Sentences with phrase «giant planets as»

Standish used data from the Voyager spacecraft, which determined the masses of the giant planets as it flew past.

They also estimated the chance that a giant planet as large as Neptune would form near the star, as it would disrupt potential earths that could have assembled there.

We analyze a sample of 1194 stars drawn from the California Planet Survey targets to determine the empirical functional form describing the likelihood of a star harboring a giant planet as a function of its mass and metallicity.

Early results from NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter portray the giant planet as a complex world with Earth - sized polar cyclones, deep - diving storm systems, and a lumpy magnetic field generated deeper than once thought.

Not exact matches

Jupiter's rings may not be as pronounced as Saturn's, but its ring system still extends to an impressive 140,000 miles away from the giant gas planet.

And what causes a rocky planet to form as opposed to a gas giant?

If the planet is to avert the worst scenarios for climate change, the optimistic long - run forecasts for oil demand growth put forward by energy giants such as Exxon can be thrown out the window.

As for me, I can't believe in an human - like being that designed and jump - started the universe 13.8 billion years ago and set aside a planet for His special favorite creations, so He'd have someone to keep Him company and sing songs praising Him, then gave Bronze Age hermits a book of His orders to mankind that includes «thou shalt not round thy head nor cut thy beard» on penalty of eternal suffering... just CA N'T, any more than I can force myself to believe the world rests on the back of giant turtle.

-- The Earth was formed by this giant explosion which took place millions of years ago and somehow ended up in this perfectly rotating planet that has perfectly precise, repeatable days, months and years and rotates at the perfect angle so as to enable defined changes in climate and weather to have predictable seasons.

Right, so teach about how the world is actually a giant turtles back, and how in Guam the sun and planets are eyeballs of giants, and about how people climbed from the underworld as ants led by a coyote, and how we were sneezed out from a sleeping giant, and...

THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS — The stately solar system of today was in turmoil in its first several million years, theorists believe, with giant planets sowing chaos as they strayed far from their current orbits.

The solar system of today was in turmoil in its first several million years, theorists believe, with giant planets sowing chaos as they strayed far from their current orbits.

By attempting to understand the subterranean structures of the planet and how they modify its surface features, Kircher could be said to have exhibited a «planetary» consciousness three centuries before the Gaia hypothesis proposed that we look at Earth as a giant self - regulating system.

Life as we know it could not exist on the gas - giant planet, and its nearby suns would incinerate any cities all on their own.

Until a few years ago we only knew of the existence of rings around the giant planets; then, recently, our team discovered that two small bodies situated between Jupiter and Neptune, belonging to a group called centaurs, have dense rings around them, which came as a big surprise.

In 2018, just next year folks, let's hope, NASA is going to be launching its James Webb Space Telescope, a giant piece of kit that's going to be about one and a half million kilometers out there beyond the orbit of the moon, and it's going to be able to look at these planets as they transit across the face of the star.

However, earlier studies which proposed that giant planets could possibly eject one another did not consider the effect such violent encounters would have on minor bodies, such as the known moons of the giant planets, and their orbits.

Gas giants Gaseous, low - density planets many times as massive as Earth and composed mainly of hydrogen and helium.

Depicted here as a terrestrial planet, Kepler - 16b might also be a gas giant like Saturn.

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.

Astronomers estimate that wandering Jupiter - mass planets without a parent star are about a tenth as common as once believed, Ashley Yeager reported in «Giant solo planets are in limited supply» (SN: 8/19/17, p. 10).

The findings will influence how ice giants are studied in future and could help astronomers classify newly discovered planets as they look deeper into space.

Planetary scientists started to recognize that Pluto's neighborhood is as rich and complex as the more familiar regions filled by the rocky and gas giant planets.

Now that the scientists have a better idea of how long the solar nebula persisted, they can also narrow in on how giant planets such as Jupiter and Saturn formed.

Giant planets are mostly made of gas and ice, and there are two prevailing hypotheses for how all this material came together as a planet.

The vast majority of dwarf planets like RR245 were destroyed or thrown from the solar system as the giant planets moved out to their present positions.

The planet's rain forests currently function as a «giant «utility,»» according to Andrew Mitchell, director of the Global Canopy Program.

The moon's host planet, a gas giant about the size of Uranus, hangs huge in the sky as always, its churning storms a constant sight for the inhabitants below.

These are large gas giants that look a little like the planet Jupiter in our solar system, although they are much hotter as they circle their star in a very tight orbit: about a hundred times closer than our Jupiter is to the sun.

These galactic giants can produce up to 10,000 times as many Earthlike planets as our galaxy, astrophysicist Pratika Dayal and colleagues report online July 16 at arXiv.org.

These galactic giants can produce up to 10,000 times as many Earthlike planets as our galaxy, astrophysicist Pratika Dayal and colleagues...

GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD The most likely galaxy to host habitable planets might be a giant elliptical such as ESO 325 - G004 (pictured, center), which is about 450 million light - years away in the constellation Centaurus.

Such orbital migration would destroy any smaller, Earth - like planets that had formed, as an inward - moving giant would scatter smaller planets the way a bowling ball would blast through a pile of marbles.

That's when mission planners project radio communications will be lost with the two - ton, bus - size spacecraft as it plunges into the giant planet's turbulent atmosphere at more than 122,000 kilometers per hour.

This lower limit was intriguing because the outer edge of the hole is about as far from its star as the giant planets in our solar system are from the sun.

«Ceres or ammonia - rich material from the outer solar system could have been implanted in the Asteroid Belt as a result of orbital perturbations exerted by the giant planets» early in the solar system's history, De Sanctis says.

Researchers expect to find water on many planets outside the solar system, called exoplanets, including Jupiter - size gas giants such as HD 189733 b and HD 209458 b, which orbits a different star.

As those giant outer planets grew, their powerful gravity flung much of that debris outward.

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.

Astronomers once pictured the Kuiper belt as a giant ring - shaped collection of bodies along a disklike plane, called the ecliptic, in which Earth and all the other major planets orbit.

Many of the gas giant planets we've seen orbiting other stars are up to twice as large as theory says they should be.

In the absence of giant planets, water delivery could happen naturally as planets pull in debris from different parts of the solar system.

Next week is make or break time for Galileo as the spacecraft prepares to send a probe down to the giant planet

Deutsche Bank and the MIT folks hope that seeing these huge numbers scroll by on a giant billboard will make people more aware of what we're doing to the planet, just as billboards with the U.S. national debt try to raise awareness about another scary number.

Thus, «giant chunks of space debris clobbering the planet and wiping out life on Earth has undeniably broad appeal,» Meltzer says, whereas «no one in Hollywood makes movies» about more nuanced explanations, such as Clovis points disappearing because early Americans turned to other forms of stone tool technology as the large mammals they were hunting went extinct as a result of the changing climate or hunting pressure.

Gas - giant planets more massive than Jupiter — as well as «failed stars» called brown dwarfs — should conversely have much shallower winds.

Collins and her team determined that KELT - 6b is a hot gas - giant planet orbiting a star about the same age as our sun.

As well as telling us more about Saturn, gas giant planets, and the Solar System in general, this study helps us better understand the EartAs well as telling us more about Saturn, gas giant planets, and the Solar System in general, this study helps us better understand the Eartas telling us more about Saturn, gas giant planets, and the Solar System in general, this study helps us better understand the Earth.

The interiors of the icy satellites of giant planets, such as in Jupiter's moon Europa, have conditions where carbonic acid could form.

Polar cyclones on Saturn are a puzzling phenomenon, since the planet, known as a gas giant, lacks an essential ingredient for brewing up such storms: water on its surface.