Sentences with phrase «ultra-cool dwarf star»

TRAPPIST - 1 is an ultra-cool dwarf star in the constellation Aquarius, and its planets orbit very close to it.

Learn about the discovery in 2017 of seven Earth - sized planets orbiting TRAPPIST - 1, an ultra-cool dwarf star 40 light - years...

Learn about the discovery in 2017 of seven Earth - sized planets orbiting TRAPPIST - 1, an ultra-cool dwarf star 40 light - years away.

A new study has found that the seven planets orbiting the nearby ultra-cool dwarf star TRAPPIST - 1 are all made mostly of rock, and some could potentially hold more water than Earth.

Three exoplanets, similar in size and temperature to our own, are in orbit around an ultra-cool dwarf star.

Not exact matches

This is the first time planets have been observed orbiting ultra-cool dwarves — though scientists had suspected that such stars could host small solar systems.

TRAPPIST - 1 is an ultra-cool red dwarf star that is slightly larger, but much more massive, than the planet Jupiter, located about 40 light - years from the Sun in the constellation Aquarius.

Named TRAPPIST - 1 because it was discovered by the Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) in Chile, the star is an ultra-cool M - type dwarf star with eight percent the mass of the Sun and half its temperature, located in the direction of the constellation Aquarius.

The TRAPPIST - 1 star is classified as an ultra-cool dwarf, and these planets orbit extremely closely.

I am characterizing the magnetic fields of ultra-cool brown dwarf stars in an effort to understand the magnetic dynamo mechanisms operating in the mass regime that bridges planets and stars.

TRAPPIST - 1 is an ultra-cool red dwarf star, only slightly bigger than Jupiter.