Sentences with phrase «orbits around their parent stars»

A NASA telescope taking a nose count of planets in one small neighborhood of the Milky Way registered more than 1,200 candidates, including 54 residing in life - friendly orbits around their parent stars.

The new exoplanet, dubbed «HIP 116454b,» is 2.5 times the diameter of Earth and follows a close, nine - day orbit around its parent star, whose small size and cool temperature make the planet too hot to support life.

Not exact matches

Because this scenario depends on the presence of nearby stars, we expect DCBHs to typically form in satellite galaxies that orbit around larger parent galaxies where Population III stars have already formed.

These orbits put the planets at safe distances from their chaotic parent stars, which are pulling each other around in a constant cosmic waltz.

The newly announced one, MOA -2009-BLG-266Lb, is estimated to be just over 10 times the mass of Earth and orbits at a distance of 3.2 AU around its parent star with roughly half the mass of the sun.

The planet is comparable to Saturn in mass and size, and is on a nearly circular 229 - day orbit around its two parent stars.

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.

The newfound world orbits its parent star at a distance a bit farther than that of Saturn around our Sun.