Sentences with phrase «other gas giants»

This scenario could explain why Saturn's rings are made of different stuff from those of other gas giants.

But they fail to explain why Saturn's rings are mostly water ice, while other gas giants» are rocky, says Ryuki Hyodo at Kobe University in Japan.

The scientists reported that 51 Eridani b has a temperature of 800 degrees Fahrenheit, hot enough to melt lead, but still rather cold compared with other gas giants, which reach temperatures above 1,000 degrees.

Both Bolton and Levin say that the initial data already suggests that scientists may have to rethink their previous notions not just about Jupiter, but about how other gas giants work.

On June 16, 2008, a team of astronomers announced at the 2008 Extra Solar Super-Earths Workshop in France their discovery of one «super-Earth» type planet in a tight orbit around this star with two other gas giant planets in outer orbits (ESO press release and Bouchy et al, 2009).

«Scientists have wondered why the high atmospheres of Saturn and other gas giants are heated far beyond what might normally be expected by their distance from the sun,» said Sarah Badman, a Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team associate at Lancaster University, England.

Nobody had ever anticipated the existence of such «hot Jupiters,» but Boss's models quickly suggested how these and other gas giants might have formed.

Like the other gas giants, Saturn lacks a solid surface that can be used to measure its rotation period; surficial atmospheric features at the equator move faster than at the poles.

This model suggests that the cloud's contents started out closer by, near Jupiter and the other gas giants, until gravitational encounters with those planets knocked the primordial bits into the hinterlands.

All of the other gas giants in our solar system — Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus — have fairly similar systems of moons.

The fact is, these cyclonal beauty marks whirl about the faces of the other gas giants, too, and possibly on their close cousins, the cool, starlike bodies called brown dwarfs.

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.

Like the Solar System's other gas giant, Jupiter, Saturn is mostly made up of hydrogen and helium, the most common elements in the universe.