Sentences with phrase «gas giant planets»

The last 10 in a row glacial cycles were paced by orbital parameters of gas giant planets.

An audacious plan from the start, the goal was to explore a virtually unknown region of the outer Solar System, including the gas giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, using twin Voyager spacecraft.

Hot Jupiters are heated gas giant planets that are very close to their stars, just a few million miles distant and orbiting their stellar hosts in just a few days.

How do some gas giant planets end up so feverishly close to their stars?

«SPH is often utilized to model interactions between forming gas giant planets and their precursor disks,» says the paper's lead author, Robin Canup, assistant director of the SwRI Space Studies Department in Boulder, Colorado.

Neptune is the fourth and outermost of the gas giant planets.

Warm dense matter exists in the cores of gas giant planets and the preliminary stages of nuclear fusion, among other inaccessible places.

Stars that contain a larger fraction of heavy elements (i.e., any element aside from hydrogen and helium) are more likely to possess detectable gas giant planets.

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

On June 16, 2008, a team of astronomers announced at the 2008 Extra Solar Super-Earths Workshop in France their discovery of one «super-Earth» type planet in a tight orbit around this star with two other gas giant planets in outer orbits (ESO press release and Bouchy et al, 2009).

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

Professor Emma Bunce from the University of Leicester awarded Chapman Medal for outstanding research into gas giant planets

Or, if gas giant planets like KELT - 9b possess solid rocky cores as some theories suggest, the planet may be boiled down to a barren rock, like Mercury.»

Until now, the gas giant planets that have been directly detected have been much larger — five to 13 times Jupiter's mass, Fitzgerald said.

That is, a family of gas giant planets located as far from the star as Jupiter and Saturn are from the sun.

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.

The main part of the school will be a series of lectures on the structure and evolution of stars with various masses including gas giant planets and on the effects of mass loss and stellar rotation upon them.

«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.»

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

Robotic spacecraft, such as Pioneer 10 and 11 and the Voyager probes, gave us our first close - ups of the gas giant planets in the outer solar system.

This result confirms that gas giant planets form rapidly within disks and validates the use of disk structures as fingerprints of embedded planets.

Plus, Marcus Knudson discusses making metallic hydrogen and how it can better our understanding of gas giant planets.

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

The orbits of exocomets on Beta Pictoris could also help scientists trace the presence and migration of larger, undetected bodies such as gas giant planets in the planetary system, says Russel White, an astronomer at Georgia State University in Atlanta who was not involved in the study.

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.

The two gas giant planets did a gravitational dance with the sun and each other that sent them hurling in then back out to the outer solar system.

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

Many of the gas giant planets we've seen orbiting other stars are up to twice as large as theory says they should be.

Planetary scientists started to recognize that Pluto's neighborhood is as rich and complex as the more familiar regions filled by the rocky and gas giant planets.

This artist's depiction shows a gas giant planet rising over the horizon of an alien waterworld.

If there's gas around and the bodies get large enough, perhaps something on the order of 10 Earth masses or so, then you can start pulling some gas in on top of your rocky core and make something that looks like a gas giant planet, like Jupiter.

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

Majestic, ringed Saturn little resembles the relatively tiny blue marble that is Earth, but the massive gas giant planet is home to at least one phenomenon that would be familiar to high - latitude dwellers here on Earth.

The vents are narrowed or closed when at closest approach to the gas giant planet [1].

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

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

This is an artist's impression of the gas giant planet Kepler - 13Ab as compared in size to several of our solar system planets.

This artist's impression shows the formation of a gas giant planet around a young star.

A gas giant planet, like Saturn, radiates more than twice the amount of radiation than it receives from the Sun.

In 1995, astronomers confirmed that a massive gas giant planet was orbiting the star 51 Pegasi.

Not exact matches

Jupiter's rings may not be as pronounced as Saturn's, but its ring system still extends to an impressive 140,000 miles away from the giant gas planet.

Ask an astronomer how planets form, and she'll say parts of a giant wheel of gas and dust around a newborn star, called a protoplanetary disk, somehow collapse into blobs.

And what causes a rocky planet to form as opposed to a gas giant?

The mission aims to identify planets ranging from Earth - sized to gas giants, using an array of telescopes to perform a two - year survey.

Jupiter's atmosphere features colossal cyclones and rivers of ammonia welling up from deep inside the solar system's largest planet, researchers said on Thursday, publishing the first insights from a NASA spacecraft flying around the gas giant.

We are a Goldie Loc's Planet 2 - we got the right of land to water ratio 3 - the moon is at the right size and orbit to prevent the earth from wobbling 4 - the gas giants in our solar system do a great job at cleaning up roaming ice and rock that is flying around our solar system 5 - right distance from the galactic core.

We are learning that stability is a common feature of large - scale atmospheric systems in the giant planets: with no solid surface underlying the gas, there is no friction to dissipate atmospheric motions.

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.

And they unveil the roots of the planet's storms, what lies beneath the opaque atmosphere and a striking geometric layout of cyclones parked around the gas giant's north and south poles.