Sentences with phrase «for giant planet»

For the giant planet atmospheres (Jupiter, Saturn), there is an artificial lower boundary, at which drag acts and from which an intrinsic heat flux can emanate.

The timescale for giant planet formation: constraints from the rotational evolution of exoplanet host stars

«Jupiter is the oldest planet of the solar system, and its solid core formed well before the solar nebula gas dissipated, consistent with the core accretion model for giant planet formation.»

«Hunting for giant planet analogs in our own backyard.»

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.

This finding could offer new insights into the timeline for giant planet formation around young stars.

We find that the global false positive rate of Kepler is 9.4 %, peaking for giant planets (6 - 22 Earth radii) at 17.7 %, reaching a low of 6.7 % for small Neptunes (2 - 4 Earth radii), and increasing again for Earth - size planets (0.8 - 1.25 Earth radii) to 12.3 %.

An Extreme - AO Search for Giant Planets around a White Dwarf — VLT / SPHERE performance on a faint target GD 50

Mounted on the 8 - meter Gemini South Telescope in Chile, the Imager began searching for giant planets circling 600 young stars in November 2014.

We performed a pilot study with the extreme - AO system on the Spectro - Polarimetric High - contrast Exoplanet REsearch (SPHERE) on the Very Large Telescopes (VLT) to look for giant planets around a young white dwarf, GD 50.

Not exact matches

If the planet is to avert the worst scenarios for climate change, the optimistic long - run forecasts for oil demand growth put forward by energy giants such as Exxon can be thrown out the window.

As for me, I can't believe in an human - like being that designed and jump - started the universe 13.8 billion years ago and set aside a planet for His special favorite creations, so He'd have someone to keep Him company and sing songs praising Him, then gave Bronze Age hermits a book of His orders to mankind that includes «thou shalt not round thy head nor cut thy beard» on penalty of eternal suffering... just CA N'T, any more than I can force myself to believe the world rests on the back of giant turtle.

We need to take care of our planet and each other the chances of a random meteor or giant solar flare exists still they have nothing to do with a mythology created for those who choose to be unaccountable for their part in our future.

The planet is not a giant trash can, and we feel like the least we can do is think about the things we're responsible for leaving behind, and make sure they're really needed, valued and used to the fullest.

While the Cassini spacecraft is gone, its enormous collection of data about Saturn — the giant planet, its magnetosphere, rings and moons — will continue to yield new discoveries for decades to come.

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.

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.

«For instance, the «brown dwarf desert,» an unexplained paucity of objects that are larger than giant planets but smaller than stars.

The aerospace giant's «Mars Base Camp» plan could send crews to the Red Planet's surface for multi-year stays

«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.

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.

But according to Takeshi Oka of the University of Chicago, «if the findings are confirmed, Brittain and Rettig have discovered a new astronomical object, opening up a new avenue for the study of the formation of giant planets.»

They monitored more than 34,000 stars, searching for slight dips in their brightnesses from the shadows of giant planets crossing in front.

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.

«If it messes up Jupiter, we don't have a complete model for the evolution of the giant planets.»

Far from the sun's heat, temperatures were cold enough for water to freeze and provide lots of the solid particles from which giant planets could grow.

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.

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.

MESSENGER — which stands for Mercury surface, space environment, geochemistry, and ranging — also determined that Mercury's giant Caloris basin, among the biggest impact craters in the solar system, spans 1,500 kilometers — nearly one third of the planet's diameter and 200 kilometers more than previous estimates.

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.

Big trees and blue whales are easily spotted when searching for the Earth's biggest living things — but not all of our planet's giants are so obvious.

Next week is make or break time for Galileo as the spacecraft prepares to send a probe down to the giant planet

The giant - impact theory can account for the high angular momentum of the Earth - moon system, which is greater than that of any known planet - satellite system.

«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.

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.

Some scientists suggest that giant radiation flares could deplete the ozone layer of a planet by 94 % for two years and could even be fatal for all life.

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.

But when NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft detected lots of sulfur and potassium in the crust of Mercury earlier this year, many planetary scientists believed this ruled out the giant - impact scenario for the innermost planet.

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.

Lawrence Livermore scientists for the first time have experimentally re-created the conditions that exist deep inside giant planets, such as Jupiter, Uranus and many of the planets recently discovered outside our solar system.

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

In an experiment designed to mimic the conditions deep inside the icy giant planets of our solar system, scientists were able to observe «diamond rain» for the first time as it formed in high - pressure conditions.

Piecing those clues together, the two Alvarezes proposed a radical idea: The mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago was caused by the impact of a giant asteroid, which unleashed a globe - spanning cloud of debris and plunged the planet into darkness for months.

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

The extension would last for 7 years, allowing the probe to watch Saturn and its moons as summer comes to the giant planet's northern hemisphere for the first time in 30 years.

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.

In 1846, for example, the French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier predicted the existence of a giant planet from irregularities in the orbit of Uranus.

Tentatively slated for a 2022 launch, the probe will orbit Jupiter and make about 45 passes by the giant planet's moon Europa, which has a global ocean just beneath its ice - covered surface.