Aug. 22, 2017 - In an experiment designed to mimic the conditions deep inside the icy
giant planets of our solar system, scientists observed «diamond rain» for the first time as it formed in high - pressure conditions.
Past radial velocity analysis suggests that
giant planets of one tenth to 10 times the mass of Jupiter do not exist within 0.1 to four AUs of 15 Sge (Cummings et al, 1999).
«From the strength of the absorption,» she says, it appears «the planet's atmosphere has a composition not dissimilar to those of
the giant planets of our solar system.»
Past radial velocity analysis suggests that
giant planets of one tenth to 10 times the mass of Jupiter do not exist within 0.1 to four AUs of Star A (Cummings et al, 1999).
Past radial velocity analysis suggests that
giant planets of one tenth to 10 times the mass of Jupiter do not exist within 0.1 to four AUs of 37 Gem (Cummings et al, 1999).
In an experiment designed to mimic the conditions deep inside the icy
giant planets of our solar system, scientists observed «diamond rain» for the first time as it formed in high - pressure conditions.
In an experiment designed to mimic the conditions deep inside the icy
giant planets of our solar system, scientists were able to observe «diamond rain» for the first time as it formed in high - pressure conditions.
Not exact matches
Ask an astronomer how
planets form, and she'll say parts
of a
giant wheel
of gas and dust around a newborn star, called a protoplanetary disk, somehow collapse into blobs.
No company on the
planet is serving you more ads in more corners
of the Web than the search
giant.
But in sharing detailed images
of giant rockets, spaceships, fuel pods, and other crucial components
of his Interplanetary Transportation System (ITS), Musk left out some important stuff, including where he plans to fit 100 to 200 passengers on each trip to the red
planet.
The mission aims to identify
planets ranging from Earth - sized to gas
giants, using an array
of telescopes to perform a two - year survey.
Jupiter's atmosphere features colossal cyclones and rivers
of ammonia welling up from deep inside the solar system's largest
planet, researchers said on Thursday, publishing the first insights from a NASA spacecraft flying around the gas
giant.
INEOS Bio (which is the biofuel arm
of petrochemical
giant INEOS) and developer New
Planet Energy say they will use the loan guarantee to build the «INEOS BioEnergy Center,» near Vero Beach, Florida, that will produce 8 million gallons
of advanced biofuels and 6 MW
of biomass power from plant waste and trash per year.
NIF's 192 laser beams routinely create temperatures and pressures similar to those that exist only in the cores
of stars and
giant planets and inside nuclear weapons.
Even with a market value
of $ 1 trillion it would comfortably be the
planet's most valuable company ahead
of tech
giants Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc. and Amazon.com Inc..
All universes (plural) may well have been formed in one swelling swoop thusly becoming a uniformed dimension so ginormous our universe could well be a part
of combined universes forming say a
giant seahorse living within a sea so vast all being a part
of a ginormous
planet so huge we may never know such a thought
of plausible revelation.
Just because I stand firm in there most likely being a very ginormous
planet where within its ocean are
giant e n t I t I e s
of which our universe is found being inside one means you need not blare out negativities!
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.
I don't want to think that God set out to populate this one tiny
planet amongst a
giant empty universe with a set list
of lifeforms — that's boring!
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.
-- 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...
We need to take care
of our
planet and each other the chances
of a random meteor or
giant solar flare exists still they have nothing to do with a mythology created for those who choose to be unaccountable for their part in our future.
Wenger seems to be on a different
planet 2 %
of being a
giant, a
giant in the second half
of the table.
Jesusegun Alagbe The Solar System, formed 4.6 billion years ago from the gravitational collapse
of a
giant interstellar molecular cloud, comprises the Sun and eight
planets, namely Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
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.
Most likely, Meech says, the object is an outcast from another star system: a space rock flung out during the star's tempestuous youth when it was surrounded by freshly - formed
giant planets embedded in a disk
of debris.
While the Cassini spacecraft is gone, its enormous collection
of data about Saturn — the
giant planet, its magnetosphere, rings and moons — will continue to yield new discoveries for decades to come.
Astronomers this month announced a similar discovery for an even larger gas
giant, reporting that the Juno spacecraft, which is orbiting Jupiter, had found that the
planet's rotating cloud belts reach roughly 3,000 kilometers below the top
of the atmosphere.
While such circumplanetary disks have been theorized to surround
giant planets at birth and to control the flow
of gas onto the growing
planet, these findings are the first observational evidence for their existence.
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.
And they unveil the roots
of the
planet's storms, what lies beneath the opaque atmosphere and a striking geometric layout
of cyclones parked around the gas
giant's north and south poles.
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.
The gaseous veil
of Jupiter's surface has long cast a pall over scientists» quest to understand the
giant planet's depths.
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.
Our analysis strongly suggests we are observing a disk
of hot gas that surrounds a forming
giant planet in orbit around the star.
Their first instinct was to run simulations involving a
planet in a distant orbit that encircled the orbits
of the six Kuiper Belt objects, acting like a
giant lasso to wrangle them into their alignment.
Voyager Terra honours the pair
of NASA spacecraft, launched in 1977, that performed the first «grand tour»
of all four
giant planets.
Meanwhile, enormous ground - based observatories like the
Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile and the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii, both scheduled to open their eyes around 2020, will perform the more time - consuming work
of measuring the masses and densities
of the
planets found by TESS to determine whether they are rocky objects, gassy ones, or something else entirely.
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 early 2016, astronomers made a stunning claim: A
giant planet was patrolling the farthest reaches
of our solar system.
They found that groups
of the objects cluster in different ways, suggesting that not one but two
giant planets «shepherd» the smaller objects around (arxiv.org/abs/1406.0715).
Mathematical models, combined with our understanding
of how
planets and comets form, suggest that the objects in the Oort cloud must have been flung there by one
of the
giant planets closer to the sun.
WHAT kind
of matter would you expect to find inside a
giant planet?
Published on Aug. 28 in Nature Communications, the research revealed an entirely new type
of superionic ice that they call the P21 / c - SI phase, which occurs at pressures even higher than in the interior
of giant ice
planets of our solar system.
Unlike Earth, which has two magnetic poles (north and south), ice
giants can have many local magnetic poles, which leading theories suggest may be due to superionic ice and ionic water in the mantle
of these
planets.
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.
Also on the list are 67
planets roughly the size
of Earth, give or take a thousand miles or so in radius; 288 «super-Earths» up to twice Earth's diameter; 662 Neptune - size
planets; and 184
giants rivaling or exceeding Jupiter in size.
«This result is unique because it demonstrates that a
giant planet can form so rapidly that the remnant gas and dust from which the young star formed, surrounding the system in a Frisbee - like disk, is still present,» said Lisa Prato
of Lowell Observatory, co-leader
of the young
planet survey and a co-author on the paper.
They were the first human missions to those two
giant planets and then afterwards, they just shot out
of the solar system and are now heading into deep interstellar space.