Sentences with phrase «hot outer atmosphere»

This might mean that it has a hot outer atmosphere heated by bubbling convection cells on the young planet — sort of a Jupiter on steroids.

The spacecraft's telescopes are sensitive to radiation from the hot outer atmospheres of stars like the Sun and white dwarfs, formed when stars about the size of the Sun reach the end of their lives.

Not exact matches

THE sun's million - degree outer atmosphere is the last place you would expect to find rain, yet a form of the stuff could help explain why the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, is much hotter than you might expect.

Scientists hope that the probe will help solve some crucial mysteries about the sun: How can the corona (the outer layer of the sun's atmosphere) be millions of degrees hotter than the solar surface?

Phosphine forms in the hot interior of the planet and reacts to form other compounds in the cooler outer atmosphere, so its appearance in the spectrum is evidence of turbulent mixing in Jupiter's atmosphere.

He eliminates the outer planets (too cold); Mercury (too hot on the sunny side and too cold on the other); and the Moon and asteroids (their gravities are too weak to trap atmospheres).

Short - lived fountains of plasma may explain why the sun's outer atmosphere is hotter than its surface

About every five minutes, spicules shoot red hot streams of charged particles into the corona, the outer layer of the solar atmosphere, at around 150 kilometres per second.

This is why the Sun's corona, its outer atmosphere is actually hotter than the surface of the Sun.

By increasing the opacity of the star's atmosphere, light radiating outwards from the hotter, inner regions of the star is absorbed, and only light coming from the outer, cooler layers of the star escapes.

Additionally, while nearly 80 percent of the sunlight reflected from a roof can escape to outer space, the «thermal infrared» energy radiated by a hot, dark roof is trapped by greenhouse gases, such as CO2 and water vapor, warming the atmosphere.

Whenever the atmosphere above the surface, especially clouds, have accumulated energy during a hot sunny day, portions of that energy are prevented from direct and rapid release of it to the cold of outer space by back radiation.