Sentences with phrase «gas giants in»

There are very deep reasons for the differences in climate among the terrestrial, or Earth - like, planets (as opposed to the Jupiter - like gas giants in the outer solar system), and I mean that literally.

Astronomers believe that the gas giants in our solar system formed by building up a large core over a few million years and then pulling in a huge amount of hydrogen and other gases to form an atmosphere.

Here we report another violation of the orbit - composition... ▽ More In the Solar system the planets» compositions vary with orbital distance, with rocky planets in close orbits and lower - density gas giants in wider orbits.

Abstract: In the Solar system the planets» compositions vary with orbital distance, with rocky planets in close orbits and lower - density gas giants in wider orbits.

Given the low abundance of elements heavier than hydrogen, moreover, it is possible that the star is more likely to have gas giants in cold outer orbits.

Surveys applying this method have ruled out the existence of gas giants in Alpha Centauri.

There are four gas giants in our solar system — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — but why are their moons not made of gas?

In stark comparison, HAT - P - 26b has a metallicity of just 4.8 times that of the Sun, suggesting that not only is it closer to the gas giants in composition but also that it likely formed closer to its host star than the planets of a similar size in our own system.

We found that brown dwarfs are similar to the gas giants in the Solar System (in that they have zonal circulation), but that they are more like Neptune and less like Jupiter (their brightness variations are driven by large - scale waves in zones rather than Great Red Spot - like storms as in Jupiter).

K2 - 33b is a large planet like the gas giants in our solar system.

All of the other gas giants in our solar system — Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus — have fairly similar systems of moons.

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.

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 encounters hurtled the gas giants in toward their parent suns.

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 surface winds on three recently discovered gas giants in nearby solar systems would dry, and remove, your hair in no time.

They modeled an early solar system in which the gas that briefly surrounded the sun dragged Jupiter toward the sun, as appears to have happened to gas giants in most known exoplanetary systems.

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.

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.

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.

At the time of its launch, the schoolbus - sized vehicle set out on the most distant planetary orbital mission ever, and when it reached the distant gas giant in 2004, the data its instruments collected yielded some astonishing revelations.

And Jupiter and gas giant in general are thought to formed quickly at beginning solar system formation - so cooling for very long time.

Not exact matches

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.

The stock has soared more than eight per cent over the past week on speculation the company could buy the retail operations of oil and gas giant Hess, which owns about 1,350 gasoline stations in 16 East Coast states.

NASA's nuclear - powered Cassini spacecraft took 165 different photos in the shadow of Saturn to make this backlit mosaic of the gas giant.

Energy giant Woodside Petroleum has signed a project development agreement with US - based Sempra Energy for a potential liquefied natural gas plant in Texas.

I compared my vision to the story of Red Bull in the Shark Tank: While I'm competing with industry giants (they were up against huge companies like Pepsi and Coke), success means that you have opened a new market (remember when there wasn't a section of energy drinks in every gas station and grocery store!?!).

UAF has worked extensively with both institutional and commercial partners in Alaska and in recent years, using drones to monitor sea lion populations in the Aleutian Islands, conduct ice flow and environmental surveying missions for NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, inspect pipelines for oil and gas giant BP and assist a Russian tanker during a dangerous late - season fuel delivery to the remote Alaskan outpost of Nome.

French energy giant Engie SA bought the cargo to meet high gas demand during freezing weather in the northeast U.S.. Although not completely unheard of (Norway has previously sent LNG to the U.S.), this would have been the first time that the country imported a cargo from northwest European storage tanks, some of which undoubtedly came from the $ 27 billion Yamal LNG plant Russia started a month ago.

Tesla replaces gas - burning vehicles with electric ones; SolarCity provides clean power drawn from a source Musk is fond of calling a giant fusion reactor in the sky, the sun; and SpaceX ensures that we will become a «multiplanetary» species.

Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell posted a 42 percent rise in profits in the first quarter of 2018, underpinned by a recent uptick in oil and gas prices.

«Uranus and Neptune never had the time to grow into gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn,» Imke de Pater, an astronomer at the University of California Berkeley who wasn't involved in the study, wrote in an accompanying article in Nature Astronomy.

According to the terms of the partnership, Lego manufactured Shell - branded gas stations and racing cars in exchange for the oil giant making those products available through its global network.

The operator of the Circle K convenience store chain in the United States is seen as a likely bidder to buy the retail assets of oil and gas giant Hess.

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.

Seven other U.S. space probes have sailed past the gas giant on brief reconnaissance missions before heading elsewhere in the solar system.

A deal with the French oil giant Total to sell d.light's new S300 (about $ 30) and S20 (priced in the mid-teens) in its gas stations in countries like Cameroon, Indonesia and the Republic of Congo, has boosted shipments from less than 30,000 to more than 500,000 lanterns each month.

By the time the plant was complete in 2009, the fracking boom in the U.S. had suddenly created a giant glut of gas that sank the export scheme.

Energy giant Woodside Petroleum has put on hold its multi-billion dollar Browse liquefied natural gas project in view of the challenging economic and market environment.

The gas - guzzling giant will likely be looking to import in much larger quantities of heavy oil from Canada, Mexico and Colombia to meet demand, and Mexico would be foolish to say no to an influx of dollars.

Put together with the North Sea assets acquired from Shell last year in a $ US3 billion deal, Santos» portfolio would catapult Harbour — managed by private equity giant EIG Global Energy Partners — to a size roughly on a par with Woodside Petroleum or British - listed Dana Gas.

While the campaign trail in Strathmore - Brooks, Mr. Jean and candidate Derek Fildebrandt cleverly walked around town with a giant arrow in hand pointing out services and commodities, like alcohol and gas, which became more expensive due to tax increases in the recent provincial budget.

French energy giant Total is in talks with the largest privately held Russian energy company Lukoil to develop gas and oil fields using the latest drilling techniques.

The venerable oil and gas giant lost its AAA rating from Standard and Poor in April 2016, which thought a symbolic loss (it shared the rating with Microsoft and Johnson & Johnson) indicated the damage wrought by years of low prices and some pretty terrible luck, notably Tillerson's lost $ 500 billion deal in Russia as the result of Western sanctions.

The ATO had been expected to focus on interest deductions claimed by the Australian subsidiaries of Exxon and rival oil giant Shell, both of which are shareholders in Gorgon, after the operator of the giant gas project, Chevron, lost a $ 340 million tax fight in the Federal Court last year.

Earnings in the oil giant's upstream segment, which explores for and produces oil and natural gas, improved slightly to $ 489 million.

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.

Australian electricity and natural gas giant AGL Energy announced plans last week to shut down the two - gigawatt Liddell coal - fired generating station in New South...

The oil and gas industry may not be in the best shape at the moment, but a company with clear - cut advantages within the industry is midstream giant Kinder Morgan (NYSE: KMI).

Tour busses stop there; imagine THAT long ride in a giant gas factory.