Sentences with phrase «triple star system»

«Astrophysicists find triple star system with «hot Jupiter».»

Also known as Ksi Boötis, this possible triple star system is located about 21.8 light - years (ly) away from our Sun, Sol.

Astronomers have witnessed a close system being formed via fragmentation of the gas disk around the firstborn stars [1] ALMA revealed the detailed structure of the ongoing fragmentation of a gas disk around a young triple star system L1448 IRS 3B..

With another gas giant found so close to its star and in a triple star system, Crepp says he and others can now start comparing and contrasting what they're seeing in other solar systems.

While the KELT, or Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope, detected the likely presence of the planet now called KELT - 4Ab about 685 light years from Earth, Crepp was able to capture crisp, clear images of the system, discovering that the planet was in fact a member of a triple star system — one of only a few found to date.

If launched tomorrow toward the nearest port of call — Proxima b, a potentially habitable Earth - mass planet recently discovered in the triple star system of Alpha Centauri about four light - years away — that rocket would take 80,000 years to arrive.

These planets orbit the third fainter star of a triple star system.

Astronomers have even found tentative evidence of a planet in a triple star system, HD 188753.

The project's primary target is the triple star system Alpha Centauri, our nearest interstellar neighbor at just over four light - years away.

A triple star system forming within a dense gas filament in a numerical simulation modeling a group of forming stars.

Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to Earth, is part of the Alpha Centauri triple star system, seen in this view of the southern hemisphere's night sky.

Alpha Centauri is a triple star system.

The main types of false positives are then EBs that are observed directly («undiluted binaries»), and EBs whose light is diluted by a nearby third star, which might be physically related to the system (triple star system) or be unrelated, with a third star being close to the line of sight to the binary system.

The triple star system lies about 685 light - years from Earth.

The brightest star in the sky is the red dwarf Gliese 667 C, which is part of a triple star system.

Together, the three components make a triple star system, referred to by double - star observers as the triple star (or multiple star), α Cen AB - C.

This triple star system is located about 41.6 light - years (ly) away from our Sun, Sol.

This triple star system is located only about 11.1 light - years (ly) from our Sun, Sol, in the eastern part (22:38:33.9 - 15:18:02: C ~, ICRS 2000.0) of Constellation Aquarius, the Water Bearer — west of Skat (Delta Aquarii).

These planets orbit the third faintest star of a triple star system.

Previous studies of the triple star system called Gliese 667C showed the star hosts three planets with one of them in the habitable zone.

In 2005, astronomers detected a planet in a triple star system, a finding that challenges current theories of planetary formation.

It lies just 4.3 light - years from the Earth and one component in a triple star system.

Using the awesome power of the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, an international team of astronomers discovered the presence of methyl isocyanate in the triple star system IRAS 16293 - 2422, located around 400 light - years away in the constellation of Ophiuchus.

Sen — The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey has discovered a young Jovian planet orbiting in the triple star system 51 Eridani.