Sentences with phrase «gas giant»

The surface winds on three recently discovered gas giants in nearby solar systems would dry, and remove, your hair in no time.

This trend is opposite that seen on gas giants, where the same forcing shows an increase in the day - night atmosphere temperature contrast.

Large gas giant planets, on the other hand, require more heavy elements to build up their massive cores.

In the declaration, ten oil and gas giants call for «widespread and effective pricing of carbon emissions».

The gravity of the outer gas giants quickly drew these elements in, bloating them into their current forms: solid cores of rock and ice covered with gas.

The discovery hints that hot gas giants come in two varieties.

Many gas giant moons have similar features to the terrestrial planets and dwarf planets, and some have been studied for signs of life.

But on the other hand, there's evidence that the stars have been eating planets, including gas giants.

So from that point of view, we now have two ways of making gas giant planets.

The planets without nearby massive stars would remain gas giants.

Even at their much colder temperatures, most of our solar system's gas giants also exhibit this phenomenon.

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

Then the shifting gas giants scattered those bodies everywhere.

For a brief while, we considered making gas giants playable, but not having a solid surface makes game play difficult.

Such planets are much harder to see than young gas giants because of their much smaller sizes.

They are much larger than gas giant planets but fall just short of being large enough to trigger hydrogen fusion.

Based on studies of comets, researchers believe that these young solar systems swirl with ice crystals and wispy gases that coalesce into gas giants like Saturn and Jupiter.

That said, the concept of the «habitable zone» may be a bit of a misnomer, as life may be able to emerge outside of this area, such as on moons in orbit around gas giants.

All of the other gas giants in our solar system — Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus — have fairly similar systems of moons.

Astronomers have found gas giants with orbits that hug close to their host star, and super-sized Earths that might be capable of hosting life as we know it.

The new study suggests that the «hot Jupiter» WASP - 18b, a massive planet that orbits very close to its host star, has an unusual composition, and the formation of this world might have been quite different from that of Jupiter as well as gas giants in other planetary systems.

With the unprecedented access of VLT FORS2 to the abundance of fainter systems that HST can not observe we measure the optical transmission spectra of twenty exoplanets from gas giants down to Earth - mass, cooler worlds.

The star Kepler 36 has two planets: an inner rocky world slightly larger than Earth, and an outer gas giant about the size of Neptune.

Last year, Icahn took on U.S. natural gas giant Chesapeake Energy.

The answer lies in its strange gravitational love triangle with ringed gas giant Saturn and Dione, another moon.

(On gas giants such as Saturn, where there is no surface to speak of, determining rotational speed is no trivial task.)

The NASA Spitzer Space Telescope has teamed up with the Polish Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment's Warsaw Telescope to observe a distant gas giant located some 13,000 light - years away.

Although the geographical specifics don't entirely match up to the galactic level Star Wars universe, the judge set the dispute in the aptly named Alderaan, Cloud City, and Bespin — an immense gas giant located in a desolate sector of the Star Wars universe.

We present and exploit new near - infrared images and integral - field spectra of the four gas giants surrounding HR8799 obtained with SPHERE, the new planet finder instrument at the Very Large Telescope, during the commissioning and science verification phase of the instrument (July - December 2014).

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

The basic architecture of our solar system, where things go in circles, and there are small rocky planets close to the sun and big massive gas giants far from the sun, is certainly not the only architecture.

Astronomers now know that our galaxy is teeming with planets, from rocky worlds roughly the size of Earth to gas giants bigger than Jupiter.

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.

Then there is natural gas giant Chesapeake Energy, perhaps the most visible fracking beneficiary.

The Jupiter-esque gas giant circles around a host, a blue A-type star called KELT - 9 that is nearly twice as hot as our sun and nearly three times as big.

GJ 436b is a Neptune - mass gas giant planet whipping around its parent star every 2.64 days.

Margolis will take guests on a storytelling adventure through Cassini's mission — its perilous swings past gas giants, icy rings and moons that carry the precursors for life.

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

Researchers expect to find water on many planets outside the solar system, called exoplanets, including Jupiter - size gas giants such as HD 189733 b and HD 209458 b, which orbits a different star.

A JUPITER - like planet has been found orbiting a star just 12 light years away from Earth, making it the closest confirmed gas giant outside the solar system.

Besides explaining the estimated differences in ages between gas giants such as Neptune and Uranus and rocky worlds such as Earth and Venus, the new findings help explain how gas - swaddled super-Earths — ones possibly shrouded with inhospitable atmospheres — were banished from an otherwise inhabitable neighborhood.

Six planets orbit a star roughly the size of the sun, and like our solar system, the outer planets are gas giants while the inner ones seem to be denser.

«This supports the idea that the star originally had a full complement of terrestrial planets, and probably gas giant planets, orbiting it — a complex system similar to our own.»