NASA's Kepler telescope has spotted a planet that is sure to revive memories of Star Wars — it orbits two stars, like Tatooine, the fictional home planet of Luke Skywalker.Laurance Doyle at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, and his team looked for the slight dimming of ...
Stars form when cold interstellar gas and dust gathers and collapses; planets are formed from the leftovers in this process. In many cases, there is enough gas and dust to form two or more stars at once, which means astronomers expect that exoplanets with two suns are not uncommon. “If w...
The discovery happened only because the planet and both its suns were lined up on a plane with Earth, so that the scientists were at the right angle to see the planet as it crossed its suns. Of the 150,000 stars the Kepler spacecraft is watching, scientists chose a few thou...
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And the orbit of KOI-5Ab is misaligned with KOI-5B, which is interesting. If all objects had formed from the same swirling disc of material, they should be aligned more or less on the same plane, like the planets of the Solar System around the Sun's equator. The researchers think that...
The planet, Darwin IV, has two suns, and is smaller and hotter than Earth. It seems likely that Darwin IV was covered with large oceans a few million years ago, just like Earth. But because of climate(气候)changes, the oceans disappeared. Darwin IV is also home to many alien plants ...
The surface of Venus, although hidden from view by thick clouds, has been mapped using radar and it is known that is is covered by large flat volcanic plains with two higher areas of land (continents) with mountains and valleys. The surface also shows impact craters and volcano like structur...
小题1分,共15分) 的You might think something that's impossible on our planet can't take place anywhere else in the universe, either.However, that's not the 36. In fact, the universe is far onth. stranger than we can actually believe.k. Let's begin with shadows (影子). Your shadow...
A strange alien world with three suns in its sky hasjust been discovered, but it didn't break any records. There are a handful of other knownexoplanets with three host stars, and quite a few out there with two suns. (This latter group is sometimes nicknamed "Tatooine" planets, after Luk...