Sentences with phrase «only giant gas»

Not exact matches

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.

Only rocky, sturdy planets could form nearby; giant planets would form farther out, where ices and cool gases could gather together.

«Jupiter is talking to us in a way only gas - giant worlds can,» said Bill Kurth, co-investigator for the Waves instrument from the University of Iowa, Iowa City.

A similar pattern is seen in the sun, but NASA's Juno spacecraft, now orbiting Jupiter, has found only a marginal difference in rotation in its gas giant.

«I would be cautious,» Nielsen says, about saying that gas giants are the only way to bring water to rocky planets.

Probably only the gas giants — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — grew more directly.

Our Milky Way galaxy and its small companions are surrounded by a giant halo of million - degree gas (seen in blue in this artists» rendition) that is only visible to X-ray telescopes in space.

And Jupiter's great mass ensures that only asteroids occupy the orbit between it and Mars; anything larger gets ejected from the area by the gas giant's gravity.

Current theory holds that giant planets can form only at comparatively great distances from a star, where cold temperatures allow ice and frozen gases to gather together.

Another embryonic giant planet could easily have formed there, only to be booted outward by a gravitational kick from another gas giant.

Until these findings by Dr Southworth's team, the only previous detections of exoplanet atmospheres all involved gas giants reminiscent of a high - temperature Jupiter.

«Before now, we were only able to image gas giants that are born much farther out.

In fact, while methane is a atmospheric characteristic of giant gas planets like Jupiter, the only brown dwarf found to even have a trace of methane was Gliese 229 B, which orbits a reddish, M - class dwarf located about 20 light - years away from Earth.

The planet is a gas giant 2.8 times larger than Jupiter but only half as dense.

For example, 51 Pegasi, an extrasolar system found this time has a giant gas planet with a half the size of Jupiter that orbits close to the central star in only 4 days.

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.

There's a gas giant located about 330 light - years from here that's not only unusually large, it's also orbiting its host star at an incredibly close distance.

In stark comparison, HAT - P - 26b has a metallicity of just 4.8 times that of the Sun, suggesting that not only is it closer to the gas giants in composition but also that it likely formed closer to its host star than the planets of a similar size in our own system.

Now, giant cyclones at the planet's poles have been seen in greater detail than ever before — they are not only stunning, but unique from atmospheric storms of any other planet in the Solar System, even other gas and ice giants.

The map provides a tantalizing glimpse of giant filamentary structures extending across millions of light - years, and paves the way for more extensive studies that will reveal not only the structure of the cosmic web, but also details of its function — the ways that pristine gas is funneled along the web into galaxies, providing the raw material for the formation of galaxies, stars, and planets.

Combining all of the measurements across the entire field of view allowed the team a tantalizing glimpse of giant filamentary structures extending across millions of light - years, and paves the way for more extensive studies that will reveal not only the structure of the cosmic web, but also details of its function — the ways that pristine gas is funneled along the web into galaxies, providing the raw material for the formation of galaxies, stars, and planets.

There is great variation in the length of day between the planets, with Venus taking 243 Earth days to rotate, and the gas giants only a few hours.

MAUNA KEA, HAWAII — A team of researchers has discovered and photographed a gas giant only 155 light years from our solar system, adding to the short list of exoplanets discovered through direct imaging.

Not only did the Cassini spacecraft manage to survive its first dive between Saturn and its rings on Wednesday, but it managed to obtain the closest images of the gas giant's atmosphere to date — including a picture of what...

Uniquely bright compared to the rings of the other gas giants, Saturn's ring system is around 250,000 kilometers wide but in places only a few tens of meters thick.

Now also called a ice giant, Uranus is composed primarily of rock and various ices, with only about 15 percent hydrogen and a little helium overall, while Jupiter and Saturn are mostly hydrogen in gas and liquid metallic form.

The story quotes an antismoking activist: «We must continue to lobby for greater restrictions until smoking is only allowed beyond the orbit of the outermost gas giant Neptune.»

This is World War I - era trench warfare, only this time, the good guys have giant gas - powered mechs and the bad guys are walking televisions.

This is World War I - era trench warfare, only this time, the good guys have giant gas - powered mechs and the bad...

True, the series has seen a few video games, but most of those were Japan - only Blu - Ray visual novels... not something you'd expect from an anime centered around giant, man - eating Titans and soldiers flying around on gas - powered grappling hooks.

In sharp contrast to this high concentration of resources in a handful of fields, the other five regions combined have only seven supergiant fields and only six large giant gas fields.

Those giant range hoods were a thing in Europe because they hid not only the range vent but also vented the small gas hot - water heaters.