Sentences with phrase «star than any photographed»

A planet may have been imaged closer to its star than any photographed previously, astronomers say.

Not exact matches

Two teams of astronomers made headlines in November after announcing they had photographed planets orbiting regular stars other than our own sun.

It didn't show up in photographs, even in silhouette, but there had to be a lot of this mysterious dark stuff — more than 10 times the mass of all the stars — to keep the Coma cluster from spraying galaxies all over the cosmos.

Other photographed objects have been too massive to be conclusively labeled planets, falling instead into the brown dwarf category (objects about eight to 80 Jupiters in size that lack sufficient mass to ignite hydrogen fusion in their cores, thereby never becoming true stars); have been found to themselves orbit brown dwarfs rather than stars; or have not been shown to be gravitationally bound to a star.

Two groups of researchers searching for extrasolar planets — planets orbiting stars other than our own sun — laid claim today to an astronomy milestone: photographing extrasolar planets directly, rather than inferring their presence through effects on their parent stars.

From among the 150,000 stars photographed every 30 minutes for four years, NASA's Kepler team reported more than 3,000 planet candidates.

Inspired by the work of Chris Marker, who directed the radical 1962 film «La Jetée,» which consisted of a cinematic sequence of still images, Opie's 22 - minute film is composed of more than 800 black - and - white images and stars Stosh, a friend who has appeared in many of her photographs.

The exhibition features more than 60 photographs, beginning with Untitled (Movie Stars on Clouds), made while the artist was still a student at CalArts.

It's similar to why you don't really see stars in Apollo photos from the moon — the subjects being photographed were so much brighter than the background stars that the exposures weren't long enough to capture the stars.