Sentences with phrase «for gas giants»

They hope their technique will eventually produce weather reports for gas giants orbiting distant stars and, one day, rocky exoplanets similar to our own.

For gas giants like Jupiter, formation theories come in two flavors.

«In 2007, we began our long - term search for gas giant planets and brown dwarfs orbiting nearby low mass dwarf stars,» said Boss.

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The oil and gas giant announced that it was unloading its oil - sands assets, for $ 7.25 billion, so that it could double down on businesses «where we have global scale and a competitive advantage.»

Greens and Chevron set to face off over Gorgon vision Chevron is set for fresh battles with WA's powerful green lobby group after the US giant said yesterday it wanted to nearly double the size of the $ 50 billion Gorgon liquefied natural gas project on environmentally fragile Barrow Island off WA's North West.

Energy giant Woodside Petroleum has signed a project development agreement with US - based Sempra Energy for a potential liquefied natural gas plant in Texas.

UAF has worked extensively with both institutional and commercial partners in Alaska and in recent years, using drones to monitor sea lion populations in the Aleutian Islands, conduct ice flow and environmental surveying missions for NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, inspect pipelines for oil and gas giant BP and assist a Russian tanker during a dangerous late - season fuel delivery to the remote Alaskan outpost of Nome.

These efforts are bearing fruit for Weatherhaven, which recently partnered with Brazilian construction and logistics company Esbracon, to provide up to 10 sustainable camp projects for oil and gas exploration giant, HRT of Brazil.

According to the terms of the partnership, Lego manufactured Shell - branded gas stations and racing cars in exchange for the oil giant making those products available through its global network.

Flying in egg - shaped orbits, each one lasting 14 days, Juno also will look for evidence that Jupiter has a dense inner core and measure how much water is in the atmosphere, a key yardstick for figuring out how far away from the sun the gas giant formed.

THE new millennium could mark major hydrocarbon developments for Chevron Australia Pty Limited, a wholly - owned subsidiary of US oil and gas giant Chevron Corporation.

Recent warnings from Malaysian oil and gas giant, Petronas, and the BC LNG alliance about the closing window of opportunity to competitively serve Asian markets should serve as a wake - up call for Canada.

Earnings in the oil giant's upstream segment, which explores for and produces oil and natural gas, improved slightly to $ 489 million.

Revealing details of its corporate governance review, albeit after investor pressure, is a step forward for the oil and gas giant.

Oil - industry experts say it will be difficult for the oil giants to spend less because they need to replenish the oil and gas they are pumping — and must keep up with rivals in the world - wide exploration race.

July 20 — Chelsea have inked a new sponsorship deal with Russian energy giant Gazprom which will see them supply gas and electricity to the club for the next three seasons.

In the early years of the Cuomo Administration, oil giant Exxon - Mobil put its considerable political clout behind an effort to get New York to allow fracking; a controversial type of drilling that allowed for the extraction of natural gas.

Astronomers this month announced a similar discovery for an even larger gas giant, reporting that the Juno spacecraft, which is orbiting Jupiter, had found that the planet's rotating cloud belts reach roughly 3,000 kilometers below the top of the atmosphere.

While such circumplanetary disks have been theorized to surround giant planets at birth and to control the flow of gas onto the growing planet, these findings are the first observational evidence for their existence.

It's a huge gas giant orbiting close to its star, which would makes it a hellish place to live, for a few reasons:

Alan Boss, a theorist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., has pushed an idea called gravitational instability, in which an especially cool and massive protoplanetary disk can develop ripples that can coalesce into gas giants, with or without cores.

For years, astronomers expected to see elsewhere what they saw in our own orderly solar system: rocky planets close to a star and gas giants farther away, all in neat, nearly circular orbits.

The standard scenario for the birth of gas giants posits a continuation of the rocks - crashing - together process, also known as core accretion.

After a decade of searching for planets orbiting stars like our sun, astronomers had found nothing but giant planets, most of them gas balls like Jupiter, around other stars.

Giant planets are mostly made of gas and ice, and there are two prevailing hypotheses for how all this material came together as a planet.

«Jupiter is talking to us in a way only gas - giant worlds can,» said Bill Kurth, co-investigator for the Waves instrument from the University of Iowa, Iowa City.

One of them, Kepler 47c, is probably a gas giant, but it lies in a region warm enough for liquid water.

The moon's host planet, a gas giant about the size of Uranus, hangs huge in the sky as always, its churning storms a constant sight for the inhabitants below.

Before the Cassini spacecraft ends its 20 - year mission by disintegrating in Saturn's atmosphere, we have one last chance for new information on the gas giant

For his part, Deutch sits on the board of Cheniere Energy, which owns liquefied natural gas import terminals on the Gulf Coast, and used to sit on the board of oil services giant Schlumberger.

Because their gravitational grip is weak, the gas could have been pushed out before many stars could form; a few giant stars may have blasted it out with their fierce heat and explosive deaths, for example.

Humanity has just gained its best - ever views of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a storm large enough to swallow Earth whole that has raged for centuries in the gas - giant planet's atmosphere.

«It's a difficult time at the moment, and the policy uncertainty is the main cause of it,» said Shaq Mohajerani, an Australian spokesman for wind farm company Union Fenosa, owned by Spanish energy giant Gas Natural.

Orbiting the star is a gas giant that could be a dead ringer for Jupiter.

The combined gravity of the second and third stars would have kept the gas and dust disk of the primary star at a maximum radius of 200 million kilometers — too close for the formation of giant planets.

Deming suspects KELT 9b is «the tip of the iceberg» for an undiscovered population of scalding - hot gas giants.

However, another planetary building block does appear to linger: the gaseous parts of the disks, perhaps fostering additional growth of gas - giant planets like Jupiter for millions of years.

Polar cyclones on Saturn are a puzzling phenomenon, since the planet, known as a gas giant, lacks an essential ingredient for brewing up such storms: water on its surface.

Those time spans coincide with known stellar behavior: once a year, for example, a red giant pulsates in brightness, an event astronomers think is linked to an episodic shedding of gas; likewise, every 5,000 years the helium in an outer layer of the star ignites and burns up in a flash, and the star undergoes a brief burst of expansion.

The Chinese are also attempting to mimic the U.S. in allowing companies other than the state - owned oil giants to begin exploring for shale gas, legally designating the resource as one that can be independently mined.

If certain debris disks are able to hold onto appreciable amounts of gas, it might push back astronomers» expected deadline for giant planet formation around young stars, the astronomers speculate.

But there is a third type of planet in our solar system — part gas, part ice — and this is the first time anyone has spotted a twin for our so - called «ice giant» planets, Uranus and Neptune.

With their gas depleted, it may be impossible for the disks around stars in massive clusters to form giant planets like Jupiter or Saturn.

Gas surrounds a giant black hole in the early universe in this radio image, but astronomers see little evidence for a massive galaxy of stars.

Astronomers have for the first time detected ingredients in the atmosphere of a super-Earth, an exotic type of exoplanet of which there is no parallel in our solar system: It's larger than our home but not as large as a gas giant.

They can inflate giant bubbles of plasma, which will float away from the source galaxy, you know — in the gravitational field these giant bubbles will just float away and they again can be responsible for heating the gas that surrounds the galaxy.

If it were a gas giant the size of Jupiter, part of its atmosphere would actually be inside the gravitational destruction zone, and the planet would not have survived long enough for Bailes's team to detect it.

Coastal communities in the US state are suing oil, gas and coal giants for the cost of dealing with sea level rise.

Cities have a giant greenhouse gas footprint and are responsible for 70 percent of all global CO2 emissions, according to NASA.