Sentences with phrase «surrounding debris disks»

HDST will discover planets of all sizes, and any surrounding debris disks.

A fraction of polluted white dwarfs showed signs of surrounding debris disks, but the origin of the disks was uncertain.

This system shows all three: a polluted white dwarf, a surrounding debris disk, and at least one compact, rocky object.

Not exact matches

Most likely, Meech says, the object is an outcast from another star system: a space rock flung out during the star's tempestuous youth when it was surrounded by freshly - formed giant planets embedded in a disk of debris.

But a feeding black hole is surrounded by a whirling, white - hot disk of glowing debris — material heated to millions of degrees as it spirals down to oblivion.

When he and his advisor simulated the early impact, they did not see a young Earth surrounded by a disk of debris.

And so do the disk of gasses and debris that surrounds it and falls in.

Another implication of the find, Lagrange says, is that «stars surrounded by debris disks are really good places to look for planets.»

Whatever their origin, the planemos are surrounded by disks of rocky debris, suggesting that they each may be at the center of a whole miniature system of planets circling planets.

Most galaxies in the observable universe contain a supermassive black hole at their center, one that is either active and surrounded by an accretion disk of dust, gas and other debris, or is dormant — lurking at the center, patiently awaiting its next meal.

As far as habitability goes, the researchers themselves point out another problem: due to the massive debris disk surrounding tau Ceti, the outer two planets are likely subject to intense bombardment via comets and asteroids, which would pose obvious issues for life.