Sentences with phrase «patchy clouds»

Dim objects called brown dwarfs, less massive than the Sun but more massive than Jupiter, have powerful winds and clouds — specifically, hot patchy clouds made of iron droplets and silicate dust.

These new GPI results indicate that these similar - mass and equal - age planets nonetheless have significant differences in atmospheric properties, for in - stance more open spaces between patchy cloud cover on planet c versus uniform cloud cover on planet d, or perhaps differences in atmospheric chemistry.

We carried out an HST SNAP survey to assess the frequency of patchy cloud covers in brown dwarfs as a function of their temperature and spectral type.

Once the limitations of our study (short coverage, limited precision, viewing angle) are considered, this frequency indicates that most (and probably all) brown dwarfs have intrinsically patchy cloud covers and display rotational variability when observed at sub-percent accuracy.

Not exact matches

I love the way the central region looks smooth and uniform, but the dust clouds in the arms are patchy, crinkly like the top of a snickerdoodle.

Astronomers were able to determine the cloud layers were «patchy and colorless» based on the Hubble data.