Sentences with phrase «on gas giants»

Unlike winds on the inner rocky planets like Earth, which are powered primarily by sunlight, winds on the gas giants are also fed by heat escaping from their deep cores, although the strength of this interior heat is a mere fraction of the sunlight falling on Earth.

Yet Worth's simulations showed that several thousands of collisions on the gas giants would also take place and as much as 10 collisions for each of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn as well.

(On gas giants such as Saturn, where there is no surface to speak of, determining rotational speed is no trivial task.)

Before the Cassini spacecraft ends its 20 - year mission by disintegrating in Saturn's atmosphere, we have one last chance for new information on the gas giant

NEW ORLEANS — Saturn's mighty rings cast a long shadow on the gas giant — and not just in visible light.

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

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.

During a few close passes, NASA's $ 1.1 billion Juno spacecraft collected data on the gas giant that revealed cyclones the size of Earth and a surprisingly strong magnetic field.

Not exact matches

The stock has soared more than eight per cent over the past week on speculation the company could buy the retail operations of oil and gas giant Hess, which owns about 1,350 gasoline stations in 16 East Coast states.

The oil and gas giant announced that it was unloading its oil - sands assets, for $ 7.25 billion, so that it could double down on businesses «where we have global scale and a competitive advantage.»

Greens and Chevron set to face off over Gorgon vision Chevron is set for fresh battles with WA's powerful green lobby group after the US giant said yesterday it wanted to nearly double the size of the $ 50 billion Gorgon liquefied natural gas project on environmentally fragile Barrow Island off WA's North West.

The giant oil and gas company reported dismal earnings on Tuesday, down 53 % from the same time last year.

Last year, Icahn took on U.S. natural gas giant Chesapeake Energy.

Jupiter's atmosphere features colossal cyclones and rivers of ammonia welling up from deep inside the solar system's largest planet, researchers said on Thursday, publishing the first insights from a NASA spacecraft flying around the gas giant.

Seven other U.S. space probes have sailed past the gas giant on brief reconnaissance missions before heading elsewhere in the solar system.

Energy giant Woodside Petroleum has put on hold its multi-billion dollar Browse liquefied natural gas project in view of the challenging economic and market environment.

Put together with the North Sea assets acquired from Shell last year in a $ US3 billion deal, Santos» portfolio would catapult Harbour — managed by private equity giant EIG Global Energy Partners — to a size roughly on a par with Woodside Petroleum or British - listed Dana Gas.

The ATO had been expected to focus on interest deductions claimed by the Australian subsidiaries of Exxon and rival oil giant Shell, both of which are shareholders in Gorgon, after the operator of the giant gas project, Chevron, lost a $ 340 million tax fight in the Federal Court last year.

While the measure is unlikely to make it through the divided Congress to become law, Democrats hope to score politically with voters frustrated by a confluence of deep budget cuts in Washington, sky - high prices at the gas pumps, and staggering profits on the oil giants» bottom lines.

Former Vice President Al Gore today lauded what he called «the best, most hopeful step» in years to contain global warming: 16 state prosecutors joining New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's crusade against energy giants that they assert have fraudulently fought caps on greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

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.

(Iced - over oceans on moons of the gas giants are almost our last hope.)

«This result is unique because it demonstrates that a giant planet can form so rapidly that the remnant gas and dust from which the young star formed, surrounding the system in a Frisbee - like disk, is still present,» said Lisa Prato of Lowell Observatory, co-leader of the young planet survey and a co-author on the paper.

Launched on August 5, 2011, the probe has traveled about 2.8 billion kilometers to spend 20 months orbiting and scrutinizing the gas giant.

The images show storm systems and weather activity unlike anything previously seen on any of our solar system's gas - giant planets.

Dubbed Kepler - 47c, the new - found planet is almost certainly a gas giant, based on its estimated size.

NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped within about 5,000 kilometers of Jupiter's cloud tops on August 27, 2016, giving scientists their first intimate look at the gas giant.

Now, a new analysis of data gleaned by Earth - orbiting x-ray telescopes in 2007 and 2016 reveals that the gas giant hosts a second aurora on its southern end.

For his part, Deutch sits on the board of Cheniere Energy, which owns liquefied natural gas import terminals on the Gulf Coast, and used to sit on the board of oil services giant Schlumberger.

A thermal spike linked to the solar system's largest storm explains weather on gas - giant planets

Researchers expect to find water on many planets outside the solar system, called exoplanets, including Jupiter - size gas giants such as HD 189733 b and HD 209458 b, which orbits a different star.

This picture was taken by NASA's Cassini probe on 19 July, while the spacecraft's orbit took it into the shadow of Saturn — meaning that the Sun was eclipsed by the gas giant.

The dark clouds almost never exist on their own but are usually a small part of an even larger complex of gas and dust known as a giant molecular cloud.

The surface winds on three recently discovered gas giants in nearby solar systems would dry, and remove, your hair in no time.

If there's gas around and the bodies get large enough, perhaps something on the order of 10 Earth masses or so, then you can start pulling some gas in on top of your rocky core and make something that looks like a gas giant planet, like Jupiter.

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 latest observations add yet another head - scratcher: giant gas planets that circle their stars on wildly tilted orbits or go around the wrong way altogether.

Based on studies of comets, researchers believe that these young solar systems swirl with ice crystals and wispy gases that coalesce into gas giants like Saturn and Jupiter.

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

Something strange is a-brewing on upsilon Andromedae b. Astronomers have classified the exoplanet, orbiting a sun - like star about 44 light - years away, as a hot Jupiter — a gas giant circling so close to its parent sun that its atmosphere is boiling away.

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.

He is a specialist on active galactic nuclei, superbright galactic cores thought to be caused by giant black holes sucking in and heating up quantities of gas and dust.

«Presumably, this precipitation process is happening on most of the observed hot Jupiters, but those gas giants all have lower surface gravities than Kepler - 13Ab,» Beatty explained.

The first spacecraft to probe deep underneath Jupiter's thick clouds is scheduled to arrive at the gas giant on July 4.

The new giant hole feeds on gas funneled inward by the collision's shock waves.

The orbits of exocomets on Beta Pictoris could also help scientists trace the presence and migration of larger, undetected bodies such as gas giant planets in the planetary system, says Russel White, an astronomer at Georgia State University in Atlanta who was not involved in the study.

Poised to enter Jovian orbit on July 4, the NASA spacecraft is set to probe the gas giant's deepest mysteries

The unseen planet, Kepler 19 c, is still mysterious, Ballard notes, adding that it «could be a rocky planet on a five - day orbit, or it could be a gas giant on an oblong, 100 - day orbit.»

But Fox suspects that other giant spirals also get replenished when gas - rich satellites fall toward them; we just happen to live in one of the few galaxies where this process is occurring today, giving astronomers a ringside seat on the refueling of a giant galaxy.