Sentences with phrase «stars at greater distances»

If «normal» planets circle other stars at greater distances, his team's techniques should reveal some of them within several years.

Not exact matches

But Einstein, 105f, sees that the infinite lines of force on any body would result in a field of infinite intensity, which is impossible; hence he argues that Newton had to postulate for his universe «a kind of centre in which the density of the stars is a maximum, and that as we proceed outwards from this centre the group - density of the stars would diminish, until finally, at great distances, it is succeeded by an infinite region of emptiness.»

Is the story of the long - distance runner eternally running culture's fast track (or at least until our star reaches the end of its evolutionary run) in the quest for greater order and harmony the most adequate one available?

If we now consider the number of the stars (15,000 x 106 visible to the optical telescope alone) you will understand how it is possible to say, cosmically speaking, that we are enveloped in a sort of monstrous gas formed of molecules as heavy as the Sun moving at distances from each other so great that they have to be reckoned in light - years (bearing in mind that light travels at a speed of 186,000 miles per second, and that we are only 8 light - minutes distant from the sun)-- a gas made of stars!

The observation provides the first evidence for black holes that does not depend on watching hot gas or stars swirl around them at far greater distances.

This scenario naturally produces a planetary system just like our own: small, rocky planets with thin atmospheres close to the star, a Jupiter - like gas giant just beyond the snowline, and the other giants getting progressively smaller at greater distances because they move more slowly through their orbits and take longer to hoover up material.

He deduced them to be at a great distance (too far for their individual stars to be detectable), each of them another entire «universe» like the Milky Way.

But to the astronomers» astonishment, the RR Lyrae stars do not follow football - shaped orbits, but have large random motions more consistent with their having formed at a great distance from the centre of the Milky Way.

A fraction of these lost stars may still be gravitationally bound to the cluster and surround it at a great distance.

In principle, Tanvir says, a bright, well - observed GRB at great distances could expose the makeup of the intergalactic medium as well as the chemistry of the star's host galaxy, which would in turn indicate the products of previous generations of stars.

Boss suggests that these planets actually formed at much greater distances from their stars but then migrated inward.

Current theory holds that giant planets can form only at comparatively great distances from a star, where cold temperatures allow ice and frozen gases to gather together.

A larger sixth planet, closer in mass to Saturn, also appears significantly in the data at a greater distance from HD 10180, but the study's authors note that the signal could be caused by a long - term magnetic cycle on the star rather than the tug of an orbiting planet.

An IMBH at the cluster's center acts like a cosmic «spoon» and stirs the pot, causing those stars to slingshot to higher speeds and greater distances.

It appears to be a main sequence red dwarf star of spectral and luminosity type M4.5 V. Because of its small mass and great distance from the primary (Star A), Upsilon Andromedae B appears to have a negligible effect on the radial velocity measurements used to determine that Star A has at least three large planets (Lowrance et al, 20star of spectral and luminosity type M4.5 V. Because of its small mass and great distance from the primary (Star A), Upsilon Andromedae B appears to have a negligible effect on the radial velocity measurements used to determine that Star A has at least three large planets (Lowrance et al, 20Star A), Upsilon Andromedae B appears to have a negligible effect on the radial velocity measurements used to determine that Star A has at least three large planets (Lowrance et al, 20Star A has at least three large planets (Lowrance et al, 2002).

Nearly 900 extrasolar planets have been confirmed to date, but now for the first time astronomers think they are seeing compelling evidence for a planet under construction in an unlikely place, at a great distance from its diminutive red dwarf star.

Using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope, the scientists found a huge quantity of dense interstellar gas — the environment required for active star formation — at the greatest distance yet detected.

As relatively small planets at close distances to their host stars, astronomers would have great difficulty in detecting such planets around either star using present methods.

So far the direct detection has only been able to show giant exoplanets, several times larger than Jupiter and orbiting at great distances from their stars.

Models of planetary formation suggest that giant extrasolar planets detected very near their stars formed at greater distances and migrated inward as a result of gravitational interactions with remnants of the circumstellar disks from which they accumulated.

Sedna orbits the Sun at such a great distance that Sol appears as a bright point like a star, and some astonomers have designated it as a member of the inner Oort Cloud (more).

(Like Sedna, shown above, 2012 VP113 orbits the Sun at such a great distance that Sol appears as a bright point, like a star (more).

The exoplanet 51 Eri b, whose mass is estimated to be roughly twice that of Jupiter, appears to orbit its host star at a distance 13 times greater than the Earth - Sun distance.

A large milky - white nebula, on the body of the Great Bear, with a small star at its sp [south preceding, SW] apex, and an 8th - magnitude preceding [W] it at double the distance; there is also a brightish group in the np [north preceding, NW] quadrant.

It was designed so elderly people with cataracts, even at night thanks to an optional lighting kit, can see the Mercedes star shining from great distances.