Sentences with phrase «other giant planets»

Band 10 brings to ALMA a broad range of capabilities, which — among other things — enables astronomers and planetary scientists to study and monitor temperature changes at different altitudes above the clouds of Uranus and other giant planets in our Solar System.

S: Not objects the size of Jupiter or Saturn because Jupiter and the other giant planets couldn't have ejected objects that large, but there certainly could be a handful of Earth - and Mars - size objects.

The rings of Saturn are one of the most spectacular sights in the sky, and less prominent rings have also been found around the other giant planets.

The gravity of the other giant planets also tugs on Uranus, so this must be taken into account.

Not exact matches

But in sharing detailed images of giant rockets, spaceships, fuel pods, and other crucial components of his Interplanetary Transportation System (ITS), Musk left out some important stuff, including where he plans to fit 100 to 200 passengers on each trip to the red planet.

We need to take care of our planet and each other the chances of a random meteor or giant solar flare exists still they have nothing to do with a mythology created for those who choose to be unaccountable for their part in our future.

Several other super-Earths have been identified in systems much like our solar system, with small planets closer to the star and giants in the outer orbits.

In the 1990s the first discovered exoplanets (planets orbiting other stars) were Jupiter - like giants, betrayed by the slight gravitational wobbles in the motion of their parent stars.

Though that remains to be determined, Batygin suggests that the planet may have been ejected from the neighborhood of the gas giants by Jupiter, or perhaps may have been influenced by the gravitational pull of other stellar bodies in the solar system's extreme past.

After a decade of searching for planets orbiting stars like our sun, astronomers had found nothing but giant planets, most of them gas balls like Jupiter, around other stars.

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

This scenario naturally produces a planetary system just like our own: small, rocky planets with thin atmospheres close to the star, a Jupiter - like gas giant just beyond the snowline, and the other giants getting progressively smaller at greater distances because they move more slowly through their orbits and take longer to hoover up material.

Astronomers once pictured the Kuiper belt as a giant ring - shaped collection of bodies along a disklike plane, called the ecliptic, in which Earth and all the other major planets orbit.

Many of the gas giant planets we've seen orbiting other stars are up to twice as large as theory says they should be.

The two gas giant planets did a gravitational dance with the sun and each other that sent them hurling in then back out to the outer solar system.

Cassini scientists hope that studying these differences will tell us about how giant planets form, how weather systems work under different conditions, and what planets around other stars might be like.

Thus, «giant chunks of space debris clobbering the planet and wiping out life on Earth has undeniably broad appeal,» Meltzer says, whereas «no one in Hollywood makes movies» about more nuanced explanations, such as Clovis points disappearing because early Americans turned to other forms of stone tool technology as the large mammals they were hunting went extinct as a result of the changing climate or hunting pressure.

If the giant planet announced this week actually exists, we can already explain how it got there - and how it solves a mystery about the worlds we see around other stars

The resonance may date back to the planets» births and thus may yield insights into the formation of giant planets around other stars, including our sun.

Astronomers believe it formed after a giant planet between 1 and 20 times the mass of Jupiter was scattered out of the main disc by gravitational interactions with other bodies there.

While we have four inner rocky planets and four outer gas giants, many other systems have «hot Jupiters» very close to their star.

The simulations show that gravitational interactions involving giants in outer orbits can eject smaller planets from the system, nudge them into their stars or send them crashing into each other.

«When Metaman reaches other planets it will not even be threatened by a global catastrophe like a giant meteor».

But interactions with the newly formed giant planets ejected many of those comets into interstellar space, flung others out into what would become the Oort Cloud, and knocked some into elongated, somewhat shorter orbits in what is known as the scattered disk.

The new study suggests that the «hot Jupiter» WASP - 18b, a massive planet that orbits very close to its host star, has an unusual composition, and the formation of this world might have been quite different from that of Jupiter as well as gas giants in other planetary systems.

Whizzing asteroids and comets have battered Earth and all the other solid bodies of our solar system over the eons, but the ethereal rings of the giant planets seemed immune.

In the first measurements of the day and night temperatures of an extra-Solar planet, infrared observations revealed that the Jupiter - class gas giant circling very close to Upsilon Andromedae A stays as hot as fire on one side while potentially remaining as cold as ice on the other.

We can rule out gas giants at Barnard's Star thanks to continuing Doppler monitoring, but we can't yet rule out small rocky planets of the kind we are now turning up around other M - dwarfs in data from the Kepler mission.

Whereas ice giant planets, such as Uranus and Neptune, which are denser and composed of ices, dust, and other heavier debris, likely formed farther out in the system, as an amalgam of leftover heavier substances rich in heavier elements that accreted beyond the snow line.

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).

Large gas giant planets, on the other hand, require more heavy elements to build up their massive cores.

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.

Science fiction stories in movies and television set on other worlds frequently present views of spectacular arrangements of moons, looming giant planets and multiple suns of -LSB-...]

[6] Other examples include the HD 142527 (Reference: Press Release: ALMA Sheds Light on Planet - Forming Gas Streams and Press Release: ALMA Discovers a Formation Site of a Giant Planetary System.)

Others (such as Glenn Schneider of the University of Arizona and Scott Kenyon of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory), however, argue that a giant planet in the system could gravitationally deflect comets and asteroids away from inner planets that may support life in the liquid water zone, in the same way that Jupiter protects Earth in the Solar System.

Warm dense matter exists in the cores of gas giant planets and the preliminary stages of nuclear fusion, among other inaccessible places.

The detection of close - in giant planets around other stars was the first clue that this pattern is not universal, and that planets» orbits can change substantially after their formation.

Pluto has long been a misfit in the prevailing theories of the solar system's origin: it is thousands of times less massive than the four gas - giant outer planets, and its orbit is very different from the well - separated, nearly circular and co-planar orbits of the eight other major planets.

The «cold start» process, on the other hand, is pretty good at forming planets over a broad range of masses, from giants such as Jupiter, which has more than 300 times Earth's mass, on down to Earth - sized worlds.

We now know that some planets are rocky, like Earth, while others are so - called gas giants, like Jupiter.

«Stevenson and others are puzzling out how subtle differences in starting conditions such as distance from the sun, along with chance events like giant impacts early in the solar system history, can send planets down vastly different evolutionary paths.»

Goji berries are nutritional giants with more antioxidant carotenoids than any other food on the planet.

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.

The plot involves a giant asteroid headed for the planet, stopping Teams Magma and Aqua from attacking the Mossdeep Space Center, a space battle between Rayquaza and Deoxys, and surely other shenanigans as well.

The U.S. military (led by David Strathairn) prepares a potent missile plan to eradicate the creatures, but Japan's leading scientific authority (Ken Watanabe) hopes mankind might instead summon another giant creature to fight the others and defend the planet: Godzilla.

But they are not the only giant lizards on the planet, and a few others deserve mention, notably the tegus.

A few other good gift books for the traveler — armchair or otherwise — are the Lonely Planet's bigger and better edition of «The Travel Book,» a giant slab of wanderlust - inducing photos that takes you through every country in the world by way of a two - page spread and a bullet - pointed list of things there to see, books to read, when to go, etc..

Both games feature a «Commander» unit, a giant mecha, which uses atomic - level manufacturing to build an entire economy on far - off planets literally from the ground up, which is an interesting inversion on how mecha usually are used in games: the «Commander» is more or less the player character, and while their large mecha is by no means weak, it's a central unit because of its production capabilities, and not because of its arsenal, which as a mecha fan I always thought was a nice way to work the idea of a «hero mecha» into an RTS, because you can relate to the Commander mecha's role as, well, a Commander on the battlefield rather than as simply a powerful named «hero» unit as exist in most other RTSes.

In Expedition Mode, a challenging campaign tasks explorers with charting this alien planet and reaching the other end of a giant island.

In 1997 he formed Planet Moon Studios with some long time colleagues, where he built Giants: Citizen Kabuto, among other games.