Sentences with phrase «wide orbit»

GPI detects infrared (heat) radiation from young Jupiter - like planets in wide orbits around other stars, those equivalent to the giant planets in our own Solar System not long after their formation.

About 150 globular clusters are known to loop in wide orbits around the Milky Way's center.

This discovery demonstrates that microlensing is capable of discovering planets in very wide orbits,» Poleski said.

By using both the results of the VLT / NaCo large program and the complementary archive datasets that probe the occurrence of planets and BDs on wide orbits around solar - type stars, we place some constraints on the planet and BD distributions.

The numerous galaxy collisions literally tear some galaxies apart and scatter their stars into wide orbits around the newly created large galaxies, which should give the galaxies a faint background glow of stellar light.

Confirming previous modelling of multiple star systems with relatively wide orbits such as the Alpha Centauri system, the RECONS astronomers found that Alpha Centauri A and B orbit in such a way that when the light and heat of the two stars was combined, neither star in the innermost AB system significantly changed the size of their respective habitable zones, regardless of where each was currently located in its orbit.

The VLT / NaCo large program to probe the occurrence of exoplanets and brown dwarfs at wide orbits.

Previous studies show that it takes about 68 days for the pulsar to orbit its white dwarf companion, meaning they share an uncommonly wide orbit.

The much - anticipated James Webb Space Telescope — often referred to as Hubble's successor — for example, will likely only study worlds that hug their host stars, making observations of planets with wider orbits like Mars or even Earth out of the question.

The numerous galaxy collisions literally tear some galaxies apart and scatter their stars onto wide orbits around the newly created large galaxies, which should give them a faint background glow of stellar light.

In many cases, the alien solar system becomes unstable and one of its planets is flung into a very wide orbit where it is vulnerable to being captured by the second star's gravity.

Mu Herculis was first discovered to have a dimmer companion in 1781 with a relatively wide orbit by Sir William Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel (1738 - 1822, portrait), who was born Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel and who discovered the planet Uranus — which led to his appointment in 1782 as private astronomer to the King of England.

The modelling suggested that a Neptune - like planet actually formed much closer to Vega and was pushed by a Jupiter - like planet in an inner orbit out to its current wide orbit around 80 AUs away from Vega over about 56 million years, sweeping many comets out with it and causing the dust disk to become clumpy (Mark C. Wyatt, 2003).

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To avoid the inner Saturn system, they also considered sending Cassini on very wide orbits, staying well clear of the moons.

The VLT / NaCo large program to probe the occurrence of exoplanets and brown dwarfs at wide orbits: II - Survey description, results and performances

Direct imaging of exoplanetary systems is a powerful technique that can reveal Jupiter - like planets in wide orbits, can enable detailed characterization of planetary atmospheres, and is a key step toward imaging Earth - like planets.

Nozomi will then end up drifting uselessly in a wide orbit around the sun.

According to a very rough statistical analysis, the new discovery suggests that up to one - third of all red dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy are accompanied by small, rocky planets, many of which might be in wider orbits.

The fast - moving incomers would follow much wider orbits in the plasma's magnetic field than native particles do; those wide orbits would act as a protective shell, stiffening the plasma against both heat - leaking turbulence and instability.

We wouldn't be able to see them; big, Jupiter - like planets in wide orbits would take too long for Kepler to catch, and they may not have orbits that cause them to pass in front of their stars in our line of sight.

Or, perhaps more likely, MOA's free - floaters may have actually been run - of - the - mill giant planets bound to their stars, albeit in very wide orbits.

It travels around Pluto in a 95,000 - kilometre - wide orbit in the same plane as the other moons in the dwarf planet's entourage — Charon, a 1200 - kilometre - wide beast of a moon, Nix, Hydra and the recently discovered P4.

It travels around Pluto in a 95,000 - kilometre - wide orbit in the same plane as the other moons in the dwarf planet's entourage — Charon, a 1200 - kilometre - wide beast of a moon, and the more diminutive Nix and Hydra.

The location of HD 131399Ab on a wide orbit in a triple system demonstrates that massive planets may be found on long and possibly unstable orbits in multistar systems.

Marois and his team used ground - based infrared detection to seek out exoplanets around nearby, young, massive stars — those whose planets would have wide orbits and emit significant amounts of radiation as they cool from their relatively recent births millions of years ago.

A faint chance existed that the sun would lose too much mass before getting too big, and would allow the Earth to escape into a wider orbit as the sun loses its gravitational grip.

Discovered by a team of high school students, this pulsar has the widest orbit ever observed around another neutron star.

This newly - discovered pulsar — named PSR J1930 - 1852 — has the widest orbit ever observed around a neutron star, which is an immensely dense object created as a result of a massive star collapsing in on itself.

Further analysis by Akeson et al (2009) on a puzzling reduction in mid-range infrared excess «visibility» failed to rule out the possibility of an unseen stellar companion (as bright as M0 red dwarf) in a wide orbit with a period measured in years or a very close orbit companion with a period measured in as short as a few days.