Sentences with phrase «very tight orbits»
Three inner super-Earths move in very tight orbits around HD 40307 (more).
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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.
Not exact matches
On October 16, 2012, a team of astronomers announced the discovery of a planet with around 1.13 + / - 0.09 Earth - masses in a very hot and tight, circular orbit around Alpha Centauri B, using the European Southern Observatory's the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) instrument on the 3.6 - metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile.
An Earth - mass planet has been found in a very hot, tight orbit around Alpha Centauri B (more).
On October 16, 2012, a team of astronomers announced the discovery of a planet with around 1.13 + / - 0.09 Earth - masses in a very hot and tight, circular orbit around Alpha Centauri B, using the European Southern Observatory's High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) instrument on the 3.6 - metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile.
Like planet e around 55 Cancri A and HD 7924 b, HD 97658 b has a very hot, tight orbit within 0.083 AUs.
From the perspective of an observer on Earth, the orbit of Star A and the BC tight binary pair exhibit a very elongated and narrow ellipse whose separation has varied from 4.7» in 1880 to less than 0.4» in 1969 (Kaj Aage Gunnar Strand, 1937; A. Gennaro, 1940; L. Bennendijk, 1955; Worley and Heintz, 1983; and Wulff Dieter Heintz, 1963 to 1997; among others).