Sentences with phrase «than our star system»

These giants are fainter than our star system simply because they contain fewer stars.

Not exact matches

An enduring puzzle about exoplanets, Phys.org writes, is why they are often much closer to their stars than the planets in our own solar system.

Armed with a concrete system, thanks to Tom and Nick, tireless working coaches Mike and Sarah D, and the whole Rock Star team behind me, I've been accomplishing far more, in a few short years, than I could have ever imagined had I been on my own.

More than 180 airlines are included in the five - star ranking system, which is widely considered the global benchmark of airline standards.

Market opportunities will pass you by if you don't move fast enough, so we built the premier all - star growth engine, system & team to help bring entrepreneurial dreams to life faster than could be done in - house.

At MFS, we actively foster a collaborative investment process rather than a star manager system — and we have created institutional policies and practices to support collaboration.

to dandintac, the evolution of stars or solar systems or life forms to different species takes billons of years to complete., that we in our lifetime cant comprehend its teleology or purposefullness.At the University of Illinois, a super computer called The nautilus, predicts the future by analysing through computational methods mathematical algorithim the historical inputs for hundreds of years and discovered that it has a direction or intepreted as has a purpose.Someday in the future when we will be technologically advanced, Gods will will be clearly reveald to us.All of this will be part of his will, at this time beyond our comprehension, but will be in the future, The next generation of quantum computers which are tens of thousands more powerfull and faster than todays will provide us the informations to solidify the future religious faith based in science.

In addition to our solar system's eight near - and - dear planets, there are more than 800 so - called exoplanets known to circle stars beyond our sun.

With all our knowledge, big brains, university degrees and amazing (to us) technology, consider than we dwell on a damp little planet, in an ordinary solar system, in the boonies of a very ordinary spiral galaxy which is composed of billions of stars, millions of which are much, much larger than our sun.

Its systems are so energy efficient that many of them are 30 percent more efficient than Energy Star - certified fryers.

Rather than informing consumer choice, Australia's year - old health star food rating system is failing customers, and allowing food manufacturers to give an aura of health to junk foods.

All year, the San Antonio Spurs star led the team's offense with his dangerous mid-range game and a system designed around him more than years past, something that helped soothe complaints stemming from a disgruntled summer.

Nothing like one underachiever blowing smoke up the ass of another... we know that Ozil has some incredible technical gifts, but to be considered the best you have to bring more than just assists to the table... for me, a top player has to possess a more well - rounded game, which doesn't mean they need to be a beast on both ends of the pitch, but they must have the ability to take their game to another level when it matters most... although he amassed some record - like stats early on, it set the bar too high, so when people expected him to duplicate those numbers each year the pressure seemed to get the best of our soft - spoken star... obviously that's not an excuse for what has happened in the meantime, but it's important to make note of a few things: (1) his best year was a transition year for many of the traditionally dominant teams in the EPL, so that clearly made the numbers appear better than they actually were and (2) Wenger's system, or lack thereof, didn't do him any favours; by playing him out of position and by not acquiring world - class striker and / or right - side forward that would best fit an Ozil - centered offensive scheme certainly hurt his chances to repeat his earlier peformances, (3) the loss of Cazorla, who took a lot of pressure off Ozil in the midfield and was highly efficient when it came to getting him the ball in space, negatively impacted his effectiveness and (4) he likewise missed a good chunk of games and frankly never looked himself when he eventually returned to the field... overall the Ozil experiment has had mixed reviews and rightfully so, but I do have some empathy for the man because he has always carried himself the same way, whether for Real or the German National team, yet he has only suffered any lengthy down periods with Arsenal... to me that goes directly to this club's inability to surround him with the necessary players to succeed, especially for someone who is a pass first type of player; as such, this simply highlights our club's ineffective and antiquated transfer policies... frankly I'm disappointed in both Ozil and our management team for not stepping up when it counted because they had a chance to do something special, but they didn't have it in them... there is no one that better exemplifies our recent history than Ozil, brief moments of greatness undercut by long periods of disappointing play, only made worse by his mopey posturing like a younger slightly less awkward Wenger... what a terribly waste

With accommodations for more than 5,000 boats, these harbors constitute the nation's largest municipal harbor system and feature state - of - the - art floating docks, moorings, star docks, fuel facilities and other amenities for Chicago boaters and their guests.

But the twin stars» radiation pressure has its limits; if Heller's and Hippke's 100,000 - square - mter light sail came in any faster than 4.6 percent light - speed, it would simply overshoot the system.

Rather than using multibillion - dollar laser arrays to boost small light sails to relativistic speeds for one - time flybys, Heller and Hippke propose using starlight alone to send larger sails on more leisurely journeys that would take them to all three stars in the Alpha Centauri system and leave them parked in orbits there.

If cyclical extinctions do occur, the current thinking goes, it's the solar system's trip around the galaxy, rather than another star's trip around our solar system, that causes the die - offs.

Kepler - 11 In this miniature version of our solar system, announced in February, five of the six planets circle their star more closely than Mercury orbits the sun.

The proportion could be even greater than 20 per cent, as some planetary systems might be entirely destroyed and leave no trace rather than leaving behind a debris ring to pollute their parent star.

Many planets outside the solar system are even more massive than Jupiter, and they orbit their Sun - like stars at an Earth - like distance, but these faraway super-Jupiters are effectively giant gas balls that can not support life because they lack solid surfaces.

And there are certainly alien star systems that are closer to us than that.

These are large gas giants that look a little like the planet Jupiter in our solar system, although they are much hotter as they circle their star in a very tight orbit: about a hundred times closer than our Jupiter is to the sun.

But analysis of particles and isotopes from comets and meteorites present a mixed picture of solar system formation, more complicated than just a one - way movement of matter from the disk to the star.

For more than 30 years, astronomers have known that Vega has a massive belt of cold dust far from the star, analogous to our solar system's Kuiper Belt.

In «Astronomers Make a Map of a Super Saturn's Rings,» from the January issue of Scientific American, the Leiden University astronomer Matthew Kenworthy tells the story of discovering a ring system some 200 times larger than Saturn's around the distant star J1407.

The HOSTS Survey has determined that the typical level of zodiacal dust around other stars — called «exo - zodiacal dust» — is less than 15 times the amount found in our own solar system's habitable zone.

One of the earliest and most astounding systems found by direct imaging is the one around the star HR 8799, where four planets range in orbits from beyond that of Saturn out to more than twice the distance of Neptune.

But these planets are crowded much closer to their stars than the worlds in our solar system, adding a wrinkle to our theories of how planets form and evolve.

A habitable planet around Alpha Centauri would appear approximately 10 billion times dimmer than either of the system's Sun - like stars.

Rather, they analyzed microscopic silicon carbide, SiC, dust grains that formed in supernovae more than 4.6 billion years ago and were trapped in meteorites as our Solar System formed from the ashes of the galaxy's previous generations of stars.

The exoplanet (a planet in another solar system) is about six times the mass of Jupiter and orbits about 40 percent closer to its star, dubbed HD 102272, than Earth does around the sun.

But when Hugues Sana of the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and colleagues looked at 71 stars with masses greater than 15 times that of our sun, they found that more than 70 per cent revolve with a companion in a binary system (Science, doi.org/h4k).

Our solar system may have started out with several planets packed closer to the sun than Mercury, much like the planets we see around other stars

Ordinary people have spotted an extraordinary world: a giant planet larger than Neptune and smaller than Saturn that inhabits a star system with four suns.

Outside of our solar system, auroras, which indicate the presence of a magnetosphere, have been spotted on brown dwarfs — objects that are bigger than planets but smaller than stars.

If a few key characteristics such as an exoplanet's topography and rotation rate are just right, then the inner edge of the habitable zone — the region in a solar system where conditions conducive to life can arise — will be closer to the host star than is usually thought.

This star - making frenzy gives rise to galactic wind that pushes out more gas than the system keeps in, leading astronomers to estimate that M82 will run out of fuel in just 8 million years.

This star - forming cluster in the constellation Perseus hosts several huge dusty disks (inset) far wider than our solar system.

Indeed, says astronomer John Johnson of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, the KOI - 961 system is more akin to Jupiter and its moons than to a sunlike star with orbiting planets.

The software, called ExoPlex, allowed the team to combine all of the available information about the TRAPPIST - 1 system, including the chemical makeup of the star, rather than being limited to just the mass and radius of individual planets.

This long - sought world was announced with great excitement in 2012 as the first Earth - mass planet in the nearest star system to our own, but a new statistical analysis has revealed it to be nothing more than an apparition.

Thus, as the scientists will announce in a future issue of The Astronomical Journal, the dim red sun probably revolves around the bright white star, even though the two are separated by a whopping 2.5 light - years of space, which is more than half the distance between the sun and Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to our own.

The discovery that the debris disks around some larger stars retain carbon monoxide longer than their Sun - like counterparts may provide insights into the role this gas plays in the development of planetary systems.

And that suggests that widely spaced star systems are more common than astronomers previously thought.

«Star systems with more than three members are unstable and prone to interference,» says Jaime Pineda, now at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, who is the first author of a study that has just been published in Nature.

However, they say it is likely that interactions between the stars will cause one of the four to be expelled in less than a million years, leaving a triple system.

And in the future, a technique called optical interferometry, which links together the observations of more than one telescope, might make it possible to see the multiple lensed images produced by the planets of another star system.

In the past two decades more than 1,800 extrasolar planets (or exoplanets) have been discovered outside our solar system orbiting around other stars.

The trio is not the only so - called circumbinary system known, but it is the first for which researchers have been able to measure the properties of both stars and the planet so precisely, and the first system where the planet has been directly detected, rather than inferred.

«Interestingly K2 - 229b is also the innermost planet in a system of at least 3 planets, though all three orbit much closer to their star than Mercury.