Sentences with phrase «third type of planet»

But there is a third type of planet in our solar system — part gas, part ice — and this is the first time anyone has spotted a twin for our so - called «ice giant» planets, Uranus and Neptune.

Not exact matches

NASA's Kepler space telescope showed that most single stars of the same type as our sun have plenty of planets, but only one - third of binary stars do.

In the original work by Brown, slightly different classes of false positives were used: MPU (main - sequence star with a giant planet); MSU (undiluted binaries); and the two types of diluted binaries, MSDF (an eclipsing binary + a third non-related star) and MSDT (triple systems).

On the other hand, the distance from BD +04 123 where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered around only 0.49 AU — between the orbital distances of Mercury and Venus in the Solar System — where a planet probably would have an orbital period around 137 days or more than a third of an Earth year.

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