Sentences with phrase «region around a star»

It's this region around a star where a planet could have temperatures that support liquid water, widely considered an essential ingredient for life.

The presence of such thick dust clouds in the inner regions around some stars may pose an obstacle to the direct imaging of Earth - like planets in the future.

So does the realization that the habitable zone (the region around a star where a planet could have liquid water, essential for life as we know it) is a lot broader than anyone had thought back in 1960.

«It's right in the middle of the habitable zone [the region around a star where temperatures are neither too high or too low for liquid water to exist], and it orbits a star very similar to our sun.»

Two are at the inner edge of the habitable zone — the region around the star that allows liquid water to exist — and one is in or beyond it (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature17448).

The «habitable zone» is the region around a star in which water on a planet's surface is liquid and signs of life can be remotely detected by telescopes.

A special class of discs, called transitional discs, have a surprising absence of dust in their centres, in the region around the star.

The habitable zone is the region around a star where temperatures are just right for one of life's essential ingredients — water — to pool on a planet's surface.

We take a statistical approach to thinking about the region around all stars where life is most likely to develop.

It also lets us know how common exoplanets are in the habitable regions around stars, where the temperatures are not too hot and not too cold, where liquid water can exist, and complex molecules may have figured out the processes we call life.

A special class of discs, called transitional discs, has a surprising absence of dust in their centers, in the region around the star.

In which case, the «habitable zone» is the region around a star where liquid water should exist.

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«Rotating ring of complex organic molecules discovered around newborn star: Chemical diversity in planet forming regions unveiled.»

ne = the number of habitable planets around each star In days gone by, scientists would speak solemnly about our solar system's «habitable zone» — a theoretical region extending from Venus to Mars, but perhaps not encompassing either, where a planet would be the right temperature to have liquid water on its surface.

What's more, one of the planets is in the stars» habitable zone, the region around the suns where temperatures are just right for liquid water — and therefore maybe life — to exist on a planet's surface.

Astronomers have noted that such streams of stars are relatively common in the outer regions of spiral galaxies, a phenomenon that has been observed on the outskirts of the Milky Way as well as around the nearby Andromeda galaxy.

The team, led by Andreas Brunthaler at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, measured the gas around two star - forming regions on opposite sides of the M33 galaxy.

A beautiful mixture of hot, blue star - forming regions, redder, cooler regions of gas, and dark lanes of opaque dust can be seen, all swirling together around a bright core.

«If we want to study the evolution of Earth - like planets close to the habitable zone, we need to observe the zodiacal dust in this region around other stars,» said Steve Ertel, lead author of the paper, from ESO and the University of Grenoble in France.

«Even though many of the astronomers assumed that this would be a fertile high - mass star forming region, we couldn't probe the kinematics of gas around high - mass protostars at the level of resolution provided by existing telescopes,» Higuchi said.

To date, all exoplanets discovered in orbit around double stars are gas giants, similar to Jupiter, and are thought to form in the icy regions of their systems.

Based on data taken by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the model takes into account how energy flows between two regions around the black hole — an inner core close to the boundary beyond which light can not escape (the event horizon) and an outer ring that extends far out and includes the massive young stars lurking near the black hole.

Its sensitivity and high resolution — 10 times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope — are ideal for observing the «cool» universe, or the regions of gas and dust around stars.

With population - level data they were able to calculate the odds that a moon (and its gas giant) would be in the habitable zone around a star — the region where liquid water can exist.

In the search for other Earths, the main goal is to find a planet the same size as ours that sits in the habitable zone — the region around a given star where planetary surface temperature would be similar to ours, allowing liquid water to exist.

Based on the Gemini spectra of the center of NGC 1600, most stars inside the sphere of influence of the black hole — a region about 3,000 light - years in radius — are traveling on circular orbits around the black hole, with very few moving radially inward or outward.

The new images home in on a region around the black hole less than 4.2 light - years across — smaller than the distance between the sun and its nearest star, says Roopesh

This emission, observed in other galaxies mainly from regions around newborn stars, has now been detected in our Galaxy.

The neutron star (red sphere) with its strong magnetic field (white lines) spins around itself nearly 30 times per second injecting energetic electrons in the space region around it.

«It's not where the star formation is, and to see so much gas that far from the star - forming region means there is a large amount of neutral hydrogen around the galaxy,» Neeleman said.

Around active regions of the star's atmosphere, magnetic fields become twisted and distorted.

In the inner region of the dust disk where Earth formed, the temperature should not have been hot enough to vaporize carbon dust, according to recent observations of circumstellar debris disks around newborn stars.

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope is an observatory in space dedicated to finding planets outside our solar system, particularly alien planets that are around the same size as Earth in the «habitable» regions of their parent star.

But if approved, K2 will be looking at a much more diverse region of sky with a wide range of astronomical and astrophysical phenomena: planets with short orbits around cooler stars (which, if in their star's habitable zone, could still harbor water); young, still - forming proto - stars, which could provide insight into star and planet formation; and supernovae and galaxy clusters.

We identified several candidates around known stellar members using a combination of color selection and spectral energy distribution... ▽ More We have combined optical and NIR photometry from Pan-STARRS 1 and UKIDSS to search the young (5 - 10 Myr) star - forming region of Upper Scorpius for wide (~ 400-4000 AU) substellar companions down to ~ 5 Mjup.

However, the study revealed hardly any pulsating stars around a region almost 1,000 light years wide from the core of the galaxy.

Kepler's new mission, K2, is targeting several open clusters and star - forming regions around the ecliptic to... ▽ More Open clusters have been the focus of several exoplanet surveys but only a few planets have so far been discovered.

Kepler's new mission, K2, is targeting several open clusters and star - forming regions around the ecliptic to search for transiting planets around their low - mass constituents.

(b) Integral intensity map of the Galactic central region around Sgr A * (shown by a white star) in the hydrogen cyanide (HCN) 354.6 GHz spectral line.

«We expect to be able to study planets around stars and to study the chemistry of regions in which stars form.

VLBA image of the star TX Cam, showing regions («spots») of maser emission from Silicon Monoxide (SiO) molecules forming a shell around the star.

MATISSE will contribute to several fundamental research areas in astronomy, focusing in particular on the inner regions of discs around young stars where planets are forming, the study of stars at different stages of their lives, and the surroundings of supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies.

On the other hand, the discovery of a brown dwarf companion in a wide orbit that could perturb dormant comets in an Oort Cloud around Epsilon Indi inwards towards the star's inner planetary regions may periodically shower an Earth - type, inner planet with catastrophic impacts.

Infrared images taken in 2002 by the Keck II Observatory in Hawaii showed that another, smaller inner disk may exist around the star in a region the size of our solar system.

This material gathers into huge turbulent reservoirs of cool, low - density gas, extending more than 30 000 light - years from the galaxy's star forming region [3] These turbulent reservoirs of diffuse gas may be of the same nature as the giant glowing haloes seen around distant quasars..

This giant cloud, or complex of clouds, of interstellar matter and young stars contains, besides M42 and the neighboring DeMairan Nebula (M43), and the nebulosity associated with them (NGC 1973-5-7), a number of famous objects, including Barnard's Loop, the Horsehead Nebula region (also containing NGC 2024, or Orion B), and the reflection nebulae around M78.

We provide a map of these risky areas around the ACS / WFC detectors — users should avoid positioning bright stars in these regions when designing ACS / WFC imaging observations.

Although previous observations with ALMA have found supporting evidence around a low - mass protostar, there was little compelling evidence around massive protostars because most of the massive - star forming regions are rather distant and difficult to investigate in detail.