Sentences with phrase «red dwarf binary»

Or it may be influenced by a tidal tug from the star's red dwarf binary companion (HR 4796B), located at least 54 billion miles from the primary star.

Not exact matches

So far only a quarter of these systems were found to be binary, which would mean that two thirds of stellar systems are actually single red dwarfs.

Scholz's star is actually a binary system formed by a small red dwarf, with about 9 % of the mass of the Sun, around which a much less bright and smaller brown dwarf orbits.

DG CVn, a binary consisting of two red dwarf stars shown here in an artist's rendering, unleashed a series of powerful flares seen by NASA's Swift.

The gas giant exoplanet orbits the binary red dwarfs at a distance of 300 million miles — approximately the distance of the solar system's asteroid belt from the sun.

Even more amazing, it orbits a red dwarf sun with a sister - dwarf - sun in a binary orbit.