Sentences with phrase «called ice giants»

Extremely low temperatures on planets like Neptune — called ice giants — mean that chemicals on these distant worlds exist in a frozen state, researchers say.

Now also called a ice giant, Uranus is composed primarily of rock and various ices, with only about 15 percent hydrogen and a little helium overall, while Jupiter and Saturn are mostly hydrogen in gas and liquid metallic form.

Not exact matches

This recipe calls for baking one giant cookie, a way to ensure even, consistent ice cream sandwiches.

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.

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.

The only complete specimen in the world, she has made her first outing in Western Europe to be the centrepiece of an exhibition called Mammoths: Ice Age Giants, at London's Natural History Museum (NHM).

Lars Stixrude, a geologist at University College London, calls the idea «fascinating» — although he warns that science's understanding of the behavior of materials under the extreme temperatures and pressures of an ice - giant core is still incomplete.

A recently developed technology called cosmogenic exposure age dating is now being used at Aberystwyth University to determine the length of time the granite boulders were exposed to the sun, giving scientists important information about when the possible expansion and retraction of the giant ice sheet took place.

These giant slabs of ice, floating on the ocean while still attached to the continent, are called ice shelves.