Sentences with phrase «gas giant worlds»

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Jeffrey Gundlach, one of the world's most closely watched investors, recommended a short position in social media giant Facebook Inc and a long position in the SPDR S&P Oil and Gas Exploration ETF.

Oil - industry experts say it will be difficult for the oil giants to spend less because they need to replenish the oil and gas they are pumping — and must keep up with rivals in the world - wide exploration race.

By depleting these greenhouse gases, the microbes might turn their warm world into a giant snowball, killing them all.

At just under eight times the mass and twice the size of our own world, 55 Cancri e is a welterweight that straddles the hazy boundary between terrestrial and gas - giant planets.

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.

«Jupiter is talking to us in a way only gas - giant worlds can,» said Bill Kurth, co-investigator for the Waves instrument from the University of Iowa, Iowa City.

Because a gas giant's atmospheric pressure and magnetic field both depend on its mass, less - massive worlds such as Saturn should have dynamic weather extending more than three times deeper than Jupiter's.

«It proves that there is no clear dividing line between rocky worlds like Earth and fluffier planets like water worlds or gas giants.»

These worlds may be rocky bodies, a lot more like Earth than the giant gas balls discovered previously.

The world is a gas giant like Jupiter that orbits so close to its star that it sizzles at thousands of degrees.

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.

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

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.

Based on humankind's admittedly limited experience, habitability seems to mean a small world — a terrestrial planet rather than a gas giant like Jupiter or Saturn — orbiting its star at a comfortable «Goldilocks» distance that allows water to persist in liquid form.

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.

The new planet is a super-Earth — more massive than our world but puny relative to a gas giant.

Closest in are two planets slightly larger than our own, then Kepler - 90i, which is the system's smallest planet, followed by three worlds a bit smaller than Neptune and two gas giants.

In the prevailing theory of planet formation, called core accretion, dust grains stick together to form rocky worlds, and some of these rocky bodies then grow massive enough to attract surrounding gas, becoming gas giants like Jupiter.

In our solar system's youth the gas giant's footloose migration toward and away from our star flicked aside lesser worlds — a pruning that, as brutal as it was, opened up space for our planet.

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

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.

The Carbon Tracker Initiative — led by James Leaton, an environmentalist who served as an adviser at the accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers — combed through proprietary databases to figure out how much oil, gas and coal the world's major energy companies hold in reserve.

Alien life may, one day, be found on mini-Neptunes, former gas giants shaped by their suns into habitable worlds.

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.

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

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.

This unusual world, officially known as WASP - 12b, is a «hot Jupiter» — a giant gas planet which orbits very closely to its sun and which is heated to extreme temperatures — NASA explained in a statement.

By astronomers» reckoning, such powerful displays of star fury may explain why we've been discovering small rocky worlds so close to other stars — perhaps they are the charred husks of what were once mighty gas giants.

This is World War I - era trench warfare, only this time, the good guys have giant gas - powered mechs and the bad guys are walking televisions.

This is World War I - era trench warfare, only this time, the good guys have giant gas - powered mechs and the bad...

This isn't a matter of skyscrapers collapsing or giant statues being erected or poison gas shrouding the world.

The newest build of the game includes «open - world» combat interaction in the Crusader planetary system consisting of a gas giant surrounded by three moons and two orbital stations.

The world remains deeply divided over next steps, with the world's greenhouse - gas giants, China and the United States, refusing to consider mandatory restrictions on emissions.

Just like Saudi Arabia was given the geólogy to create Ghawar and other giant fields, and that Russia ended with the Cenomanian super giant gas reservoirs, the USA lucked into world class very low quality but supergiant gas reservoirs.

Moscow has for years used its giant energy reserves as a strategic tool to influence former satellite countries... The shale boom has reshaped the world energy market over the past decade, with the U.S. emerging as a new energy exporter, and the beginning of gas exports represents a big moment in this new world.»

I think John Ackerman is providing three of his books freely as PDFs for those interested in the source of all terrestrial planets (I'll cut to the chase here, spoiler alert, it is the large icy worlds we think of as gas giants).

Two of the giants of climate science pointed out within a month of the historic decision that current greenhouse gas emissions would take the world to the 2 °C target very swiftly.