Sentences with phrase «tight orbit around this star»
Based on the numbers of such planets that astronomers have found in tight orbits around stars nearer to our sun, Gilliland's colleagues expected to see 15 or 20 planets in 47 Tucanae.
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The group, led by physics professor emeritus Saul Rappaport, determined that in order for the planet to maintain its extremely tight orbit around its star, it would have to be incredibly dense, made almost entirely of iron — otherwise, the immense tidal forces from the nearby star would rip the planet to pieces.
On June 16, 2008, a team of astronomers announced at the 2008 Extra Solar Super-Earths Workshop in France their discovery of a «super-Earth» class planet in a tight orbit around this star with with two other gas planets in outer orbits (ESO press release and Bouchy et al, 2009 — more details below).
On June 16, 2008, a team of astronomers announced at the 2008 Extra Solar Super-Earths Workshop in France their discovery of one «super-Earth» type planet in a tight orbit around this star with two other gas giant planets in outer orbits (ESO press release and Bouchy et al, 2009).
On January 6, 2010, a team of astronomers announced their discovery of a «super-Earth» class planet in a tight orbit around this star (Keck press release and Howard et al, 2010 — more details below).
On June 16, 2008, a team of astronomers announced at the 2008 Extra Solar Super-Earths Workshop in France their discovery of three «super-Earth» class planets in tight orbits around this star (ESO press release; Barnes et al, 2009; and Mayor et al, 2008 and 2009 — more details below).
Not exact matches
Artist's interpretation of a hypothetical moon in orbit around a planet found in a tight - knit triple - star system.
The clusters are tight knots of hundreds of thousands to millions of stars that orbit around galactic centers like moths around a streetlamp.
The rocky world of roughly Earth's mass is in a tight orbit around its dim star, located in its «habitable zone.»
The object around the star 51 Pegasi appeared to be 150 times the size of Earth, yet had an orbit tighter than the path of Mercury around the sun.
Then, each star's gravity caught the errant planet and whipped it around in a highly irregular, tight, and retrograde orbit.
The planet zips around its host star every 8.5 hours in an extremely tight orbit, and its daytime temperatures probably top 2,000 ° Celsius.
As it spins around in this tight orbit, gravity from the host star is pulling away its outer layers.
Approximately 650 light - years away, a Jupiter - like planet is caught in an uncomfortably tight orbit around its toasty hot host star.
The main finding is that WASP - 18b, a highly irradiated hot Jupiter in a tight orbit around a hot F - type star, is «wrapped in a smothering stratosphere loaded with carbon monoxide and devoid of water».
By providing astrometry with a precision of the order of 10 microarcsecond and imaging with a resolution of 4 milliarcseconds, GRAVITY will be able to monitor stars with tighter orbits around Sgr ~ A * (within a few hundreds gravitational radii).
Astronomers from Wesleyan University have detected the shock waves produced by a high - speed «hot Jupiter» exoplanet caught in a tight orbit around its host star.
The TRAPPIST - 1 exoplanets are packed in a tight orbit around their dim parent star and are so close to one another that all of their orbits would fit inside Mercury's orbit of the sun.
The orbit of an Earth - like planet around the tight binary system that star Ba forms with its brown dwarf companion in the liquid water zone would have to be centered around 1.1 AU — a little farther than Earth's orbital distance around Sol — with an orbital period exceeding one Earth year.
Or we find a bunch of rocky planets — larger than Earth, but definitely rocky — gathered in tight formation around a star (with orbits that last 3.7 days!
In fact, as another recent modeling study demonstrated, planets in tight orbits around red dwarf stars might be getting lashed by an insane number of high - energy solar flares, stripping their atmospheres faster than they can be replenished.