Sentences with phrase «massive than earth»

Proxima b is a little more massive than Earth.

CE: The various scales (such as time, temperature, and size) required — for example, in and around stars hundreds of thousands of times more massive than earth — are so large that experimental support for chemical evolution is necessarily limited.

Some of the most interesting exoplanets discovered so far are the «super-Earths,» rocky worlds which are significantly larger and more massive than Earth but still smaller than the -LSB-...]

From observations made by the ESO's La Silla Observatory, we know Proxima b is around 30 % more massive than Earth, most likely making it a rocky exoplanet.

That same year, using six months of observations from ground - based amateur - style telescopes, scientists announced GJ 1214b, a planet 6.5 times more massive than Earth and 2.7 times wider.

Kepler - 10c, a world many times more massive than Earth, has been recognized as a member of a new class of planet.

It is an exoplanet 40 % larger than Jupiter and 500 times more massive than Earth — and orbits a star 50 % more massive, and twice as large, as the Sun.

Astronomers have further constrained the likely whereabouts of Planet Nine: the planet that, if it exists, is more massive than the Earth and roams the outer reaches of the solar system.

Three of these planets are confirmed to be super-Earths — planets more massive than Earth, but less massive than planets like Uranus or Neptune — that are within their star's habitable zone, a thin shell around a star in which water may be present in liquid form if conditions are right.

Study co-author Douglas Caldwell, a SETI astronomer, says that Kepler 452 b is more likely to be about five times more massive than Earth, which could give it enough gravity to hold on to its water and maintain a flourishing biosphere.

That wobble is a whisper that speaks volumes, revealing that this world is just one third more massive than Earth and resides in an 11 - day orbit some seven million kilometers from its star.

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

The closest single star like the sun — Tau Ceti, 12 light - years away — may harbor five planets slightly more massive than Earth.

It is 318 times more massive than Earth, with a diameter 11 times that of Earth, and its volume is 1300 times as great as that of Earth.

Not exact matches

It will be a war more serious in terms of human suffering than anything we've seen since 1953,» Mattis said, also noting the danger to the heavily - populated South Korean capital of Seoul: «It will involve the massive shelling of an ally's capital, which is one of the most densely packed cities on earth.»

Now a team of geologists has scoured that area to reveal a massive subglacial lake and a series of canyons, one of which — more than twice as long as the Grand Canyon — could rank as Earth's largest.

Of course, low mass is relative; the smallest of the planemos is still five times the size of Jupiter, which is more than 300 times as massive as Earth.

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.

Raymond Pierrehumbert at the University of Chicago and Eric Gaidos at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu calculated the warming effect of a hydrogen blanket on Earth - sized planets, as well as on worlds a few times more massive than our own, known as super-Earths.

This seething volcanism is thought to be caused by the massive tides wrought by nearby Jupiter: The push and pull heats and liquefies the mantle of little Io, no bigger than Earth's moon.

As the size of the planets we looked for decreased, the number that we found increased: We found more planets with 3 times the mass of the Earth than planets with 10 times Earth's mass, more planets 10 times as massive than 100 times, and so on.

Imagine being able to view microscopic aspects of a classical nova, a massive stellar explosion on the surface of a white dwarf star (about as big as Earth), in a laboratory rather than from afar via a telescope.

Although theirs is perhaps the best - known mass extinction on Earth, by the author's account, the dinosaurs» reign was a massive success story — they thrived on the planet for more than 150 million years, and their descendants are the more than 10,000 species of birds that occupy almost every corner of the world today.

A massive distributed computing network known as the Einstein@Home project has made its second big celestial find in the past six months — a pulsar 15 kilometers in diameter located more than 30,000 light years from Earth.

Elements heavier than hydrogen and helium were more abundant later in the star - forming boom as more massive stars ended their lives early and enriched the galaxy with material that served as the building blocks of planets and even life on Earth.

The Phoenix Lander may have dominated Mars news in recent weeks, but a new study performed here on Earth has turned up a whopper of a finding: The Red Planet seems to have been the victim of a massive hit and run more than four billion years ago.

Hopes of finding life were squashed, but the orbiters mapped 97 per cent of the surface revealing details of canyons and volcanoes on a massive scale for a planet little more than half the Earth's diameter.

In Earth's solar system, more massive planets have a lower abundance of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium.

The MASSIVE Survey was funded in 2014 by the National Science Foundation to weigh the stars, dark matter and central black holes of the 100 most massive, nearby galaxies: those larger than 300 billion solar masses and within 350 million light - years of Earth, a region that contains millions of gaMASSIVE Survey was funded in 2014 by the National Science Foundation to weigh the stars, dark matter and central black holes of the 100 most massive, nearby galaxies: those larger than 300 billion solar masses and within 350 million light - years of Earth, a region that contains millions of gamassive, nearby galaxies: those larger than 300 billion solar masses and within 350 million light - years of Earth, a region that contains millions of galaxies.

The planet, which is 1.25 times as massive as Jupiter, lies 2300 light years from Earth and orbits a bloated, ageing star slightly less massive than the sun.

More than 200 taxonomists from 46 countries convened at London's Natural History Museum to hammer out protocols for a massive DNA «barcoding» effort — a move to collect specific gene tags from every organism on Earth.

Quasars are the discs of hot gas that form around supermassive black holes at the centre of massive galaxies — they are bigger than Earth's orbit around the sun and hotter than the surface of the sun, generating enough light to be seen across the observable universe.

Earth, twice the diameter and 10 times more massive than Mars, has no equivalent dominating feature.

For comparison, the Earth is 81.3 times more massive than the Moon.

Media outlets this week have run more than 60 stories about Church's press announcement, with breathless headlines, like «Woolly mammoths «to walk the earth again in TWO YEARS» after massive breakthrough», or «Woolly Mammoth Could Be «De-Extinct» In 2 Years, Scientist Says».

In the case of Gliese 581g, it appears that the stability of the planetary system would be compromised if the planet were much more than 4.3 times as massive as Earth.

Consequently, massive amounts of reactive gases such as oxygen, hydrogen, and methane are continually being added to Earth's now «anomalous» atmosphere faster than they would otherwise be removed by inorganic chemical processes.

Comparison with the SXS simulations revealed that the signal was from the collision of two hefty black holes 29 and 36 times more massive than the sun and located 1.3 billion light - years from Earth.

My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).

Scientists believe there are massive amounts of ice buried under the dwarf planet's surface, given that its density is less than Earth's.

This must happen very quickly, before the gas dissipates.e (Jupiter's hydrogen and helium are 300 times more massive than the entire Earth.)

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

Will a super Earth if it is too massive in the life belt must have a greenhouse effect too high for liquid water to exist due to a much thicker atmosphere than Earth?

Stars much more massive than the Sun, like Betelgeuse, end their lives as supernovae — releasing neutrinos detectable by sensitive observatories on Earth.

Similarly, the terms Neptunes and hot Neptunes refer to planets less than about 10 percent of Jupiter's mass, and the term super-Earths refers to those planets that may well be rocky bodies only a few times as massive as Earth.

Although M87 is around 2,000 times farther away from Earth than Sagittarius A *, it's more than 2,000 times more massive, so it will appear in the sky to the EHT as approximately the same angular size.

The smallest planet orbits Kepler - 33, a star older and more massive than our Sun, Sol, which also had the most detected planet candidates at five (ranging in size from 1.5 to 5 times that of Earth) in uninhabitable, hot inner orbits closer to their star than even Mercury around our Sun (NASA Kepler news release; and JPL news release).

While larger planets could have sufficient gravity to attract a massive hydrogen - helium atmosphere, smaller planets — like Mars or Mercury that have less than half the Earth's mass — located in or near their star's habitable zone may lose their initial life - supporting atmosphere because of low gravity and / or the lack of plate tectonics needed to recycle heat - retaining carbon dioxide gas back into the atmosphere (Kasting et al, 1993).

Although it is the second largest planet in the Solar System, Saturn is actually much less massive than Jupiter with only about 95 times the Earth's mass.

They are now analyzing Kepler's light curves to learn new details about the uninhabitable massive planets that Kepler detects because characterizing these «hot Jupiters» and Neptune - sized planets (planets less than four times the diameter of Earth) is considered great practice for eventually studying small planets.