Sentences with phrase «outer planets as»

Lead study author Fabio Feng of the University of Hertfordshire told Gizmodo that we should be cautious defining the habitable zone of exoplanets, but he said he regards the two outer planets as «habitable zone candidates,» especially since their orbital periods are not precisely known.

Not exact matches

As part of the series — produced by Darren Aronofsky and narrated by superstar Will Smith — several astronauts give personal anecdotes and perspectives about the planet based on a place few humans who have actually visited outer space.

Before it and after it, Jesus is drowning all the people on the planet, casting disobedient people into outer darkness and enjoying the smoke of tormented believers as it rises up before him for all eternity.

Zoos would be regarded as barbaric as 14th century prisons, and we would subordinate our own desires for immortality to the cold hard reality of an uncaring Universe in which every species on the planet lives in a narrow 7 mile wide soap film below which there is 1,000 degree magma and above which there is the near absolute - zero vacuum of outer space.

(and spell kroenke with the lower case k, as we don't think of him as a person, but rather a greedy lizardmen from outer space, who came to our planet to rid us of natural resources and join forces with crab people to bring humanity to it's knees).

Heat from Earth's inner core, which is as hot as the surface of the sun, churns an outer core of molten iron and nickel, generating a magnetic field that deflects lethal cosmic and solar radiation away from the planet.

Forming in the system's colder outer regions, where volatile compounds such as water and carbon dioxide freeze out, makes it possible that the planets incorporated those ices and carried them along to a warmer place where they could melt, evaporate, and become oceans and atmospheres.

«Although we were initially quite skeptical that this planet could exist, as we continued to investigate its orbit and what it would mean for the outer solar system, we become increasingly convinced that it is out there,» says Batygin, an assistant professor of planetary science.

Designated 2015 RR245 by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center, it was found using the Canada - France - Hawaii Telescope on Maunakea, Hawaii, as part of the ongoing Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS).

Existing PTAs should be sufficient to recover the known planets and measure their masses, but more sensitive PTAs will be required to search the outer solar system for objects such as the proposed Planet Nine.

A speedier trip to the outer planets would be a huge advantage, says Green, who thinks a fully funded Europa explorer could launch as early as 2022.

This lower limit was intriguing because the outer edge of the hole is about as far from its star as the giant planets in our solar system are from the sun.

«Ceres or ammonia - rich material from the outer solar system could have been implanted in the Asteroid Belt as a result of orbital perturbations exerted by the giant planets» early in the solar system's history, De Sanctis says.

As those giant outer planets grew, their powerful gravity flung much of that debris outward.

The nonbinding International Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities calls on countries to maintain the area around our planet as a peaceful global commons, and it sets out practical guidelines for avoiding collisions in space and for minimizing and removing debris.

«The main action took place during the comet's closest approach,» said Espley, «but the planet's magnetosphere began to feel some effects as soon as it entered the outer edge of the comet's coma.»

As the exoplanet passes in front of its host star, as seen from Earth, some of this starlight travels through the planet's outer atmospherAs the exoplanet passes in front of its host star, as seen from Earth, some of this starlight travels through the planet's outer atmospheras seen from Earth, some of this starlight travels through the planet's outer atmosphere.

It envisions the great reshuffling as a brief, violent affair that not only put the outer planets where they are today but also created the Kuiper belt of small icy bodies beyond Neptune, gave the planets scores of oddly orbiting moons, and bombarded the solar system with a rain of asteroids and comets so fierce that it would have cooked all but the deepest subterranean life on early Earth.

The bodies that orbit the outer planets much farther from the Sun are just as interesting and there are more of them.

That rules out some previously proposed ways of forming Mercury with its relatively huge molten iron core, such as having the nascent sun blasting away the outer rind of an Earthlike planet.

The Kuiper Belt probably started out much more crowded, but thinned out as gravitational interactions with the outer planets ejected many of the bodies orbiting there.

The surfaces of some moons in the outer solar system have been reworked as well, but unlike Pluto, those satellites are under the influence of gravity from a host planet.

Robotic spacecraft, such as Pioneer 10 and 11 and the Voyager probes, gave us our first close - ups of the gas giant planets in the outer solar system.

As they find and confirm extremely distant objects, they analyze whether their discoveries fit into the larger theories about how interactions with a massive distant planet could have shaped the outer Solar System.

Useful for launching larger interplanetary science payloads such as Asteroid Redirect Mission, Mars Sample Return, Jupiter Europa Orbiter, Saturn / Titan Sample Return, Ice Giant Exploration, Outer Planet Sample Return, Large Telescopes and In - Space Infrastructres.

Even if a gap in the disk is created by a sufficiently massive protoplanet (0.1 Jupiter - mass), most planets produced may still fall into the star (as «torques» between the planet and the inner and outer gap edges causes the planet and its gap to flow inward along with the viscous disk material towards the star).

For a while it was thought that Pluto itself might be the elusive Planet X, but that was later disproven as it was far too small to account for any of the orbital irregularities seen with the other outer planets.

The team has also considered a different scenario where a hypothetical second dwarf planet suffered a catastrophic collision with Fomalhaut b. Kalas explained, «The collision scenario would provide a solution as to why Fomalhaut (the star) has a narrow outer belt linked to an extreme planet.

Called «NASA's Leadership and America's Future in Space,» the report said that studying the outer gas giant planets (such as Saturn) help scientists learn about their atmospheres and internal structure.

Transient events such as micrometeoroid dust particle impacts can be considered as potential external suppliers of water into all other outer planet stratospheres, modifying locally and temporarily the space weather conditions at these environments.

I'm still holding out for the news that reads: «Second Earth Found» -[this exoplanet] will have all the right ingredients: orbit its star inside the habitable zone, spectroscopic analysis will reveal a nitrogen - rich atmosphere, evidence of water, roughly the same mass as our planet and it will belong in a system with a couple of gas giants shepherding the outer system.

«The composition and chemistry of ice giant atmospheres provides clues about their formation, evolution and current state,» explained a research paper referenced as part of NASA's Outer Planets Assessment Group Meeting in Laurel, Maryland.

Although we still can't travel to Mars as easily as commuting to work, the very idea of being able to go on a trip to another planet and live there someday has long piqued the interest of scientists and outer space fans alike.

As the planets evolved, it's believed that comets and asteroids from the outer solar system seeded the young Earth with water and organic molecules, helping set the stage for life to eventually emerge.

Current observations are consistent with the proposed model for the CMF, as long as a sufficiently small outer truncation radius is introduced for the planet separation distribution.

Detecting water on Ceres supports models of the solar system in which giant planets, such as Jupiter, migrated to their current positions, mixing material from the outer and inner regions of the solar system.

at this scale, the orbits of the inner terrestrial planets are very small, and thus can not be seen as clearly as the orbits of the outer planets.

They deduce that the planet has a solid inner core surrounded by a relatively thin, molten outer core, which is possible if the core contains some sulphur as well as iron.

NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft, which flew by those outer planets during the 1970s and»80s, revealed a very different picture: an assortment of dynamic, active, and ever - changing moons orbiting their equally fascinating planets, in set - ups that could best be described as mini solar systems in their own right.

The discovery team presumes that VP113 has an icy reflective surface like other relatively small, outer Solar System objects, as the dwarf planet is observed to have a pink tinge, which is hypothesized to result from chemical changes produced by the effect of radiation on frozen water, methane, and carbon dioxide.

The planets of the outer solar system are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune (Pluto is now classified as a dwarf planet):

Low - to medium - mass stars, such as the sun, will eventually swell up into red giants, eventually shedding their outer layers into a ring known as a planetary nebula (early observers thought the nebulae resembled planets such as Neptune and Uranus).

As far as habitability goes, the researchers themselves point out another problem: due to the massive debris disk surrounding tau Ceti, the outer two planets are likely subject to intense bombardment via comets and asteroids, which would pose obvious issues for lifAs far as habitability goes, the researchers themselves point out another problem: due to the massive debris disk surrounding tau Ceti, the outer two planets are likely subject to intense bombardment via comets and asteroids, which would pose obvious issues for lifas habitability goes, the researchers themselves point out another problem: due to the massive debris disk surrounding tau Ceti, the outer two planets are likely subject to intense bombardment via comets and asteroids, which would pose obvious issues for life.

We know that the magnetosphere is filled with plasma from solar wind but for more than two decades it has been theorised that the innermost part of the Earth's magnetosphere — a region centred around the Earth's equator and surrounding our planet's atmosphere known as the plasmasphere — also plays a vital role in replenishing the outer magnetosphere with fresh plasma.

In addition, Ceres» light spectrum suggests that it may have ammonium - rich clay at the surface, which would fit the expected ammonia - rich composition of large, differentiated substellar objects in the outer Solar System, including the «plutoids» defined on June 11, 2008 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) as a new class of bright «dwarf planets beyond the orbit of Neptune (IAU press release).

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets July 12 If anyone knows outer space as high art, it's director Luc Besson — who is also a Queenmaker in the realm of female action stars (Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson, to name a few).

It isn't often that the landscape of a motion picture becomes as integral as the acting, writing or direction, but in the newest Ridley Scott («Prometheus») outer space adventure, The Martian, the planet's crimson hues, frozen nights and horrifying sand / dust storms bring the story of an explorer stranded there with little help of survival to full life.

As the planet Krypton is about to be destroyed, a scientist called Jor - El (Russell Crowe) fires his infant son Kal - El off into outer space in a tiny pod, which crashlands on Earth.

That raises the question as to why the opening text points out that living in outer space is Earth's most precious resource, and the wording of that information raises even more questions about screenwriters Kurt Wimmer and Mark Bomback's grasp of syntactic logic (If these living spaces are outside the realm of the planet Earth, they can't technically be a resource of it, now can they?).

The challenge is to recognize the legitimacy of the global polity as an outer layer of a nested system of affiliation that reaches across regions and places to build processes of democratic global governance for managing our collective affairs on this planet.