Sentences with phrase «giant gas balls»

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

Many planets outside the solar system are even more massive than Jupiter, and they orbit their Sun - like stars at an Earth - like distance, but these faraway super-Jupiters are effectively giant gas balls that can not support life because they lack solid surfaces.

Not exact matches

After a decade of searching for planets orbiting stars like our sun, astronomers had found nothing but giant planets, most of them gas balls like Jupiter, around other stars.

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.

Saturn's hexagonal jet stream might be so long lasting because the planet is basically a giant ball of gas.

Meanwhile, gases froze into giant balls that would build the outer gas giants.