Sentences with phrase «including gas giants»

The main part of the school will be a series of lectures on the structure and evolution of stars with various masses including gas giant planets and on the effects of mass loss and stellar rotation upon them.

An audacious plan from the start, the goal was to explore a virtually unknown region of the outer Solar System, including the gas giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, using twin Voyager spacecraft.

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It included the quarterly dividend payments of British - Dutch oil and gas giant Royal Dutch Shell ($ 216.17) and US electric and gas utility company Southern Co ($ 46.92) as well as the final dividend of Japanese tobacco group Japan Tobacco ($ 79.80).

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.

And since 2004 oil giant BP and its partners (including Statoil) in the In Salah gas field in Algeria have been stripping the nine billion cubic meters of natural gas produced there annually of the 10 percent carbon dioxide it contains and pumping a million metric tons of liquid CO2 back into the underlying saline aquifer through three additional wells.

Those other processes include collisions of giant gas clouds within galaxies, internal instabilities, tidal interactions during flybys of smaller galaxies, and minor mergers that don't produce conspicuous distortions.

Speculation includes a comet swarm or a giant cloud of dust or gas.

Although the expectation is that TESS will identify up to 17,000 hot gas giants, up to 500 worlds among its treasure trove of discoveries are predicted to be rocky worlds, including about fifty that will be Earth - sized.

[6] Other examples include the HD 142527 (Reference: Press Release: ALMA Sheds Light on Planet - Forming Gas Streams and Press Release: ALMA Discovers a Formation Site of a Giant Planetary System.)

Not only did the Cassini spacecraft manage to survive its first dive between Saturn and its rings on Wednesday, but it managed to obtain the closest images of the gas giant's atmosphere to date — including a picture of what...

When stars form from a giant cloud of gas and dust, the angular momentum of the cloud carries over to all the objects that form from the cloud, including new planets.

The virtues of a smaller minivan include not having to park, gas up, and drive a giant vehicle at all times.

It included the quarterly dividend payments of British - Dutch oil and gas giant Royal Dutch Shell ($ 216.17) and US electric and gas utility company Southern Co ($ 46.92) as well as the final dividend of Japanese tobacco group Japan Tobacco ($ 79.80).

Top holdings include the likes of Thailand's integrated gas and petroleum giant PTT Public Company, as well as Chinese property development and investment company China Overseas Land & Investment Limited.

Other accomplishments of the 17 member team included the discovery an offshoot cave on the south wall of the Blue Hole, encouraging results of Doppler testing on mixed gas divers, a study confirming pseudomonas bacteria growth under high oxygen partial pressure study, a survey of the giant speleothem gallery on the south wall and successful dives by six additional Cambrian Foundation members to the bottom of the Blue Hole.

The Woodlands, Texas — located just north of metro Houston — is a hub for some giants of the oil and gas business, including ExxonMobil, Chevron Phillips, and Anadarko Petroleum.

It will also include two new features: resource - rich gas giants and the «Annihilaser,» a celestial laser of doom that obliterates planets with each tremendous blast.

The newest build of the game includes «open - world» combat interaction in the Crusader planetary system consisting of a gas giant surrounded by three moons and two orbital stations.

He pledged last year to extract by the end of 2008 a shared long - term goal of this sort from the dozen or so countries responsible for 85 percent of emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping gases — including established economic powers and emerging giants led by China and India.

Including the idea of carbon removal enables us to explain climate change in as simple a way as possible: climate change is caused by the giant (albeit invisible) mess humans are making in the sky by emitting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses.

Lobbyists representing industry players including natural gas giant EQT, Antero Resources, TransCanada, and multiple oil and gas trade associations wooed state lawmakers with thousands of dollars» worth of food and drink throughout 2017, according to lobbying records obtained by DeSmog.

-LRB-...) beneficiaries of the ECB policy include German chemical giant BASF; electricity firms EDF, Engie, Enel, E.ON and Iberdrola; Airbus Group and Ryanair; telecoms companies Orange, Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica, Telecom Italia and KPN; oil and gas companies Shell, ENI, Total and Repsol; car companies Volkswagen and Renault; French pharmaceutical firm Sanofi; giant brewers Anheuser - Busch InBev and Heineken; conglomerates Unilever, Siemens and LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton); software and service provider SAP.»

That has left swaths of industry in China struggling with limited gas, including giants like German chemical company BASF SE and local producer Yunnan Yuntianhua Co., as supplies are diverted to households that had previously relied on coal for heating.»

And, except for two congressmen who didn't take any energy industry money, the signatories received sizable contributions from a number of other corporations that compete with wind, including coal barons Arch Coal and Alpha Natural Resources; and oil and gas giants Chesapeake Energy, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Valero Energy.

In a statement issued Wednesday, 14 corporations that include oil leader Royal Dutch Shell, coal miners BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, cement maker LafargeHolcim, and technology giants HP and Intel pushed for the United Nations Climate Change conference in Paris, France, this December, where almost 200 nations will agree to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change.

This includes oil & gas giants like ExxonMobil ($ 344,000, 2007 - 2012) and Big Oil's top lobbying group, the American Petroleum Institute ($ 88,000, 2008 - 2010).

Again, when we start talking about Jupiter, we are talking about the so - called «gas giant» planets, which also include Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.