Sentences with phrase «gas giant exoplanets»

So, if other star systems contain gas giant exoplanets, it stands to reason that they would have the same effect on bodies orbiting close to their star.

Signs of water in a gas giant exoplanet's atmosphere suggest the world formed much closer to its star than gas giants in our solar system did

The gas giant exoplanet orbits the binary red dwarfs at a distance of 300 million miles — approximately the distance of the solar system's asteroid belt from the sun.

This is the first time titanium oxide has been detected in the atmosphere of a gas giant exoplanet, and the finding should help astronomers develop a better understanding of the composition and processes going on in the atmospheres of these distant worlds.

Not exact matches

Our solar system is a case in point: the latest exoplanet research suggests that its orderly arrangement of planets is exceptionally rare, with rocky planets closer to the sun and gas giants farther out.

Hot, rocky exoplanets are the scorched cores of former gas giants.

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.

The first exoplanets found were gas giants orbiting close to their stars — a study suggests they could be built from collisions of several smaller planets

TESS, which NASA recently selected as a new Explorer mission, will use an array of wide - field cameras to perform the all - sky survey of a broad range of exoplanets, ranging from Earth - size to gas giants.

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.

To date, all exoplanets discovered in orbit around double stars are gas giants, similar to Jupiter, and are thought to form in the icy regions of their systems.

They hope their technique will eventually produce weather reports for gas giants orbiting distant stars and, one day, rocky exoplanets similar to our own.

Most of the first exoplanets found were hot Jupiters: gas giants that orbit close to their stars.

Astronomers have for the first time detected ingredients in the atmosphere of a super-Earth, an exotic type of exoplanet of which there is no parallel in our solar system: It's larger than our home but not as large as a gas giant.

OBSERVATIONS of a Neptune - like exoplanet show that it has a watery atmosphere — suggesting it formed closer to its star than did the gas giants in our solar system.

Many of the exoplanets we see are Jupiter - like gas giants orbiting close to their star.

Until these findings by Dr Southworth's team, the only previous detections of exoplanet atmospheres all involved gas giants reminiscent of a high - temperature Jupiter.

The mission will monitor at least 200,000 stars for signs of exoplanets, ranging from Earth - sized rocky worlds to huge gas giant planets.

Scientists have identified a giant exoplanet with temperatures reaching 7,800 degrees Fahrenheit (4,315 Celsius), the hottest gas giant planet ever identified.

According to a NASA announcement on Friday, «TESS will use an array of telescopes to perform an all - sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets ranging from Earth - sized to gas giants, in orbit around the nearest and brightest stars in the sky.

I'm still holding out for the news that reads: «Second Earth Found» -[this exoplanet] will have all the right ingredients: orbit its star inside the habitable zone, spectroscopic analysis will reveal a nitrogen - rich atmosphere, evidence of water, roughly the same mass as our planet and it will belong in a system with a couple of gas giants shepherding the outer system.

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.

Before Kepler, plenty of Jupiter - sized worlds could be seen, but with its precision eye for spotting the tiniest of fluctuations of star brightness (as a small exoplanet passes between Kepler and the star), the space telescope has found that smaller exoplanets outnumber the larger gas giants.

Still, some focus on gas exoplanets and some on ice giants (think cold or hot exo - neptunes) or super-earths.

Tidal interactions between close - in, gas - giant exoplanets and their host star should cause the orbits of the planets to decay.

This planet is one of the most inflated of all known transiting exoplanets, making it one of the few members of a class of extremely low density, highly - irradiated gas giants.

FLASH - Origins talk: «From gas - giants to rocky exo - Earths: atmospheric characterization of transiting exoplanets» by Nikolay Nikolov, postdoc, University of Exeter

Life on Kepler - 453b might be unlikely, though, since this exoplanet is a gas giant.

The project, led by principal investigator George Ricker, a senior research scientist at MKI, will use an array of wide - field cameras to perform an all - sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets, ranging from Earth - sized planets to gas giants, in orbit around the brightest stars in the sun's neighborhood.

The project, led by principal investigator George Ricker, a senior research scientist at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (MKI) will use an array of wide - field cameras to perform an all - sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets, ranging from Earth - sized planets to gas giants, in orbit around the brightest stars in the sun's neighborhood.

Exoplanets come in all sizes, from rocky worlds smaller than Earth to massive bloated gas giants many times the size of Jupiter.

MAUNA KEA, HAWAII — A team of researchers has discovered and photographed a gas giant only 155 light years from our solar system, adding to the short list of exoplanets discovered through direct imaging.

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

A more recently announced exoplanet, Kepler - 453b, is also a circumbinary and a gas giant, though its orbit within its star's habitable zone means any moons it might have could be hospitable to life.

This new planet is a gas giant and definitely not habitable, but the possible universe of exoplanets that just might meet some of the basic criteria for habitability may well have grown.

Artist Statement TESS - NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite will be scanning for new planets outside of our solar system, ranging from Earth - sized ones to gas giants, monitoring 200 000...