Sentences with phrase «relatively nearby star»

If nearly every sunlike star has an Earth, we might find life around a relatively nearby star, with a relatively small telescope.

That won't be a problem for PLATO, which will use 34 separate small telescopes to observe a wide field of view in order to monitor large numbers of bright, relatively nearby stars.

Not exact matches

First, planets like our own orbit relatively close to their stars, where bright illumination more than compensates for the nearby glare.

Located 1,350 light - years away, the Orion Nebula is a relatively nearby laboratory for studying the star formation process across a wide range, from opulent giant stars to diminutive red dwarf stars and elusive, faint brown dwarfs.

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.

A baker's half - dozen of Earth - size worlds is orbiting a (relatively) nearby star — and some could be habitable

Low - Hanging Fruit The trick to keeping costs down is focusing on planets around relatively bright, nearby stars — the easiest ones to detect.

They used a series of filters, like polarised, glare - blocking sunglasses but bigger and more precise, to observe the light from a nearby, relatively dim neutron star — a dense stellar corpse with a colossal magnetic field — and compared it with light from ordinary nearby stars.

«Oumuamua was never seen to sprout a comet - like tail after getting close to the sun, hinting it is not a relatively fresh bit of icy flotsam from the outskirts of a nearby star system.

Marois and his team used ground - based infrared detection to seek out exoplanets around nearby, young, massive stars — those whose planets would have wide orbits and emit significant amounts of radiation as they cool from their relatively recent births millions of years ago.

A new study by astronomers at University of California at Berkeley shows when it comes to planets, smaller means more, a finding that has strong implications for the prospects of relatively puny planets like Earth appearing in other solar systems.like So far, the smallest extrasolar planets found to date are about two to three times Earth's mass, but a random survey of 166 nearby stars shows the extended family of planets is fairly robust.

The fact it's a nearby star means it's relatively easy to study.