Sentences with phrase «star epsilon»

Example from the new PEPSI atlases: the nearby planet - host star epsilon Eridani.

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The first colonists to Alpha Centauri, Barnard's Star, Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani would probably be on their way right now.

3 Leading the list is Epsilon Indi A, a dim orange star just 11.8 light - years away, in our local corner of the Milky Way.

Drake wanted to aim it at the same two sunlike stars he had observed 50 years ago, Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani, each a bit more than 10 light - years from Earth, to see if he could detect radio transmissions from any civilizations that might exist on planets orbiting either of the two stars.

One such star with a prominent dust disk, called Epsilon Eridani, is one of the 10 nearest stars investigated by the HOSTS Survey.

If you aim binoculars at blue - white Vega, high in the east, Epsilon will be in the field of view, a knockout of a double star.

Epsilon is a beautiful four - star system, each twosome composed of white suns separated by twice the diameter of our solar system.

It's Epsilon Lyrae, the nearest and northernmost of two little stars hovering next to Vega, the dominant star of summer.

Although the stars — Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani — were considered promising candidates, being nearby and sun - like, Project Ozma detected nothing in over 150 hours of observation.

Five Epsilons for the price of one, a Dipper full of stars, and a crescent evening star: these are summer spectacles one should resolve to see.

In 1960 astronomer Frank Drake periodically pointed an 25 - meter radio telescope at two nearby sunlike stars, Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridanus, hoping to tune in to any transmissions.

The planet, called Epsilon Indi Ab, has the mass of 2.7 Jupiters and takes an extraordinary 52.6 Earth years to orbit its star — among the longest exoplanet orbits yet discovered (arxiv.org/abs/1803.08163).

Two nearby stars, Epsilon Eridani and Tau Ceti, both about 12 light - years away, were the candidates for Project Ozma, the first search with a radio telescope for extraterrestrial intelligence, conducted by one of us (Drake) in 1960.

© Torben Krogh & Mogens Winther, (Amtsgymnasiet and EUC Syd Gallery, student photo used with permission) Alp Cen B is an orange - red dwarf star, like Epsilon Eridani at left center of meteor.

While smaller and cooler than Sol, 41 Arae A is somewhat more like a sister star than nearby Epsilon Eridani.

© Torben Krogh & Mogens Winther, (Amtsgymnasiet and EUC Syd Gallery, student photo used with permission) 54 Piscium is an orange - red dwarf star, similar to Epsilon Eridani at left center of meteor.

© Torben Krogh & Mogens Winther, (Amtsgymnasiet and EUC Syd Gallery, student photo used with permission) Gliese 105 A is an orange - red dwarf star, like Epsilon Eridani at left center of meteor.

I shall remember this telescope most for two wonderful observations; gazing into the maw of Copernicus, and cleaving the double star components of epsilon Lyrae so cleanly that they looked like a small open cluster.

© Torben Krogh & Mogens Winther, (Amtsgymnasiet and EUC Syd Gallery, student photo used with permission) HD 181433 is an orange - red star (similar to Epsilon Eridani at left center of meteor) that may have already evolved into a subgiant, but is probably not yet a giant, star.

The star lies near the center (19:25:9.6 - 66:28:7.7, ICRS 2000.0) of Constellation Pavo, the Peacock — slight southeast of Delta Pavonis, west of Beta Pavonis, southwest of Peacock (Alpha Pavonis), and northeast of Epsilon Pavonis.

It lies in the central part (00:20:04.26 - 64:52:29.25, ICRS 2000.0) of Constellation Tucana, the Toucan — south of the multiple star Beta Tucanae and east of Epsilon Tucanae.

Estimates provided by the NASA Star and Exoplanet Database indicate that the inner edge of Epsilon Indi's habitable zone could be located around 0.411 AU from the star, while the outer edge edge lies around 0.810 Star and Exoplanet Database indicate that the inner edge of Epsilon Indi's habitable zone could be located around 0.411 AU from the star, while the outer edge edge lies around 0.810 star, while the outer edge edge lies around 0.810 AUs.

© Torben Krogh & Mogens Winther, (Amtsgymnasiet and EUC Syd Gallery, student photo used with permission) BD - 05 1123 A is an orange - red dwarf star, like Epsilon Eridani at left center of meteor.

Due to Epsilon Indi's relative proximity and similarity of spectral type to Sol, the star has been an object of intense interest among astronomers.

The fifth brightest star in Indus, this star is the title member of the Epsilon Indi stellar moving group.

Useful star catalogue numbers for Epsilon Indi include: Eps Ind, HR 8387, Gl 845, Hip 108870, HD 209100, CP (D)-57 10015, SAO 247287, FK5 825, LHS 67, LTT 8813, and LFT 1677.

The leading explanation is that Epsilon Aurigae consists of a yellow giant star orbited by a normal star slightly bigger than the Sun embedded in a thick disc of dust and gas oriented nearly edge on when viewed from Earth.

It was also selected as a «Tier 1» target star for NASA's optical Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) to detect a planet as small as three Earth - masses within two AUs of its host star (and so some summary system information and images of Epsilon Indi may still be available from the SIM Teams), but the SIM project manager announced on November 8, 2010 that the mission was indefinitely postponed due to withdrawal of NASA funding.

Try Professor Jim Kaler's Stars site for other information about Epsilon Indi at the University of Illinois» Department of Astronomy.

Epsilon Indi is a orange - red main sequence dwarf star of spectral and luminosity type K4 - 5 Ve.

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.

Epsilon Indi is an orange - red dwarf star, with two methane brown dwarf companions in orbit around each other (more).

© Torben Krogh & Mogens Winther, (Amtsgymnasiet and EUC Syd Gallery, student photo used with permission) Rana (Delta Eridani) is an orange - red star, somewhat similar to Epsilon Eridani at left center of meteor.

The previous record holder is Epsilon Aurigae, a giant star that is eclipsed by its companion every 27 years for periods ranging from 640 to 730 days.

The star is located in the southern part (1:7 - 52:40) of the Constellation Phoenix, the Phoenix or Firebird — northwest of Zeta Phoenicis and Achernar (Alpha Eridani); southwest of Beta and Delta Phoenicis, southeast of Lamda1, Mu, Epsilon, Kappa, and Alpha Phoenicis (Ankaa); and north of Eta Phoenicis.

See a 2MASS Survey image of Epsilon Indi from the NASA Star and Exoplanet Database.

© Torben Krogh & Mogens Winther, (Amtsgymnasiet and EUC Syd Gallery, student photo used with permission) BD +04 123 is an orange - red dwarf star, like Epsilon Eridani at left center of meteor.

While chromospheric activity measurements suggest that the star may be as young as 500 million years (see HD 101501 in Table 2 from Don Barry, 1988), the lack of an easily observable dust disk — as is found at Epsilon Eridani — suggests that the stars could be well over a billion years old.

For instance, two second - magnitude stars, Alpha Pavonis and Epsilon Carinae, were assigned the proper names Peacock and Avior respectively in 1937 by Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office during the creation of The Air Almanac, a navigational almanac for the Royal Air Force.

While strong chromospheric activity suggest that the star may be as young as 60 million years (see HD 131156 A in Table 2 from Don Barry, 1988), the lack of an easily observable dust disk — as is found at Epsilon Eridani — suggests that the stars may be well over a billion years old.

The absolute mode frequencies, encapsulated in the asteroseismic variable epsilon, can help solve this impasse because the values of epsilon implied by the two possible mode identifi... ▽ More Asteroseismology of F - type stars has been hindered by an ambiguity in identification of their oscillation modes.

© Torben Krogh & Mogens Winther, (Amtsgymnasiet and EUC Syd Gallery, student photo used with permission) HD 156668 is an orange - red star (similar to Epsilon Eridani at left center of meteor).

© Torben Krogh & Mogens Winther, (Amtsgymnasiet and EUC Syd Gallery, student photo used with permission) Gamma Leporis B may be an orange - red dwarf star, like Epsilon Eridani at left center of meteor.

© Torben Krogh & Mogens Winther, (Amtsgymnasiet and EUC Syd Gallery, student photo used with permission) HD 40307 is an orange - red dwarf star, similar to Epsilon Eridani at left center of meteor.

The star lies near the part (17:17:40.5 +29:13:38.0, ICRS 2000.0) of Constellation Hercules — slightly northeast of Sarin (Delta Herculis), northwest of Mu Herculis, south of Pi Herculis, and southeast of Epsilon and Zeta Herculis.

Epsilon Indi has the third highest proper motion of any star visible to the naked eye, and the ninth highest overall.

Epsilon Piscium is an orange giant star belonging to the stellar class K0 III, slightly larger and more luminous than the Sun.

Epsilon Arae is a binary star system.