Sentences with phrase «giants at large distances»

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They have found giant planets several times the mass of Jupiter, orbiting their star at more than twice the distance Neptune is from the sun — another region where theorists thought it was impossible to grow large planets.

What is more, improved technology should also allow larger observatories such as Keck to move from the few giant planets already imaged — all of which orbit their host stars at relatively large distances — to closer - in worlds more like our own.

How Hektor became a Trojan asteroid, located at only 5 times the Earth — Sun distance, is probably related to the large scale reshuffling that occurred when the giant planets were still migrating,» said Julie Castillo - Rogez, researcher at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.

to determine the role of solar wind in configuring the planetary magnetospheres, especially at large distances from the Sun and to understand the atmospheric energy balance and magnetosphere coupling at the giant planets;

There's a gas giant located about 330 light - years from here that's not only unusually large, it's also orbiting its host star at an incredibly close distance.

Ceres, a dwarf planet or giant asteroid (depending on the definition used), is the largest object in the asteroid belt, orbiting at 2.8 astronomical units (the distance from Earth to the sun).

So far the direct detection has only been able to show giant exoplanets, several times larger than Jupiter and orbiting at great distances from their stars.

The black and white square tiles surrounding the central swimming pool are similar to those of a giant chess set, and guests may find themselves plodding along like a pawn pondering the serenity of its surroundings or dashing large distances like a queen striding out of her delightful room adorned in her evening attire, hastily anticipating a delicious banquet at Taman Rosani Hotel & Villa's fabulous Tunjung Biru restaurant.