Sentences with phrase «remain gas giants»
The planets without nearby massive stars would remain gas giants.
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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.
They build up a solid core five to 10 times the mass of Earth — quickly enough that the disk remains gas - rich and the core can pull in a thick atmosphere, producing a gas giant like Jupiter.
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.
Under one popular theory (Boss, 1995), if such protoplanets become sufficiently massive while there is still abundant amounts of hydrogen and helium gases remaining in the disk, then they may accrete substantial amounts of those gases and become so - called gas giants (like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in the Solar System).
The world remains deeply divided over next steps, with the world's greenhouse - gas giants, China and the United States, refusing to consider mandatory restrictions on emissions.