Sentences with phrase «oldest planet of the solar system»

«Jupiter is the oldest planet of the solar system, and its solid core formed well before the solar nebula gas dissipated, consistent with the core accretion model for giant planet formation.»

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This planet is not the center of the solar system, contraceptives are not evil, and the Earth is not 5000 years old.

The planets are bunched in close to their star, making it a miniature version of our solar system — and one that's much, much older.

Microscopic analyses of chondrites, the oldest rocks in the solar system, are filling in details of what our neighborhood in space was like shortly before the planets formed

Ancient Ingredients Flakes rich in calcium and aluminum, as old as the solar system itself, probably originated in the hot center of the flattened, spinning disk of gas and dust that gave rise to our sun and its planets.

Sasselov, a 46 - year - old Harvard University astronomer and director of the university's Origins of Life Initiative, is looking for life - sustainable extrasolar planets — planets that are circling suns in other solar systems.

The first such star they identified is Beta Pictoris, a 23 - million - year - old star in the early stage of building its planets, about 63 light - years away from our 4.6 - billion - year - old solar system.

In 1983, astronomers discovered dust orbiting the star, suggesting it had a solar system, and Carl Sagan (pictured) chose to make Vega the source of a SETI signal in his 1985 novel Contact, though the responsible aliens weren't native to the star: At the time, Vega was thought to be only about a couple hundred million years old, probably too young for any planets to have spawned life.

Surprising findings from some of the oldest known meteorites suggest that our solar system was once chock - full of miniature planets, complete with metallic cores and rocky crusts.

Comets contain samples of some of the oldest material in the solar system, and can therefore tell us about how planets were formed in our sun's youth.

For the first time, NASA is finally venturing out, visiting one of the oldest objects in the solar system — older than the planets themselves — and returning home with a piece of that ancient history.

An international group of scientists has found that Jupiter is the oldest planet in our solar system.

Early in the formation of our solar system (before 3.9 billion years ago) there was lots of large debris striking the surfaces of the young planets and moons; these older impact basins are larger than the more recent craters.

The team showed through isotope analyses of meteorites that Jupiter's solid core formed within only about 1 million years after the start of the solar system history, making it the oldest planet.

Plumbing a 90 million - year - old layer cake of sedimentary rock in Colorado, a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin — Madison and Northwestern University has found evidence confirming a critical theory of how the planets in our solar system behave in their orbits around the sun.

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A nebulous celestial body as old as the universe itself, it had been born in a vast cloud of ice, rocks, dust, and gas when the outer planets of the solar system were formed 4.6 billion years ago.

From the University of Wisconsin From rocks in Colorado, evidence of a «chaotic solar system» Plumbing a 90 million - year - old layer cake of sedimentary rock in Colorado, a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin — Madison and Northwestern University has found evidence confirming a critical theory of how the planets in our solar system behave in...