Sentences with phrase «gas giants farther»

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Flying in egg - shaped orbits, each one lasting 14 days, Juno also will look for evidence that Jupiter has a dense inner core and measure how much water is in the atmosphere, a key yardstick for figuring out how far away from the sun the gas giant formed.

Far from the limelight, Aubrey McClendon, Harold Hamm, Mark Papa, and other wildcatters were determined to tap massive deposits of oil and gas that Exxon, Chevron, and other giants had dismissed as a waste of time.

Crepp says that until the mid-1990s, scientists believed that gas giants like Jupiter would be found far from the stars they orbit, much like Jupiter in our solar system.

Only rocky, sturdy planets could form nearby; giant planets would form farther out, where ices and cool gases could gather together.

It gives further evidence of how Titan, despite its location in orbit around a gas giant in the outer Solar System, is one of the most Earth - like objects ever studied.

He predicts that with further observations, more «normal» gas giants will be found, such as one described last week that has twice the mass of Jupiter and orbits its star at 13 AU.

The Life of Super-Earths by Dimitar Sasselov Of the 700 planets astronomers have found so far in distant solar systems, most are places that are extremely hostile to life as we know it: searing - hot gas giants where iron could fall as rain and winds might blow in excess of 1,000 miles per hour.

«Scientists have wondered why the high atmospheres of Saturn and other gas giants are heated far beyond what might normally be expected by their distance from the sun,» said Sarah Badman, a Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team associate at Lancaster University, England.

Gas giants are probably born further out, beyond some 400 million kilometers, where ice crystals can develop and accumulate into planetary cores that are massive enough to attract large amounts of gas from the diGas giants are probably born further out, beyond some 400 million kilometers, where ice crystals can develop and accumulate into planetary cores that are massive enough to attract large amounts of gas from the digas from the disk.

In the Solar System, small rocky planets such as the Earth orbit near the Sun, whereas gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn are found much further out.

Recently detected ripples in the gas giant's rings carry signatures of the planet's interior structure, offering new insights into what lies far beneath Saturn's cloud tops.

«Before now, we were only able to image gas giants that are born much farther out.

As far as the context, there are other objects besides Haumea or the gas giants with rings, too.

As this SWRI press release details, Juno has eight scientific instruments designed to study the planet's magnetic field, atmosphere and interior structure, and they show that Jupiter is far more than just a giant ball of gases.

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

But in December 2012, when the ice moon was at its farthest point from the gas giant, they caught a pair of plumes bearing clear signs of oxygen and hydrogen — the components of water vapor — shooting from near the southern pole.

Flying in egg - shaped orbits, each one lasting 14 days, Juno also will look for evidence that Jupiter has a dense inner core and measure how much water is in the atmosphere, a key yardstick for figuring out how far away from the sun the gas giant formed.

[103] All the observational studies have so far failed to find any evidence for brown dwarfs or gas giants.

Abstract: Ground - based wide - field surveys for nearby transiting gas giants are yielding far fewer true planets than astrophysical false positives, of which some are difficult to reject.

During the course of the Trans - atlantic E... ▽ More Ground - based wide - field surveys for nearby transiting gas giants are yielding far fewer true planets than astrophysical false positives, of which some are difficult to reject.

Given the large orbital eccentricities of these two objects (which move beyond 500 AUs of the Sun), some astronomers have argued that they were likely to have been strongly perturbed by a massive celestial object (which is unlikely to have been Neptune as they do not come close enough to feel its gravitational influence) such as the passing of a rogue planet (perturbed from its primordial orbit by the gas giants of the inner Solar Sylstem) or one or more passing stars, which could have dragged the two objects farther out after initial orbital perturbation by Neptune or as part of a «first - generation» Oort Cloud.

Farther away in the disk, ices that haven't been vaporized by the star and more gas combine to form giant gas planets.

Given that its surrounding shell of gas and dust contains the higher element Magnesium, the star may have already shed a substantial share of its mass after progressing up the giant branch farther than, say, Pollux.

Many of the gas giants found so far by instruments such as NASA's Kepler Space Telescope are so - called «hot Jupiters» — star - hugging behemoths far too thoroughly barbecued to be proper sites for floating cities.

Oil and gas giant British Petroleum has partnered with Tesla to install a storage battery at one of its subsidiaries» wind farms in South Dakota, US, as part of a pilot programme which could see the firm further embrace battery storage.

Oil and gas giant British Petroleum has partnered with Tesla to install a storage battery at one of its subsidiaries» wind farms in South Dakota, US, as part of a pilot program which could see the firm further embrace battery storage.

As you say Giles, Macfarlane sees wave and geothermal as far less a near term threat to coal and gas, so his strategy is to back them with a few meagre tax payer funded handouts while we let the carbon giants continue to pollute our otherwise wonderful nation for free!

Our giant empty homes require a staggering amount of energy and they produce far more greenhouse gases than any automobile on the road.