Sentences with phrase «similarly distant planets»

The brown dwarf in question, called LSR J1835 +3259, lies 18 light - years away, suggesting astronomers may soon glimpse auroras on similarly distant planets, too.

Not exact matches

«Many of these systems may have formed similarly to Kepler - 223, but then later became destabilized, perhaps by a more distant massive planet or perhaps by the cumulative effect of the scattering of many smaller planetesimals left over from the planet - building process.»

The Earth - Moon doesn't orbit the Earth - Moon - Sun barycenter exactly but it is not orbiting the barycenter of the solar sysem either; to some approximation the innermost planets and the sun must wobble around the barycenter together as they are similarly affected by the outermost planets which happen to be more massive as well as more distant and thus dominate in their effects on the barycenter — things should tend to get more complicated when the planets involved are at more similar distances.