Sentences with phrase «planet at larger distances»

Although the increased size of the E-ELT will be essential to obtaining an image of a planet at larger distances in the Milky Way, the light collecting power of the VLT is just sufficient to image a planet around the nearest star, Alpha Centauri.

Not exact matches

They have found giant planets several times the mass of Jupiter, orbiting their star at more than twice the distance Neptune is from the sun — another region where theorists thought it was impossible to grow large planets.

Thus, he concludes, a large fraction of extrasolar planets «will be the right size to keep on their surface water and possibly an atmosphere of some sort» and some will be «at the proper distance from their parent sun to maintain a suitable temperature».

What is more, improved technology should also allow larger observatories such as Keck to move from the few giant planets already imaged — all of which orbit their host stars at relatively large distances — to closer - in worlds more like our own.

Forgan and his co-authors found that when galaxies collide, the habitable zone is transformed and then gradually settles back to its general trend: Stars at larger distances from the galactic center have higher chances of hosting planets hospitable to life.

Researchers used software to simulate the planetary motions within a two - planet system: one being a Jupiter - sized planet (depicted in the artist's concept above) orbiting its parent star at about the same distance Earth orbits the sun, and the other a large planet in a highly tilted orbit that was slightly larger.

(Fomalhaut b, by contrast, orbits at nearly twice the distance of the farthest - flung planet around HR 8799, albeit around a larger star.)

A larger sixth planet, closer in mass to Saturn, also appears significantly in the data at a greater distance from HD 10180, but the study's authors note that the signal could be caused by a long - term magnetic cycle on the star rather than the tug of an orbiting planet.

It appears to be a main sequence red dwarf star of spectral and luminosity type M4.5 V. Because of its small mass and great distance from the primary (Star A), Upsilon Andromedae B appears to have a negligible effect on the radial velocity measurements used to determine that Star A has at least three large planets (Lowrance et al, 2002).

How Hektor became a Trojan asteroid, located at only 5 times the Earth — Sun distance, is probably related to the large scale reshuffling that occurred when the giant planets were still migrating,» said Julie Castillo - Rogez, researcher at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.

to determine the role of solar wind in configuring the planetary magnetospheres, especially at large distances from the Sun and to understand the atmospheric energy balance and magnetosphere coupling at the giant planets;

Super-Earths represent the largest population of known planets mostly found at sub-AU distances from their host stars.

Planet «c» or «2» - A residual drift in the radial velocity data over several years suggest the presence of an even larger planet in an outer orbit, at about 3.73 AUs from 47 UMa (between the average orbital distances of Jupiter and the Main Asteroid Belt in the Solar SyPlanet «c» or «2» - A residual drift in the radial velocity data over several years suggest the presence of an even larger planet in an outer orbit, at about 3.73 AUs from 47 UMa (between the average orbital distances of Jupiter and the Main Asteroid Belt in the Solar Syplanet in an outer orbit, at about 3.73 AUs from 47 UMa (between the average orbital distances of Jupiter and the Main Asteroid Belt in the Solar System).

Ceres, a dwarf planet or giant asteroid (depending on the definition used), is the largest object in the asteroid belt, orbiting at 2.8 astronomical units (the distance from Earth to the sun).

The second planet from the Sun at about seven tenths of the Earth - Sun distance, Venus is the sixth largest planet but has no moon.

The few confirmed transiting planets at large orbital distances generally only have two observed transits, rather than the standard three transits needed to confirm, and only one of those (KOI - 351 h) is close to Jupiter - sized.

At larger planetary orbital distances, the coronagraph is better able to remove the starlight from the area around the planet.

Since planets cool rapidly as they age, GPI is most sensitive to young, hot planets at large orbital distances.

* A large moon at just the right distance to minimize changes in a planet's tilt, ensuring climate stability.

With respect to my Venus / Earth temperatures comparison, I found the Venus / Earth ratio of temperatures at equal pressures to be 1.176, which implies an incident power ratio of 1.91, just that provided by the ratio of the two planets» distances from the Sun ** (and thus proving there is no greenhouse effect, even for so large a CO2 increase as from 0.04 % on Earth to 96.5 % on Venus).