Sentences with phrase «into gas giants»

Based on studies of comets, researchers believe that these young solar systems swirl with ice crystals and wispy gases that coalesce into gas giants like Saturn and Jupiter.

The work could explain why the planet has a relatively small heart, and paints a grisly picture of the early solar system, where massive, rocky «super-Earths» were snuffed out before they could grow into gas giants.

Alan Boss, a theorist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., has pushed an idea called gravitational instability, in which an especially cool and massive protoplanetary disk can develop ripples that can coalesce into gas giants, with or without cores.

«Uranus and Neptune never had the time to grow into gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn,» Imke de Pater, an astronomer at the University of California Berkeley who wasn't involved in the study, wrote in an accompanying article in Nature Astronomy.

In 1994 Jupiter's gravity shredded comet Shoemaker - Levy 9 into 21 visible chunks, which then plunged into the gas giant piece after piece.

Plus, the craft will collect data during its last hurtle into the gas giant's atmosphere.

The craft's final daring mission looms — a fatal dive into the gas giant's atmosphere

Cassini Makes 8th Dive Through Saturn's Rings: The Cassini spacecraft has made its eighth dive between Saturn and its rings, documenting the planetary system up close as it prepares for its Grand Finale plunge into the gas giant on Sept. 15.

As for how it was formed, astronomers are stumped as a planet of that size would usually turn into a gas giant (like Jupiter) in the early stages of formation.

According to NASA, due to the gravitational pull of the planet it should have pulled in a massive amount of gas that would eventually increase its size and transform it into a gas giant.

Professor Emma Bunce from the University of Leicester awarded Chapman Medal for outstanding research into gas giant planets

Ideally, it should measure between half and twice the size of Earth, but the important thing is that it's massive enough to hold an atmosphere but not so big that it bloats into a gas giant like Jupiter or an ice giant like Neptune.

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.

The recent agreement between oil - and - gas giants BP and Rosneft to explore and develop the hydrocarbons of the Russian Arctic brought the long - term potential of northern development back into the global spotlight.

Each train is essentially a giant refrigerator that cools natural gas to — 260 ° F, creating a stable liquid that's pumped into the holds of tankers docked at an adjacent port.

The spacecraft's final 22 orbits, dubbed the Grand Finale, sent Cassini into the potentially dangerous region between the gas giant and its rings, and its final orbit sent it directly into Saturn's atmosphere.

By depleting these greenhouse gases, the microbes might turn their warm world into a giant snowball, killing them all.

After 13 years studying Saturn and its moons, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will plunge into the ringed gas giant's atmosphere.

Two days before plunging into Saturn, Cassini took a mosaic image of the gas giant, its rings and its moons.

This picture was taken by NASA's Cassini probe on 19 July, while the spacecraft's orbit took it into the shadow of Saturn — meaning that the Sun was eclipsed by the gas giant.

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.

Young Saturn may have tossed rocks at the gas giant that grew into its four biggest moons

The positrons may be jetting from superhot gas falling into a giant black hole believed to inhabit the center of our galaxy.

Gas giants are probably born further out, beyond some 400 million kilometers, where ice crystals can develop and accumulate into planetary cores that are massive enough to attract large amounts of gas from the diGas giants are probably born further out, beyond some 400 million kilometers, where ice crystals can develop and accumulate into planetary cores that are massive enough to attract large amounts of gas from the digas from the disk.

Hubble's infrared camera enabled Freudling, an astronomer with the European Southern Observatory in Garching, Germany, to analyze the elements in three quasars — clouds of hot gas swirling into giant black holes — that were up to 12.8 billion years old.

Most clusters in the universe today are dominated by giant elliptical galaxies in which the dust and gas has already been formed into stars.

Some of Io's eruptions are violent enough to hurl giant plumes of gas and dust 500 kilometres into space.

In the sharper eyes of twentieth - century telescopes, these smudges have resolved into great luminous clouds of gas and dust that appear in a baffling variety of shapes, from huge glowing ellipses to giant gaseous peanuts.

The South African chemical and oil giant Sasol wanted a permit to build the first U.S. facility that converts natural gas into diesel fuel — the largest industrial project in the state's history.

Recently detected ripples in the gas giant's rings carry signatures of the planet's interior structure, offering new insights into what lies far beneath Saturn's cloud tops.

Presumably it has something to do with the fact that Jupiter is not really a «gas» giant but rather a metal giant: the interior pressure turns hydrogen into a metallic liquid.

NGC 253, a giant that's somewhat smaller than the Milky Way, is experiencing a starburst: For its size, it's converting gas and dust into new stars at a rapid clip, 2.8 solar masses per year.

Eventually, the spacecraft, like Galileo in 2003, will burn up in the atmosphere to eliminate the possibility it would ever spread contamination from Earth by crashing into one of the gas giant's potentially habitable icy moons.

As the gases swirled around our newborn sun, they dragged the calcium atom into a giant spinning disc.

Cassini Probe Spots Weird Waves in Saturn's Rings: NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured a spectacular photo of a perplexing wave structure in one of Saturn's rings as the probe headed into its final days at the gas giant.

The gravity of the outer gas giants quickly drew these elements in, bloating them into their current forms: solid cores of rock and ice covered with gas.

Meanwhile, gases froze into giant balls that would build the outer gas giants.

By sending Cassini into Saturn, scientists hope to gather a few bits of in - situ data from the atmosphere of one of the solar system's gas giants.

They also hope to study «ring rain,» particles that escape from the gas giant's rings and flow into the planet itself, the website noted.

With a perihelion of 76 AU (more than twice that of Neptune), Sedna is well beyond the reach of the gas giants and unlike other Kuiper Belt Objects, could not be scattered into its highly eccentric orbit from gravitational interactions with Neptune alone.

Jets of plasma stream out of the black hole close to the speed of light, and some distance away, they inflate into giant bubbles of hot gas.

About two months later, the star actually exploded, blowing chunks of debris into the cloud of gas, which caused a giant shockwave that produced the light of the supernova.

Alien life may, one day, be found on mini-Neptunes, former gas giants shaped by their suns into habitable worlds.

Presumably, the strong stellar wind emitted by giant stars eventually blows the titanium oxide out of the star's outer regions (along with hydrogen and helium gases and dust made of elements and molecules like carbon) into interstellar space, until vigorous convection brings out more titanium and oxygen that are created from nuclear processes deeper in the star.

A team of astronomers says that observations with the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array radio telescope show that a neighboring bloated star has giant convective plumes propelling gas from its surface up into the star's atmosphere.

The map provides a tantalizing glimpse of giant filamentary structures extending across millions of light - years, and paves the way for more extensive studies that will reveal not only the structure of the cosmic web, but also details of its function — the ways that pristine gas is funneled along the web into galaxies, providing the raw material for the formation of galaxies, stars, and planets.

The larger gas giants are massive enough to keep large amounts of the light gases hydrogen and helium close by, although these gases mostly float into space around the smaller planets.

Combining all of the measurements across the entire field of view allowed the team a tantalizing glimpse of giant filamentary structures extending across millions of light - years, and paves the way for more extensive studies that will reveal not only the structure of the cosmic web, but also details of its function — the ways that pristine gas is funneled along the web into galaxies, providing the raw material for the formation of galaxies, stars, and planets.

This material gathers into huge turbulent reservoirs of cool, low - density gas, extending more than 30 000 light - years from the galaxy's star forming region [3] These turbulent reservoirs of diffuse gas may be of the same nature as the giant glowing haloes seen around distant quasars..

Eventually, two of these stars either grazed each other or collided, triggering a powerful eruption that launched other nearby protostars and hundreds of giant streamers of dust and gas into interstellar space at speeds greater than 150 kilometers per second.