Sentences with phrase «similar mass»

With similar masses, the atoms can hold similar amounts of heat just as similar sized cups can hold the same amount of boiling water.

It is unlikely that a mixture of the two processes would have produced planets with such similar masses, they say.

But if the abundances of heavy elements in atmospheres of exoplanets in other systems resemble the abundances for planets of similar mass closer to home, then those exoplanets were probably created in similar ways.

Despite the day's developments, there was deep skepticism in Washington that anything would change because of the long history of inaction by state and federal politicians after similar mass shootings.

Solar twins are the most similar to the Sun, as they have very similar masses, temperatures, and chemical abundances.

The results are particularly important, he says, because astronomers are watching a star of similar mass within the Milky Way.

Yet, exploration in western Romania by Gazprom, Russia's biggest oil firm, has not stirred similar mass protests.

All glaciers in the North Cascades of Washington have similar mass balance histories.

Astronomers will resolve that issue when they find a planet of similar mass that eclipses its star, says theorist Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C..

Astronomers studying icy objects in a distant region called the Kuiper belt say an unconfirmed planet with similar mass to Mars could be responsible for tugging them out of alignment

This study found that the two planets, despite having a similar mass, are profoundly different in many ways.

Like bald pates, black holes of similar masses and spins then have no details — no «hair» — to distinguish them, as American theorist John Archibald Wheeler quipped.

The planet is rocky, of a similar mass to Earth, and temperate — all conditions that are promising for life.

The HIP11915 system is centered on a star about 200 light years away from us that has a similar mass, age, temperature, and chemical composition to the sun.

Alma: s images provide the clearest view yet of the surface of a red giant with a similar mass to the Sun.

Last year astronomers announced the discovery of a planet with a similar mass to Earth's just 4.3 light years away in the nearby Alpha Centauri system.

«The planet has a similar mass to Saturn, but its radius is similar to Jupiter, so it's quite a puffed up planet.

No similar mass shootings occurred in the 1950s and 1960s.

To cause this orbital warping, it must have a similar mass to Mars.

Other planets with similar masses, known as super-Earths, are thought to be either smaller and rockier, or bigger and puffier, like miniature Neptunes.

It is observed that despite their similar mass, the depth of penetration of the fragments into the aluminum plate is higher than that of the CMF panel.

At the moment, we are able to identify planets with a similar mass and radius to Earth that orbit their stars at the right distance to support liquid water.

At the same time, many exoplanets that have been discovered around nearby and distant stars have similar mass and size to the ice giants, Uranus and Neptune.

They remain the least understood and most mysterious planets in the solar system and yet Kepler has already shown that planets of similar mass (in between that of Earth and Jupiter) are widespread outside the solar system.

«Since new telescopes coming down the pike will allow us to probe atmospheres, focusing on both Earth and Venus analogs may help decipher why, in our solar system, one planet allows life to thrive, and one does not, despite having similar masses, comparable densities, etc..»

«There are other galaxies that are likely to be the same size as this one that have black holes of similar mass.

The gravity, and hence the pressure, on the surface of a giant star is much lower than for a dwarf star because the radius of the giant is much greater than a dwarf of similar mass.

It is older than the Sun and has a similar mass; 98 percent that of the Sun.

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Adding to the case is a finding from nighttime astronomy that the present level of activity on the Sun is higher than the average found in a selection of other stars of similar mass, age, and chemical composition.

It is measured relative to a similar mass of carbon dioxide, which has a GWP of 1.0.