Sentences with phrase «than the host star»

«But when we consider that phase cycle variations can be up to 100,000 times fainter than the host star, these detections become truly astonishing.»

If the foreground star has planets, then the planets may also amplify the light of the background star, but for a much shorter period of time than their host star.

Therefore, planets are much cooler than stars — and being also much smaller, planets are typically ten million to a billion times fainter than their host stars.

Not exact matches

More recently, the Google subsidiary made a major move into commissioning content with the announcement earlier this month that it is launching more than 40 TV - style shows on the platform, including some homegrown YouTube stars, as well as traditional Hollywood celebrities such as talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and comedian Kevin Hart.

At the University of Texas at San Antonio, the Institute of Texan Cultures is currently hosting exhibits exploring the history of beer, brewers and breweries in Texas; the stories and customs of more than 20 of the earliest cultural groups to settle in the state; and the role played by citizens from the Lone Star State in the World War I.

Fox News parent Twenty - First Century Fox (fox) announced on Wednesday it had parted ways with the star cable news host, ending his more than 20 - year career, following the allegations from a number of women.

The new social - media campaign features Emmy Award - winning talk show host Ricki Lake as well as many online social influencers from The Influential Network, including Wesley Stromberg of the band Emblem 3 and Youth Ambassador for the #ForgiveForPeace campaign that was launched for the UN International Day of Peace; Megan Nicole, a musical artist with more than 3.2 million subscribers on YouTube; Melvin Gregg, a top - 100 Vine personality who counts other celebrities as fans, and Sammy Wilkinson, who is a social media star and part of the Magcon Tour.

«NGC 1277's black hole could be many times more massive than its largest known compete tor, which is estimated but not confirmed to be between 6 billion and 37 billion solar masses in size.It makes up about 59 percent of its host galaxy's central mass — the bulge of stars at the core.

They are much smaller, dimmer and cooler than stars like our Sun, and for a long time scientists searching for life on other worlds paid little attention to them; the general feeling was that they gave out so little heat and light, compared with the Sun, that they were unlikely to host habitable planets.

The two - day event is an «Amazing Race» style game will host more than 120 reality television stars from 40

As richly rewarding as hosting young stars of the game can be (many ruggers who've played at past KOTs have gone on to play for, and even Captain, our USA National teams), there's no greater joy than watching U-8s and U-10s blossom into feisty U-12s and eventually become skillful, competitive Middle Schoolers!

However, with a host of star attacking midfielders and wingers linked to the club, the return of Markovic, and Roberto Firmino also comfortable leading the line, Alario might be a man for a specific role, rather than a star man who'll have to be shoehorned in.

So among the rising stars of the GOP are a radio host who gets rich being angry, a lizard who's been out of office for a decade, a rich Mormon with nothing better to do than aim for 2012 three months into 2009, and Sarah Palin.

To reach the potentially habitable planet Proxima b, these «photogravitational» assists counterintuitively require first sending the light sail swooping blisteringly close to the bright, sunlike stars Alpha Centauri A and B — even though they are nearly two trillion kilometers farther from us than Proxima b's smaller, dimmer host star, Proxima Centauri.

Neutron stars, the extraordinarily dense stellar bodies created when massive stars collapse, are known to host the strongest magnetic fields in the universe — as much as a billion times more powerful than any human - made electromagnet.

Neutron stars, the extraordinarily dense stellar bodies created when massive stars collapse, are known to host the strongest magnetic fields in the universe — as much as a billion times more powerful than any man - made electromagnet.

«Billions of life - bearing planets may exist further from their host stars than thought possible»

However, when such stars are cooler than the sun, they could still host life.

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.

The planet's host star is estimated to be 1.5 billion years older than our sun, and the planet itself receives some 10 percent more starlight than our own world.

The researchers studied six years of microlensing data and estimated that extrasolar planets are the rule rather than the exception, with each star in the galaxy hosting an average of 1.6 planets (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature10684).

All three are closer to their host stars than the habitable zone where liquid water could exist.

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

And as a result of this never - before - used orbit — advanced and fine - tuned by NASA engineers and other members of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) team — the Explorer mission led by Ricker will be perfectly positioned to map the locations of more than 500 transiting exoplanets, extrasolar planets that periodically eclipse each one's host star.

In a 2008 study, Haiman and his colleagues hypothesized that radiation from a massive neighboring galaxy could split molecular hydrogen into atomic hydrogen and cause the nascent black hole and its host galaxy to collapse rather than spawn new clusters of stars.

There are more pairs of stars than solo stars in our galaxy, but fewer pairs host planets.

A new analysis of data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft finds that stars with lower abundances of heavy elements — the kind that populated the early Milky Way — are more likely to host gas giants several thousand kilometers larger in diameter than Jupiter.

What's more, observations by NASA's Kepler space telescope suggest that between 5 and 10 per cent of planetary systems cram several planets closer to their host star than Mercury is to the sun.

Indeed, the star boasts several periodic signals, suggesting it hosts more than this one planet.

Video: The small planet Exo - 7b, which is no more than twice as wide as Earth, was discovered by the way it dimmed its host star's light when it passed between the star and Earth (Illustrated animation courtesy of COROT / Tautenburg Observatory / Klaudia Einhorn)

Quasars can shine more brightly than all the stars in the rest of their host galaxies put together.

It lies slightly farther away than 7b and orbits the host star in 3 days and 17 hours.

Black holes and their host galaxies have a tight relationship: Regardless of their size, the central swarms of stars in galaxies are always about 500 times more massive than the giant black holes they contain (ScienceNOW, 5 June 2000).

Analysis of the light from the 46 stars showed low lithium content, the team reports, whereas the 116 stars all had higher levels of lithium — with over half sporting about 10 times more than the planet - hosting stars.

Having examined a host of natural explanations for the odd behavior of Boyajian's star and found them lacking, we can now consider the most sensational possibility — an alien megastructure, akin to what Dyson described more than half a century ago.

«Brown dwarfs are far easier to study than planets, because they aren't overwhelmed by the brightness of a host star,» Faherty explained.

But such fortuitously aligned planets are relatively rare; aside from Kepler 11, only one star is known to host more than one transiting planet.

Curiously, the star also contains fewer heavy elements — thought to be needed to build planets — than any other planet - hosting star yet discovered.

Stars tidally stripped from their host galaxies are the most likely culprit, rather than unknown primordial galaxies.

«This indicates that planets around metal - poor host stars are less dense than rocky planets of comparable size around more metal - rich host stars like the Sun», explains Claude «Trey» Mack, project scientist for the Kepler - 444 observation.

Finally, in the third paper, the star «Kepler - 444», hosting five sub-terrestrial planets, was confirmed to be 10.5 billion years old, more than twice the age of our Sun and just a little bit younger than the universe as a whole.

As part of a large survey of possible planet - hosting stars, Lovis and his colleagues used the powerful HARPS (for High Accuracy Radial - Velocity Planet Searcher) spectrograph at La Silla Observatory in Chile, 2,400 meters above sea level, which can detect stellar motions with precisions of less than one meter per second, roughly the walking speed of a human being.

Due to the close binary orbital interactions of the host star with Alpha Centauri A and Star B's own increased stellar activity during recent years, the astronomers were only able to detect the radial - velocity variations of host star B that were caused by the 3.236 - day orbit of the planet (with a semi-major axis of 0.04 AU) only after more than four and a half years of careful observatstar with Alpha Centauri A and Star B's own increased stellar activity during recent years, the astronomers were only able to detect the radial - velocity variations of host star B that were caused by the 3.236 - day orbit of the planet (with a semi-major axis of 0.04 AU) only after more than four and a half years of careful observatStar B's own increased stellar activity during recent years, the astronomers were only able to detect the radial - velocity variations of host star B that were caused by the 3.236 - day orbit of the planet (with a semi-major axis of 0.04 AU) only after more than four and a half years of careful observatstar B that were caused by the 3.236 - day orbit of the planet (with a semi-major axis of 0.04 AU) only after more than four and a half years of careful observation.

With a mass and size approximately one - third that of the Sun, and an abundance of heavy elements less than 10 percent solar, Kapteyn's Star was, as most red dwarfs, historically seen as a poor candidate for hosting any planets and habitable environments.

Several Earth - like planets and super-Earths have been detected in the habitable zones of their host stars and more than 2300 planetary candidates have been announced.

The exoplanet, which is about six times the size of Earth, or about 50 percent larger than Neptune, makes a complete orbit around its host star in about five days.

Jun. 5, 2017 — Astronomers at Vanderbilt and Ohio State have discovered a planet like Jupiter zipping around its host star every day, boiling at temperatures hotter than most stars with a giant cometary tail.

Nonetheless, more than half of the observed Sun - like stars in the solar neighbourhood have one or more super — Earth planets that orbit their host star within days to months - a feature that is lacking in our own Solar System.

The dwarf star TRAPPIST - 1 is 1,000 times dimmer than our sun, and is known to host seven closely orbiting planets.