Sentences with phrase «gas giant about»

Astronomers have discovered one of the most distant planets known, a gas giant about 13,000 light - years from Earth, c...

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.

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.

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Hubble was about 400 - 500 million miles away from Jupiter at the time, and it was taking pictures of Europa's backlit silhouette as it moved across the gas giant's surface:

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Recent warnings from Malaysian oil and gas giant, Petronas, and the BC LNG alliance about the closing window of opportunity to competitively serve Asian markets should serve as a wake - up call for Canada.

The UV would essentially blow dust away from the stellar disk out to about the orbit of Saturn, meaning that gas giants closer to the sun would have less dust as raw material.

Launched on August 5, 2011, the probe has traveled about 2.8 billion kilometers to spend 20 months orbiting and scrutinizing the gas giant.

About 12 billion years ago, the gas warmed from 8000 to 15,000 kelvin, probably due to heating from quasars, objects powered by giant black holes, the team will report in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

These are large gas giants that look a little like the planet Jupiter in our solar system, although they are much hotter as they circle their star in a very tight orbit: about a hundred times closer than our Jupiter is to the sun.

NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped within about 5,000 kilometers of Jupiter's cloud tops on August 27, 2016, giving scientists their first intimate look at the gas giant.

«In total, Jupiter's jet streams contain about 1 percent of the gas giant's mass.

Previous spacecraft flew past the gas giant at an equatorial level, capturing wonderful views of the zones and belts but revealing little about its polar regions.

«I would be cautious,» Nielsen says, about saying that gas giants are the only way to bring water to rocky planets.

With about five times the mass of Jupiter, WISE 0855 resembles that gas giant planet in many respects.

Collins and her team determined that KELT - 6b is a hot gas - giant planet orbiting a star about the same age as our sun.

As well as telling us more about Saturn, gas giant planets, and the Solar System in general, this study helps us better understand the Earth.

NESSI will focus on about 100 exoplanets, ranging from massive versions of Earth, called super-Earths, to scorching gas giants known as «hot Jupiters.»

Something strange is a-brewing on upsilon Andromedae b. Astronomers have classified the exoplanet, orbiting a sun - like star about 44 light - years away, as a hot Jupiter — a gas giant circling so close to its parent sun that its atmosphere is boiling away.

Chris Darimont discusses the impact of humans» unique predatory behavior on the planet, and Catherine Matacic talks with Sarah Crespi about whistled languages, Neolithic massacres, and too many gas giants.

And because they are almost as cold as «gas giant» planets — Jupiter is about 150 K — studying them could offer a better handle on what the atmospheres of alien worlds look like.

The earlier theories proposed that gas - giant planets such as Jupiter and Saturn involved the growth of large solid cores of about 10 to 20 Earth masses, followed by the accumulation of gas onto these cores.

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.

This rare opportunity to observe a dwarf galaxy as its gas is removed by the effects of a nearby giant galaxy will allow scientists to learn more about how this process happens.

Called «NASA's Leadership and America's Future in Space,» the report said that studying the outer gas giant planets (such as Saturn) help scientists learn about their atmospheres and internal structure.

«This giant gas bubble contains about a million times more mass than the Sun and the energy powering its outflow is equal to about 100 supernova explosions,» said Yurii Pidopryhora, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and Ohio University.

Our Milky Way Galaxy, about 100,000 light - years across, somewhat resembles a giant dinner plate, with most of its stars and gas residing in a flat disk.

About two months later, the star actually exploded, blowing chunks of debris into the cloud of gas, which caused a giant shockwave that produced the light of the supernova.

There's a gas giant located about 330 light - years from here that's not only unusually large, it's also orbiting its host star at an incredibly close distance.

Although the expectation is that TESS will identify up to 17,000 hot gas giants, up to 500 worlds among its treasure trove of discoveries are predicted to be rocky worlds, including about fifty that will be Earth - sized.

The fact is, these cyclonal beauty marks whirl about the faces of the other gas giants, too, and possibly on their close cousins, the cool, starlike bodies called brown dwarfs.

The planet Kepler - 1647b is a gas giant, and about the same size and mass as Jupiter, the largest gas giant in our solar system, and researchers say that, like Jupiter, it probably has multiple moons.

The skies of HAT - P - 7b are decorated with clouds made of ruby and sapphire, KELT - 9b is hotter than most stars, and now astronomers have noticed something strange about a gas giant called WASP - 19b.

Exoplanets are a constant source of surprise and wonder, and now astronomers have noticed something strange about a gas giant called WASP - 19b.

The planet, a gas giant, orbits its primary star (yellow) in about a year's time.

Infrared images of Jupiter provide information about the chemistry of the gas giant's clouds.

The image was captured using the high - resolution JunoCam instrument from an altitude of about 32,400 miles above the gas giant's atmosphere.

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.

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A current example of this is found in the recent Wall Street Journal article about Repsol (PINK: REPYY), the Spanish oil giant, seeking to acquire up to $ 10 billion in oil and natural gas assets in North America so as to have more secure holdings.

Lex is understandably upset about this turn of events and so, like anybody would, he teams up with the Joker to get himself elected as president using the Jokers special gas (errr), causing all sorts of carnage on the way, such as unleashing Arkham Asylum's inmates, flying a giant Joker robot across the city and disintegrating the Batmobile.

Smaller wiggles up to about 0.3 c peak to peak since 1850 are paced by gas giant orbital parameters too (see Loehle and Scafetta 2011).

Credits for using giant machines to remove the gas are not likely to be accepted internationally for a long time, if at all, not least because the industrial infrastructure needed for extraction would need to be about as big as the infrastructure that puts it there — oil wells, coal mines, railways, pipelines, power plants, refineries and so on.

In a blockbuster story, The New York Times reported that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has subpoenaed oil and gas industry giant ExxonMobil to «determine whether the company lied to the public about the risks of climate change or to investors about how those risks might hurt the oil business.»

The gas giants, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune do NOT have solid surfaces or distinctive solid / liquid / gas interfaces like the inner planets, so here we are talking about another «species» that operates more consistently fluid dynamically throughout the ENTIRE planet, not just in the planetary atmosphere.

Again, when we start talking about Jupiter, we are talking about the so - called «gas giant» planets, which also include Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

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