Sentences with phrase «size of the star»

Unfortunately, the odds don't look good — just a few per cent chance, given the small size of the star.

The physical sizes of the star and planet and distance between them are not to scale.

Neither the brightness nor the actual size of the star play any role in calculating its size as drawn by the program.

The amount of observed dimming, in conjunction with the known size of the star, allowed Charbonneau's group to estimate GJ 1214 b's diameter.

They also weren't sure about the exact size of the star, which must be known before they can calculate the sizes of the transiting planets from the amount of starlight they block.

Approximate size of the star is indicated by red circle.

In Buckley and DiFranzo's scenario, the dark matter can't squish down to the size of a star.

Small black holes the size of stars and the supermassive variety are familiar, but until now there have only been tentative signs of intermediate - mass black holes.

Data from the Kepler space telescope show that exoplanets tend to be similar in size to their neighbours and regularly spaced, no matter the size of their star

«Victory will go to the one who gets the 3 - D model of a 15 - solar - mass star [the size of 15 suns] to explode with the right energy,» says Woosley, since that's the size of star that can synthesize elements important for life.

Spectroscopic observations revealed that the planet is only about three to four times the size of the star — but its hydrogen emissions are almost as bright as the emission emanating from the star.

The size of each star is determined by its apparent magnitude, as viewed from the current location of the spaceship.

Since gravity depends on mass and distance, knowing the size of the star orbits enables you to derive the galaxy's mass.

The distances between stars is so large compared to the sizes of the stars that star - star collisions are very rare when the galaxies collide.

«Our discovery was made possible by using the Hubble Space Telescope to measure the sizes of the star clusters and long exposures on the Deep Extragalactic Imaging Multi-Object Spectrograph fitted to the Keck II telescope to obtain distances and confirm their status.»

The size of each star is determined by its distance from the viewer's spacecraft; closer stars appear larger, while more distant stars appear smaller.

Determining the size of a star is not trivial, although this problem can be partially overcome by using probabilistic calculations applied to entire star clusters rather than individual stars.

They also found that the X-ray brightness mainly depends on the size of the star.

They were able to precisely derive the physical size of the exoplanets by carefully measuring the size of their stars.

The following plot shows the approximate location of the planets in this system with respect to the habitable zone (green) and the size of the star (red).

But then, he went on to explain that the size of the star also moves the habitable zone of a promising planet.

The size of the star is proportional to how much material was available during its formation — the more material, the bigger the star.

Further, the size of the stars itself can greatly vary from something that is the size of our sun, to something dozens of times smaller or bigger.The number of stars is approximately...

With any project the size of Star Citizen, people are going to be hired and fired.

I cut three sizes of stars (google star template and you'll find thousands in all shapes and sizes) from silver wrapping paper, brown craft paper and some gold chocolate wrapping (yes really I did!