Sentences with phrase «gas giants with»

Astronomers have found gas giants with orbits that hug close to their host star, and super-sized Earths that might be capable of hosting life as we know it.

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

Planetary candidate «c» appears to be a gas giant with 72 percent of Jupiter's mass (shown here with Europa) in an outer orbit.

Planet b or A1 is probably a gas giant with a minimum mass around that of Jupiter (shown here with Europa).

Not exact matches

Greens and Chevron set to face off over Gorgon vision Chevron is set for fresh battles with WA's powerful green lobby group after the US giant said yesterday it wanted to nearly double the size of the $ 50 billion Gorgon liquefied natural gas project on environmentally fragile Barrow Island off WA's North West.

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.

These efforts are bearing fruit for Weatherhaven, which recently partnered with Brazilian construction and logistics company Esbracon, to provide up to 10 sustainable camp projects for oil and gas exploration giant, HRT of Brazil.

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.

CALGARY — Malaysian energy giant Petronas said Wednesday it's delaying its proposed liquefied natural gas terminal near Prince Rupert, B.C., even though it's pleased with recent moves the provincial government has made to make the nascent LNG industry more competitive.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Featuring a giant potato truck cutout getting fueled up by Mrs. Dash and Molly McButter «gas pumps,» the retail display was the first place winner among stores with 1 - 5 cash registers.

July 20 — Chelsea have inked a new sponsorship deal with Russian energy giant Gazprom which will see them supply gas and electricity to the club for the next three seasons.

While the measure is unlikely to make it through the divided Congress to become law, Democrats hope to score politically with voters frustrated by a confluence of deep budget cuts in Washington, sky - high prices at the gas pumps, and staggering profits on the oil giants» bottom lines.

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.

Born in red giant stars or supernovas, they drift through the galaxy and eventually mingle with interstellar clouds of gas and dust, the places where new stars and planets arise.

Alan Boss, a theorist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., has pushed an idea called gravitational instability, in which an especially cool and massive protoplanetary disk can develop ripples that can coalesce into gas giants, with or without cores.

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.

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.

This means that the sun, Earth and Jupiter line up, with Earth sitting between the sun and the gas giant.

Because their gravitational grip is weak, the gas could have been pushed out before many stars could form; a few giant stars may have blasted it out with their fierce heat and explosive deaths, for example.

This scenario naturally produces a planetary system just like our own: small, rocky planets with thin atmospheres close to the star, a Jupiter - like gas giant just beyond the snowline, and the other giants getting progressively smaller at greater distances because they move more slowly through their orbits and take longer to hoover up material.

The finding suggests the gas giant interacts very differently with the solar wind, the team writes.

As the Saturn kilometric radiation (so known because the radio emissions» wavelengths are measured in kilometers), or SKR, emanates from the gas - giant planet, its intensity oscillates every 10.5 hours or so, nearly in concert with the planet's rotation.

One possible clue was that small, cold stars tend to have close - in gas giants called hot Jupiters that stay in line, whereas bigger, hotter stars are more likely to have hot Jupiters with tilted orbits.

In the absence of much gas, you'll end up with just a rock, like Earth, or an ice giant, like Neptune, perhaps.

They will have been stripped from the cluster as it passed by a giant gas cloud or had a close encounter with a neighbouring cluster, or even simply drifted away.

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.

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

To make a fake gaseous planet, the researchers hollowed out a spherical void in a cylinder of stretchy silicon and filled it with water, which mimics the gas that makes up gas giants.

Based on studies of comets, researchers believe that these young solar systems swirl with ice crystals and wispy gases that coalesce into gas giants like Saturn and Jupiter.

Hubble's infrared camera enabled Freudling, an astronomer with the European Southern Observatory in Garching, Germany, to analyze the elements in three quasars — clouds of hot gas swirling into giant black holes — that were up to 12.8 billion years old.

Those time spans coincide with known stellar behavior: once a year, for example, a red giant pulsates in brightness, an event astronomers think is linked to an episodic shedding of gas; likewise, every 5,000 years the helium in an outer layer of the star ignites and burns up in a flash, and the star undergoes a brief burst of expansion.

The astronomers took hundreds of infrared pictures of PSO J318.5 - 22, which is a gas giant like our Jupiter but with eight times the mass.

As astronomers report online today in Nature, magnetic fields inside M33's six most massive giant molecular clouds — large concentrations of dense gas and dust that give birth to stars — line up with the spiral arms, suggesting the magnetic fields helped create the huge clouds and that they regulate how the clouds fragment to form new stars.

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.

A new analysis of data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft finds that stars with lower abundances of heavy elements — the kind that populated the early Milky Way — are more likely to host gas giants several thousand kilometers larger in diameter than Jupiter.

With population - level data they were able to calculate the odds that a moon (and its gas giant) would be in the habitable zone around a star — the region where liquid water can exist.

Phase V hydrogen, created by crushing Earth's lightest element with mind - boggling pressures, gives the physicists a glimpse of the inner atmosphere of a gas giant, where pressures reach millions of (Earth) atmospheres

Chris Darimont discusses the impact of humans» unique predatory behavior on the planet, and Catherine Matacic talks with Sarah Crespi about whistled languages, Neolithic massacres, and too many gas giants.

This auroral display was due to a giant cloud of gas from the sun — a coronal mass ejection or CME — that collided with Earth's magnetic fields on Aug. 19, 2014, at 1:57 a.m. EDT.

With their gas depleted, it may be impossible for the disks around stars in massive clusters to form giant planets like Jupiter or Saturn.

So these are not sort of small players, these are major parts of the energy budget of an accreting black hole and by extension, they have an important impact on their environment; and the jets associated with accreting black holes and nuclei galaxies inflate giant lobes of plasma outside the galaxy and these heat the surrounding gas, they affect the fuel supply, they stimulate star formation, they in fact stimulate galaxy formation.