Sentences with phrase «massive gas giants»

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.

The basic architecture of our solar system, where things go in circles, and there are small rocky planets close to the sun and big massive gas giants far from the sun, is certainly not the only architecture.

Majestic, ringed Saturn little resembles the relatively tiny blue marble that is Earth, but the massive gas giant planet is home to at least one phenomenon that would be familiar to high - latitude dwellers here on Earth.

In 1995, astronomers confirmed that a massive gas giant planet was orbiting the star 51 Pegasi.

Not exact matches

The British oil giant reported huge figures from the shale gas well, suggesting the Mancos could provide a massive new source of U.S. shale gas.

Far from the limelight, Aubrey McClendon, Harold Hamm, Mark Papa, and other wildcatters were determined to tap massive deposits of oil and gas that Exxon, Chevron, and other giants had dismissed as a waste of time.

Hydrogen molecules aren't the best coolant, but they are good enough to enable giant gas clouds, millions of times as massive as the sun, to fall in on themselves.

Indeed, our moon would seem more at home in the outer solar system, among the massive satellites that orbit the 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.

Gas giants Gaseous, low - density planets many times as massive as Earth and composed mainly of hydrogen and helium.

Many planets outside the solar system are even more massive than Jupiter, and they orbit their Sun - like stars at an Earth - like distance, but these faraway super-Jupiters are effectively giant gas balls that can not support life because they lack solid surfaces.

This method has revealed more than 120 extrasolar planets, most of which resemble the gas - giant Jupiter — 318 times more massive than Earth.

The planets without nearby massive stars would remain gas giants.

Even more remarkably, stars in the throes of birth also seem to exhale giant, peanut - shaped bubbles of gas, called outflows, 100 times more massive than our sun.

Gas - giant planets more massive than Jupiter — as well as «failed stars» called brown dwarfs — should conversely have much shallower winds.

Because a gas giant's atmospheric pressure and magnetic field both depend on its mass, less - massive worlds such as Saturn should have dynamic weather extending more than three times deeper than Jupiter's.

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.

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.

NESSI will focus on about 100 exoplanets, ranging from massive versions of Earth, called super-Earths, to scorching gas giants known as «hot Jupiters.»

As astronomers report online today in Nature, magnetic fields inside M33's six most massive giant molecular clouds — large concentrations of dense gas and dust that give birth to stars — line up with the spiral arms, suggesting the magnetic fields helped create the huge clouds and that they regulate how the clouds fragment to form new stars.

Giant clouds of molecular gas — the most massive objects in our galaxy — are the birthplaces of stars.

With their gas depleted, it may be impossible for the disks around stars in massive clusters to form giant planets like Jupiter or Saturn.

Gas surrounds a giant black hole in the early universe in this radio image, but astronomers see little evidence for a massive galaxy of stars.

Now, a new, computer simulation — based study suggests that these giants were formed and fed by massive clouds of gas sloshing around in the aftermath of the big bang.

The new study suggests that the «hot Jupiter» WASP - 18b, a massive planet that orbits very close to its host star, has an unusual composition, and the formation of this world might have been quite different from that of Jupiter as well as gas giants in other planetary systems.

The new planet is a super-Earth — more massive than our world but puny relative to a gas giant.

In the prevailing theory of planet formation, called core accretion, dust grains stick together to form rocky worlds, and some of these rocky bodies then grow massive enough to attract surrounding gas, becoming gas giants like Jupiter.

If it accumulates this material quickly enough, the gaseous atmosphere may become too massive and collapse, beginning a rapid gas accretion phase forming a gas giant.

The quartet resides in one of the most massive structures ever discovered in the distant universe, and is surrounded by a giant nebula of cool dense gas.

Jupiter has some serious radiation belts for Juno to contend with, thanks to the massive magnetic field created by the gas giant.

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.

Despite being nearly three times as massive as Jupiter, the new planet (KELT - 9b) is only half as dense as the gas giant, as the radiation from its host star has caused its atmosphere to expand, the authors said.

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.

New photos of the planet Uranus captured in August 2014 show massive storms brewing on the gas giant.

These gas giants orbit tightly around their host stars, and despite their name, they're typically more massive than Jupiter.

Large gas giant planets, on the other hand, require more heavy elements to build up their massive cores.

Exoplanets come in all sizes, from rocky worlds smaller than Earth to massive bloated gas giants many times the size of Jupiter.

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.

The iconic photo of the so - called «Pillars of Creation» reveals never - before - seen details of three giant columns of cold gas bathed in the scorching ultraviolet light from a cluster of young, massive stars in a small region of the Eagle Nebula.

Given the large orbital eccentricities of these two objects (which move beyond 500 AUs of the Sun), some astronomers have argued that they were likely to have been strongly perturbed by a massive celestial object (which is unlikely to have been Neptune as they do not come close enough to feel its gravitational influence) such as the passing of a rogue planet (perturbed from its primordial orbit by the gas giants of the inner Solar Sylstem) or one or more passing stars, which could have dragged the two objects farther out after initial orbital perturbation by Neptune or as part of a «first - generation» Oort Cloud.

If the abundance of dust and gas is comparable to that in typical environment in the universe (the mass ratio of dust and gas is 1 to 100), the dense region is massive enough to attract large amount of gas due to the self - gravity and form giant gaseous planets several times more massive than Jupiter.

Brown dwarfs are more massive and hotter than giant gas planets but lack the mass required to become sizzling stars.

Pluto has long been a misfit in the prevailing theories of the solar system's origin: it is thousands of times less massive than the four gas - giant outer planets, and its orbit is very different from the well - separated, nearly circular and co-planar orbits of the eight other major planets.

On June 16, 2010, the Hubble Heritage Project released a very detailed, composite image of the dark lanes of dust crisscrossing the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. Taken on July 10, 2010 with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3, the panchromatic image of ultraviolet through near - infrared wavelengths shows new details such as bluish clusters of young massive stars and reddish gas nebulae undergoing star birth normally obscured by dust.

Under one popular theory (Boss, 1995), if such protoplanets become sufficiently massive while there is still abundant amounts of hydrogen and helium gases remaining in the disk, then they may accrete substantial amounts of those gases and become so - called gas giants (like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in the Solar System).

This heat builds up after several decades and releases that excess over the following decades: cold then hot, cold again then hot again, these synods, also called grand planetary alignments, are of different strengths due to the varying perihelia and aphelia of the four gas giants, especially Jupiter which is the closest to the Sun and more massive than all other Solar System's planets and moons combined.