core, near the orbiting pair of stars, showed changes in the brightness of its radio emission.
That cluster is also devoid of the heavy chemical elements thought necessary to evolve a planet.8 At least 30 separate planets each orbit a pair of suns whose constantly changing positions would disrupt any slow evolution of a planet.9 One planet has been repeatedly observed eclipsing each of the eccentric binary stars it orbits.
Astronomers have also found planets that orbit pairs of stars rather than single stars, and other planets orbiting «failed» stars called brown dwarfs that aren't mighty enough to produce light and energy (or carry out fusion) like normal stars do.
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