Sentences with phrase «of giant planets»

Two rival teams of astronomers are racing to capture unprecedented images of giant planets around other stars.

The interiors of giant planets: models and outstanding questions.

These findings illustrate that the rings of giant planets are natural by - products of the formation process of the planets in our solar system.

In the absence of giant planets, water delivery could happen naturally as planets pull in debris from different parts of the solar system.

The researchers believe that tidal forces created by the gravitational pull of the giant planet may have interrupted the magnetic field of the star.

For the first time, astronomers have witnessed a key stage in the birth of giant planets around a young star.

More recently it has been shown that a large fraction of giant planets orbit binary - star systems.

While the two preferred theories of giant planet formation both indicate a single population of planets, the planet populations indicated by each model are somewhat different.

Perhaps they could have come up with some other solution, but honestly I think they did pretty well with the concept of a giant planet eating entity.

In contradiction to the long - standing idea that larger planets take longer to form, U.S. astronomers today announced the discovery of a giant planet in close orbit around a star so young that it still retains a disk of circumstellar gas and dust.

In 1997, a team of astronomers announced the tentative discovery of a giant planet companion «b» to Aldebaran A (more details below).

The collection of maps that will be built up over time will help scientists not only to understand the atmospheres of giant planets in the Solar System, but also the atmospheres of our own planet and of the planets that are being discovered around other stars.

Pluto and its largest moon Charon are already tidally locked, as well as many small moons of the giant planets in Earth's solar system.

Pluto — which has a diameter of 2,370 km — shares its orbital space with many comparable - sized bodies and crosses the orbit of the giant planet Neptune, which is why it does not qualify as a planet.

Origin of the orbital architecture of the giant planets of the solar system.

On December 1, 2009, two astronomers submitted a pre-print suggesting that the planet's extreme axial tilt (an obliquity of 97 degrees) may have resulted from the presence of a large moon that has since been ejected from orbit around the ice giant by the pull of another planet during the orbital migration of the giant planets early in the formation of the Solar System.

«With Juno only about a third of the way through its primary mission, we are being presented with a whole new Jupiter that is shaking up our basic understanding of giant planets throughout the universe,» said Bolton, principal investigator of the mission and a coauthor of the Nature papers.

Caltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the outer solar system.

After 5 years of travel, Juno will soon reach Jupiter and begin its up close investigations of the giant planet.

Washington, DC — Brown dwarfs, the larger cousins of giant planets, undergo atmospheric changes from cloudy to cloudless as they age and cool.

Superflares - According to one recent hypothesis, unusually intense stellar flares from a sun - like («Sol - type») star could be caused by the interaction of the magnetic field of a giant planet in tight orbit with that star's own magnetic field.

Warm dense matter can be found in the molten core of giant planets like Jupiter, and in the preliminary stages of fusion, a process that powers the sun and stars.

Mathematical models, combined with our understanding of how planets and comets form, suggest that the objects in the Oort cloud must have been flung there by one of the giant planets closer to the sun.

«We have a spacecraft inside the atmosphere of a giant planet for the first time.

«If it messes up Jupiter, we don't have a complete model for the evolution of the giant planets.»

It's been a marathon performance: 20 years in space, more than 200 orbits around Saturn, and hundreds of thousands of images of the giant planet, its splashy rings and its many moons.

Standish used data from the Voyager spacecraft, which determined the masses of the giant planets as it flew past.

Using computer modeling, chemists from MIPT and Skoltech (the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology) have found out which molecules may be present in the interiors of Uranus, Neptune, and the icy satellites of the giant planets.

At the January 2002, 199th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, DC, two teams of astronomers announced that the cold dust in Vega's circumstellar disk is at least partly gathered into large clumps, in a characteristic shape that suggests the gravitational influence of a giant planet in an eccentric orbit (Abstracts for sessions 66.04 and 66.05, and CfA press release).

One of the first exoplanet properties noted was that the frequency of giant planets increases for host stars with more heavy elements.

We used NaCo at VLT to explore t... ▽ More In anticipation of the VLT / SPHERE planet imager guaranteed time programs, we have conducted a preparatory survey of 86 stars between 2009 and 2013 in order to identify new faint comoving companions to ultimately carry out a comprehensive analysis of the occurence of giant planets and brown dwarf companions at wide (10 - 2000 AU) orbits around young, solar - type stars.

One theory is that a rogue planet could have been tossed out of the giant planet region and could have perturbed objects out of the Kuiper belt to the inner Oort cloud on its way out.

Apparently Google can still index your searches if you are accessing it from inside a giant upside - down bucket, which is inside a second, larger upside - down bucket, which is in a cave, which is in the middle of a giant planet in the middle of space.

Scientists think that objects in the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of dwarf planets and icy rocks populating the fringes of our solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune, dance mostly to the tune of the giant planets, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, influenced by their gravity either directly or indirectly.

They monitored more than 34,000 stars, searching for slight dips in their brightnesses from the shadows of giant planets crossing in front.

In the meantime, Zhao and her colleagues have succeeded in ruling out the presence of giant planets around either star, based on a decade's worth of data from three instruments on different telescopes.

Almost exactly a year after the Apollo lunar exploration program wound down, and smack - dab in the middle of the Watergate scandal, Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to encounter Jupiter, snapping this picture of the giant planet's icy moon, Europa.

In a binary system like Alpha Centauri the lack of giant planets in Jupiter - like orbits is no surprise, because the gravity of each star would tend to kick any such planets orbiting the other star out of the system, Kervella says.

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

«This week's images of the Great Red Spot are the best yet, surpassing those from Voyager,» says John Rogers, a veteran observer of the giant planet and director of the Jupiter section of the British Astronomical Association.

To understand this improbable water fountain in space and whether we should expect life to be teeming beneath, we spoke with John Spencer, an expert on the moons of giant planets who is part of the Cassini team, working at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

In addition, they play an essential role in the chemistry of the giant planets,» says Oganov.

The discovery of a giant planet amid a cluster of primitive stars is challenging one of astronomers» fundamental notions about how planets are made.

Researchers recently used NIF to study the interior state of giant planets.

The finely sculpted adornments of the giant planets are a mystery we're just beginning to solve.

After a do - or - die engine burn the second spacecraft ever to orbit Jupiter is preparing to revolutionize our view of the giant planet

Theoretical models predict that migration occurs either early in the lives of giant planets while still embedded within the protoplanetary disk, or else much later, once multiple planets are formed and interact, flinging some of them into the immediate vicinity of their star.