Sentences with phrase «at giant planets»

to determine the role of solar wind in configuring the planetary magnetospheres, especially at large distances from the Sun and to understand the atmospheric energy balance and magnetosphere coupling at the giant planets;

What is the dependence of the atmospheric energy balance at giant planets on solar wind - magnetosphere coupling?

NASA's Juno spacecraft has sent back unexpected details about Jupiter, giving scientists their first intimate look at the giant planet.

Stunning new images and the highest - resolution maps to date of Jupiter at thermal infrared wavelengths give a glowing view of Juno's target, a week ahead of the NASA mission's arrival at the giant planet.

Not exact matches

«Giant planets form really fast, in a few million years,» Kevin Walsh, who studies planet formation at the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado, told Space.com in March.

One demo Magic Leap gives to potential employees and partners is «Star Wars» - themed — the user is placed on Hoth, the ice planet, among giant AT - AT robots.

At any time a giant asteroid could smash into our planet and change our world forever.

We are a Goldie Loc's Planet 2 - we got the right of land to water ratio 3 - the moon is at the right size and orbit to prevent the earth from wobbling 4 - the gas giants in our solar system do a great job at cleaning up roaming ice and rock that is flying around our solar system 5 - right distance from the galactic core.

-- The Earth was formed by this giant explosion which took place millions of years ago and somehow ended up in this perfectly rotating planet that has perfectly precise, repeatable days, months and years and rotates at the perfect angle so as to enable defined changes in climate and weather to have predictable seasons.

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.

By attempting to understand the subterranean structures of the planet and how they modify its surface features, Kircher could be said to have exhibited a «planetary» consciousness three centuries before the Gaia hypothesis proposed that we look at Earth as a giant self - regulating system.

While they are theoretically predicted to surround giant planets at birth, there has been little observational evidence to date for circumplanetary disks outside the solar system.

Published on Aug. 28 in Nature Communications, the research revealed an entirely new type of superionic ice that they call the P21 / c - SI phase, which occurs at pressures even higher than in the interior of giant ice planets of our solar system.

In 2018, just next year folks, let's hope, NASA is going to be launching its James Webb Space Telescope, a giant piece of kit that's going to be about one and a half million kilometers out there beyond the orbit of the moon, and it's going to be able to look at these planets as they transit across the face of the star.

The Hubble Space Telescope found no evidence of large planets in a giant swarm of a million suns, astronomers announced here last week at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

«Ultimately, we found that Jupiter is capable of ejecting the fifth giant planet while retaining a moon with the orbit of Callisto,» said Cloutier, who is also a graduate fellow at the Centre for Planetary Sciences at the University of Toronto at Scarborough.

Many planets outside the solar system are even more massive than Jupiter, and they orbit their Sun - like stars at an Earth - like distance, but these faraway super-Jupiters are effectively giant gas balls that can not support life because they lack solid surfaces.

At just under eight times the mass and twice the size of our own world, 55 Cancri e is a welterweight that straddles the hazy boundary between terrestrial and gas - giant planets.

SAN FRANCISCO — Dust devils might not cause the giant dust storms that envelop Mars, but there are enough of them to cast a hazy pall over the red planet, according to reports here on 6 December at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spotted a giant hurricane - like whorl at the planet's south pole, a weather pattern previously seen only on Earth.

The existence of a fifth giant gas planet at the time of the Solar System's formation — in addition to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune that we know of today — was first proposed in 2011.

Dust at the outermost planet's orbit moves too slowly to snowball into a giant planet, and the star's heat would prevent the innermost disc collapsing, they say (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature09684).

These galactic giants can produce up to 10,000 times as many Earthlike planets as our galaxy, astrophysicist Pratika Dayal and colleagues report online July 16 at arXiv.org.

The giant planet is now at «opposition,» positioned directly opposite the sun from the Earth.

NASA's Juno spacecraft (illustrated) successfully arrived at Jupiter on July 4, beginning a 20 - month visit to the giant planet.

FOND FAREWELL The Cassini spacecraft took this last look at the Saturn system two days before plunging into the giant planet's atmosphere.

They have found giant planets several times the mass of Jupiter, orbiting their star at more than twice the distance Neptune is from the sun — another region where theorists thought it was impossible to grow large planets.

This scenario naturally produces a planetary system just like our own: small, rocky planets with thin atmospheres close to the star, a Jupiter - like gas giant just beyond the snowline, and the other giants getting progressively smaller at greater distances because they move more slowly through their orbits and take longer to hoover up material.

At 3:04 p.m. EDT (12:04 p.m. PDT) on September 11, the spacecraft used a gravitational nudge from Saturn's largest moon to set itself on a collision course with the giant planet's atmosphere on September 15.

That's when mission planners project radio communications will be lost with the two - ton, bus - size spacecraft as it plunges into the giant planet's turbulent atmosphere at more than 122,000 kilometers per hour.

New results suggest free - floating giant planets are less common than previously believed, but hint at vast numbers of smaller castaway worlds

So any residents of the Iota Horologii system — which bears at least one giant planet — presumably experience more frequent outbursts, astronomers will report in an upcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

A laser used to spark nuclear fusion has compressed diamond at unprecedented pressure, giving the first data on how carbon may behave inside giant planets

At another extreme, Saturn's giant moon Titan seems more like a planet in its own right, larger than Mercury and cloaked in a dense atmosphere.

«If you polled my community about what we'd wish for our ideal observatory, it wouldn't be Webb — it would be something else,» says Sasha Hinkley, an astronomer at the University of Exeter in England leading an ERS program to directly image giant planets.

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.

«We have found a small star, with a giant planet the size of Jupiter, orbiting very closely,» said researcher George Zhou from the Research School of Astrophysics and Astronomy at The Australian National University.

The orbits of exocomets on Beta Pictoris could also help scientists trace the presence and migration of larger, undetected bodies such as gas giant planets in the planetary system, says Russel White, an astronomer at Georgia State University in Atlanta who was not involved in the study.

What is more, improved technology should also allow larger observatories such as Keck to move from the few giant planets already imaged — all of which orbit their host stars at relatively large distances — to closer - in worlds more like our own.

«It's very interesting, because NGTS is just filling the gap we have at the moment» between rocky planets and gas giants, says astronomer Isabelle Baraffe of the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, who is not involved in the project.

Current theory holds that giant planets can form only at comparatively great distances from a star, where cold temperatures allow ice and frozen gases to gather together.

At first blush, another potential problem comes from NASA's Widefield Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), a satellite that completed an all - sky survey looking for the heat of brown dwarfs — or giant planets.

Dust at the outermost planet's orbit moves too slowly to snowball into a giant planet, and the...

«The TW Hya association extends out to a distance of ~ 250 light years, but our instruments aren't sensitive enough yet to detect giant planets - like members at this distance, hence many of them might remain to be discovered,» Gagné added.

Juno will orbit perpendicular to the planet's equator instead of following the more traveled path around it, and will get a bird's - eye view of the giant auroras seething at the poles.

It is the first time that Jupiter's X-ray aurora has been studied when a giant storm from the Sun has arrived at the planet.

Majestic, ringed Saturn little resembles the relatively tiny blue marble that is Earth, but the massive gas giant planet is home to at least one phenomenon that would be familiar to high - latitude dwellers here on Earth.

From the spread of the fragments, astronomers have calculated that the comet passed so close to Jupiter last July that it broke into at least 17 pieces, which now orbit the giant planet about once every two years (This Week, 17 April).

Based on humankind's admittedly limited experience, habitability seems to mean a small world — a terrestrial planet rather than a gas giant like Jupiter or Saturn — orbiting its star at a comfortable «Goldilocks» distance that allows water to persist in liquid form.

The vents are narrowed or closed when at closest approach to the gas giant planet [1].