Sentences with phrase «supersized planets»

Brown - dwarf buddies: Astronomers still can't agree on what to call brown dwarfs: Are they failed stars, without enough mass to kick - start the nuclear reactions of typical stars, or are they supersize planets?

Not exact matches

The compressed diamond's properties could reveal the extreme conditions deep inside supersized distant planets, the team reports in the July 17 Nature.

Early in its mission, Kepler managed to find some tantalizing worlds, a handful of supersize cousins of Earth, most of them in clement orbits around smaller, cooler, quieter stars than the sun called M and K dwarfs, but all the setbacks made finding smaller Earth - sized planets around sun - like G stars a very tall order.

The low densities of the Kepler 11 planets imply a bounty of light elements and a dearth of iron and rock, making the midsize worlds more akin to mini Neptunes than to terrestrial, supersize Earths.

Now, another team finds that the planet may be hostile to life because it has no atmosphere, thanks to supersized solar flares that blast the planet every few hundred days, the researchers report online before print in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Now, he's putting the whole friggin» planet in the crosshairs in the supersized apocalyptic thriller «2012.»