Sentences with phrase «hottest planet in our solar system»

The scorching ball of gas, a «hot Jupiter» called HD 149026b, is a sweltering 3,700 degrees Fahrenheit (2,040 degrees Celsius)-- about 3 times hotter than the rocky surface of Venus, the hottest planet in our solar system.

Venus» surface temperature is roughly 480 °C (900 °F), making it the hottest planet in the solar system.

During the day, temperatures reach almost 464 Celsius, 900 Fahrenheit, making Venus the hottest planet in the solar system.

[/ caption] You might be surprised to know that Venus is the hottest planet in the Solar System.

► The planet Venus is the hottest planet in the Solar System and is covered in a dense atmosphere that retains the heat © 2012, TESCCC

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Ancient Ingredients Flakes rich in calcium and aluminum, as old as the solar system itself, probably originated in the hot center of the flattened, spinning disk of gas and dust that gave rise to our sun and its planets.

The planet, known as HD 189733b, is a hot Jupiter, meaning it is similar in size to Jupiter in our solar system but in very close orbit around its star.

The hottest point on a gaseous planet near a distant star isn't where astrophysicists expected it to be — a discovery that challenges scientists» understanding of the many planets of this type found in solar systems outside our own.

Unlike all the planets in our Solar System, many hot Jupiters are orbiting retrograde, 16 and their spin axes are not aligned with their star's spin axis.17 How can that be?

(McGill University) The hottest point on a gaseous planet near a distant star isn't where astrophysicists expected it to be — a discovery that challenges scientists» understanding of the many planets of this type found in solar systems outside our own.

Until now, researchers were not sure whether the molecules that compose the stratosphere could exist in the atmospheres of massive, hot planets in other solar systems.

The planet, dubbed WASP - 18b, has a mass about 10 times that of Jupiter and completes one orbit around its star WASP - 18 in less than 23 hours, which places the planet in the «hot Jupiter» category of exoplanets, or planets that are located outside our solar system.

As in our Solar System, these orbits receive too much irradiation and the planet surfaces are too hot to sustain liquid water.

Here we report that the upper atmosphere above Jupiter's Great Red Spot — the largest storm in the Solar System — is hundreds of degrees hotter than anywhere else on the planet.

While other planets in Earth's solar system are either scorching hot or bitterly cold, Earth's surface has relatively mild, stable temperatures.