Sentences with phrase «tight orbits all»

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.

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).

Three inner super-Earths move in very tight orbits around HD 40307 (more).

However, other predictions, such as not expecting massive planets in tight orbits, is still largely contradictory to the hypothesis and greater testing with additional discoveries will be needed.

Planets with extremely tight orbits offer scientists a wealth of data: For instance, each week Kepler 78b circles its star about 20 times, giving researchers numerous opportunities to observe its behavior.

PULSAR PAIR A system of two radio beam — emitting pulsars locked in tight orbits, illustrated here, is an ideal test bed for measuring gravitational waves and other effects of general relativity.

(Many worlds that reside in extremely tight orbits have been found by indirect means; it is the temperate, so - called Goldilocks zone where Earth analogues might be found that has proved most elusive.)

At the meeting, he argued that brown dwarfs in tight orbits get devoured by their sunlike parent stars.

But the current exoplanet catalogue primarily reflects the low - hanging fruit — extremely large planets in tight orbits, whose visible or gravitational effects on their stars are more pronounced.

The other, the Nice model, suggests the four gas giants (Jupiter through Neptune) initially had tiny, tight orbits, which eventually spread out slowly to what we see today.

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.

Among the 1,900 - and - counting confirmed alien planets found so far, we've seen everything from bizarro, jumbo versions of Jupiter in scorchingly tight orbits to exoplanets dozens of times farther out than Neptune, and even worlds circling two stars, like Tatooine in Star Wars.

But given that the era of discovering extrasolar planets is still in its infancy, with methods that more easily detect planets if they are massive and in tight orbits, how can we be certain that the exoplanets discovered so far are typical?

The planets circle a tiny, dim, nearby star in tight orbits all less than 2 weeks long.

Eventually, the sun tames this wild child, drawing the planet into a tight orbit around it.

Not a pretty prospect, but it's probably the eventual fate of all planets, including our own, that circle their stars in a tight orbit, astrophysicists say in the current Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

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.

You might think such a tight orbit would scorch the surface of the planet.

The rocky world of roughly Earth's mass is in a tight orbit around its dim star, located in its «habitable zone.»

Meanwhile, the engines kept firing, sending Smart - 1 into a set of ever - tighter orbits.

«We were in a low, tight orbit,» Rayman says.

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.

A less massive planet, such as one made entirely of gas, would not be able to hold together in such a tight orbit.

General relativity predicts that two massive objects in a tight orbit around each other will spiral in, slowly at first and then faster until they merge, distorting space - time in perturbations that ripple in all directions.

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.

HD 189733 A has a Jupiter - class planet in a tight orbit, where methane and water vapor have been detected by filtering the star's light through the planet's atmosphere (more).

Superflares - According to one recent hypothesis, unusually intense stellar flares from a sun - like («Sol - type») star could be caused by the interaction of the magnetic field of a giant planet in tight orbit with that star's own magnetic field.

The high temperatures experienced by Kepler - 13Ab are a result of its tight orbit with its parent star, which has in turn led to the world becoming tidally locked with the stellar body.

An Earth - mass planet has been found in a very hot, tight orbit around Alpha Centauri B (more).

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).

Like planet e around 55 Cancri A and HD 7924 b, HD 97658 b has a very hot, tight orbit within 0.083 AUs.

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.

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).

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 leading theory that explains the creation of short GRBs, however, involves the merger of two neutron stars in a tight orbit that rapidly lose energy by emitting gravitational waves to merge after about three orbits, or in less than 8 milliseconds.

The second experiment aims to detect and study a radio pulsar in tight orbit about Sgr A * using radio telescopes (including the Atacama Large Millimeter Array or ALMA).

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).

[When I read the «risible, circle - jerk blogs» bit it seemed you were talking about Anthony & Co., who are carving an ever - tighter orbit around their own anuses.

Not exact matches

Instead, you're propelling it forward and back in a tight elliptical orbit, with a little jolt of the wrist for necessary lift.

Artist's interpretation of a hypothetical moon in orbit around a planet found in a tight - knit triple - star system.

Using this technique, scientists have measurements for 11 Milky Way satellite galaxies, eight of which are orbiting in a tight disk perpendicular to the spiral galaxy's plane.

To stay warm, Proxima b's orbit is tighter than Mercury's.

A unique threesome of stars locked in tight, circular orbits could help astronomers test the leading theory of gravity to unprecedented precision.

How these winds work is largely mysterious, but important insights come from stormy encounters where two massive stars orbit in a tight pair.

The clusters are tight knots of hundreds of thousands to millions of stars that orbit around galactic centers like moths around a streetlamp.

That parts - per - million sensitivity should allow Corot to detect the dips in a star's light caused by a transiting planet with a radius just twice that of Earth — and perhaps an even smaller one, provided its orbit is tighter than Mercury's, so that the planet completes three transits during the 150 - day viewing period.