Sentences with phrase «even gas giants»

By 1995 or so, theorists pretty much knew how to make terrestrial planets, even gas giants.

Not exact matches

CALGARY — Malaysian energy giant Petronas said Wednesday it's delaying its proposed liquefied natural gas terminal near Prince Rupert, B.C., even though it's pleased with recent moves the provincial government has made to make the nascent LNG industry more competitive.

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.

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.

The dark clouds almost never exist on their own but are usually a small part of an even larger complex of gas and dust known as a giant molecular cloud.

Even more remarkably, stars in the throes of birth also seem to exhale giant, peanut - shaped bubbles of gas, called outflows, 100 times more massive than our sun.

They will have been stripped from the cluster as it passed by a giant gas cloud or had a close encounter with a neighbouring cluster, or even simply drifted away.

Even at their much colder temperatures, most of our solar system's gas giants also have warmer temperatures at higher altitudes.

An alien Kepler mission could not confirm the gas giant's existence in that amount of time, even if it caught one transit.

In fact, while methane is a atmospheric characteristic of giant gas planets like Jupiter, the only brown dwarf found to even have a trace of methane was Gliese 229 B, which orbits a reddish, M - class dwarf located about 20 light - years away from Earth.

Also, just don't go there, because it's a gas giant, and also 1,730 light - years away, which means that even Elon Musk won't be presenting an ambitious plan to get you there any time soon.

Now, giant cyclones at the planet's poles have been seen in greater detail than ever before — they are not only stunning, but unique from atmospheric storms of any other planet in the Solar System, even other gas and ice giants.

While NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) failed to the tell - tale warmth of gas giants like Saturn within 10,000 AUs and larger than Jupiter objects out to 26,000 AUs (NASA / JPL news release), an icy «super-Earth», would have been too cold and faint for WISE to detect — even if the hypothesized planet has a small internal heat source and absorbs some sunlight.

Both objects formed among the rocky and icy protoplanets beyond the Solar System's «ice line» now located around 2.7 AUs, but the early development of Jupiter apparently prevented such large protoplanets between the gas giant and planet Mars from agglomerating into even bigger planetary bodies, by sweeping many into pulverizing collisions as well as slinging them into the Sun or Oort Cloud, or even beyond Sol's gravitational reach altogether.

Commodities markets and stock exchanges aren't happy, and neither are the oil companies whose profits are falling — cheap gas having finally done for BP what even the $ 54 billion Deepwater Horizon blowout couldn't, plunging the petro - giant that assassinated the Gulf of Mexico into the red for an entire fiscal year!

We're supposed to believe that ethanol has conferred a giant boon on consumers even though gasoline prices have increased as ethanol production has increased, and even though gas prices hit their all - time high when ethanol production hit its all - time high.

Those energy sources can be anything such as from a nearby sun, from geothermal energy below the surface, from nearby planetary gas giants large enough to radiate, even the temperature of space being above absolute zero makes some contribution.

Tech giant Google is ready to begin field testing a fleet of vehicles that won't even have steering wheels or gas and brake pedals.