Sentences with phrase «known giant planet»

However, there are a few known Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) that are unlikely to be significantly perturbed by the known giant planets in their current orbits.

Not exact matches

All universes (plural) may well have been formed in one swelling swoop thusly becoming a uniformed dimension so ginormous our universe could well be a part of combined universes forming say a giant seahorse living within a sea so vast all being a part of a ginormous planet so huge we may never know such a thought of plausible revelation.

Life as we know it could not exist on the gas - giant planet, and its nearby suns would incinerate any cities all on their own.

Until a few years ago we only knew of the existence of rings around the giant planets; then, recently, our team discovered that two small bodies situated between Jupiter and Neptune, belonging to a group called centaurs, have dense rings around them, which came as a big surprise.

While all the planets orbiting the sun closer than this tilted blue giant have been known to humans since ancient times, Uranus wasn't spotted until William Herschel saw it in 1781.

However, earlier studies which proposed that giant planets could possibly eject one another did not consider the effect such violent encounters would have on minor bodies, such as the known moons of the giant planets, and their orbits.

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.

The auroras on Jupiter and Saturn are well - studied, but not much is known about the auroras of the giant ice planet Uranus.

The existence of a fifth giant gas planet at the time of the Solar System's formation — in addition to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune that we know of today — was first proposed in 2011.

«We don't know if that's a common feature of giant planets or unique to Saturn.»

The 100 million - year - old giant was a type of plant - eating, long - necked sauropod called a titanosaur, and is likely the largest creature known to have walked the planet.

As the Saturn kilometric radiation (so known because the radio emissions» wavelengths are measured in kilometers), or SKR, emanates from the gas - giant planet, its intensity oscillates every 10.5 hours or so, nearly in concert with the planet's rotation.

The giant - impact theory can account for the high angular momentum of the Earth - moon system, which is greater than that of any known planet - satellite system.

By 1995 or so, theorists pretty much knew how to make terrestrial planets, even gas giants.

One lesser known casualty was the Galileo mission to Jupiter, a $ 1 billion NASA spacecraft designed to orbit the giant planet, study its many moons and drop a probe into its atmosphere.

Polar cyclones on Saturn are a puzzling phenomenon, since the planet, known as a gas giant, lacks an essential ingredient for brewing up such storms: water on its surface.

Relatively few giant planets orbiting low - mass stars are known, so every instance is of interest to planet hunters.

According to two new studies, such clouds also arise around the failed stars known as brown dwarfs — even ones as small as giant planets.

But interactions with the newly formed giant planets ejected many of those comets into interstellar space, flung others out into what would become the Oort Cloud, and knocked some into elongated, somewhat shorter orbits in what is known as the scattered disk.

Recent studies of an association of stars called TW Hya have revealed some of the first known isolated giant planet - sized objects in the neighborhood of our own Sun, about 100 light years away.

Whether Planet Nine is rocky or more of a gas or ice giant simply isn't known yet, although it is considered likely to be similar to Neptune.

The internal structures of giant planets are much less well known than those of main - sequence stars because of uncertainties in the equation of state of degenerate gas, the composition (typically non-solar), the interaction with the magnetic field and, in the upper layers, the relative magnitudes of internal heat and energy deposited from the sun.

Here we report observations of the bright star HD 195689 (also known as KELT - 9), which reveal a close - in (orbital period of about 1.48 days) transiting giant planet, KELT - 9b.

This planet is one of the most inflated of all known transiting exoplanets, making it one of the few members of a class of extremely low density, highly - irradiated gas giants.

Of the thousands of extra-solar planets now known, only four giant planets have been found that transit hot, A-type stars (temperatures of 7300 - 10,000 K), and none are known to transit even hotter B - type stars.

If you grew up knowing that there were nine planets orbiting our sun and were a bit crushed when Pluto lost its status among those celestial bodies, there might be new hope for a nine - pack, as researchers are again putting forth the idea that a giant planet might be lurking somewhere out there on the fringes of our Solar System.

It now seems that we can be sure that although giant planets are significantly rarer around the small red stars whose numbers overhwhelmingly dominate the galaxy, smaller planets seem to be no less common around the M - dwarfs than they are around solar - type stars.

The planet, a gas giant slightly larger than Jupiter, orbits the main star of the HD 188753 system, in the constellation Cygnus, and is hence known as HD 188753 Ab.

This highlights the transition away from the massive gas giants that characterized Kepler's first finds and more toward planets that are in the right size range to potentially host life as we know it.

None of the approximately 750,000 known asteroids and comets in the Solar System is thought to have originated outside it, despite models of the formation of planetary systems suggesting that orbital migration of giant planets ejects a large fraction of the original planetesimals into interstellar space1.

Astronomers have discovered one of the most distant planets known, a gas giant about 13,000 light - years from Earth, c...

We have a triple star system as neighbor, i would be shocked if none of them has a terrestrial planet on the habitable zone, i mean for real, every couple of years we search again and restrains the upper mass / size limits of them, at this point we know there are not giant planets there, so we have 3 star system very likely to host terrestrial planets, that's just amazing.

The planet should be rocky — life as we know it can not exist on a gas giant, for example — it needs an atmosphere capable of supporting life and it should be in the habitable zone of the solar system.

Low - to medium - mass stars, such as the sun, will eventually swell up into red giants, eventually shedding their outer layers into a ring known as a planetary nebula (early observers thought the nebulae resembled planets such as Neptune and Uranus).

We now know that some planets are rocky, like Earth, while others are so - called gas giants, like Jupiter.

This unusual world, officially known as WASP - 12b, is a «hot Jupiter» — a giant gas planet which orbits very closely to its sun and which is heated to extreme temperatures — NASA explained in a statement.

We know that planets form within protoplanetary disks that orbit young stars, and gas giants need to be fully formed within 3 - 10 million years of the formation of their parent star as the gaseous nebula dissipates past this point.

It is ruled by Taj the elephant genie, but Wizpig, a giant, evil pig from a planet located near the space station known as Future Fun Land arrives and takes over.

Unsurprisingly, such things demand sacrifice, and his character, the very heavily named Stacker Pentecost, died in the process of destroying a sub-oceanic rift in the space - time continuum known as the Breach, through which aliens known as Precursors sent giant monsters known as Kaiju to rip the planet known as Earth to bits and render its denizens known as Earthlings thoroughly stomped.

Such valor is accomplished by using his magic ring, which makes manifest anything he imagines (be it a giant fist or a machine gun turret), and which comes in handy during his quest to thwart a planet - devouring force of yellow «fear» known as Parallax as well as the creature's Earthly proxy, mutated scientist Hector Hammond (Peter Skarsgaard).

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Bedlam is a somewhat vital supporting participant on the planet of X-Men comics, so the hope is that Crew gets an similarly giant function to play within the X-Men films and no longer simply be a one - off addition.

In addition to enjoying great gameplay and audio - video from the original show, players can defend the planet Arus in a Story Mode inspired by the classic animated series and scripted by two writers who know a thing or two about bringing epic giant robot adventures to life: James McDonough and Adam Patyk of THE ENEMY (Transformers, Custom Robo and more)!

In this epic sci - fi RPG, adventure through a seamless open world, and pilot giant robotic exoskeletons known as Skells to explore the planet and fight against threats of all sizes.

In Final Fantasy VII, a giant energy manufacturing company known as Shinra Inc. attempts to harvest the sheer life energy of the Planet as a simple fossil fuel.

I know there is a strong tendency of most pro-global-warming posters here to ignore that giant ball of fire and its cyclical behavior, but on what planet does ignoring the Dalton and Maunder Minimums make sense?

Regarding the graph of planets — unnecessary to the main point, but it might help to know how the «surface» temperature of the gas giants is defined.

I know enough about physics to expect the sun to have some wobble from the planets, but had no idea the giants could affect it so much from such a great distance!

After the surprisingly gross images that came out in 2008 showing how much debris is floating around our planet, the problem of our orbits acting as a giant dump has become a well - known issue.

For your analogy to hold, you are arguing that a hypothetical Star Trek near - instantaneous scanning will take place on the complete assembled structure, of complete depth at a very fine resolution No, only for the things that are relevant, which for a star or the Sun are only its mass, composition, and age [and to second order if it is part of a binary star or has giant nearby planets — but since none of those things apply to the Sun we can ignore them].