Sentences with phrase «star millions of miles»

«Astronomers believe bizarre light patterns from a star millions of miles away to be alien megastructures» offered one article, and another claimed: «Astronomers think they have found an alien megastructure.»

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HD 80606 b swings within 3 million miles of its star at its closest approach and reaches its most distant point, 81 million miles away, just 56 Earth - days later.

In the case of 1744, the two stars are some 12 million miles apart — just one - third the distance separating Mercury and our sun — and orbit each other once every 12 days.

But for now, watch how rapidly Mars changes position and brightness among Leo's stars as Earth pulls away from the planet at the rate of half a million miles a day, following last month's close rendezvous.

Anything outside that range, which tends to occur on planets that are in a «Goldilocks zone» of 102 million to 140 million miles away from their stars (Earth is about 93 million miles away from the sun), could be devastating for life as we know it.

Its distance of 4,349,598 miles (7 million kilometers) from its star may seem tiny, at just one - fifth the distance between Mercury and the Sun, but Proxima Centauri is the runt of the litter in the Alpha Centauri system.

Spending a few hours per star, TPF will be able to find every Earth - size or larger planet within habitable distance of its sun — 50 million to 200 million miles for an average - size star — for each of the nearest few hundred stars.

«New Horizons is the latest in a long line of scientific accomplishments at NASA, including multiple missions orbiting and exploring the surface of Mars in advance of human visits still to come; the remarkable Kepler mission to identify Earth - like planets around stars other than our own; and the DSCOVR satellite that soon will be beaming back images of the whole Earth in near real - time from a vantage point a million miles away.

«We see some gas outflowing from this galaxy at millions of miles per hour, and this gas may have been blown away by the powerful radiation from the newly formed stars,» said Ryan Hickox, an astrophysicist at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., and a co-author on the study.

The Gemini «speckle» data directly imaged the system to within about 400 million miles (about 4 AU, approximately equal to the orbit of Jupiter in our solar system) of the host star and confirmed that there were no other stellar size objects orbiting within this radius from the star.

This scorching lava world, shown here in an artist's conception, circles its star every eight and a half hours at a distance of less than one million miles.

Using Hubble and the Keck Observatory, two teams of astronomers have now found that the system consists of a Uranus - sized planet orbiting about 370 million miles from its parent star, slightly less than the distance between Jupiter and the sun.

Red giant stars reach sizes of 100 million to 1 billion kilometers in diameter (62 million to 621 million miles), 100 to 1,000 times the size of the sun today.

By combining observational data from OGLE and Hubble, astronomers have been able to work out the nature of the star system, which is located around 8,000 light - years away, to great precision The star system consists of two red dwarfs orbiting one another only 7 million miles apart (as a comparison, this is only 14 times the Earth - moon distance).

She showed that a gap extends from the star out to a distance of about 400 million miles — similar to the distance to the asteroid belt in our solar system.

MAUNA KEA, HI — Scientists using the W. M. Keck Observatory and Pan-STARRS1 telescopes on Hawaii have discovered a star that breaks the galactic speed record, traveling with a velocity of about 1,200 kilometers per second or 2.7 million miles per hour.

Contribute one dollar for every million miles between the Earth and the Sun, a reminder of the distance to Earth's closest star.

Indeed, Stars B and C are separated by only some 0.008 AU, around three quarters of a million miles (more than one million km) or about three times the distance between the Earth and its Moon.

From its orbit approximately 1 million miles (1.6 million km) from Earth, the telescope will uncover information about the birth of stars, other solar systems and galaxies, and the evolution of our own solar system.

Proxima B planet orbits about 7.5 million kms (4.6 million miles) from its Proxima Centuari star (about a tenth the distance of innermost planet Mercury from the Sun).

They discovered a planet at least 80 percent the mass of Saturn orbiting 3.8 million miles from the star HD46375, 109 light - years away in the constellation Monoceros, and a planet 70 percent the mass of Saturn orbiting 32.5 million miles around the star 79 Ceti (also known as HD16141), located 117 light - years away in the constellation Cetus.

All of the star's matter — namely, the products of the nuclear burning (iron, nickel, silicon, magnesium, and other heavy elements) plus unburned carbon and oxygen — are ejected into space at speeds ranging from about 6,000 to 8,000 miles / second (20 to 30 million miles / hour).

Director Roger Michell is best known for the fluffy fantasy of «Notting Hill» (1999), targetted directly at an American market and presenting a view of London life whose only link to reality was the place names — but since then he has elaborated a much darker vision of romance in Britain's capital, first in the Hanif Kureshi - scripted taboo - breaker The Mother (2003), and now in «Enduring Love», starring Daniel Craig (who also featured in The Mother) and Rhys Ifans (here a million miles away from the comedy of «Notting Hill»).

Located in the Pacific Ocean roughly 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador, the Galápagos Islands existed mostly untouched for millions of years as an all - star cast of plants and animals found their way there and thrived.

Still, if you're swimming in millions of points and miles and you'd rather redeem for a once - in - a-lifetime experience than yet another long - haul flight or five - star hotel stay, these auction programs can be a good bet.

If you were really a «travel hacker» you would be sneaking in to online airline and bank systems to credit yourself with millions of miles, making reservations at 5 - star hotels in the Maldives for zero points, and using your Southwest RapidRewards to reserve the entire first class cabin on that Singapore A380.

AEP operates 38 gigawatts of power, including 2,200 megawatts of nuclear and 25 gigawatts of coal, as well as 255,000 miles of power lines for five million customers who get irate when they can't find out who's dancing with the stars.

The optical search will be able to analyze and detect a laser of 100 W, from a star which is 25 million miles far from us.